244tiCanuck
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- Joined
- Sep 3, 2004
- Location
- Edmonton
So after deciding my 1800 was too rusty (actually not that bad, no structural rust, just exterior panels, but I don't do rust repair) and selling it, we found something else.
1966 Amazon that had a complete, stripped, soda blasted, rust repaired with steel, etching primer and paint, nut and bolt restoration done and then fell victim to the EV-swap craze. It has 15" Dayton wire wheels. Anyone want to buy them? I hate them on this car, I think they'd look good on a P1800 or something.
Dude that owned it had taken it to a shop to have it EV swapped after the full restoration, they yoinked the engine and sold it, build some racks for tesla battery modules, and then didn't finish it. Got sold to a local university (next city over) who was going to finish the EV swap and then decided to use the components for something else, then the car sat for a few more years and the government told the school they had to move it along. It got listed on the provincial government surplus auction website and we picked it up cheap. Rented a trailer and went down and grabbed it. Going to be a shop project, will throw some branding on it for promotional use.
So this is perfect, because it needs zero real bodywork. Couple small paint touchups needed, but no real dents or rust or anything to deal with. It's 9/10.
Interior got taken apart a bit, they were going to 3d print some crap dashboard to have a tesla center stack or something? Got ahold of the original owner, he got ahold of the university, they had the old dashboard and stuff and he collected it for me, I'll go pick it up in a few weeks (next city over)
The plan is a naturally aspirated 16 valve redblock and an M47 or maybe bmw getrag for now. Picked up a 1990 240 (runs great, chassis is too rotten to be worth fixing) with an M47, also have a factory reman B234f with 2nd oversize pistons. Looking at taking those pistons, having the 240 block bored and honed for them, decking the block a bit to bring the pistons up for higher compression, shaving the head too if need-be. Would like 11 to 11.5:1 compression. Will get some cams and am looking at a set of weber manifolds and weber-style throttle bodies. Don't want to do a turbo or a big engine in this.
Here is the initial batch of photos.
1966 Amazon that had a complete, stripped, soda blasted, rust repaired with steel, etching primer and paint, nut and bolt restoration done and then fell victim to the EV-swap craze. It has 15" Dayton wire wheels. Anyone want to buy them? I hate them on this car, I think they'd look good on a P1800 or something.
Dude that owned it had taken it to a shop to have it EV swapped after the full restoration, they yoinked the engine and sold it, build some racks for tesla battery modules, and then didn't finish it. Got sold to a local university (next city over) who was going to finish the EV swap and then decided to use the components for something else, then the car sat for a few more years and the government told the school they had to move it along. It got listed on the provincial government surplus auction website and we picked it up cheap. Rented a trailer and went down and grabbed it. Going to be a shop project, will throw some branding on it for promotional use.
So this is perfect, because it needs zero real bodywork. Couple small paint touchups needed, but no real dents or rust or anything to deal with. It's 9/10.
Interior got taken apart a bit, they were going to 3d print some crap dashboard to have a tesla center stack or something? Got ahold of the original owner, he got ahold of the university, they had the old dashboard and stuff and he collected it for me, I'll go pick it up in a few weeks (next city over)
The plan is a naturally aspirated 16 valve redblock and an M47 or maybe bmw getrag for now. Picked up a 1990 240 (runs great, chassis is too rotten to be worth fixing) with an M47, also have a factory reman B234f with 2nd oversize pistons. Looking at taking those pistons, having the 240 block bored and honed for them, decking the block a bit to bring the pistons up for higher compression, shaving the head too if need-be. Would like 11 to 11.5:1 compression. Will get some cams and am looking at a set of weber manifolds and weber-style throttle bodies. Don't want to do a turbo or a big engine in this.
Here is the initial batch of photos.
