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waltesefalcon

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I was playing around on the puter tonight and found some old pictures from the old shop. We built some crazy stuff for people. A gold star for the first person who can guess what this is.

Lon Parks 3000 Engine (3).jpg
 
No, spot on on the engine though.
 
hmmm, Don I don't know how to answer that one, other than with this question. Which one?
 
No Chuck.
 
You need to be more specific Don.
 
And we have a winner. Here it is

Lon Parks 3000 Left Front Three Quarter.jpg


And now here is another one, easier this time.

100_0569.jpg
 
SBC in an RB MGB.
 
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waltesefalcon said:
I was playing around on the puter tonight and found some old pictures from the old shop. We built some crazy stuff for people. A gold star for the first person who can guess what this is.
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American V8 despoiling a Big Healey of some sort.


Oops - bit late, sorry!
 
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Gold star for Mickey.



MGB V8.jpg

It had to have the blister added so the carb would fit under the hood. And one more the last on.

Nissan 240 SX Engine (LS1) 02.jpg


And no this one is obviously not a LBC.
 
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I'm gonna go with a Chevy LT1 in a Honda Civic
 
Close.
 
LS1 in a Nissan 240SX
 
Wow Rob how'd ya guess that? You are absolutely right though.

Nissan 240 SX.jpg
Nissan 240 SX.jpg


And yes that is real carbon fiber. What can I say some people have more money than sense.
 
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the list of semi-contemporary rear drive Japanese cars is pretty short. At first I thought Honda, but when you shot that guess down, I studied the shape of the engine bay more closely and decided it was too long for any of the front or AWD Japanese cars. That narrowed the list right down. From there, images.google.com became my friend. After looking at a few of the 240sx engine bay pics, the slam panel became the key identifying component. All that carbon fiber meant i couldn't rely on the body panels or grill to figure it out, and the slam panel was the only part of the engine bay that was visible in nearly all engine bay pics for all the cars i looked at.

that was a fun exercise in using the internet to find information :D
 
What I don't get, is what's the big deal about having a hemi V-8 in an LBC??? Daimler did it in 1959, and in spite of that, roll-up windows, 4-wheel disks and glassfibre body, couldn't get anyone to buy them. Oh, also won some SCCA National class Championships.
 
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