racemybuick
Hot Air Teacher/Student
- Joined
- Apr 3, 2003
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Hello All! Well, after being screwed in nice fashion by a discrageful hot air owner up near me (about two months ago), I was very disheartened, and quite disappointed by the whole thing....A few friends got my spirits up, and then it hit! A very nice guy just south of me in PA was willing to make me the deal of a lifetime. Jim Accardi spoke with me the night after i got screwed, and felt bad enough for me to make a really nice offer...I paid minimal cash, and the product:
It is a 1987 Buick Regal, with the LC2 conversion. It is all there, stock 100%, with the exception of a B&M shifter and shift kit. Car has test pipe and Hooker dual exhaust, and a K&N filter. That is it! At the price i got it for, i was thinking of keeping it for a year or two, and later selling it for a heck of a lot more!!!
Now...anybody who knows me at all on these boards must be fuming!!! This is the voice of hot air! This is the kid who swore up and down, left to right about how he would never intercool his car!!!
Well...I didnt! I still have the hot air project. I have made some HUGE sacrifices to keep it, and I have come to the realization...it was my goal, since the beginning of Buick ownership, for my twin bro to have a TR. he got one at a really, really good price, and in really really nice shape...the flaw...no motor (seized).....
So...After extreme deliberation, tons and tons of talks on the phone with my bro...He has made me a promise. We will take his nicer body, his nicer TR and install my performance Hot Air motor. All of the performance parts I have (ATR total exhaust, poston headers, alky, ported intake, heads, .030 block forged pistons, all new lifters, rods, high volume oil pump, 204 cam, 100 lb springs) the list goes on and on!!! He has a few of his own pieces, so.... the long story short, I now have a running, driving TR, and my brother does not.
...My autoshop is pulling together, and we are finishing my motor and all the components and installing it all into my twins car! So...The racemybuick Hot Air project WILL come back to life, just in a different color car!!!! it will be MACKEY owned and operated (me or my twin), and I will be the official driver as soon as it is completed, so that i know he wont blow it up!! ha!
Anyway....From all this, I can forsee some smack talk from my twin, his car WILL be faster for a while (my stock car), but eventually, I will get my hot air back together for that fair fight!! By then, it will be bankrolled by him and not me, and at any point, we can swap cars with no arguments, cuz we own both!!!
In the mean time, here are a few pics of the new car...and pics will follow very shortly of my twins project and my powerplant motor!!!
Thanks all! I am not signing out, and I will make sure my twin makes his due contributions to this fine site!!!! I will forever be a Hot Air owner, and I will always keep a hot air alive as long as I own a TR!!!
John
It is a 1987 Buick Regal, with the LC2 conversion. It is all there, stock 100%, with the exception of a B&M shifter and shift kit. Car has test pipe and Hooker dual exhaust, and a K&N filter. That is it! At the price i got it for, i was thinking of keeping it for a year or two, and later selling it for a heck of a lot more!!!
Now...anybody who knows me at all on these boards must be fuming!!! This is the voice of hot air! This is the kid who swore up and down, left to right about how he would never intercool his car!!!
Well...I didnt! I still have the hot air project. I have made some HUGE sacrifices to keep it, and I have come to the realization...it was my goal, since the beginning of Buick ownership, for my twin bro to have a TR. he got one at a really, really good price, and in really really nice shape...the flaw...no motor (seized).....
So...After extreme deliberation, tons and tons of talks on the phone with my bro...He has made me a promise. We will take his nicer body, his nicer TR and install my performance Hot Air motor. All of the performance parts I have (ATR total exhaust, poston headers, alky, ported intake, heads, .030 block forged pistons, all new lifters, rods, high volume oil pump, 204 cam, 100 lb springs) the list goes on and on!!! He has a few of his own pieces, so.... the long story short, I now have a running, driving TR, and my brother does not.
...My autoshop is pulling together, and we are finishing my motor and all the components and installing it all into my twins car! So...The racemybuick Hot Air project WILL come back to life, just in a different color car!!!! it will be MACKEY owned and operated (me or my twin), and I will be the official driver as soon as it is completed, so that i know he wont blow it up!! ha!
Anyway....From all this, I can forsee some smack talk from my twin, his car WILL be faster for a while (my stock car), but eventually, I will get my hot air back together for that fair fight!! By then, it will be bankrolled by him and not me, and at any point, we can swap cars with no arguments, cuz we own both!!!
In the mean time, here are a few pics of the new car...and pics will follow very shortly of my twins project and my powerplant motor!!!
Thanks all! I am not signing out, and I will make sure my twin makes his due contributions to this fine site!!!! I will forever be a Hot Air owner, and I will always keep a hot air alive as long as I own a TR!!!
John
