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An extremely crazy Pacer.Crazy Pacer said:Thats a crazy pacer.
Smokedaddy said:An extremely crazy Pacer.Crazy Pacer said:Thats a crazy pacer.
AMC designed the car around a Wankel rotary engine, but Mazda trumped them by patenting the metallurgy of the oil seals of the rotor tips. AMC was thereby forced to use a standard reciprocating piston engine that was far larger than the rotary would have been. It stuck into what should have been the cockpit space (enlarging the dashboard/console) and made the front seats absolutely horrible to sit in and/or see out of. That someone could stuff a big-block into one and make it powerful enough for stock-car drag racing boggles the mind.
The second iteration of the AMC Randall 401 (first was a Gremlin) used a Pacer as a donor, and looked from the outside almost stock other than the "Randall 401" letters on the lower doors. It had a 401 V8 out of a Matador in it.Smokedaddy said:An extremely crazy Pacer.Crazy Pacer said:Thats a crazy pacer.
AMC designed the car around a Wankel rotary engine, but Mazda trumped them by patenting the metallurgy of the oil seals of the rotor tips. AMC was thereby forced to use a standard reciprocating piston engine that was far larger than the rotary would have been. It stuck into what should have been the cockpit space (enlarging the dashboard/console) and made the front seats absolutely horrible to sit in and/or see out of. That someone could stuff a big-block into one and make it powerful enough for stock-car drag racing boggles the mind.
You live in Oregon. You don't live in Texas like I do where air conditioning is a must have if you seriously want to live. You should have gone for it.Stratochu said:it had no air conditioning
Very true, yet Pacers get very hot inside over the summer (and according to my sweetbolt, it can be pushing a hundred degrees at 95% humidity here in the summer). I still regret not buying it.The Hunter said:You live in Oregon. You don't live in Texas like I do where air conditioning is a must have if you seriously want to live. You should have gone for it.Stratochu said:it had no air conditioning
Or you could have done what I did with my Suburban when the AC would go out and just roll the windows down and fan yourself with something at red lights.