Mashed's vehicles

My first vehicle was a nice new 99 Honda accord LX V-6. It had a 3.0 VTEC V-6 making 200HP. Let me tell you for a mama's car Honda made this thing HAUL! 0-60 in 7.6 seconds, not great, but for a stock 4 door, family hauling car it has zip. It rides like a new car should, and handles great. The only problem is they didn't offer the V-6's with a manual transmission back before 2003, which is REALLY a bad idea. Because of this and other considerations I let my mom take over the payments and ownership completely and bought my 78 stepside. The v6 accord has however stayed in my life. I am now a active member at v6 performance.net including their research and development team. I love these things.

After de-coding the VIN, I found that the truck originally came with a 4bbl 350 v-8, was made in London, Canada and was the 59,065 unit built.

Engine: 388 cid small block Chevy [ 4.06" bore, 3.75" stroke] 4bolt bottem end, 11:1 compression, Speed-pro forged pistons w/ anti-friction coating on skirts, childs & albert file fit plasma moly rings, SCAT 9000 series crankshaft, ARP rod bolts on 5.7" chevy rods

Intake: Holley 750cfm double pump carb, edelbrock Victor manifold w/ turtle, K&N 14" air filter

Heads: vortec L31 heads w/ HD Z28 springs and stainless swirl polished intake valves, comp cams roller tip rockers

Cam:Lunati small base circle solid flat tappet ground from ultradyne cam file

Ignition: Accel Hei distributor with guts removed, MSD 6a box, blaster 2 coil, dust cap, and spark plug wires.

Exaust: headman 1 5/8" primary into 3" collector full length headers, 2 1/2" dual exhaust with H-pipe, 40 series flowmasters, 3" tips

Tranny: Muncie M-20 wide ratio 4 speed, Hurst completion plus shifter

Rear: 12 bolt, Either 3.42 or 3.73 gears [ I know I need to check]

Body mods: Aeroglass Mopar six pack reproduction ram air hood scoop, roll pan, sun roof.

Wheels, tires and suspension: progressive 15" rims, BF goodwrich 275/60R15's, belltech 3" drop spindles, suspension techniques 2" drop springs, belltech 4" shackles and hangers, overload spring removed.

Interior: custom made red tweed and black leather bucket seats, 4 point harnesses, red and black tweed carpet and interior.

Gauges: Autometer [phantom line] gas level, voltage, water temp, oil pressure, monter tach and speedometer

Others: Chrome air cleaner lid, valve covers, timing chain cover, side steps. K&N valve cover breather, Pete Jackson gear drive. Holley RED electric fuel pump w/ Holley pressure regulator and gauge. Alan Groove alternator mount. Battery relocated to right rear of bed.

FUTURE MODS:

• halogen lights in front bumper
• more autometer guages [fuel pressure, oil temp]
• convert the rear to limited slip posi
• shaved door handles
• New fuel cell relocated to rear underside of bed
• dancing Hawaiian statue girl on dash
• Paint job [desperately needs it but all in good time]
• convert bed to all metal [floor is wood right now]
• fiberglass front end

As soon as I can I'm going to start on my next engine for it. It is going to be 478cid total. It will have a 4.5" bore and a 3.76" stroke. 11:1 forged pistons, forged connecting rods, and a forged crank will be used. Aluminum AFR 310cc heads, a Edelbrock victor jr intake, and a demon 850-900cfm carb.A roller cam, full roller rockers and mechanical roller lifters will also be used. A aftermarket oil pan with windage tray will be used along with a crank scraper. 1 7/8" headman headers will help with the exaust. A complete MSD ignition consisting of MSD billet distributor, 6AL ignition blaster 2 coil and 8.5mm wires. ARP head, crank and header studs; Wav-loc connecting rod bolts. Basically anything that can be replaced by ARP will be. All for only about $10,000! hehe. This engine is and will continue to be in the planning phase until it is built and changes will be made, but this is what I would like.

I just want to thank a on-line friend of mine who has givin me so much advise [and possibly saved my head when I put my drop spindles on] it just wouldn't be right for me to not mention him. Thanks Chris [aka captkaos]

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