Thread: Big engines small cars

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Ever met an old Centura driver. Pat

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

Bloke in town has just built a Valiant ute up,502ci bigblock,spins its wheels easy it seems
Andrew

That is because they have no weight in the backend. I had a 4door Dodge Dart (Valiant) with a 318, did not take much to spin the rears. It had the lightest rearend of any vehicle I have ever owned.

Another relative had a Willys M38 Jeep with a 283 in it, had to be careful in slippery situations as the backend wanted to be where the front was.

I shoehorned the 350 chev from my 68 Chevelle into a 72 Vega in my early 20's. Was pretty fast, but overheated a lot.

Originally Posted by gavinwibrow

MB 300SEL 6.3
Not may people realised the motor from the 600 grosser was shoehorned in.
Was great fun leaving the lights with the likes of the older falcon GTs and Monaro 350's when I had it

SENSATIONAL car,.. I have the i:18 model of the original AMG racecar!
I friend of mine used to own one, He said it cost more to maintain it, than his light aircraft!
Pickles.

Originally Posted by crash

That is because they have no weight in the backend. I had a 4door Dodge Dart (Valiant) with a 318, did not take much to spin the rears. It had the lightest rearend of any vehicle I have ever owned.

Another relative had a Willys M38 Jeep with a 283 in it, had to be careful in slippery situations as the backend wanted to be where the front was.

I sold a P76 4.4 to a bloke who fitted it to a willys. Pat

I've done a few 308 into LC/LJ Torana conversions. For the most part it was a pretty straight forward conversion and this was back in the day when you had to modify everything yourself as there was very little available off of the shelf. On the other hand, one of my mates shoehorned a 265 into an LC and he reckoned it was a right mongrel of a job but the end result handling wise was very impressive compared to the 308 powered car.

In the 70's and early 80's my dad lived on a corner. About a km uphill from the corner was a set of lights. Young blokes would drag off from the lights and race downhill along the straight.

Quite of few of them didn't make it round the corner. On the other side of the corner was a stone wall.

One or two of them did make it through the windscreen, and then through a metal railing fence atop the stone wall.

Big power. Light weight. Very important to be able to brake or corner (preferably both).