About 6 years ago I saw a picture of a V8 coffee table and fell in love with the concept. Just never had the space nor equipment to make one myself.
Well, about a year ago, I picked up a rod knocking 92 stealth RT for very cheap. The car had very low miles and I had gotten a replacement long block for fairly cheap as well. Before pulling the knocking motor, I decided to put it thru some tests.
It made several trips to taco bell for a good 3 weeks. The girl in the drive thru once told me to shut the motor off because she couldn't understand me thru the PA. In fact, I daily drove this car during that time till the 5-0 nabbed me for no inspection stickers...![]()
Let's see... It also raced a riced out honda CRX and won!
This motor would not quit! So to finish it off, I decided to have some fun with it. It held redline for a few minutes till I got tired of waiting and a headache from the noise (or maybe the cranky bitch neighbor yelled at me, I don't remember...).
Then out came the oil and coolant. Again, it took a few minutes before I got impatient with it...
So out came the NOS and it underwent a straight shot with no nozzles. Again... it survived and I was out of NOS....
After the next restart, it finally bit the ghost when it jumped timing.
It was quite impressive! I pulled the engine and it sat in my garage all this time waiting for me to get what I needed to do something with it.
Here she is in all her stubborn furry!
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