Rich! Welcome back! Haven't seen your ID for a week or so. Everyone else on Forum gave me swirlies while you were gone! I am total AMC nut. Still drive same AMC I drove in high school. Nobody believes a word a say, but here goes: First, "Coronodo" is a Chrysler trademark, not AMC. American Motors never made a Coronodo. "Eagle" WAS American Motors. But every single AMC Eagle ever built left Kenosha with either: - AMC 304 - AMC 258 (toughest engine in the world) - GM 151 After Chrysler purchased AMC -- AS AN ONGOING BUSINESS CONCERN (though majority owned by Renault) -- they re-used several original AMC trademarks in new cars of their own design: - Chrysler "Spirit" is *NOTHING* like AMC Spirit (that's the car I still drive. Is basically a re-skinned Gremlin with much plusher interior) - Chrysler "Eagle" is *NOTHING* like AMC Eagles Chrysler's Eagle Premier used Volvo redesigned PRV (B280). Is significantly different than B27/B28 PRV's. Totally different crankshaft (even fire, not odd). Heads and camshafts totally different. Different manifold. Is EFI, not Jetronic (injectors relocated to low profile manifold). Distributor relocated to #3 cylinder. List goes on. B280 is a very nice engine. Smooth as silk. Lots of HP (170), but I bet torque *ISN'T* worlds away from B27/B28. Takes advantage of sophisticated onboard electronics. Have seen a website with DeLorean re-engined with a B280 (from a Premier). Try searching "DeLorean Eagle Engine" to hit it. As I recall owner used third party EFI rather than swap Eagle computer. Unfortunately PRV's pretty rare in US volvo's. Have seen exactly *ONE* B28 and *ONE* B280 in all my junkyard scavaging. That's why I bought spare engine that is STILL in back of my truck. Bill Robertson #5939 >--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cruznmd" <racuti1@xxxx> wrote: > My uncle tells me of a man who worked for Chrysler. This man says > that when the AMC Eagle (Premier?) and another AMC car that I can't > remember the name of (Coronado?), Chrysler sent a group of their > mechanics to Volvo to get certified on the PRV, and this guy was one > of them. Supposedly he's -real- good at fixing these engines. > > Bill, you always say that Chrysler bought AMC. Were you aware that > these engines were used in these cars, or were going to be? > Could this be a good source of heads and certain other parts? > > Rich > #5335 _____ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DMCForum/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=Unsubscribe> * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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