Even though I know I'm in the doghouse for waking up the entire county at 9AM this morning (to drive the open-exhaust Javelin to the exhaust shop), it now has mufflers and drives oooooh so nice! 
I've been cruising it all over the pace running errands for work, with requisite stops at it's two favorite places, the parts store and the gas station!
It feels really odd to finally be driving this car, but oh what a good feeling it is.
Car show tomorrow, cruise tomorrow night. Ah yeah, it's going to be a good weekend.
These mufflers rock BTW. Hooker Aero Chambers (ordered from Rob at Rob's Rod Shop). Nice, mellow, deep tone at idle/cruise, and they have a great wail at WOT. No droning, and not tinny at all.
Also, the Javelin will lay rubber in 1st and bark 2nd. Because torque.
Congrats! It's always great to see a project live...
Now you must post vids with sound. Because we've gotta know.
ransom wrote:
Congrats! It's always great to see a project live...
Now you must post vids with sound. Because we've *gotta* know.
Thanks!
I will be videoing at the cruise tomorrow. No guarantees on when anything will be posted, but I am getting it done for y'all.
PS - Anybody that wants a ride can show up to the ORPCA autocross at PIR in October... 
I'm a little disappointed. I thought you were going with stacks. What the heck!!
9am? psshh.... I leave at 6:30 on a uncorked street bike. My neighbors don't need alarm clocks
Javelin wrote:
These mufflers *rock* BTW. Hooker Aero Chambers (ordered from Rob at Rob's Rod Shop). Nice, mellow, deep tone at idle/cruise, and they have a great wail at WOT. No droning, and not tinny at all.
Also, the Javelin will lay rubber in 1st and bark 2nd. Because torque.
That looks like a great setup!!
BTW, the exhaust manifolds are changed. I did them at 7:30 this morning 
They are now 1970 high-flow units (as opposed to my 73 smoggers with the EGR tubes poking into the damn ports). Also, no heat riser.
Take those, the new unrestricted exhaust system, the open element air cleaner, the MSD coil, and the fully deleted EGR and air pump and this thing is doing pretty well in the HP department.
It's 8.25:1 compression and was 220HP/315TQ new in 73. A 1971 was 295/395 (no EGR, no air pump, high flow manifolds, but 9.5:1 compression, smaller chambers, but worse ports). I figure some carb tuning and maybe a re-curve and I could be at 300/400 pretty easily...
Voted up!
(Been there, done that!)
Nice choice of Hookers.
Patiently awating videos.
No X pipe? For shame!
Hows the cabin noise with those turndowns?
93gsxturbo wrote:
No X pipe? For shame!
Hows the cabin noise with those turndowns?
AMC's do not like crossover pipes for some reason. Dad and Gramps both documented quicker ET's without them.
Cabin noise is surprisingly quiet with the turndowns. They are actually quite far back. I'm really happy with them!
Awesome! I'm glad they worked out for you. Looking forward to the audio track.
As for that 8.25:1 advertised compression, a centrifugal supercharger could fix that.
At the show field!
There's a pretty nice, original, 401 71 Javelin AMX; an all-original 68 Ambassador; and a Pacer "truck" there for other AMC's. I'm definitely not the ugliest car by a looooong shot. I got a few thumbs up and comments on the engine!
I also won one of the bigger door prizes.
Went to the cruise tonight, revved it up, burned some rubber, and took friends for rides. Then I let my Mom drive and she relived her youth 
I didn't know she'd been given so many tickets for racing. Also, I need new tires...
That was a really, really good weekend. It made all that work worth it for sure!
I think I'll switch cars to the Javelin at lunch, because I can.
Grtechguy wrote:
9am? psshh.... I leave at 6:30 on a uncorked street bike. My neighbors don't need alarm clocks
Not to thread jack but you're the kind of guy that makes other folks hate anyone with a motorcycle. If I knew where to send them, I'd be mailing your neighbors paint balls to use with prejudice.
Awesome!!
I wonder how the hooker aero chambers would sound on the GS430??
dculberson wrote:
Awesome!!
I wonder how the hooker aero chambers would sound on the GS430??
At this point I'm seriously considering three more of them. Two for SWMBO's 3800 Grand Prix (which already has a gnarly rasp at idle) and one for the Mazda5, just because...
pres589 wrote:
Grtechguy wrote:
9am? psshh.... I leave at 6:30 on a uncorked street bike. My neighbors don't need alarm clocks
Not to thread jack but you're the kind of guy that makes other folks hate anyone with a motorcycle. If I knew where to send them, I'd be mailing your neighbors paint balls to use with prejudice.
For real, that's a dick move if ever there was one.
Javelin,
My buddy's brother has 2 AMX Javelins, a 360 auto and a 401 4 speed, both are projects that he hasnt touched in years.
No, he wont sell them either 
congrats!
