Recent content by Buckminster

I don't plan on doing a color change. the Green is one of those colors that will come and go in and out of style. Maybe wrap if I get really wound up.

Beautiful car!

Update: First of all, thank you for the warm welcome. Very much appreciated. It's now about a year since the car went to the restoration shop. The car is now moving along pretty rapidly. All sheetmetal work is done and it's going to paint here shortly. Hope to have it back in the next few...

Mopar Connection Repair Kit

Car new hemi was put in (make, model, year): '73 Challenger New gen hemi size: 5.7L New gen hemi year: 2006 What did the new gen hemi come out of or was designed for (car/truck): 2006 Charger Carb or EFI (type, brand, etc): 2007 Factory ECM What intake was used: Factory What exhaust...

Sound German does need a TCU in addtion to the factory shifter, which is provided. It comes with a wiring harness. Pretty reasonable as far as I'm concerned.

I am doing a budget build 5.7L hemi with an 8 speed 8HP70 to take advantage of the 8HP's .66:1 OD ratio. I did the math on rebuilding the 340 that i have in it and adding a GV's OD. and the costs for a budget build are similar. I budgeted $9K and have been tracking the costs to date. The...

Thank you for the nice greeting. My wife is from Cedar Falls, IA. Great people up there! Since you asked, here is a photo of the car after I took it for a nice spring drive (April '23). Someone was on their phone and ran a red light. I couldn't get out of the way fast enough and the rear...

Just introducing myself. I've been on the E Body forum for some time since I bought my '73 Challenger. I recently signed up for this forum, since there seems to be a solid base of people swapping in Gen III hemi's, more so than on the E Body forum. I've got a donor car (2006 Charger) and am...