The baron
 

I've mentioned her before so why not post a thread? my new whip, an 87' T1 Lebaron auto

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slowly transferring all my goodies from the daytona. this car is in retardedly good shape for her age

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spent most of the day pulling this stuff...full topend off my daytona for the T2 conversion. decent street cam, light port head, ported exhaust mani, two piece intake, and a 2.5 swingvalve that can accept a 3in exhaust :rockwoot:

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gotta get the downpipe, 5 speed, and the rest of the gauges soon

Non-convertible would have been better. Does this have the A413 Torqueflte 3 speed auto? If so...sweet.

I wanted a turbovan. the only reasonable one in the area was sold out from under me. there was a black GTC VNT 5 speed coupe for sale at the same time but it was in terrible shape with tons of rust.

I think you mean a413, but yep that one. its getting a a555 5 speed with the close ratio getrag gears :dribble:

Dude I love the 20" spinner (minus 5 inches and the spinning part) rims!

those are clearly SSR comps and have nothing to do with spinning and everything to do with being lighter than fuck :P

Homeslice is desperately trying to suppress his desire to post in this thread.

Back in the day they were good cars and the car to get if you wanted a convertible at a decent price.
That looks like its going to be fun little sleeper when you are done.

Its bizarre seeing one without paint issues on the hood and trunk. It seemed the little white clouds would show up 3 months after it left the dealer lot.

Digging the little Dodge shadow in the background

That shadow is a random base model with the es appearance package in her moms neighborhood.

The paint itself is original. The clearcoat did cloud but the previous owner sanded and refinished it

Don't know why I got away from 2.2/2.5s, I really love the character of this engine. Can't wait for this scholarship to kick in so I can get the 3in pipe

All of the ones I've seen have the top all effed up.

Nice. Is it for, your GF?

'Where's your Le Baron, Freddy? Where's your Le Baron? How many Le Barons? Are there two Le Barons?'

First thing that comes to mind for any Le Baron. That one looks very clean.

For me, she may inherit it if I come across the right rust free daytona or omni

I haven't seen one of those in YEARS

Must be a regional thing. They are fairly common over here despite age...nothing like the volvo 240 though. You'd think they still produced those fuckers

I'm sorry. Really. On a man level, on a mechanics level, on a car level.

Hell, at any level. Sorry.

I'm sorry you're into 4000 lb cars that get 5 mpg :lol:

I'm sorry about what your vehicle says about your sexual orientation (PSSSSSST: The engine is turning the wrong wheels).

My cars (one actually runs...the rest are being restored):

1974 K5 Blazer Monster Truck 350 4-speed 44" tires
!971 Chevelle 350/4-speed ~325 hp
1969 Corvette L48 4-speed 350 hp
1994 LT1 Corvette convertible 6-speed 300 hp
1999 Ford Expedition 4.7 V8, auto

Not a homosexual vehicle in the stable, mate. Yes, my cars consume gas. Men's big cars and trucks do that...it's the price of not being gay, and having cars that don't suck.

Listen, you can always try and save face most of the time by having your GF drive, at least. Just pretend it isn't yours...

;)

Yours suggest your penis is small and ineffective. Did you really just post the factory power claims? :lmao: that's like bragging that you ran a 15 :lol

Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
......

No, douchenozzle, I build most of my own engines (and have built a few for friends). By now, I kinda know what cam and compression will get ya what, though. It's not rocket surgery, or anything like working on that toy shit you drive.

Oh, and I'm latin, and don't need to compensate with my vehicles. While I drove a monster truck as a daily driver, I also raced pocketbikes.

I like powerful machines both big and small.

I guess I just hate your car because it's gay.

:shrug:

In other words you have no fucking clue.

You're not listening!
 

No, you've got it all wrong:

You have a gay car.

A K car.

You know they make pills for your "little" problem :lol:

You know they make cars for men too.

They make dynos too, so you don't get caught out as a lying sack of shit ;)

Here's a good bet, and it wouldn't require a dyno:

Any one of my rides probably has a blower motor that has more HP than your car.

Don't cry, just buy a man's car next time.

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Mfw the fifty year old guy uses rides in a sentance :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

I pity the boy that doesn't know enough to buy a man's car.

...But there's time, grasshopper. Hone your skills on your K car.

One day you will be a man.

At 50, I am more hep and current than children you haven't had yet, son.

Pot doesn't make you "hip" just helps you fuck up spelling it.

That's how not hip you actually are, you don't even know the word "hep". Hep predates hip by a chunk. It predates me by a chunk, but I know it, because I'm hip.

;)

Thanks for executing that perfectly, and proving my point.

My Cadillac had 320 hp:lol: stock. redflip

Other than just being your usual dolt self, the Lebaron is kind of a neat car, though I don't like convertibles. My brother had a 86 4 door Lebaron turbo with the three speed auto. The girgling sounds the engine/turbo made were kinda sweet.

Wasn't there a Dodge/ Maserati combo with some of those K cars? I could swear that I had one of those in my shop for something a while back.

Maserati TC. basically a rebodied lebaron. top trim level cars are highly sought after due to a maserati engineered DOHC head attached to the chrysler 2.2 turbo block and one of the strongest manual trans from the iacocca era

your knowledge of cold war era teenage colloquialisms must pull a lot of trim :rolleyes:

See, I myself would have gone for the Volvo.
They take hop-ups nicely. ;)

Still, for an '87, that's a pretty decent example.
The only LeBarons I see around here look twice their age and are probably held together with baling wire and duct tape.

turbos were few and far between. besides i have a ton of 2.2/2.5 parts and junk laying around. figured i could have an enjoyable daily for very cheap :rockwoot:

Well, if it runs strong and doesn't look like ass, why the hell not?

Pert much

Surely not as much as a Lebaron. That must just fucking rake in the pussy...

The vain tortures the documentary.

My best friend and I went joyriding in a turbo lebaron in high school. Belonged to a friend of his dad, and I remember it being pretty damn fun.

I spotted a dave in the wild today, but then I realized it was just a cheap imitation

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very cheap. his exhaust is stock as opposed to the near 6k worth of glorious pipes hanging off of mine

Is that a Honda Fit?

Nice timing... the amount of wind-up in this thread was starting to dwindle. :lol:

:lol:

Mighty!

Actually yes it is a Honda Fit, your dashboard recognition skills are awesome. I bought it a little over a year ago.

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in b4 gay car :lol

A previous GF of mine had a [Honda] Fit in Brazil (my most recent GF had a fit too, on occasion...however, it was due to Epilepsy).

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Making progress. Took a look under the baron and found my car was built with a five speed k member. Score. No welding or messy suspension swap to go manual

Not sure why you want a manual when the autos where teh awesome.

Thats why the wife drives it

I spotted Dave out driving his car, but he didn't see me...he was distracted.
 

any pics of the 71 chevelle? Was/is oneof my favorite muscle cars :rockwoot:

It's like a fucking musclecar barnfind bonanza in my fucking yard at this point.

I'm building a studio, and setting up all kindsa computer shit right now, or I'd be outside building me some fucking Chevys.

Tell ya what, I'll drag a camera outside today and snap a pic of the "corrosion corral"...

What does being Latin have to do with anything? Are you saying they have big dicks? I doubt it, seeing as how people down there usually aren't very tall, so I kinda doubt they have a big dick either.

Now, the whole dark-skinned, dark-haired thing, OK I'll give you that........the ladies seem to dig that shit.

You must have missed that thread. Seems people from my neck of the woods fare well in this category. I'm apparently huge in Japan...

Pretty sure anyone is huge in Japan :lol:

FUCK - you beat me to it :lol:

Swapped in the manual pedals and installed an apexi turbo timer that's been sitting around for years. Might put the boost controller in tomorrow if I go buy some vac tees

Where's the pic holmes?

Ok, OK...today, I promise.

Tried to take the pics last week, but as soon as I had pulled all the car covers off the corvettes, the fucking sky opened up, and I had to rush to cover everything again.

We've been having almost daily boomers here in NJ, but I'll try to find a dry moment today.

it will be bright and sunny right up untill you decide to take the covers off. damn weather heres been so unpredictible

Weathers been like tt here in michigan as well. But at least the temps haven't been as bad.

Just to give you an idea of the weather here of late...
 

Yeah that's a great way to have a day.

Oh it isn't unpredictable. It is like clockwork: uncover or wash a car, boom! Sky opens up.

The corrosion corral! (my personal monument to chevy, and the manual trans)
 

OK...managed to find a dry five fucking minutes in NJ:

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Nice set!!!

But you got lots of work to do... get to it!

Yer deck needs to be stained :nee:

Rust. Never. Sleeps.

I have a SHITLOAD to do...but I first need to finish building my studio (now literally just a few more weeks of work) and get a few more needs (mostly tools).

I wanna change my garage door (need #1), to a roll-up affair, in order to make room for another need (#2); a two post asymmetrical lift. I also plan to get (#3) a rotisserie, a body lift gantry attachment for my engine crane (#4) and a TIG welder/Plasma cutter (#5).

Could I make do without all that? Probably. I've done more with less before, but like you said, I have a LOT to do...and I'm not as young, or as mobile as I used to be. If I'm going to manage to do justice to these cars, I'm going to need to make it as easy as possible...

My deck is fucking green. NJ is a fucking swamp, and the shit is actually covered in fucking moss. It needs to be powerwashed, then stained.

Fuck, I wish I lived in California, where it's dry. This is fucking sick.

Composite "wood" is probably a good idea.

Love the 'Vette without the bump in the hood, incidentally.

Yeah, that hood was fucking criminal. Almost as bad as having a slushbox.

















Nah.

:lol: I'd rather have the hood

There's green algae, moss, whatever the fuck, growing on even the plastic shit in the yard; like that Rubbermaid shed...and even the vinyl siding of the house. The house is actually grey, but you wouldn't know it...most of it's pretty fucking green. Textured too, from where the slugs eat little swirly trails through the green shit.

Shit's just fucking gross, man. Jersey eats a dick. How I came to be here is a long, sad story, but suffice to say, I kinda feel like I got punked. If I wasn't nearly underwater with this joint, and I wasn't already nearly 90% done the studio, I'd be gone already.

If I go out in the yard, I come in with at least 2 ticks. Woke up the other day with one suckling on my left nip. I had a hot, feverish, B-cup left boob for 3 days (giggity).

If this place didn't have a honking A/C unit that knocks all the moisture down to tolerable levels, I'd have gone totally fucking postal already. In the 5 minutes outside it took to snap those pics, I totally soaked my shirt.

Jersey may have its own slogans, but I'm sticking with mine:

NJ; moist as a fat girl's buttcrack

I'll stick with CNY :lol:

Like the yellow K5.

Always thought those were cool.

Turns out twenty four year old vac hose doesn't hold boost well. Hit fuel cut on the way to school yesterday, took a look and the line is ballooned around the nipple on the vac can. Awesome, guess I'm building a new vac harness soon

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"Overnight parts from japan" :lol

Fixed all the leaks and added the boost controller. Making a nice 10psi now,

WTF is that? Flux Capacitor?

You kids and these newfangled toys...

Hah that avc-r is about twenty years old.


The one on top runs the car for a few minutes after you pull the key to keep oil from cocking up the feed line to the turbo. Bottom one is a electronic boost controller

Tell the truth, that thing on top is a light sabre.

Newfangled gobbledegook.

Get out of my yard, you whippersnapper.

Whatevski. Prob a guy behind you somewhere that never made it past steam.

Don't suppose you've heard about the engine in the next gen vette?

Meh. It's impressive, in a supercomputer kinda way.

I prefer shit that grabs you by the nads, and says "sex".

The new 'Vette looks like a fucking shoe.

Spotted a lebaron falling off a collapsing bridge in the ad for the new final destination :lol:

Good eye :lol: