Thread: New age hot rod

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So the roots of hot rodding in my opinion starts by getting a really light car or truck shoving the biggest motor you can into it. Now mine may not be a T-bucket, a muscle car, or a little 30's coupe, but this is what I've got. I took an old 1991 Eagle Talon (same car as a Plymouth laser or mitsubishi eclipse) that I owned in highschool, and decided I wanted to convert it to rear wheel drive. (I was still stationed in the states at the time so I had the ability to work on it some)


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So I gutted the car and pulled the motor to start.


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Ran into the previous owners electrical mistakes


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Getting the motor out


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interesting. please keep posting pics.

Well I was up for new orders and I got a big surprise and instead of staying stateside, I got sent to japan. So before I left I decided I wanted the car up and running when I came home. After a couple weeks of searching for a shop that was up to the task and didn't laugh and hang up on me, I found powerhouse hot rods a shop not too far from my hometown. So off went my car and off I went to japan.


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Up on a frame table it went and a custom chassis started being fabled up


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Then finally it was on the ground and they started fabricating the interior tins


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Looks like Great progress and I believe your right a hot rod is what ever you make it and an engine change is the right place to start.

More pictures (everybody loves pictures). Again, like most hot rodders changing up body parts with other/newer models isn't out of the ordinary so I put a newer front end on it.


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And that brings everything up to date from the past 2.5-3 years

Mind the rust! I'm from the north haha

I like what you're doing here.......

Who wouldn't love it? A full frame, rear drive Eagle with uber-power? Very cool.

love the work so far.

Looks great. Very, very nice work.

Times 10! This thing will be Bad_ ss! Thanks for all the pics too.

I too admire what you are doing to your light weight rocket ship, it will be a real sleeper and have people guessing what the hell it is what sort of engine it has under the hood. I bet you are looking forward to scaring the shit out of some rice racer at the lights. Is it going to be manual gog box or the slush box ?

Thanks everyone!
It'll be a good sleeper, really the only thing that will be un-factory are the 11" tires going on the back. It'll have a T56 magnum behind it, also I am putting a FAST 102mm intake manifold and TB on it. I'll probably put stiffer springs in the heads as well to try raising my RPMs a little bit. The motor already has the GM performance cam.

This is a hot rod, pure and simple! I always like the unique projects. Nice work so far!