1984 Executive Sedan Turbo>*

[Vigo]

So i foolishly indulged myself in checking out craigslist, knowing what kind of trouble that could land me in, and i came across an ad title as follows:

1984 Chrysler- HUGE backseat! $300

I drove 50 miles to go look at it and bought it for $200. I just dragged it home yesterday.




That's all for now!

[JDAWG]

sweet, is a 2.6?

[j4278h]

84 was a 2.6 and 85-86 had the option for turbo.

Let me know if you want to get rid of that Adam. I had one that was rotten and would love to get another some day.

[djd's turbo]

Wow, those tires are in good shape!! How did you get it home? LOL. Nice looking car, though!! More details, please.

[JohnnyIroc]

Wow, those tires are in good shape!! How did you get it home? LOL. Nice looking car, though!! More details, please.

the truck the trailer most likely
but it looks like the back tires would be rolling if use that
so what did you do

[turbo84voyager]

I always wanted tp pick up one of them pull the 2.6 and stick a 2.5 turbo under the hood.

Velour interior???

[Vigo]

its a 2.6 mitsu.

The interior is leather, and its the sedan and not the limo. Its rough all over and needs ton of work, but for $200 i cant possibly lose money even if i decided to scrap it (i wouldnt). I could resell for more, hehe.

There were two round tires so i put a good one on the back and had 2 flats riding on the dolley. Extra effort but oh well. I also forgot to take the keys when i towed it so that added a bit of effort as well.

This one has no rust, Jason, of course. But it does have minor body damage pretty much everywhere and the interior is fairly trashed. Luckily its 80% new yorker parts so it should be easy to get it looking good inside just by swapping stuff.


I'll update again when i do something to it, but that might be months

[Vigo]

Some plans:

89 minivan front and rear brakes (has anyone ever put van drums on a car? track width increase here i come). 5lug swap is inclusive in that.

14inch alloys and 195/70r14 tires off an old turbo lebaron.

a bunch of subs and a few different gaming consoles.. which ones to use?

[Vigo]

So i got to do a bit of work today.. I pushed my 93 3.0 parts van into the carport and swapped the spindles and brakes onto my 90 van. This is in preparation for upgrading to 5x114.3 lug pattern and 11" front brakes. After having to do a homebrew alignment (not realizing that on the vans this swap throws it WAAAAY off) i got the 90 van back on the road and braking better than ever..

What to do with the spindles/brakes i took off the 90 and the back brakes from the 93? You guessed right, 5 lug swap and massive brake upgrade for the limo!

Unfortunately i didnt get the limo torn down tonight but i did manage to get it into the carport which was a job in and of itself.. hopefully itll be at least partially 5-lug swapped this time tomorrow!!

[Vigo]

Well, I got to finish the 5-lug conversion today by adapting the rear drums off the 93 parts van to fit the limo. That was not easy. It WAS simple, though. If i had the right tools, it would have been easy as well... lol.

Luckily, I had the help of one of our newest members, TX91Daytona, and his brother in this effort at doing something i've never heard of anyone else doing.


The 4-bolt pattern of the bolts that hold the backing plate and stub axle to the rear axle was far larger on the van than on the limo, requiring me to modify the stub shafts and backing plates to bolt onto the limo's existing pattern.


First step, take everything apart! Take note of the relative size of the drums on the ground.

Hmm, thats a little off. Nothing i havent dealt with before, though!

The limo bolt pattern on the minivan stub axle. At this point you'd think i'd bust out the drill press, right? Well.. i dont have one!! I do have...

A miter saw!!

You get the idea..

Ooops.

Tada!

Enough miter saw... now Sawzall!!

Here's where we break pieces off with pliers.

Almost there....

Houston, we have a bigass drum brake.

Yay! 5 lugs, bigger brakes, and matching wheels that will actually roll cuz the tires hold air!

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

Big thanks to TX91Daytona and his brother for helping me out so much, especially on a first ever face-to-face meeting!




Also, the world's first ever reject 4 lug swapped 93 caravan.

[Ondonti]

I did that over my lower thumb knuckle a few months ago. Scared the crap out of me.

[GLHNSLHT2]

please remind me not to ride in your car.

[burnt_toast]

awesomely random swap, and nice touch with the miter saw haha, when the tool's not about on-hand mcgyver action to the rescue!

[black86glhs]

If it were me, I would find some large washers and cut them to fit around the spindle, so the bolts will have more to clamp on. Just from a safety standpoint. Otherwise, that Limo looks sweet with good tires and those rims.

[TX91Daytona]

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

Big thanks to TX91Daytona and his brother for helping me out so much, especially on a first ever face-to-face meeting!

No problem, I, and Ally, THOROUGHLY enjoyed the experience, met a cool guy that knows his way around a shop, and got the heck outta Cove! Can't thank you enough for that one!

Also, the world's first ever reject 4 lug swapped 93 caravan.

Lemme be the first to say, this is the coolest thing I've ever seen. It's a gargantuan recycling container that looks like a mini! It was a pain to move tho, too bad we didn't get any pics of the grassroots Spirit trying to push the van with it's 1 wheel-of-awesome-omgroflbatman-pushing-power. That was fun!

[turbo84voyager]

I upgrated my 89 mini to the larger brakes and bolt pattern and what a difference. It was definately worth the time and money to do the swap.

[Vigo]

If it were me, I would find some large washers and cut them to fit around the spindle, so the bolts will have more to clamp on. Just from a safety standpoint. Otherwise, that Limo looks sweet with good tires and those rims.

The stock washers on the stock bolts actually butt up against the stub shaft so there's no room for larger washers unless i ground most of them off on one side.


I did something similar to this to put 11" brakes on my dynasty and its been fine for 5+ yrs.

[black86glhs]

The stock washers on the stock bolts actually butt up against the stub shaft so there's no room for larger washers unless i ground most of them off on one side.


I did something similar to this to put 11" brakes on my dynasty and its been fine for 5+ yrs.

The way we put the 4 lugs back on the mini axle... thats got me worried. As long as nothing breaks before we get to the junkyard, im good..

I thought about that after I posted and figured you knew what you were doing(or at least looked like it). It really shouldn't go anywhere anyway. Nice work guys!

[black86glhs]

What about dropping a 3.3 or 3.8 from a Yorker, Caravan, Dynasty? With the 604?

[Vigo]

definitely possible. only reason i wouldnt do that is because i already have a 3.3/604 car to mess with.

Im pretty sure that the 4cyl turbo / auto trans setup is probly gonna drive the best considering i would need a bunch of low rpm power to move it very quickly.

It wouldnt be fast.. but if i could blow the tires off for fun and race slow cars, thatd be entertaining enough for me i think



Also, i have an old xbox and an old hard drive so im gonna mod it to run a bunch of emulators and movies and thats gonna be the foundation of the rear entertainment stuff. Gotta build a console for it and decide on a screen and on and on and on.