Stress Relief, Dodge Garage style!
A local Shelby owner called me up and asked if I had a use for a running 1989 TBI Horizon. He had pulled some parts off it and just wanted to get rid of it. Jon and I headed out to Rhode Island with the dolly and dragged it home. After fiddling with the SMEC computer for a day or two (anyone need their TBI computer reprogrammed? No problem..) it was time to have some fun.
The victim, as delivered.
2.2 liters of naturally aspirated, running on 3 cylinders, blown headgasket fury.
After a little conversion work with the Sawzall.
Back of the car looks like a 'Cuda if you squint.
Note the performance Sawzall tuned exhaust system in the back and tow rope "line lock"
After chaining it to the tree we light'em up!
Who says you can't smoke the tires with a TBI?
After our smoke show party was over we were surprised when a Blazer pulled into the driveway with lights flashing! Turns out a local volunteer fireman was in the area and had noted the large volume of smoke and had called it in as a fire! After he stopped laughing he called his buddies off who proceeded to drive by the house anyway tooting their horns and waving as they sped by.
Jon pulling the seats out while I have been busy operating the saw.
We debate if a dragstrip will let us run it, the car is still drivable at this point!
Not any more.. We hacked off the whole front clip and rolled it out of the way. Jon amuses himself by cranking over the engine still in the front clip. I plan on keeping the front clip and mounting it on rollers so I can continue to study the TBI EFI codebase and test fit parts in the tight L-body bay. Just need to take a spare fuel cell I have and drop the TBI pump in it and the drivetrain will be running again.
Almost done.
I forgot to mention- The reason the car was chopped into little pieces was because it's fun and in Rhode Island a title for a 10 year old or older car isn't required. In Connecticut a title or paperwork from RI is required to sell or junk a car. I could have either towed it back to RI and junked it there or filed for RI paperwork and junked it here, it was faster to zip the car into squares and have a local scrap collector come by and pickup the pieces.
video clip of the action anyone?