Hello. Now that I have the time, I'll give myself a formal introduction. Anyways, my name is Josh and I'm in Gilbert AZ. I was referred to this board a few months ago from a member who lives a few miles from me. Anyways, I've had a few vehicles, all of which I still have. My first was an 87 S10 blazer that was my first vehicle. It was a salvage, but over a few years time I turned it into a 4 time show winner. Next is my 75 Pontiac Astre GT, same body as the Vega. I pulled this out of a wrecking yard for $70, and turned it into my driver/strip car. It puts out 300 rwhp, and runs mid-13's with radials and an open rearend. Finally, my current project (and technically my first car, but I never did it because it needed a motor) which is a 58 Edsel Pacer. I got this when I was 14. Now I finally have a 390 ready to go in, with a 3x2 Edelbrock setup. I have 4 wheel discs, and am just gonna get it on the road in the original paint and drive it, looking field fresh (that's where I pulled it out of). Look forward to being a poster!
Hey, at least my car has the right # of doors, and I'm actually doing **** to it! So how's the AC/12 volt conversion coming? That's right, not at all! Hippie VW owning fruitcake. Anyways, hippies aside, I'm back. It's been a few month, got kind of burnt out after the crunch last year. Ran into a few problems, dried up my bank account, the usual. Now I'm back, got a little more motivation, gonna tackle my issues one by one now. Gotta figure out my 3x2 linkage, and tuning those, gotta figure out my my original driveshaft won't go into my original ******, and gotta figure out a good crossflow radiator. Haven't decided if I want to paint an aluminum radiator black, or hunt for a decent looking br*** unit from a later Ford.
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