Vehicle Owner

Member ID: Coolpacer

Location: SoCal, CA

Vehicle Info

1978 AMC Pacer

Bragging Rights

  • 1/4 Mile0 sec @ -1 mph
  • 0-600sec
  • Top Speed-1mph
  • HP400
  • Weight3000lbs

Major Upgrades

  • turbo
  • nitrous
  • bore increase
  • port and polish
  • supercharger
  • extrude honed
  • stroke increase
  • engine swap

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Performance Parts

Exterior Styling

Car Audio & Video

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    • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.0/5 Stars.

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Last updated: Jun 23, 2009

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Chris’s AMC Pacer
“The Cool Pacer”

  • Currently 3.9172413793103 /5 Stars.
281 guestbook comments

My car used to be pretty ugly. It's been a three year restoration process, here's how it started...

Coolpacer's 1978 AMC Pacer

Coolpacer's 1978 AMC Pacer

Coolpacer's 1978 AMC Pacer Yea, the engine was a mess, pretty nasty huh?

Coolpacer's 1978 AMC Pacer We took it out pretty fast!

Coolpacer's 1978 AMC Pacer After the engine was out, and the interior stripped, we put the car on a rotisserie. This way, we could spin the car all the way around, which made it easier to clean and strip the paint
Coolpacer's 1978 AMC Pacer

Coolpacer's 1978 AMC Pacer

Once the car was stripped of the paint, look at the surprise, RUST!!!
So, we sectioned the car, using the rear clip from a car in Arizona.
Coolpacer's 1978 AMC Pacer Coolpacer's 1978 AMC Pacer

Coolpacer's 1978 AMC Pacer Now, we put it back together, rust free!

Painting was also a process, but I don't want to bore you with those pictures, you know painting, tons of body straightening, spraying and block sanding, it's even more work when you're painting the car Black!

Coolpacer's 1978 AMC Pacer We Finally go the car home, and put the American Racing 200s rims and the Kuhmo tires on it, it was a long three years. But there still was lots of work to do.

Being stupid, we forgot to take pictures from this point on, we were just so excited to get the car together and running, pictures were the last thing on our mind.

Page 1: Overview
Page 2: Interior
Page 3: 401 Build
Page 4: You're Here!
Page 5: Shows and various pics

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pakisalim  

Posted by: pakisalim

11/04/2009 03:05PM

cool car !!!

auburncsa3789  

Posted by: auburncsa3789

05/07/2009 01:56PM

wow i never thought a pacer could be cool but that is badass. amazing work man good job.

AudiobahnV8SHO  

Posted by: AudiobahnV8SHO

03/11/2009 10:45AM

Hey that is the most badass Pacer I have ever seen. You are my hero.

Gremlin_X  

Posted by: Gremlin_X

01/29/2009 09:02PM

That is one sweet pacer!

ripp37  

Posted by: ripp37

01/16/2009 07:07AM

Nice ride you got there 5*s. Take a look at my big block 54 chevy and comment

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Vehicle Owner

Member ID: Coolpacer

Location: SoCal, CA