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Last week’s fuel filler door clue for the Blazer was a bust. Everyone piled in on it, right from the start. But I’m going to give the win to CyCarConsulting, because Hank limited the time frame too much by saying it was an early-mid nineties Blazer. OK, this week, we need some different parts to look at, like under the hood. Calling all driveway mechanics; you’ve got the advantage here. Now where’s that can of starting fluid?
I going to take a total flyer on this and say Dodge Omni. Early edition.
Looks like early 70’s – Carb and crude-looking emission control stuff. Looks like an inline 4-cyl, transverse-mounted. There are a troubling number of hoses in this picture, which makes me think European adapted for US smog regs.
I’m going to WAG and say old Peugeot. No clue otherwise.
My wild-arse guess: early 80’s Chevy Citation.
I agree with Joe… I think it is an early GM V-6 2.8L
Civic CVCC (1200 CC)
I’d say it was a 2.6 Mitsu powered Chrysler product, but there aren’t near enough vacuum lines.
Renault Alliance? I have no idea why, but whatever.
Now for some reason I’m thinking Peugeot, but once again I have no basis for this. And I can’t recall what Peugeot models were sold here. But I guess it could have been imported. I’m going to throw out a wild guess of Peugeot 205.
Don’t think it’s a Mitsubishi 2.6 or anything else Chrysler orientated. Doesn’t look Ford either…. Man this one is difficult.
I agree with ScottMcG- Sidewinder four, early seventies emissions technology. It ain’t domestic, because it has a manual choke from the factory. I’m guessing blkstss has it, since I believe the 1200 Civic had a pull choke.
Like the new twist — identify the car from an engine compartment pic.
My .02 — Early ( mid 70’s ) VW Rabbit.
Looking forward to seeing some interior shots as clues……..
I don’t have a guess, other than it is something FWD built between 1975 and 1983.
…but I think the problem is that there aren’t enough vacuum lines.
It doesn’t look domestic and it doesn’t look Japanese. Looks like VW to me. Since someone else said early VW Rabbit, I”m gonna say 1975/76 VW Scirocco (pre-injection).
Slant 6?
It’s got to be older than the 70s. I say late 60s, like 68 or 69. The missing vacuum lines are key I think but it looks like it might have a canister. I ran through a bunch of images but can’t come up with a match but there were a ton of different 1 barrel carbs. On a lark, I’m going with something like a Ford Cortina not because I think I’m right but in seeking out the carb, I came across pictures of one and it looks like it’d be a hoot to drive, kind of like an old school version of VW GTI in that review.
The olny reason I discounted European is that they’re far more adept at packaging small FWD’s. This thing is crude but now that England has been brought into the picture… . It isn’t a VW for sure, too messy for a Honda I think, but say a Mini? Anybody for a Simca?
Still, look at where that engine is. It’s right up against the rad and I betcha there’s a strap bolted from the head to the front crossbrace as a NVH measure. Classic US design.
BTW, what’s that steel rod on the lefthand side running from the back to the front? If that’s the steering rod then this sucker is RHD and english.
If I had to venture a guess, I would place this as an 1984 Toyota Corrolla. It just looks too hauntingly familiar.
I dunno, such a complete vacuum line cluster-fk, it feels post ’73 to me.
’73 Fiat 128?
I’m 100% sure that’s not a 73 Fiat 128. If it were, the carb would be either a single barrel Solex or a two barrel Weber. That carb looks American to me (Rochester?).
However, since it’s laid out like a 128 (all modern FWD cars are) I’ll say it’s a Dodge Omni / Plymouth Horizon. As I remember they had the threaded air cleaner rod in the middle of the carb like that.
I’m thinking along the same lines as joemoc1 – perhaps it is an 83 or 84 Toyota Tercel SR5 4WD?
toyota corolla or tercel, late 70s, early 80s
It’s not a VW Rabbit or Scirocco. I had a first year (’75) Rabbit, and it didn’t look like that rat’s nest under the hood. By ’78, they had gone to fuel injection.
Right… not a VW. I recant my earlier guess. The carb has a threaded bolt coming out the top to hold the air cleaner. VW never had that, AFAIK. And I agree about the rat’s nest of hoses… but something about the hoses and connectors still looks more European than Japanese. Perhaps one of the Simca-derived Dodge Omni/ Plymouth Horizon twins.
Fiat 128 is longitudinal. RWD too.
No- the 128 is FWD and OHC and uses a Weber dual choke. The 124 is RWD.
No it’s not (I have several of them). 1100cc 128s do have single barrel Solex’s on them.
Strada?
Fiat X-19. Why not…
Because it’s not any sort of Fiat. All X 1/9s had two barrel carbs or fuel injecton on the later ones.
Looks like the carb in my old ’83 Tercel.
I’m going to say early Ford Escort.
Looks like a random collection of hoses and manifolds with a carb sitting on top.
I don’t think it’s English simply because they loved putting SU carbs on everything, unless it’s a Ford…
Late 70’s Ford Fiesta.
Well, looks like that one was already covered.
I give up.
Honda CVCC?
1976 AMC Pacer.
Looks like a longitudinal 4 cyl – and that carb looks a bit like a Rochester 2-jet; so I’ll say a Chevette (or T-1000).
Honda something, if only because of the plating color on the carb.
Early 70s Ford Pinto?
Total guess here…
Looks like an early version of the GM 2.8L V-6 with a carb… my mom’s 1984 Celebrity wagon looked like that with the air-cleaner off.
I don’t think it is a Renault Alliance… I had one of those, and I believe they were all fuel-injected. My 1.7L OHC was for sure, and I am almost 100% sure the 1.4L OHV was fuel-injected as well.
Early to mid 1980’s vintage Honda Accord CVCC head.
It looks to be FWD (acclerator cable coming out of the firewall) and laid out like a Fiat 128. It also has a water heated intake maifold, which was a 128 innovation. The Volkswagen Rabbit was basically a copy of the 128 mechanically but the carb looks like a Rochester, which I don’t think would have been on a Rabbit so my guess is Dodge Omni / Plymouth Horizon (copy of the Rabbit).
Whatever it is, I’d say mid 80s based on the wad of vacumn hoses running everywhere.
It’s definitely NOT a late 70’s GM 3.3 V-6. That makes me wonder if it’s a GM V-6 of that era at all.
I am also getting a European vibe on this, but I don’t know enough about Hondas/Toyotas of that era to rule them out.
Hey, is it a non-rotary Mazda??