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Bit of a late response but Uncle Tony is/was a journalist and founded the magazines High Performance Mopar and Mopar Action.

Haha.. confession time... we only have the stock temp gauge, in the dash :( It's only when the needle goes over to the right, near the double-line at the hot end that we start to worry. Even if we just had the electric fan on a switch to enable us to bring the temp down when it starts getting...

I had a look at the fan / shroud overlap and the back of the fan blades are approx 5/8" behind the back of the shroud. So maybe a bit more than 1/2 way inside the shroud but certainly not fully covered by the shroud...

Thanks, The trans cooler is not plumbed ino the rad as our rad doesnt any connections for a trans cooler. It's just mounted there to get max airflow. Yeah, I realise the 22" is a bit small, prob too small for a 440 let alone a 493! We should have changed the core support years ago when we had a...

Hi Don, do you mean the depth of the fan inside the shroud? I'll see if i can get a measurement this evening but I think it's about the recommended 'overlap', ie about 1/2 way inside the shroud. Will check tho. I know the shroud doesn't fit that well where it mounts up against the rad. Its...

Hi Jerry, no, it's the same spec rad as would have been fitted in a 69 b-body with a 440, auto, no a/c. When we bought the car it had a 22" c-body rad - similar but 'square' top tank (as opposed to round) and the hoses in the wrong corners.

My brother and I have been thinking of fitting an electric fan at the front of the radiator to help with cooling when stationary or in slow moving traffic. Quite a simple and obvious solution to an occasional overheating problem, but asking around and looking on the 'net, it appears everyone has...

Thanks, I think you're right. We were looking for a quick fix while we get the Carters looked at by someone who knows what they're doing. We'll try and get that done first - I'll post back on here when I have some progress...

Thanks. Looking into it a bit more though, it looks like the fuel inlet points on the 1405 are on a different corner to the 3447s... not ideal :rolleyes: Our engine bay (from a few years ago, but the carbs and related items are the same): Comparing it to this pic, pinched from 'Snook's'...

Hi guys, sorry if this has been asked and answered before - I'm sure it has - but couldn't find it without spending another hour searching... My brother and I have a 63 Polara 500 with a 63 Superstock MW 426, which has been in there since the 80's we think. We had it rebuilt back in 2005...

Maybe a bit late to the discussion but I just wanted to add... We (brother and I) considered whether to use Dynamat or similar a few years ago when redoing our Sport Satellite's interior. We decided against it solely because we had noticed that in our 63 Polara, which has a transparent rubber...

Case in point... :wtf: "...that speedo will stick a little bit but it does work... the more you drive it, the better it'll get"! Been using ours for a couple of years and it hasnt sorted itself out :( https://www.southernmotors.com/Inventory/Details/5189#gallery-9

Hi all, A couple of years ago, while the car (69 Sport Satellite) was off the road having the engine replaced, the speedo needle somehow managed to move from being at rest at 0 mph to being at 25mph when stationary! Consequently it's now indicating that we're doing approx 25mph more than actual...

Thanks Darter, I'm puzzled why he thought 2nd would be the right gear to use for an auto. I explained it had 1,2 and Drive, so if they need to go into neutral straight after the pull, I'd have thought it obvious that they need to use Drive. Even with a manual trans, I'd have thought they'd know...

Well i thought it was a simple question... We've (brother & I) been thinking of taking our 69 Sport Satellite to a rolling road / chassis dyno just to check hp/torque, now we've ironed out a few 'teething' problems with our 493 stroker. And to see if the figure we were given from the engine...

Amazing story, so pleased it worked out for you! I hope the car's as good as you'd hoped... :thumbsup:

Thanks again for all the replies! :thumbsup: I heard back from TCI and the Ultimate Streetfighter has a stall of 3800-4000! And according to this article it's a 10" :eek: https://www.hotrod.com/articles/tough-torque-converter/ I think the best plan of action now is to wait for some results...

EDIT.... :rolleyes: I just found a photo I took of the converter box that shows the part number. Turns out we have an Ultimate Streetfighter, which is currently at $898 on TCI's website so that explains the price difference. I've emailed them to ask how this affects the stall but I presume it's...

A PS to all the above, we do have 1.6 ratio rockers so the lift is a bit higher than the advertised .484 - 0.516 by my calcs

Thanks, I got that info from Mancini's ad for the cam: https://www.manciniracing.com/cahy28addu2.html so i guess they cut'n'pasted it from Mopar Performance. It's a lot milder a cam than we were expecting but as our priority was to be able to run well with traffic and power brakes, we were happy...