69 Super Bee Rebuild (my way)
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I know an overdrive would be the best, but I already had a standard 4-speed that was gone through not long ago, so will use that.
David Hunt
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Bees are victums of the big foot rest rex.
They are real thing skin and rust very easy.
They are real thing skin and rust very easy.
Welcome back Hunt!
David Hunt
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Thank you been learning electronics and communication communication systems in New cars and learning security by pass start. Now I can get a job. Car lot I'm learning in is retire. Been a lot of hard work, luck , and God's will that they start and run. Not easy bless the Mopar people, love all of you. Inspector Mopar
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Took a little break to put together a Duster, but now am back to my favorites - another B.
Hey Devin, long time no see. To bad it didn't work out getting together at the Nats last year. Your next build? Would that be the one for your daughter?
Cant quite understand what you are getting at here. You sure you are in the correct thread?
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Welcome back hunt. I remember that beautiful black charger you built. Looking forward to seeing this thing come together your way. T5 is also my favourite mopar color.
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Hey your car your choice. im doing the same besides i don't have#s engine nor a fender tag or build sheet go man go!
If you go with trick flows on that 470, it could be quite the beast!
Been talking to Brian at IMM Engines out in California and that is the head he really likes and wants to use if he does the build for me. Had him build the 408 in my Duster and have to say that I couldn't be happier with him. Does what he says, when he says, and for the price he says. And the motor just rocks.
He says that he hasn't built a 451 or 470 for a couple of years because everybody reads the magazines and wants at least a 500" motor. I am only looking for 550hp and 550 torque, so either of the smaller strokes will work just fine for me.
I'm ready to watch that V2 Bee sitting in your garage get put together. The one that I stupidly passed on a few years agoWatching this one
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I'll try to get this build up to date although I didn't take a lot of pics along the way. Noticed in the very first post that I accidently posted a couple of pics with a bunch of suspension parts already painted up and sitting on my trailer. That is definitely not how they came lol.
First thing I did before ripping anything apart was to make sure all gaps were nice and the torsion bars were adjusted evenly. With the weight of the car on the wheels I tacked in US Car Tool torque boxes and my homemade frame connectors. I use 1.5 x 2.5 x .125 tubing cut at an angle on the rear and then wrapped with a bent u-channel 2.5 x 3. The torque boxes are nice, but still take a bit of modifications to get them to fit nice. I will weld all this up once the car is on a rotisserie.
First thing I did before ripping anything apart was to make sure all gaps were nice and the torsion bars were adjusted evenly. With the weight of the car on the wheels I tacked in US Car Tool torque boxes and my homemade frame connectors. I use 1.5 x 2.5 x .125 tubing cut at an angle on the rear and then wrapped with a bent u-channel 2.5 x 3. The torque boxes are nice, but still take a bit of modifications to get them to fit nice. I will weld all this up once the car is on a rotisserie.
Next spent about 2 weeks of evenings getting all the undercoating off. Needle scaler on the thick stuff and torch and scrapers where it was applied thinner. Thankfully, no issues were hiding under all the undercoating that I didn't already know about.
That's a lot of arm work, you probably look like Popeye after that!
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