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From: utica il
are you talking scrapyard or private seller? scrapyards are gonna charge at least a dollar per cubic inch or more. private seller depends a lot on what you know and what they don't know. find out what year a motor is before you buy something that you don't need. after 1989,i think, they changed the heads and intake to fuel injection parts, and to go carb on one of those you either got to get a set of carb heads and intake, or get a carb adapter for the efi intake, i havent seen anyone use one and make big power, because it's easier to start out carb motor unless you have a decent set of heads laying around.
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From: utica il
that'd be nice. last one i bought was $600 7 years ago, and that was the cheapest running one i could find. wish i would've had more cash back then because i found a 1968 lincoln in a junkyard with a fresh rebuilt 460 for $1000. guy redid the car and a tree fell on it before he had plates and insurance on it, so he scraped it.
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I run all DIVE's 4 to be exact. No strokers yet....
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ok laugh it up at the art work know it sucks big time but for my radius arms this is what i was thinking about today, i could take care of two problems in one mount, idk if im thinkin in the right ball park or not but putting the mount like 3/8s from the front, so the back trac-bars are longer than the front, idk just tell me if this would be a good route at all or anything along the line. sorry for the god awful artwork, but you get the point.
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From: utica il
yes, a cradle. search for monster truck suspension, to get a big clear view of what i mean. i'm no fabricator, but what you want, and this latest idea you're having are telling you to go ahead and make a link setup. it's gonna save you time in the long run
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ok ya i didnt make it off of a monster truck but when i was thinkin what it would look like in my head thats the first thing i thought of, i still have no clue just was wondering what the smartest way to go about it would be
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Here is the link to the thread.
Monster Truck Suspension Evolution</font></b>
Tells you anything you want to know.
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Monster Truck Suspension Evolution</font></b>
Tells you anything you want to know.
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ok i dont see whats wrong with extending my raduis arms that i have to any ways and i will do that about a foot so that would set my hanger for it almost in the middle ithink, so why no just make a double sided bracket for a set of trac bars?