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I'm sure some of you will remember my project car I had going a couple of years ago. It kind of got put on the back burner for a while, as these things tend to happen. I got married, had a kid and life was good. How ever these things tend to take away from the hobbies in more ways than one. But, it's time go get this baby done. jhcain's thread on his 66 gave me the motivation I needed to start a new thread. Things that have happened since my first thread. The motor is built!  That's about it really. Today I'm ordering the clutch, pressure plate, flywheel, hydraulic conversion kit (T56 swap remember?) and a modern digital gauge cluster. This should allow me to mate the transmission to the motor on our rolling rack and start building the front end. I originally wanted to the a fancy tubular K member and suspension, but I don't think finances are going to allow it. I'm going to stick with the stock K member and do tubular A arm's and some other basic bolt ons to keep this project moving forward. I can always upgrade later. Anyways here's some refresher pictures of what's happened so far.                                                       The stock rear speakers are some funky size like 4x7. I've made a plate that bolts in below the factory pan that holds 6x9's and doesn't require me to drill or cut into the car in any way. I covered it in dynamat so keep noise or rattles to a minimum, I'll also put some in the car around the speaker area.  This is the gauge cluster I ordered.  Link to the old thread if you have archives. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3231228 EatMySpork fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Sep 29, 2014 |
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Aww hell yeah, it's raining B-Bodies up in here. Glad to see this project back on track man, I'll be watching.
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Sep 20, 2014 00:52
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Hooray for the MOPAR B Body! You've taken on way more body work than I could ever deal with - brave soul.
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Sep 20, 2014 22:31
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Looking forward to watching this one. Nice body work. I did a '69 R/T resto years ago but compared to this project that one was about as hard as eating a ham sandwich.
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Sep 21, 2014 16:29
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gently caress yes! More old mopars please.
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Sep 21, 2014 19:58
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jhcain posted:Hooray for the MOPAR B Body! I think I took on way more body work than I could ever deal with too. There were plenty of days where hitting with a hammer and dolly was more therapeutic than productive. I learned a lot in the 18 months it took to do though, which will make the next car that much easier. I'm thinking 70 road runner, though I've always been partial to the 69 Super Bee too, and we've never done one. We'll see.
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Sep 22, 2014 17:41
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Nidhg00670000 posted:gently caress yes! More old mopars please. As you wish, my dad is mostly done with his 68 Hemi Charger. Here's a picture of a plane crash, check out the side mirror on the truck.  Sad story about this car. We had it done, motor in and running but the carbs needed tuning badly. It was on its way to the shop in that picture to get tuned and driving. They got everything dialed in and good when we took it out for a drive. It only gets second gear and no reverse (auto). Well gently caress that's no good. Transmission has to come out. Turns out the guy who rebuilt it did a piss poor job. While putting it on the rack to drop the tranny we noticed a knock from the back of the motor, but hoped it was the hosed up transmission. We dropped the pan on it to be sure, and to our dismay the #7 and #8 rod bearings were spun from lack of lubrication. A oil channel got pinched from a incorrect length bolt. Motor comes back out with the transmission to get rebuilt. It's getting broken in on a stand today and coming home tomorrow and back in the car this week, baring any more issues. And that is a lesson in paying attention to the details. 1 bolt.
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Sep 22, 2014 17:55
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Goodies have arrived!    
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Sep 29, 2014 19:06
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Glad to see this project again, the only problem is now there's 3 mopar threads and I'm insanely jealous of you guys 
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Sep 29, 2014 19:12
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Do you still have that awesome flame paint job on it? Roughly how much do you have invested in this so far? I'm so loving jealous, the 68 is my dream car.
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Sep 29, 2014 21:10
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I do still have that paint job, just realized I didn't add any good ones of it painted, duh. I have maybe 10-15k in it. I don't have the exact number but that's probably a pretty close number. 
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Sep 29, 2014 23:13
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That is a really sick paint job. It's subtle and not at all gaudy.
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Sep 30, 2014 02:38
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Nice paint job.
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Oct 5, 2014 14:13
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black Charger best Charger
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Oct 5, 2014 14:24
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Beautiful job on the body work. I had a '68 Charger back in the 80's. It was painted Duke's of Hazard orange and had some minor rust issues (and I was a poor student and could change neither of these things, because all my money went to the engine), but it was a great car with a 440 that made really great rumbling noises. Would be nice to have it back now.
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Oct 5, 2014 20:03
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Ugh this car is so loving beautiful already...
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Oct 6, 2014 13:21
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Thanks! Here's some more pictures. Rear stripe, it changes color based on the lighting since it has the same color flake in it as the flames.  Mounting the swing pedals since the car was originally auto.  Dash in.  Rear R/T badge, it actually took a few years to find one. They only make reproductions every few years and all of the original ones I found looked like they were pulled up from the bottom of the ocean. It's a crappy picture. 
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Oct 6, 2014 18:04
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More parts arrived, this time it's front brakes.   
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Oct 15, 2014 19:57
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Gauges from Dakota Digital arrived.  
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Oct 17, 2014 16:44
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My wallet is having sympathy paints. That's going to look loving awesome. Are you going to be running a carb or EFI?
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Oct 17, 2014 19:06
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Powershift posted:My wallet is having sympathy paints. I decided to run a carb for now for time and $$$ sake. EFI did cross my mind though.
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Oct 17, 2014 20:01
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I've always kind of liked the look of front spoilers on classic cars, however there's not much available for Chargers. All the ones I've seen are people using a spoiler produced for the 69 Camaro and adapting it to fit a Charger. I don't really like the look of that particular spoiler and I have everything I need to make one, so lets do it! First here's a picture of what I'm talking about, a spoiler on a Charger. Looks like the Camaro one, but some guy sells these.  Looks ok, kinda cheap and plasicy looking for me, and it's $200. This is a rough sketch I've done so far. I haven't taken any measurements of the car but I'm just roughing out what I want to do. I'd paint this black then put red behind the text so you can read it. I went with the newer Charger logo vs the old because it's easier to read. I might try the old cursive logo to see how it looks though, or drop the text all together. I don't know.  *edit here's the old logo version  Who knows maybe I'll even get a little down force on the front end from it too... I might go through all the trouble and decide I don't even like it after all, but hey why not. EatMySpork fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Oct 21, 2014 |
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Oct 20, 2014 19:17
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EatMySpork posted:I've always kind of liked the look of front spoilers on classic cars, however there's not much available for Chargers. All the ones I've seen one are people using a spoiler produced for the 69 Camaro and adapting it to fit a Charger. I don't really like the look of that particular spoiler and I have everything I need to make one, so lets do it! If you keep moving forward on this, I'm interested. I've been pondering something for my '66. I'd like the factory trunk spoiler and/or, but they are very rare.
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Oct 21, 2014 00:11
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jhcain posted:If you keep moving forward on this, I'm interested. I've been pondering something for my '66. I'd like the factory trunk spoiler and/or, but they are very rare. I'll post my results here. At the very least I will build a prototype that makes it on the car. I think there's a company making reproduction rear spoilers for that car, they're like $475 though... http://www.superbirdbob.com/acme-products/6667-charger-rear-spoiler/
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Oct 21, 2014 00:30
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The old script "Charger" looks much better than the modern version IMO.
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Oct 21, 2014 01:17
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The Locator posted:The old script "Charger" looks much better than the modern version IMO. Agreed: 
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Oct 21, 2014 02:04
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EatMySpork posted:I'll post my results here. At the very least I will build a prototype that makes it on the car. Whoa. I thought that part was long out of (re)production. I'll check it out!
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Oct 21, 2014 02:07
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I've had the unfortunate responsibility of baby-sitting my dads Hemi car. It's a tough job but someone has to do it.
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Oct 29, 2014 18:10
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Rear brakes ordered.
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Oct 31, 2014 18:31
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Tubular A-arms and rear brakes.  
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Nov 17, 2014 22:35
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Lets put some rubber on the ground. 
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Dec 2, 2014 01:45
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EatMySpork posted:Lets put some rubber on the ground. 
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Dec 2, 2014 02:44
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Car looks great. I've been a Pontiac man my self but after I bought my 13 r/t challenger I've been looking to get an older mopar. The price of project cars is whats keeping me at bay for now. Was the car a local find or did you go out of state for it?
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Dec 2, 2014 16:54
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iamthehans posted:Car looks great. I've been a Pontiac man my self but after I bought my 13 r/t challenger I've been looking to get an older mopar. The price of project cars is whats keeping me at bay for now. Was the car a local find or did you go out of state for it? Nice, I wrecked my sisters 92 Firebird more than once as a teenager. The car was a local find. It was rolled in I think 84 (last sticker on the plate) and sat in a field until a buddy of mine grabbed it in the late 90s. It went in one of his storage lots (another field) until I made a trade for it in 08. We've pulled dozens of cars out of the weeds locally. Back in the 80's and 90's they were a dime a dozen. At one time we had like 10 cars in the back of the family business that got chopped up for parts. Looking back most of them could have been saved, but there was no demand for the small block cars and there wasn't much of a market for reproduction parts, so the torch was as good of option as any.
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Dec 2, 2014 17:11
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Got my radio back from being rebuilt by Joes Classic Car Radio. I'm pretty impressed with it. All new guts with aux ins and blue tooth. They did a great job, super clean work. We'll see how she sounds!  
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Dec 8, 2014 20:55
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EatMySpork posted:Got my radio back from being rebuilt by Joes Classic Car Radio. I'm pretty impressed with it. All new guts with aux ins and blue tooth. They did a great job, super clean work. We'll see how she sounds! Wow this is perfect and exactly what I want to do with my c10!
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Dec 8, 2014 21:15
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Valt posted:Wow this is perfect and exactly what I want to do with my c10! Yeah, except I wish it had been around ~14 years ago when I cut up the dash of my C10 
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Dec 10, 2014 22:49
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That's awesome, best of both worlds. I love the way this build is going, keep up the great work!
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Dec 11, 2014 00:26
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Bajaha posted:That's awesome, best of both worlds. I love the way this build is going, keep up the great work! Thanks! I'm painting the calipers, I'm done with the rear brakes. I think they came out pretty good. 
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Got a radiator and some tires to go on the rear wheels. Haven't done any more paint due to cold temperatures here. It's suppose to warm up so I might be able to knock out the from calipers. Still working on dropping the rear end also. The U bolts are pretty well fused to the nuts so I need to cut them off. Got the replacements in the mail already. Grill should start going together soon, and the headliner is mostly in. Windshield can go in soon and the dash can start going together. Then the wiring for that Dakota Digital setup.
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