Central IL New Member

[Chad9]

Hey All, new member here from 61491. My truck is a 1983 F350 2wd SRW, 460/C6, Holley 600 com 4 bbl. Just needed something for weekend projects around the house and somehow ended up with a 1 ton lol. Overall truck runs great other than some hot start issues (how I found this site). CC and AC even work. 83k miles.

[grumpin]

Welcome!

[Dee1986]

Welcome aboard, I'm about 2 hours East of you on 80 in Joliet. That truck looks pretty solid, was it from out of state?

[Chad9]

Hi Brian, we eat at Aurelios in Joliet when we are passing thru on I80 to see family in South Bend IN.

I bought truck locally but there is an oil change sticker indicating the truck was in Nebraska as recent as 2017.

[Gary Lewis]

Welcome, Matt!  Glad you joined.  

Used to live in Elgin, not too far from you.  But, would you like to be on our map, seen in the menu at Bullnose Forum/Member's Map?

Nice truck.  And a lot of truck for weekend chores.  

You've run afoul of the software in this forum, which is like many forums - dumb.  It doesn't read the camera position data embedded in the pictures.  So the way around that is to open the pic in editing software, which will rotate the pic to fit your screen, and then save the pic.  That usually fixes the problem.

[ArdWrknTrk]

Welcome to the forum Matt!  

Those are some serious tow mirrors you've got there.

Cool that you've got a good carb in your little L body.
Bill will regale you with 2.2 praise and be all over the fact that that car was Lee Iacocca's first shot from the helm of Chrysler.

[1986F150Six]

Welcome!

[85lebaront2]

Welcome to the forums. I like your tow mirrors, my 1977 had them and Darth has them apparently either factory installed of done by the selling dealer in 1986.

Darth was a carburated 460/C6 with 3.55 gears and was originally a horse trailer hauler. You will find the 460 will pretty well pull anything you want it to.

On your other ride, I had a 1987 Horizon with the standard 2.2L and 5 speed, It ended up going to my daughter and her live in boyfriend parked it in the weeds behind the house after it failed inspection due to the muffler inlet pipe being rusted through on top of the bend. When he finally needed to get it fixed, the floors had rusted through in a few places.

My son (also a Matt) had a 1986 Turismo 2.2 that we found had the same HO engine as the first batch of Omni GLHs had, the 110 hp engine.

[Chad9]

Yes rust is definitely a big issue on the Omni, will probably do this one in sooner than later as there is a hole in the floorboard. Bought it cheap though and learned some wrenching on it. Guy I bought it from had a GM/Rochester 1 bbl carb he had rigged up on it. After trying a couple of carbs on it decided on the Weber 32/36 which seems to work well. I hope to take it out on the highway for the first time this weekend to see how it does

[ArdWrknTrk]

Ah, the old 'Goes Like Hell'!

I dismissed the Horizon's front wheel drive before I saw what Shelby had done.

Torque steer had always been a huge issue -until the axles were the same lenght-

Look at the 0-60 and 1/8th times of modern fwd race cars.
When all the weight is on the drive wheels (and the whole car is a wheelie bar) it starts to make sense.

In '87 if I said we'd see 1,000+ Hp from a Japanese transverse 4 on E85  I'd be laughed at.