"briannutter1" (briannutter1)
12/06/2013 at 19:15 • Filed to: None
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"briannutter1" (briannutter1)
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So I picked up a somewhat rusty but complete and original 1976 Jeep Cherokee with a 360 2bbl for $1500 this summer. Running poorly, severe engine and trans leaks, and everything else you would expect. It soon became my own personal Mt. Everest to make it back and forth to work every day. Rolling restoration doesn't begin to explain what it took to keep it running. Initially as my daily driver, I'd rotate through 5 fuel filters in 50 miles and backwash them when I got home for the next days travels. Stalled out 5 times on cool mornings to get it started down the road. Baseline chassis dyno showed 144whp and out of breath by 4300 rpm. It was Yugly.
So off to Summit racing to buy parts! Hacked the muffler/add glasspack $60. Holley Demon 625 Carb/Summit HEI/Edelbrock air gap rpm intake $900. Fuel cell and new fuel lines $400. 4 new tires $400. Bumped the timing and dialed the a/f ratio...went from 144 to 189 whp. Pulls strongly through 5200 rpm and the engine runs great now...like fuel injected. Oh, and add another $60 in gaudiest woven steering wheel cover and Yosemite Sam floormats from Autozone.
Tons of fun to drive now...truly an experience. The noise! The Smell! Scary loose Steering and leans like a 'mfr in the corners!......all part of the experience. Absolutely cannot drive anywhere without people complimenting on it. Beginning my Hypermiling experiments soon as it was getting about 12.5mph highway prior to the new carb.
So what kind of ride have you picked up that became your own personal Mt. Everest?
Shiarlis
> briannutter1
12/06/2013 at 19:49 |
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'74 CJ-5, 304, D20/T15 and Renegade yellow. In a field for 7 years, survived tornadoes that moved those metal barns with nothing more than a ruined "interior", millions of nests, rust, gas tank holes, dents, weird glass and water in the trans and tcase. At least it runs, and already has glasspacks!
BJohnson11
> briannutter1
12/06/2013 at 20:28 |
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My '74 C10 with a 454. Edelbrock 750, Weiand Street Warrior, 3" Dynomax race bullets and long tube headers. My god does that truck sound dirty. I picked it up for $2100 after it'd been sitting in a field for 4 years. Still only have about $4800 into it and all that's left is body work and some electrical stuff.
Too bad the open diff still means I do one tire fryers.
Fed(oo=[][]=oo)uken
> briannutter1
12/06/2013 at 20:57 |
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'74 Ramcharger 440 all day errday. Some day, some day.
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Fed(oo=[][]=oo)uken
> Fed(oo=[][]=oo)uken
12/06/2013 at 20:59 |
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Ohhhh haha personal stores. Someday mine will be aforementioned Ramcharger. But personally, all I can lay claim to is very creatively keeping a 1986 BMW 528e on the road as a broke ass college student.
TheFoeYouKnow
> briannutter1
12/06/2013 at 21:20 |
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My future Alternative Hot Rod: 4th gen Taurus wagon with a 3rd gen V8 SHO swap and a turbo. 3 inch single exhaust, split to 2 2 1/4" magnaflows, otherwise complete sleeper. I thought about going with a 2nd gen Windstar for this, but I got a headache from the irony. Yup, next project car.
quittywhip
> briannutter1
12/06/2013 at 21:24 |
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Love that Cherokee! I'd like to grab up a Wagoneer eventually (maybe) now that I've gone from NJ to CA, and those Jeeps actually roam around here.
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briannutter1
> TheFoeYouKnow
12/06/2013 at 23:43 |
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I clearly remember convincing my buddy's dentist dad to test drive the 1st gen SHO that had been sitting in the local Ford dealer lot for a few months. He owned a '87 supra turbo, audi 5000, and 914 1.7 at the time. On the highway, he wouldnt spin the Yamaha v6 past 5k in any gear and pronounced the magazines as being paytriotic in their admiration of the car. Swearing off potential ownership, he let my 16 year old jean jacketed self take the helm. Within two turns, we were hitting the engine's ecu cutoff in his neighborhood's tight horseshoe shaped drive. Goodyear Eagle Gatorbacks ascream, we tripled the speedlimit with the tach swinging to an optimistic 8000 revs by virtue of it's own inertia as I powershifted every.damn.gear. The Taurus was never intended to have a clutch pedal and I remember dissing it as my size 11 Vision Streetwear shoes bustled between the levers doing their best heel-toe impersonation. Soon the doctor of dentistry was Quite sure he wouldn't be purchasing this particular example and requested I slow down. Feeling like I'd done my share to preserve Ford's honor that day, we pulled into the dealer's lot. As we stepped out of the SHO, the smell of molten brakepads lingered. We left for home and that same silver SHO sat on the lot for a couple more months. I never saw it again after that, but I'd like to believe it went the fastest it would ever go with me that day.
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TheFoeYouKnow
> briannutter1
12/07/2013 at 01:29 |
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Gotta be the 3.4L V8. With the air silencer off and magnaflows, they sound like sex with a hot italian chick, especially after 3400 rpm when the IMRC opens the short runners in the intake and she starts to howl in the best Ferrari V8 impersonation I ever heard from a non-exotic. This engine deserved better than press-fit cam sprockets and the Taurus body it was stuck with. I like to have fantasies about one of these with a 8500 rpm limiter and more aggressive cams, mounted in a mid engined car like a Noble, mated to a 6-manual and plumbed through the most insane exhaust imaginable.
zadtheinhaler
> TheFoeYouKnow
12/07/2013 at 01:40 |
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Damn, dude, I like the way you think!
Zoom
> briannutter1
12/07/2013 at 02:36 |
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Nice read.
If you were a good wrench, that was a decent four door, and worthy motor.
Howie
> briannutter1
12/07/2013 at 13:00 |
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Hmmm....
Ford would be a Fairmont wagon fitted with a road runner V8, tko 600, and an IRS from an SVT Cobra along with the brakes.
Chevrolet would be a Malibu wagon with an LS7.
Chase
> briannutter1
12/08/2013 at 02:09 |
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Hasn't become Everest just yet, but heading in that direction. 1972 Saab Sonett, $400, giant holes in floors/rockers, engine doesn't run, hasn't been on the road since '91.
Earlier post with more pictures
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madMELO
> briannutter1
12/09/2013 at 17:25 |
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my hotrod is a 1979 coup de ville! just when i that i was done a new light pops on! body work is never gonna happen at this rate.