For all the hate you are going to get, and are getting, for this woody wagon, here's a thumbs up from me! I'm always down with preserving AND USING old iron for the public to enjoy seeing on the road. Taking something like this and squirreling it away would be a travesty as it's so nice. Good for you guys!
That is one ICON of an eye sore! I did time in a baby-blue Ford escort wagon in my teen years. No laws back then. There is no way to be cool in that ride....but chicks liked that fact that it didn't matter to us....and most kids didn't have a ride at all. It was a party wagon with treasured memories.
Oh man, when you two get together, it is a riot. An evening with 1, 2 or 12 beers with you two would be epic. Thx for the video, super entertaining guys.
We also had a K car. It was a 1984 Plymouth Reliant. It had the Mopar engine. We also ordered a Plymouth Caravelle that used the same engine but it was a fuel injected car. Thank you for sharing your Mitsubishi powered car. Enjoy. Our car was given to our son after he was married. It met an untimely end. It was T-boned in an intersection by a "stolen" car. The Plymouth Caravelle was driven until the wheels fell off. It had over 350,000 km in Canada. I had changed the engine oil almost religiously.
I grew up in the 80’s and we had three kcars!! I have a 1991 acclaim(2nd generation) and restored it. It has more room inside because I’m 6’5”. I would love to have a first gen Plymouth voyager. Wonderful wonderful memories
Been a mechanic for 20yr My first job as a mechanic was fixing a friends acclaim that wouldn’t start. It snapped the camshaft in half? Spent all winter night with a flashlight learning what engine timing was. Got it done!!! I think I got $150 Everyone was happy as hell😂 And he still drove that thing long as I lived in the area.
Man this car is so clean and such a throwback I almost dont want to see it turn into a wheelie machine. What if you put the hemi at the front and try to make it a hell of a sleeper 😅
Hell yeah! I've been waiting to see you guys work on this since you bought it! If the Hemi ends up not working out you could always swap an SRT4 drivetrain into it, or if it fits a Honda K-series to have a K-powered K Car!
Would be cool to see this with the drivetrain from an EVO 9. Never seen that before and would be a total sleeper. God bless and lots of love from Norway.
Man, This just makes me feel nostalgic for my 90 lebaron. Then I remember how terrible that thing was, But it has the most comfortable seats I've ever had in a car
The large speaker hole is for the AM only radio that was still offered “back in the day”. The car would have only the one speaker and nothing else. You guys ended up with the luxury edition, what luck! Enjoy that thing, brings me back decades, as every third kid in high school had one iteration or another of this car. Mom and Dad had handed this down to them, and it was party time! The wrap job looks better than factory original.
actually they had a mono AM-FM option if I recall properly(as a kid). but yes that was for the lowest end wagon/car audio option. my first used junker had a mono- am/fm radio. of course I upgraded it for fm stereo cassette and random old house speakers iN the rear(hatch-back), it worked and heard over the road/wind noise of windows down summers.
Step mom had a '84 Km car wagon that I used as a trainer when learning to drive. It didn't last two years. Had the transmission replaced under warranty with 20,000 miles on it and when it started running like crap during a trip to Colorado from Texas, Dad traded it in on a Camry.
Truly the throw away car of the 80's!! Next to the Yugo, there wasn't a more revered crusher mobile in the world. . even more Pintos and Mustang II's have survived!!
Love it! I worked for a business that had a 2-door, 4-spd K-car wagon that was awesome! Delivered many stereos with it….a buddy had a wagon exactly like yours in high school. We called it the “battle bucket”. You can guess where it ended up….
Wow, I forgot that a lot of those had the 2.6 Mitsubishi engine in them. I'm used to seeing the 2.2 Mopar 4 banger (with or without turbo). My neighbor had an Omni GLH with the 2.2 turbo, and it was a rocket!😂 The broken pipe is actually for EGR. Just set the timing back a couple degrees to keep the pre-ignition down, and you'll be good! Those engines have a bit of a slow cam in them to try to meet emissions for the day when they were still carbureted. I dunno if you could even GET a performance cam that would eliminate that.🤷♂ *EDIT:* The plastic hubcaps you got actually fit the vintage of the car nicely!😉
My late wife had a neighbor who worked for ComEd in Illinois and their "policy" was called temporary permanent fix. If the repair held it was repaired permanently if it broke it was a temporary fix until "parts" were available for it !!
83 Dodge rampage. Flying down the highway. Bang. Just a simple backfire, I thought. End up getting it towed home. Find out the rotor in the distributor sheared the index tab and rotated 180 out of time. Only K car I ever had. Still have the aluminum Gem top canopy too.
It's already got a Hemi in it. That little G54b for the most part only ever got hemi heads excluding the Magnas (Australia) and the HKS prototype rally Starion. If anything it's the biggest issue with turning these into a performance engine if you don't already have the MCA jet valves in the head.
12cyl of hemi. He should run both engines together on track. Rally drivers figured out you don’t have to have two engines that make similar power. One strong and one weak works great. A legend once had a twin vw engines, Rear was turbo Front was na And they play together happily. 😊
I am so very thankful that I found your channel! Y'all have so much fun and y'all share it with us! I honestly don't believe I have watched one installment on your channel that hasn't made me smile at least a few times!!! Please keep the awesome content comin'!!! Also I have always wanted to take a 1987ish Plymouth Voyager yank out the anemic factory drive train and stuff a built 426 between and behind the front seats kinda like the early to mid 60s Mopar and Ford vans had and back it up with a 4- or 5-speed tranny! I'm thinking that would almost have to be the ULTIMATE grocery getter!!!!
I drove a few rental K-Cars as an electronic service tech in the late 80’s. The 2.2 l auto was ok but they mostly had air conditioning which was nice. I wound up driving a 2.2 l Plymouth Horizon a lot, which did not have AC and had to be moving to get any airflow but it would do 140 kph on the 401, which was fun. With the windows down the unlocked back hatch opened up on the highway once..that was funny.
I had a buddy in highschool and his dad sold cars for a Dodge dealer and his dad always was bringing new cars home and we would cruise around in them. The early 80s dodges they would get abused bad and they were brand new demos, Daytona, mini van k car nothing cooler than watching a digital speedometer go to warp speed on a icy road. Everyone was a smoker. Dodge dealers were rolling back the speedometers on new cars because they had to many miles on them. 🤠
You guys are nearly the same in subscribers as Cold war motors. And as an American you 2 are the best automotive RU-vidrs. You need to collab. I'd watch the crap out of that. And you both deserve way more then so many other car channels.
And the Mazda B2600, Mighty max/D50 first and second gens, monteros, pajeros, challengers, minivans, busses, etc. They were everywhere. I'd say it's like the SBC of mitsubishi just from how widely it was used. Really wish we had something better than the Hemi heads for it here in the states.
Carburetors on those were a nightmare, 50,000 vacuum lines and a phenolic body so you couldn't dip it in carb solvent. As a driveability tech, I hated them. But when they worked, they ran great
@@dave1135 The only time I see carb'd G54b's anymore is with weber 32/36 conversions. Hell, my PowerRam 50's got one too before I bought it. I wouldn't say it's more efficient in terms of economy, but the fact you can eliminate all the emissions stuff and cut out 90% of the vacuum lines, it's a worthwhile mod just for longevities sake.
A little tech tip for you on Chrysler glass. It always weights more than others because when it's manufactured they have a higher content of silica in it for sound control. All the older Chrysler glass was a true 1/4 inch thick unlike other manufacturers who were progressing towards thinner glass for weight savings and fuel economy
I had an 86 Plymouth Aries, silver with red interior. Ugly as heck but it drove so nice! Bench seat in the front, you could cruise in that thing all day. And in the early 90s, parts for that thing were dirt cheap. It never let me down!
I have a 1985 Dodge Aries wagon with a 4 speed manual in it. I wound up putting a Weber carburetor on it. Mine is pretty basic. If you get bored, I do have some videos on my channel with the wagon in it.
13:28 real heavy gauge metal and thick rear glass, the plastic and insulation weigh not much unless water logged, but fiberglass doesn't hold water well(unless frozen to ice). they were designed to keep and hold 500LBS+ material/food/random material(kids) from slamming out the back when turning fast or steep inclines. relatives back then hauled wheels of swiss cheese and multiple 50lbs crates of smoked meats at once, which would wildly slide around on the steep grades(20%+)
Always wanted to find the old Direct Connection smallblock K-frame for the K-car. And find a nice, 'Griswald' green woodie wagon similar to this. Run a mild 360/904/8.75 & make a fun little street & strip car.
A friend of mine owns a fiberglass shop. He had a lady whose parents owned one of these and the faux wood had deteriorated and she wanted it restored. He spent about a year making molds of the pieces and replacing them. It was expensive but she wanted it right.
Are you old enough to remember the Morris Minorv wagon that had the 427 in the back... he was from Stoney Creek i think. Used to drive it with the 1000cc engine with the yarn clutch... blowby galore. He'd pull up to the lights and shut down the Morris. Yiud hear the air starter spin up the 427 after he reeled the tonneau off the injector flutes through the roof.
That broken pipe is possibly Exhaust Gas Recirc pipe.. that would cause major issues when EGR valve opens. Air would be able to leak into manifold effectively bypassing the MAF sensor and leaning the fuel mixture right out. Maybe part of your issue
Look, I HAD a Aries Station wagon. It filled a purpose for several years and I did drive it into the ground. There were welds on the frame parts everywhere. But. This wagon actually does look sharp. Period. The exterior couldn't be much better, save for maybe color matching the hubcaps to the wood panel. And I can whole heartedly agree on that stereo and it's fitment. But, please, consider redoing the rear speakers. Yer gonna need them when playing Panama or Life Is A Highway while cruising.
We had one when I was a kid. It was an 87 and yes, we drove it into the ground, until the engine started knocking. I always thought it would be cool to make one of these a sleeper, big engine under the hood and RWD.
I remember back when I was a kid my mom had a brand new one of those cars it was a 1985,Kay car we didn’t have the wood on it tho😂 it was the first time riding in a brand new car 😂
No way your cutting this up, andy is in love with this car😂 needs to be slammed and on 19s i reckon but im an aussie and thats what we do to wagons 😂loved the vid guys 🤘🤠👍🇦🇺
Hey Rich if you have problems finding parts for that engine you can check with hyster forklift dealers a lot of the older hyster 40s and 50s series use that 2.6 l... Granted they were mostly propane but I imagine the internals and the ignition was the same
that actually is a O2 sensor on the manifold. that carb uses a mixture solenoid... replace it with a weber bolt on carb, it eliminates all the computer control
The 84,(1985 went to 5x100 bolt pattern) Shelby Charger/Omni GLH had 15" mag wheels known as pizza cutters with a 195/55r15 tires or 205/55r15, they would look good on this thing!! Make sure the chain guides are good, or you're doing a head job.
