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    Muffler Shops

    I had mine done with 2 1/2 inch pipes with no problems. However I should define what mine is. It's a 73 Hornet and I could see very little difference between it and my AMX. I had the local muffler...
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    Hinge Pins

    Just a suggestion. Try American Peformance out of Florida or Galvins out of California. They also sell the bushings kits for the cars to. Instead of being made out of plastic like the factory...
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    Info

    Welcome on board and congradulations on buying your AMX. To defintely find out what options the AMX came with you would need the build sheet. Only a small portion of the cars came with the build...
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    Possible answers ?

    The unmarked engine is somewhat unusual in that almost all the blocks had the cubic inch displayed in the spot beneath the motor mounts. To find out for sure what the cubic inch is to the measure the...
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    Headliners

    I believe that the head liners for the Javelins were the same color as the rest of the interior. So if everything else is black the headliner is black. The stock material that was used in the...
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    AC Brace

    This is only a suggestion that I did to my Javelin. I fabricated a brace that runs from the passenger side of the ac compressor to the passenger side block where the negative battery cable is. Seems...
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    Build Dates

    As far as I know all AMXs were release for sale starting in February of 68 which would make the 68 AMX a 68 1/2 model. So in essence since the cars were sold after Januay of 68, it had to have the...
  8. Thread: spark plugs

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    Spark Plugs

    Have always had good luck with Champion Plugs. N12Y plugs if you can find them. I have tried various other plugs with little to no success and the Champions seem to work better. I have ran them in...
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    Must Balances To Do

    I have found though out the years when you purchase a motor, it must come with the flywheel. AMC motors require a balance motor to start and the only way that AMC did their motors was by the way that...
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    Some possible answers.

    There are some light rust bubbles on the bottom corners of the rear window and surface rust inside the double panels of the trunk lid and the underside of the area between the trunk and rear window....
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    More answers

    The vin for 68 was on the right front fender and there should be a stamping of the last 6 digets in behind the steering box on the left side (driverside).
    There were suppose to be vin stampings on...
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    Engine Ticks

    I have found over the years that engine ticks can come from everything from a an very minor exhaust leak to sticky lifters.
    My cars all have various noises that I find somewhat annoying in that...
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    Charging systems

    I kind of have the same problem with my 73 Hornet (V8). The problem I have is that the battery is loosing its water after a few months of driving it. Last winter I put the car in its place in the...
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    T Stripes On 71 Javelin AMX

    The Tstripes on the AMX (Javelin) is what I put on my SST of the same year. I had mine painted on and kind of had the same problem as far as dimenisions were concerned. What I did was to find a print...
  15. Thread: 1974 amx

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    Engines

    Although AMC V-8 engines can be replaced with various other engine hardware from the Big 3, I have found that there are sources available that sell AMC parts for the internals of the engine. I use a...
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    Front discs

    Any AMC produced with front discs can be interchanged from one vehicle to another. You would need the discs, Rotors, spindles, etc. in order to do the swap.
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    70 Frontend on a 69

    As previously written in another post, AMC had optioned the 70 frontend on the 69 AMX and Javelin for around 600.00. The company decided while racing in the Trans-AM to change the frontends to the...
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    ????

    What kind of after market ignition and is the tac a stock one or is it also an aftermarket?? Kind of need to be specific if possible so we can give you the right information and you aren't running in...
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    Sticky: Hear Hear

    Got to put my 2 cents worth in. I own both a AMX and a Javelin and agree in principal to javelinjeff and what he is saying about separating cars and some of the rest of the stuff that goes with it. I...
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    Ideas

    The replacement blocks I would assume would be mostly all the same size. The stroke (or is it the bore) on a 304 is the same as the stroke on a 360 with only the bore being of a different size. What...
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    T-Stripe installation

    T-stripe installations can be simple or differcult depending on what you want. American Peformance out of Cocoa Florida sells the t-stripe kits that are made out of the vinyl kind of stuff.
    On my...
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    Engine Id

    As already stated the numbers are underneath the motor mounts on either side. If you do not see any numbers being either in CI or Metric, then you have what is called a Service replacement block....
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    Tac Problems

    I have a 70 AMX that did the same thing and it took me a while to figure it out. The tac itself was fine but what it was did somewhat surprise me a little. It was the yellow wire that was connected...
  24. Thread: the first 304

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    Jeep Drop ins

    To the best of my knowledge, there is no modifications needed to drop a Jeep V-8 AMC motor into a passenger car. I recently took a 401 that came out of a Jeep Wagoneer and drop it into my Javelin. No...
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    70 Heads

    I hink that there is another way to determine if you have 70 heads or not. In the 70 model they went to the "dogleg" intake ports while still using the log type exhaust openings. Not until the 71...
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