Rear-Engine Mini-Truck Madness! Roadkill Ep. 45

[malc]

[DanStokes]

THAT is cool!!!! I'd drive that in a minute.

Dan

[Barry Donovan]

they kayokeed fo us.


I know they avoid speaking technical, I like it anyway.
on the torque based engines american ran for more years than anything...
the bop motors could hide a missing cylinder.

That just might be my number one reason for my keeping of the small block chevy...going on 30 years now.
No matter the build for those, they cannot hide a bad fire.
an argument for oversqaure perhaps...

great show, and quite a daydream to see, I know I have had it...but a ford courier.

[Stewzer55]

Spoiler alert, neither one of them can sing. That looks like a blast though, the joke at the end about a LUV was good, stuffing anything other than a Buick, Cadillac, Olds or Pontiac engine would be a pain due to the bellhousing arrangement.

[squirrel]

pretty easy to adapt a chevy to that transaxle, it's been done many times.

They seem to do good when they buy something already built. Some times. Although I guess the Rotsun was bought already built, and it has been nothing but trouble.

[Dan Barlow]

I think the equipment they need most is a radio. I was surprised with how well it did handle. With something lighter in back it would be better.

[Whelk]

Fortunately for them it already came without a hood over the engine.

[Beagle]

Fortunately for them it already came without a hood over the engine.

Quote of the Day material right there.

[malc]

Finnigan...."My pipe´s just so big I can´t tuck it in."

[CTX-SLPR]

I think this might be my favorite Roadkill yet! That was seriously cool stuff!

[TheSilverBuick]

A win of an episode!

[Stewzer55]

If it would handle the torque, a 4 speed Corvair Transaxle would make it better. It may have not had a hood over the engine, but that doesn't mean it didn't overheat! Would be a fair amount of work, but moving the radiator to the front with an electric fan might help, plus eliminate the rear visibility issues.

[tedly]

See, now you're just making sense. We can't have any of that!

[Dan Barlow]

Seems that moving the radiator to the front would also help move some weight off the rear and onto the front to geat a better balance.

[Loren]

It would, somewhat, also five feet of aluminum tubing will help get the cooling handled as well. When they're done throwing attitude 'cause it didn't turn out to actually do wheelies and tens, they can finish a few tweaks and have a really amazing truck, handed to them cheap by someone who appears to have done a pretty decent job so far at-least in comparison to the average Toro-Mid-Engine job. In any case, the first RoadKill I've stuck with all the way through.