Recent content by 1 Wild R/T

Nice 70! Welcome to the site..

So, the deal is it was painted twice, the first time the guy was in a big hurry & forgot to spray the RF fender a second coat... When my buddy tried to color sand it he took three swipes with 1500 grit & the paint was transparent... So another buddy sprayed it, he got it all painted about four...

Tony has two awesome projects, That GTX shoulda been done years ago, but life has other priorities.... The Charger is awesome as well... A 69 R/T SE that lived in the Mojave Desert most of its life.... Numbers matching, no rust... Some cool old Mopars hiding in that shop...

That photo is old... Greg was there as we are preparing to head to Spring Fling...

Probably a Satellite, has a small block in it... Someone threw the wrong stripe on it cause they liked the stripe but didn't have the Mopar background to know it didn't belong on the car... Perfect Superbird clone donor, ugly wheels gone, wrong stripe, gone... Good looking clip for someone...

Ya have to go back and re-read the first post... The guy with the GTX that needed parts? It's in his shop... He's offered to get me past the hump of the stuff I can't do..... When he's done I can get back to work...

Knocking the stale edges off... Hoping for a real update within the next year.....

Follow DeltaV's link, that's a nice front clip... And it's on your side of the country..

I know of two sets currently for sale not counting the set DeltaV just linked.... Decent 70 Plymouth fenders are common compared to 70 Charger fenders...

The cam would need more than .250+ end play for that to be a possibility....

Small block Chevy, distributor at the back, no thrust plate Small block Ford , distributor at the front, thrust plate Small block Mopar, distributor at the back, thrust plate.... The lobe taper creates thrust on a flat tappet cam.. thrust from the pitch of the oil pump/distributor gears isn't...

That... Or it was a convertible... I think you would remember that..

I didn't say I wouldn't pay what I needed to if I didn't have one...I'd look real hard for a better deal but at the end of the day I'd do what I needed to... I did say it was pure greed....

BEA use to offer that part, I checked, he doesn't list it anymore.... Back when he did it was $29... Which I thought was kinda spendy..... $98 is just pure greed...

So, back in the mid 80's Ford had a problem with some of their 5.0 HO's.... Pretty severe knocking noise at idle... Lotta guys swore it was a rod knock... But get the rpm's up over 2000 and it went away... Excessive cam thrust clearance... Spec was .004-.006... Get it up to .010 and it would...