What's your proudest automotive part purchase?

[Supersport350]

Until recently, mine was my AFR 315cc BBC heads. The fully CNC'd ports were truly a thing of beauty! About a week or two ago, a parts shipment arrived that topped those heads. My 1150 Holley Ultra Dominator! I'd love to simply put it inside a glass box, put it on the shelf, and admire it...if my Camaro didn't need it.

So, what's your proudest part you've ever bought?

[JOES66FURY]

I got my 700 Holley from Jim for 25 bucks and I got my Weiand intake from e-bay new for 60 bucks shipped. I look at quality and cost as a major score...My headers I got for right around 100 bucks new after shopping the net for some time to find the best deal too.

[DNut]

In terms of just looking impressive, probably the FIRST intake:






After powdercoating:




I'll leave out the part where I ended up having to ditch it due to a bunch of issues with vacuum leaks, improper placement of the bracket for the throttle cable and TV cable, etc.


I've got a Holley Stealth Ram now, but it doesn't look half as cool...

[SuperBuickGuy]

turbos for my 455 build. Why? because it caused me to purchase a whole new car and pursue a new diversion.

[STINEY]

Right at the moment, this bad boy is my favorite.

[BBR]

The Wilwood disc brakes (front & rear) I put on my 68 Coronet. Those parts were almost too pretty to bolt on and use.

[milner351]

I've had too many cool engine parts I sold off before I could hear them run, two stroker set ups so far...

Probably the most significant part in my shop is the date code correct 428 CJ block for the 69 mach1 - which will likely stay in cosmoline since the jetboat shortblock is already machined and much closer to being operational. The #'s matching shortblock required a sledgehammer to remove the pistons.

[Barry Donovan]

billet reusable oil filter...with a gm relief I added.

It is impossible to get excited over fuel air purchases.
I must be getting old.

I did like fulfilling a past quest to put the monojet truck version on a boxer. it really did have an unhappy home.

[Thumpin455]

Definitely this, not a single part but it is the pinnacle of my automotive passion. The 700hp 467 ci 400 stroker in Old Ugly, the street strip toy. Everything from the 330cfm heads, to the 270/272 solid roller cam, and 1050 Dominator is my favorite. If I ever get an IAII block then that will be the part I am proudest of, mainly because it can handle more than 800hp. This engine is just about my only source of bragging rights in bench racing.

[TC]

Back in the day it would have been the Crower Crank that I have in my 406.....But today it would be the Sonny Bryant billet crank and Joe Gibbs Racing bowtie block that I bought........

[squirrel]

I don't know, but it's probably something I got for my 61 that I haven't put together yet. Old Moroso tach, early Lakewood scattershield, the 427 parts, etc.

[groucho]

Interesting thread. I've bought so much shit thru the years it's hard to answer the question. Let's try. Around 1995 I built a tube chassis, glass 41 Willys for street/strip for myself and I collected a lot of BBC motor parts while shaking down the car with a cheap mule motor. I then lived in an apartment with a sorta large living room. To make the room cozier I moved the couch and love seat away from the walls and in slightly toward the middle of the room. I kept all the trick parts behind the couch. So, while watching TV, I'd look around at the parts in awe during commercials. Of those parts my KB500 aluminum block, new in it's topless box was the focal point.

[Chassisman]

My Indy 440-1 Heads and -3 intake.... I was 25 at the time and laid down 4k for it....a year earlier I dropped 7k at Chassisworks to build my Dart roller...

[LORENSWIFE]

I know exactly what mine was!
Loren had a BAD ASS '70 396 El Camino SS when we met...he restored it a few years later and even made the cowl(sp?) induction thing work, then he painted it this beautiful red with gold flecks Cadillac color and added the black SS stripes. The car was amazing but the windshield was pitted. I "borrowed" the car one day to go to work and while there had one of those mobile windshield fixer guys replace it. Later I dropped it off and he was so surprised and thrilled.
That was a fun thing to buy!
~Gail

[Gary 351C]

Driving up to Currie enterprises to pick up my freshly rebuilt traction lok rear end.