Re: amc rambler
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05/21/13 12:41 PM
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There are some really rabid AMC fans out there who can help. IIRC the 220 was a lot like a chevy nova. About a year ago, maybe two, Car Craft had a series of articles about a similar car into which they grafted a 360 AMC motor, ran great as I recall.
R.
If it's the OHV 6, which I think it is, a 258 is basically the same engine, and the 4.0- Jeep six is also related. Fuel injected 6-cylinder 250 hp Rambler could be okay, too.
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Re: amc rambler
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05/21/13 03:18 PM
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Electric Wipers were optional those years. Standard equipment was vacuum wipers. This was true well into 1970.
The last year for the flathead was '65, so this should have the "modern" 199 or 232. Sturdy engines, but being pre-'72 engines, you're seriously limited on what gearbox you can stuff behind it. Post-'72 engines use the Torqueflite auto and can easily be converted to 4 or 5 speeds.
But I assume thats all moot as this'll get hot-rodded.
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Re: amc rambler
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05/22/13 01:07 AM
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My cousin had a 67 Rambler Rogue. 290 4 barrel 4 spd. Car was a blast. Traded it on a 70 440 6pak RT/SE Challenger. That was a bigger blast.  If the K frame or whatever AMC called it is the same for a 6 or an 8, a 401 should bolt right in. The Little Kelvinator That Could...  Kevin
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Re: amc rambler
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05/22/13 09:35 AM
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Picked this up a couple of weeks ago. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet.
Start by measuring out the engine compartment for a 440.
Seriously, that car is gorgeous. Congratulations. 
Several years back, a friend dropped a built SBC in one of those. On the first full stomp on the gas pedal, he twisted the car bad enough that the doors wouldn't open. Had to slide his 300 lbs. out through the window to get out. 
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Re: amc rambler
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05/22/13 09:40 AM
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Let me know if you find a good Rambler site for info. Picked this up a couple of weeks ago. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. '62 rambler American. 196 cid, three on the tree, vacuum wipers.
That one I would let alone ! 
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Re: amc rambler
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05/22/13 11:37 AM
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Restomod! I'd want it to run like stink, be every day driveable, look like a stocker but with enough clues to be interesting. It needs a late 4.0 six plus 5-speed. I can't see why that engine isn't getting more play. Are the electronics that hard? Frame connectors would be nice. If the rear is the infamous AMC 20, it needs flanged axle shafts, otherwise a narrowed 8 3/4 would be a good swap. Disks all the way around. Slightly larger wheels, like 16s Decent paint Custom interior in the old style, like tuck-and-roll, or contrasting cloth panels in vinyl. There was one very much like this body in a recent issue of Car Craft, typical 350 under the hood. I say dare to be different! R. 
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Re: amc rambler
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05/23/13 10:13 AM
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Restomod! I'd want it to run like stink, be every day driveable, look like a stocker but with enough clues to be interesting.
It needs a late 4.0 six plus 5-speed. I can't see why that engine isn't getting more play. Are the electronics that hard?
Frame connectors would be nice.
If the rear is the infamous AMC 20, it needs flanged axle shafts, otherwise a narrowed 8 3/4 would be a good swap.
Disks all the way around.
Slightly larger wheels, like 16s
Decent paint
Custom interior in the old style, like tuck-and-roll, or contrasting cloth panels in vinyl.
Oh! Is that all?? 
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Re: amc rambler
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05/23/13 11:58 AM
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Restomod! I'd want it to run like stink, be every day driveable, look like a stocker but with enough clues to be interesting.
It needs a late 4.0 six plus 5-speed. I can't see why that engine isn't getting more play. Are the electronics that hard?
Frame connectors would be nice.
If the rear is the infamous AMC 20, it needs flanged axle shafts, otherwise a narrowed 8 3/4 would be a good swap.
Disks all the way around.
Slightly larger wheels, like 16s
Decent paint
Custom interior in the old style, like tuck-and-roll, or contrasting cloth panels in vinyl.
There was one very much like this body in a recent issue of Car Craft, typical 350 under the hood. I say dare to be different!
R.
4.0 with a 4.2 crank. I think you wind up at 4.7ish. Stroker inline.
Kevin
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