Mopar fans, wanna see a hoot???

[JW]

:D HAHAHHAHAHHHHAHAH, my brother has a ford lightning and sends me all kinds of hot car crap, this one is hilarious!

http://www.turbovan.net/van.html

[mr fun]

this looks like somethin BL would come up with, i hope he reads it, thanks, still smilin! fun out.:p :D :cool:

[ShorePounder]

You mean it ain't BL?? It's gotta be kin to him then:D :D

[crazy horse]

I love it! Red Green would be proud.

[B.Leonard]

;) ;)

It's hard to believe that thing is running mid 12s. 2.5? front drive? However, the turbos do a lot and with the right gearing, who knows!?! Maybe!

-BL

[mr fun]

he's got pictures and everything. common Bruce. PARTY POOPER. :D hows the cheribs? we gonna convoy to the rumble? fun bout to do some original recipe (go colonel go colonel) n out. :D

[northeastcat]

Damn, if I laugh any harder I'm gonna hurt myself. That is about the funniest most seriuos mini van I have ever seen. That video of it puttin the hurt on the ole camaro is priceless. I cant wait to tell my buddies this one. I'm a big mopar nut from the word go, they are all I own. I have seen allot of cars at the drags and I have been racing for quite a while but that one takes the cake!!!!:D

[steve]

Man that was the best reading in a long time. Very very cool. 140,000 miles on that thing. Just shows the underdog has his day and looks are decieving. Nice post. STeve

[B.Leonard]

Don't get me wrong, I like it! :) It's just hard to believe. Even if he made the kind of power it would take to run mid 12s AND had the necessary traction to use it, you're telling me that everything in between can connect the two?

Maybe. Not for long though. Reminds me of my V8 Vega days, I used to keep all the spider gears that I blew out of the rear in the glove box :D Spider gears would fit in the glove box but not whole sheared off pinion gears and split carriers when I started to hop up the motors from stock. :D
It's no fun loosing the rear end when your 200 miles from home either :rolleyes:

I do remember many good time at the strip and on the street though :D

-BL

PS Oh, almost forgot, I'm in on the convoy to the Rumble! From the West coast of FL I think its just myself and Nut that are going. We'll synch up as it gets closer! :cool:

[H2Onut]

HOWEVER, it would be twin turbo's Have straight pipes, would not have 100.00 in hose clamps. Would be able to eat off the engine, Have a pristine paint job, and would run 11's.

NOTHING BL does is half-assed TRUST ME !

Just needs a thump in the head to get him to see BLACK !!

[Rickracer]

I only shattered 2 set of spiders before I did a 12 bolt for my Vega. The first set was with the 4 cylinder. :D The top pic is from about the mid 80's, and the bottom is about 4 weeks after I sold it to the guy there with no shirt on. He found out on the way home he couldn't drive it, nearly took out his neighbors car in their driveway when it got away from him. Stout 427 and street tires didn't mix well for the unexperienced driver. :eek:

[B.Leonard]

Yup! BB was the way to go, much easier swap.

No doubt the 4 cyl could break the 6.5" rear. The 7.5" bought you a litle more time :D

I did one where I left everything as stock as possible, the tires, the rear even that side to side muffler hanging in front of the axel. The only give away were the guages in the dash. 100% quiet as well.

It wasn't the fastest but it was tons of fun to surprise some gear head in your typical hopped up Camaro, Chevelle, Charger etc.

The later model Monzas (77-82?) were a little better to hop up but the brakes/suspension were still a nightmare. I hear the Nova brakes and suspension would swap but never tried it. Remember how the brake calipers would rattle!?! It would drive you NUTS!

-BL

[Rickracer]

...just what, but I had a cure for that. As you can see, mine was no sleeper. Especially with the BB in it. The pic in white was when it had a .060 over 327 in it, and it ran consistant 12.40s in street trim. One time I borrowed a set of 8"x26" MT slicks to put on it on it just to see how bad the traction situation was, (w/4.88 gears I might add, first time it ever yanked the front wheels), and it rewarded me with an 11.91 pass at around 118mph. I was turning 8300 at the 1000' mark, and she wouldn't go no mo.They wouldn't let me run it again cuz I didn't have a cage in it, so I put the street tires back on it and drove it back to the staging lanes and promised I wouldn't go quicker than 12.00s. Back to 12.40s again. Later, with the BB, it would run 11.50s with McCrearey(SP)GT dirt track tires No DOT# , but looked street legal just like I drove it off the street. I'd pull in to the track, go cool it down a bit, and then get in the staging lanes(Pro). Once I had a guy tell me I was in the wrong lanes cuz I had street tires and a tag. I just laughed. I outran him by about 5 or so in his "real" race car. After I sold it, the new owner bought some Firestones, we took off the homemade Flowmasters and 3.5" exhaust, went to a 3500 converter from 2800, and turned on the juice, and it went around 9.70s. Never took it back to the track cuz by then it needed about 2K worth of safety gear to be legal to run.We did make a little money street racin though. :D :D :D

[H2Onut]

What ever happened to that truck you were doing for that guy, did it come together ?

[Rickracer]

...to another building in the complex.He really needs the extra room. Looks like my truck isn't going to get painted anytime soon either. :rolleyes:

[175checkmate]

The 2.2 turbo is a nise ride, there is a guy in PA> that has a mini van running 11's. I had a 2.2 turbo in a shelby charger, just traded it in, 200,000 miles. 200hp, 2100lb. The car was a blast, pulled 15.5lb boost.