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64 Fury

Wow! The firewall looks great. I guess you're a fast learner... I miss the days of working on my 3 sons' cars with them. These will be great memories some day.

It’s not great, great... But it will stay dry!!! Thanks to all that posted their projects so I understood how the dagum thing was built!
 
Ed, thanks for sharing info on your build.... I'm much too selfish (actually time is too hard to come by) to detail everything like this for everyones benefit. I always tell myself I'll do it, take the pix, then get too swamped from there. Anyway, reading this, and seeing your pix brings two questions to mind that maybe I just missed the answers. I see your oil pan laying in the car, and you mention that someone told you that is was originally a 426 wedge. How did he know? How did you buy the car, roller?? What engine are you re-doing for it, something you picked up separately? Thanks again for sharing your build notes, Lefty71. See the PM I sent you too.
 
Ed, thanks for sharing info on your build.... I'm much too selfish (actually time is too hard to come by) to detail everything like this for everyones benefit. I always tell myself I'll do it, take the pix, then get too swamped from there. Anyway, reading this, and seeing your pix brings two questions to mind that maybe I just missed the answers. I see your oil pan laying in the car, and you mention that someone told you that is was originally a 426 wedge. How did he know? How did you buy the car, roller?? What engine are you re-doing for it, something you picked up separately? Thanks again for sharing your build notes, Lefty71. See the PM I sent you too.

A fella on here with the handle RollingThunder looked it up in his books for me... Can tell the factory by the VIN and the rest from the fender tag. Apparently different factories coded the tags differently.. Who knew... all of that is on a different post of mine on here somewhere, there are only a few...

It was a roller, had a 68 383 and that 65 cableshift 727 in it. I have since found a running 440/727 combo in a motor home it’s a later lower comp model but a guy over on the a body site made one make 430 hp working the top end and throwing some headers and an intake on it. I don’t want the kid to have too much power anyway!!! Haha.

I’ll hang on to the 68 383 and make it a monster for when he’s a little more, uh, grown...
 
A little progress. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, I guess. Making a plug of the dash and getting that 195hp beast ready to drop in while I build the 383.

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Engine cleaned and painted. Then I realized I need to switch oil pans and pickups out of the old 67 383. I think they are the same. Anyone know? Also got my torker in but the butterflies hit, does anybody have a part number for a spacer or do I need and aftermarket carb?
 
Wheres your 383 carb? Thats a pretty late Rochester Quadrajet, not something seen on many Mopars, not a bad carb but it would be easier to use a square bore carb....

Though I have carved out a few manifolds to accept Thermoquads....

Pull the intake off, use a Quadrajet base gasket to transfer the secondary openings to the manifold flange & hog it out... Blend it into the plenum & your ready to bolt on your carb...
 
Wheres your 383 carb? Thats a pretty late Rochester Quadrajet, not something seen on many Mopars, not a bad carb but it would be easier to use a square bore carb....

Though I have carved out a few manifolds to accept Thermoquads....

Pull the intake off, use a Quadrajet base gasket to transfer the secondary openings to the manifold flange & hog it out... Blend it into the plenum & your ready to bolt on your carb...


Thanks R/T... the 383 was a 2 barrel. There’s a Edelbrock 650 for sale locally, may just pick that up and buy the linkage to make it work. I’m not married to the thermoquad.
 
Lookin' good!
And, here's hoping you don't run into what I did. My oldest son, when he was 17, had his heart set on a 69 Charger. Okay. Found him one, bunch of work, rebuilt engine, trans, new brakes, blah, blah.
Got it all fixed up, and he takes it on his first drive. Comes back...telling me...he don't want it! Uses too much gas, on and on. So, I started driving the damn thing!
 
Did that trans show up OK?

Nothing yet. Figure the holiday (or wrong turn at Albequerquy). I'll check with them tomorrow and see if it's in the neighborhood. Thx
 
Does anyone have a part number or source for a stock pickup tube? I'm missing the one that came with the 383 (but I have the pan) and I need to get this truck pan and sump switched out.

I know I saw one somewhere on the forum, but I can't find it.
 
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