Feature Magazine Coverage for Scrapyard Scamp

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Guys,

I'm proud to report that an A Body Mopar will be featured in a magazine that we don't ever get much press in. While I can't reveal the book just yet it is an honor to get press on the car and hopefully it will serve as a big thanks to Tim Skardoutous, (Forced 340), Peter Bergman, Bergman Autocraft, (GMachineDartGT), Greg Banish, (My Calibration Partner) and Clark Peterson, who worked with me to build the car. This was a hard job to do in a short space of time and Tim's fabbing skills made the car possible.

It's been a long and stressful year only to have to press the Scamp into tour duty this June with HRPT, Long Haul, 1,600 Miles @ Car Craft Nationals, Woodward Cruise with another Southern tour coming in September for Nopi, and Fram customer visits. I've resisted the huge temptation of dragstrips, dynos and big boost so we could focus on making the car work as a car and to do that I've been driving it daily to smooth out the rough edges. Believe me, it's the little things that take you forever because they need to be thought out.

So far 26-27 mpg on the freeway on tour is a frequent reality, and 20-21 in mixed commuting is usual. Performance at even 11 psi is great and
the handling beyond impressive. Without Bergman's suspension the car wouldn't be capable of the long legged Toyota which loves 4-7K rev ranges under boost.

I hope the press coverage makes us all proud no matter what you think of my foreign engine swap as there is really more Mopar DNA in this car than Toyota DNA! I will announce the book when we get closer to press time.

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I still can't get over the interior. Not a lot going on, but still amazing beauty in its simplicity! I'm in love with it
 
MoparDaddy said:
I still can't get over the interior. Not a lot going on, but still amazing beauty in its simplicity! I'm in love with it
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Thanks I really appreciate it. Interiors are really hard to get right so I just thought I should keep this one real simple. I told Pat from PJ's trim shop in Saginaw, MI, No Leather, No crazy Orange piping but make these Camaro buckets look like Mopar seats! I thrifted them from a junkyard because they reclined, the driver's side was power and I had a nice set of Jeep heating elements I wanted to have in there. I really had zero cash for anything trick. Tim hated welding the seat mounts and it took him all day cause it was a bench car. Timmy swapped my bright door panel trim for his 70's black trim and I had a guy from Ebay recover the dash pad. Clark fabbed the gauge panel with a piece of sheet aluminum I had and the gauges were $280 Marshall finds from Ebay.

I still cannot believe all the time it took to wire that gauge panel, like 15 hours. I reused as many factory circuits as I could and installed a weatherpak connector so the cluster can come out.

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pretty car with a crap motor. needs a good swift boot for such atrocities. even more of a shame that this is in Detroit.
 
Crap motor; said the man with the Mexican v6 collection of modern mopars designed to crash.

Do tell how an inline six cylinder with a cross flow aluminum hemi head with 4 valves, driven by overhead cams and a forged crank, balanced to shoot the moon in RPM is a crap motor. School all of us on how VVT is a bad thing and how the geometry of an inline six is inferior to a V configuration 6. Is it the harmonics of a V6 rattling itself apart that sold you? I'm dying to hear your insight on engineering.

I'm not sure that the car's owner/ builder deserves any kind of boot, but running your trap like that in his thread might call the same attention from a moderator for one in your direction, to heed your atrocity of a contribution to an awesome thread, like this.

Can't wait to see the article on this car! I've been reading up here, on it over the past few months.

Good work, Dave!
 
i'd rather see that engine in it then see the car crushed or rust away to nothing:prayer:
 
HATERS GONNA HATE. 300+ hp and 25+ mpg. thats a win in my book. hell you can turbo charge 1000 hp out of those engines.
 
hemitheus said:
pretty car with a crap motor. needs a good swift boot for such atrocities. even more of a shame that this is in Detroit.
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Lol, it's always nice to read a comment like this just to know that someone out there had a worse day then me.
 
Brand loyalty is BS, in my opinion, people are people, some prefer fear, while others venture. No need to be a dick to someone, because you prefer something else. If you think it through, comments like that stem from a mild difference in preference. It has nothing to do with hate, or even disliking, but having a superior preference. To hate or dislike goes the other way. I may prefer Chrysler products to GM, but I don't hate or dislike the comparable ones, certainly not enough to throw ugly insults like that.

Aside from there being nothing wrong with a 2JZGTE, or lots of other engines outside of the Chrysler manufacturer, to me, it's not a matter of preference, it's ignorant, because it's disrespectful to PEOPLE. You know, the ones who worked hard at something they enjoy and share, to make other people happy like them?

Let this be a lesson: Make sure your children graduate Kindergarten. Manners go a long way.

I've always wondered how well one of those would fit in an A body. It looks like some radiator moving is necessary.
That has to be such a nice driving car.
 
Love it!! I love the seats - what year Camaro are they from?

I'm finishing up my '71 Swinger - GMachineDartGT's car has been an inspiration for me for almost 10 years, and has kept me motivated along the way... there are not many A-Bodies out there that look as cool as his does!!
 
Cal_gecko said:
Love it!! I love the seats - what year Camaro are they from?

I'm finishing up my '71 Swinger - GMachineDartGT's car has been an inspiration for me for almost 10 years, and has kept me motivated along the way... there are not many A-Bodies out there that look as cool as his does!!
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1994 Z28 Seats. Driver's side is power. They both are heated now too.
 
DaveBonds said:
Aside from there being nothing wrong with a 2JZGTE, or lots of other engines outside of the Chrysler manufacturer, to me, it's not a matter of preference, it's ignorant, because it's disrespectful to PEOPLE. You know, the ones who worked hard at something they enjoy and share, to make other people happy like them?

I've always wondered how well one of those would fit in an A body. It looks like some radiator moving is necessary.
That has to be such a nice driving car.
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Part of my motivation in building the Scamp was to reach out to the 20 something "tuner" crowd who are driving imports. The 2JZ is certainly not on everyone's hit list of cool engines for their next Mopar build. But for 2 minutes please realize that I'm trying to lift our cars above "retro" just enough to get our cars into the minds of younger up and coming car crafters. Think of it this way. Why should all the Ford and Chevy guys be allowed to have cool and different swaps?

I get the feeling that if I don't boost this engine up to 700 RWHP I'll keep getting peanut gallery comments from those who refuse to read between the lines. Here I am twisting a Twin Turbo 6 to nearly 7K confidently every morning with our products on board. As a guy who built this car with his own money to help market his company's products I'm trying to rally customers as well as coworkers. Without the 2JZ underhood people would just pass the car up guys at the road shows. And that's ZERO slam to a kickbutt 340 or B/RB late model Hemi swap because stoplight to stoplight those are some damn fast combinations that I'm not sure I can beat.

Now, who wants to swap a modded 350 hp VW TDI into an A-Body next?
 
It's pretty cool - definately out of the box. I can appreciate the time and effort needed to make it happen. And I'm sure it will turn heads at a Nopi show or Carlisle. Bu tthat being the case as it sits I'm not sure it would turn them for reasons I'd want - but as they say - any publicity is good publicity. I do think in the interest of maintaining some respoct with the vintage car crowd - you need to boost the snot out of it. 300hp and under 30mpg can be done with a pushrod V8 - a Mopar pushrod V8. It sounds like you've barely lit the candle - nevermind turning up the wick.
 
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