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[amckid6970]

I'd like to see you get yours going! Did you say you were planning on a 360 or 401 in it?

[tarior]

I have a fresh '70 360 just waiting on the stand, but I haven't come up with the 5 speed trans that I want. So, in my impatience, I am a little tempted to slap in a 401/TH400, just to make it go for summer.

[amckid6970]

Sounds good either way way you go. I'd be impatient one and toss the TH400 in for the summer.

[amckid6970]

I got pictures of my brother's AMX!! Here's a teaser.

[BREK]

looks good

[amckid6970]

Thanks BREK. Right after we knew his 401 was broken in we went out to a secluded highway just to see who was faster. Well after two runs we couldn't decide who was faster! He's running 3.54's I'm running 3.15's both 4spds 390 vs 401..... It doesn't get much better than that! Shift for shift we were side by side the whole way! One of the best times I've ever had.

[BREK]

sounds like something i would do . i wish i could talk my brother into putting his nova back on the street so i could teach him a lesson or two i hope you can talk your brother into bringing his car up also when you come up here to visit

[amckid6970]

I think I know how you feel. It took a lot of arm twisting to get dad to get his Grand Prix running again, and it takes even more to get my brother to drive his car. He knows how rare the car is but in the shape that it's in he's embarassed to drive it. The headers are so rusted that the exhaust had to be welded to the headers, so it clatters pretty bad right now. He's considered selling in the past because he can't really afford to drive and maintain the car let alone fix the problems that it has. But I've told him he can have the air gap off of my 70 and the headers off my 69 to get the car running the way it should. I plan on getting new headers anyway and the air gap probably would have been stored on a shelf in the garage. He won't sell now but sometimes it takes a little donation and a kick in the pants to motivate him but hey, that's what brothers are for right?

[BREK]

as good as his car looks in the pics if it were me i woulden't care if the exhaust leaked i'd still drive it and be proud of it my brothers nova has had most of the wiring stripped from the car in an effort to make it lighter so we would be in for a lot of work to put that one back on the street

[amckid6970]

Good luck with the wiring! I'm horrible at that stuff, I guess it's my lack of patience that gets me on those kind of jobs. My friend in Jacksonville is a big Nova guy. 30 years as a GM mechanic and the last 7 have been on his own. He has a 67 with a 13.5 to 1 406 smallblock in it. He's helped me a ton with any problems I had while I had the AMX down there. Even though he always gives me sh*t about owning a Rambler. He does it to poke fun cause we're friends, but the one that gets it worse than me has an early 90's fox body Mustang with a 347 stroker. I hang out down at his shop after work almost everyday just to pick up things and he'll even take the time to explain things as he's going. He's a great guy even though he is a Chevy fan.