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Cordoba from Detroit/Highland Park

tjgp360

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Hello all, my Doba was purchased by a family member about 12 years ago from a Chrysler corp member, the car has sat in a garage for the past 5 years, i decided it finally time to let the 360 breath

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thanks all im getting ready to upgrade to a 4 barrel thanks to craigslist i bought a carter thermoquad and a stock chrysler intake manifold for 20 bucks each, i cleaned and dismantled the carter thermo quad and i am now in the process cleaning the intake, is there usually a metal plate thats on the bottom of the manifold?
 
Welcome Homey! Looking at the house in the background, it sure looks like Detroit! Did you know that we have more Bars per-capita than any city in the country!? Unfortunately, ours are all on the windows!!! Car looks familiar...did I steal your wire hub caps about 30 years ago?
 
thanks all im getting ready to upgrade to a 4 barrel thanks to craigslist i bought a carter thermoquad and a stock chrysler intake manifold for 20 bucks each, i cleaned and dismantled the carter thermo quad and i am now in the process cleaning the intake, is there usually a metal plate thats on the bottom of the manifold?

First,welcome from a small town a bit north of you.
Second;nice 'Doba!
Third(or,if it's Jim Price calling a Tigers game on the radio: "Thi-i-i-r-r-rd");yes,there's a valley cover that goes between the intake manifold and the block on B & RB mills,don't think there's one on an LA mill.
 
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Welcome Homey! Looking at the house in the background, it sure looks like Detroit! Did you know that we have more Bars per-capita than any city in the country!? Unfortunately, ours are all on the windows!!! Car looks familiar...did I steal your wire hub caps about 30 years ago?
LOL 30 years? when they were brand spanking new? heck i wasnt even around then

AND yes about the valley cover, mine isnt flat i mean its suppose to be but theres a bunch of crud built up around the corners and it seems as they are lifting.... is there any thing i can do about that?

and i pulled a bunch of sensors and a coiled object (Thermometer?) you guy's have any idea what they were?
 
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Cool!

it looks good with the driver's side steel wheel w/blackwall tire, you should do the whole car like that with chrome lug nuts, and lower it slightly.
put some dual exhaust and a 4-barrel and call it done!
 
Cool!

it looks good with the driver's side steel wheel w/blackwall tire, you should do the whole car like that with chrome lug nuts, and lower it slightly.
put some dual exhaust and a 4-barrel and call it done!

Thanks im definitely thinking about keeping the steels and re-painting them black, as for lowering it i would like to but the drive ways around here are retarded high

and as for the 4 barrel im trying my hardest now, i found a stock 79 cast iron 4bbl intake and i have a carter thermoquad ready to be mounted...what else do i need?
 
Thanks im definitely thinking about keeping the steels and re-painting them black, as for lowering it i would like to but the drive ways around here are retarded high

and as for the 4 barrel im trying my hardest now, i found a stock 79 cast iron 4bbl intake and i have a carter thermoquad ready to be mounted...what else do i need?

yeah you're right about the lowering part,it actually sits well the way it is,we have crappy streets here and if you have headers or deep sump pans it's a real problem too!

as far as the 4 barrel goes you'd need to modify the kickdown linkeage some,or possibly get the linkeage from a thermoquad equipped car.
 
yeah you're right about the lowering part,it actually sits well the way it is,we have crappy streets here and if you have headers or deep sump pans it's a real problem too!

as far as the 4 barrel goes you'd need to modify the kickdown linkeage some,or possibly get the linkeage from a thermoquad equipped car.

wow well if your around the area maybe you could help out a little cause honestly i just have a intake im cleaning and the carb......thats it, so yeah just point me in the right direction lol
 
Nice Doba! You can tell it's been garaged especially for being in Detroit. It's cool that a company man had owned it. Know if he special ordered it? That is definitely a 70s color combo, but it's good and I'm trying to get a neighbor's yellow/brown El Camino. Are you going to get the trim pieces and hubcaps to go back stock?
 
keep an eye on the tail light lenses. They tend to just pop out on bumps. Happened to my brothers, and a friend of his.
 
Nice Doba! You can tell it's been garaged especially for being in Detroit. It's cool that a company man had owned it. Know if he special ordered it? That is definitely a 70s color combo, but it's good and I'm trying to get a neighbor's yellow/brown El Camino. Are you going to get the trim pieces and hubcaps to go back stock?

Thanks! im not sure if it was special ordered but it dose have the optional 2 tone package, as far as going back original im leaning towards it but im a little discouraged due to the fact that the original block is cracked to hell and the car is no longer matching numbers but to answer your question i might. but before the looks i have to get the engine to purr like a kitten :grin:
 
Welcome aboard!

I had one of those danm near exact. No moon roof, 360 2bbl - 8-1/4 rear. (My wife is goona ine and whine when I show her this car of yours, she realllly like the one I had(

I got mine from the son of the original owner. The son lived below me and couldn't take the mileage/comute expense. He did travel far and was filling up 2 times a week for work alone.

On the intake, there was a riveted thin metal oil sheild that was on the intakes bottom.
Scotts tail light horror story comes from broken plastic retaining studs. Do not over tighten them after a bulb replacement. For the 4bbl. hook up, dodge41969 has the right idea, the tranny kickdown rod is different than a 2bbl. though you could make it work with a small bolt and nut with a washer on each side of the 2bbl. rod.

Below is a couple of pictures that should help .

This is a T-Q (Dirty bugger huh?!) with the 2bbl. kick down rod. The rod will flop over foward. It has excessive play. It will lean to far foward.

The 3rd picture shows the 2 washer, nut and bolt set up I & (maybe) dodge41969 was talking about. IMO, you should use a nylon lock nut. This will allow you to tighten the nut on the bolt without having fear of it slipping back and forth. It also does not need a lock washer to keep it in place.

Idealy speaking, the last shot shows how you wnt the rod to end up, nice and straight across without the pivot point at the rear of the intake to far foward so it doesn't bind up. To adjust tranny kick down, the nut and bolt can be slid for and aft.

If you can not get it just so, then the other tanny adjustment point is at the bottom of the kick down rod. The rod goes through a square block and that block has a nut to lock down the rod at a set point. Of which you can adjust, of course. This block is on a lever on the trans.

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