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They were a project car for the local gear heads. Everyone knew someone who knew someone who stuffed a V8 into a Vega. In spite of all that, I only knew of one real example in the area and WOW! What a hand full it was. Never got to drive it but saw it driven in anger a few times.

My brother was the gear head in the 70s. I didn't ramp up until I got into bikes. I remember my first wiring project was done using the 1 spool of properly-sized wire I had on hand. I mean, after all, the HD only had 1 circuit and 1 breaker. Why not? Wired the whole deal in black wire. Worked great. The shop hated it later when I took it in for something. Years later, into LD/IBA stuff, I was adding aux lights for the first time and was able to call Warchild on the phone so he could talk me through how to do my first relay.

Wow... time flies.

 

[RadioHowie]

 

[thewrenchbender]

They were a project car for the local gear heads. Everyone knew someone who knew someone who stuffed a V8 into a Vega. In spite of all that, I only knew of one real example in the area and WOW! What a hand full it was. Never got to drive it but saw it driven in anger a few times.
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Wow... time flies.

I helped "finish" a V8 Vega project in the mid 80's. Was a hard-core Chrysler motorhead project. He delivered pizzas while attending A&P (not the grocery) school with me and always had a Vega and a spare Vega-he called it Vega-nomics. At that time you could get any major component (less engine) for a Vega at the local boneyards for $50 max.

Anyhow, the solid lifter 327 (used 'vette cam & lifters from a bud) rebuilt off "the pile" drove a severely narrowed Chrysler 8 3/4 sitting on Camaro mono-leafs with slapper bars. It showed up as a roller and the first time I drove it, it had no floor/tubs/nothing behind the front seats other than the subframe. 'Til the day he sold it still had rubber noogies on the inside of the back window.

Had "stock" V8 Monza springs in the front until one busted-it got replaced with a standard Vega coil spaced to the right static height. Cool car to drive if you didn't mind the front send corkscrewing counter-clockwise when you hit a wave in the pavement. It hooked up. Hard.

One day I grenaded the trans on a 2/3 shift running to get lunch and he took a couple teeth off the ring gear that evening after we swapped in a spare trans ($50 BTW). Took out the 3.90:1 punkin and threw in a 2.76:1 so he could drive it home that night.

Required scooter content-during that time I was running a CB750K2 @ 809cc's twisting a RC Engineering 327 cam...it really really liked the 100LL I sumped out of the fuel truck everyday at work. Running "premium" needed to grab at least two gears to keep it from rattling when I pulled out to pass.

And for the record, I wanted an FJR from the first time I saw one in a one wheel dyno shoot-out at the flat-track races in '04. Took until last summer, but I finally ended up with one. Not sure if I ever will wanna live without one now...

Wuts a BMW?

 

[Bustanut joker]

They were a project car for the local gear heads. Everyone knew someone who knew someone who stuffed a V8 into a Vega. In spite of all that, I only knew of one real example in the area and WOW! What a hand full it was. Never got to drive it but saw it driven in anger a few times.
My brother was the gear head in the 70s. I didn't ramp up until I got into bikes. I remember my first wiring project was done using the 1 spool of properly-sized wire I had on hand. I mean, after all, the HD only had 1 circuit and 1 breaker. Why not? Wired the whole deal in black wire. Worked great. The shop hated it later when I took it in for something. Years later, into LD/IBA stuff, I was adding aux lights for the first time and was able to call Warchild on the phone so he could talk me through how to do my first relay.

Wow... time flies.

350 Chebby in the rear of a hatchback with an Olds Tornado drive... Full on welded frame and wheelie bars. Man what good times we had.