Restomods - latest craze in US apparently

[JayTHEFordman]

fuck me, I dailyed a bone stock original (rebuilt suspension, sure) granny spec 6cyl 68 XT falc for some 2 years, even doing every second week 400Km round trips (800k total for weekend) for about 6 months, and I had ZERO problems with very little maintenance. Trusted that thing I did. Its really not hard.

Grungle - at least you admit you're a lazy cunt that would probably get in trouble with a classic :D Don't worry, leave them to us men to own and love.

Oh, I am sure electric motors/drivelines will have their issues, don't think they are the no maintenance panacea that you think.

[Imposter Forg]

putting a newer motor into an older car is usually done to make them faster, not to make them more reliable...

[piss98]

Doing it for both is fine too. :p

[Imposter Forg]

haha well, yeah.

i guess 350's into jaguars fall into that category...

[piss98]

Anything in an old jag fits in to that category. (unless it's an old jag engine from a different old jag of course).

My car is all stock suspension, engine, everything. I drop my kids to school in it 4 days a week and drive it to work here and there and take the family out of a weekend in it no probs. Mine has had a lot of restoring of original bits sure but as long as it's well maintained it will work forever. I can keep driving mine as is (although I really need the subframe connectors in as she has a lot of wallow) but if adding more power to these old things upgrading a lot of the other supporting systems to more modern shit just makes sense so you can make the most of it and enjoy the extra power. No way I want my current non power brakes trying to pull up the car with twice the power than it currently has. Air con is going in mine, I live in QLD for fucks sake and while I can handle no air con why fucking put up with being a sweaty cunt if you don't have to. I'm also putting in tube control arms, further front end bracing and plan to change the steering to make it that little bit nicer to drive without making it too disconnected from what it s, an old car (I'm thinking quick rack and pinion style but non powered).

Agree with Soopy though, mine has been good so far but there is this perverted excitement when you drive these old things that something might go wrong and you'll have to call on your man skills to pull through.

[Soopy]

Anything in an old jag fits in to that category. (unless it's an old jag engine from a different old jag of course)

Twin carb 3.5ltr rover V8 into a Jag?

Fairly sure that would cause a black hole to form.

[Imposter Forg]

haha, daimler v12 into a jag....

[cheapracer]

No.

You make it sound like anything that wasn't built this millennium is impossible to get right. I see plenty of old cruisers out and about on warm evenings with lumpy, carby, fuel guzzling V8s running just fine. You can't see the outside of the car when your in it, so styling doesn't count for crap there.

Research "bore washing" and then figure out why cars do 300 to 400,000kms now and 40mpg and struggled to do 200,000kms back then and 20mpg.

Not big on the global warming thing etc. but I am keen on kids walking down the street breathing immediate clean air so having 20 modern car able to drive past compared to one lumpy V8 is preferable.

putting a newer motor into an older car is usually done to make them faster, not to make them more reliable...

Usually goes hand in hand.

[MRMOPARMAN]

putting a newer motor into an older car is usually done to make them faster, not to make them more reliable...

depends on the motor. in the case of an astron, 6g, EA-EL 6 cyl, CA20 etc... the replacement engine -should- be more reliable too.

[Imposter Forg]

there is plenty of the other end of the spectrum too, with 4K's, 5K's etc

since when were the 4 litre falcon motors unreliable?

[yohoes]

Modern motors go harder, and do it easier and more reliably

I bet half you cunts dress up all 50s greaser-style and laugh at cars with 'those dang fangled computers' running them..

Imagine modifying cars to make them perform better! The fucking outrage!

[Imposter Forg]

yeah because nobody has ever modified a carburetted car to make it go better

"better" doesn't always mean "faster"

you could put an electric motor in a '32 ford like old mate before hand was talking about, that'd make it faster than the flathead sure but it sure as fuck wouldn't make it better

[9triton]

I bet half you cunts dress up all 50s greaser-style and laugh at cars with 'those dang fangled computers' running them..

i only half dress 50's greaser style - the right half

[Soopy]

Modern motors go harder, and do it easier and more reliably

I bet half you cunts dress up all 50s greaser-style and laugh at cars with 'those dang fangled computers' running them..

Imagine modifying cars to make them perform better! The fucking outrage!

Quite happy to play with fuel injected cars all day long. You can buy a shitter VT with an LS1 for $2000 and run flat stick all day long. Why fucking bother with the arse around putting all that shit into an older car when the 350 it most probably already has will do pretty much exactly the same job if you're not an utter gimp, and be cheaper on the way?
Lets face it, its only the fuel injection that is any fucking different and when something on that sharts, if you're fucked. If you don't have the tools (efilive etc) you're at the mercy of workshops to tune it after mods.

There are a few exceptions to the above rant IMO. Old mate on here with the 2J in the EK, that's mint. Just an all round better engine than the tractor motor it had. SR's into old Dato's, sure. But as for LS > Early Chev... meh. Same same with added fuck around.

[yohoes]

yeah because nobody has ever modified a carburetted car to make it go better

"better" doesn't always mean "faster"

you could put an electric motor in a '32 ford like old mate before hand was talking about, that'd make it faster than the flathead sure but it sure as fuck wouldn't make it better

Putting a carb LS1 in a 69 Camaro is ok, but an EFI one would be crossing the line?

Edit:
Soopy - funnily enough, a mate of mine has recently completed swapping a warm 350 / t350 combo out for a LS1 / T56 combo in a 69 Camaro.. Car is quicker, uses less fuel, and has a better box..

..and on imposter forg's other post, a different mate has pulled a 5k from his Rolla for a SR20 - guess the results!