Some history.
I bought the car in the spring of 1989 the driverain was completely original with around 83,000 miles. I rebuilt the carbeurator and changed it to the mopar style electronic ignition.
Changed filter and fluid in the transmission and drove it, it ran really well.
In 1996 I developed an exhaust leak after I broke a motor mount and it cracked one of the ears on the log manifold. I had a set of rebuilt 906 heads and 68-69 HP manifolds that my brother had bought with an engine.
So I now had an excuse for a complete motor rebuild at about 93K.
(My wife agreed to it which was a surprise)
It was bored .020 over with KB162 Hypereutectic pistons, rods reworked and stock crank.
A windage tray and high volume oil pump and a used .455 cam from my brothers 383 and replaced the original springs with some Mopar fairly heavy duty ones.
I had the shop mill the 906's .040" and .055" on the sides.
It's always run really well.
A series of minor mods followed over the years: a Weiand intake, Carter 625 Competition series carb, Hemi mufflers then Magnaflow mufflers, MSD atomic EFI, an upgraded torque converter and a homemade H-pipe.
About 3 years back I noticed it stopped kicking down at wide open throttle then the pump started cavitating on cold starts. I dropped the pan and found a fair amount of clutch material plugging the filter. So the transmission needed a rebuild or a replacement.
I found a rebuilt 66 transmission from a great guy in Weedsport, NY last summer. He used to race and in the process became an expert at building/rebuilding mopar transmissions.
Got a great deal on it.
Over the years I've also collected a bunch of performance engine parts and this year seems like a good one to expand the project and remove the entire drivetrain for a refresh/upgrade.
Yesterday 04/28/21 I took the day off got the car out of storage set up a work area and began the process of taking it apart.
Here it is backed in, jacked up on nice clean cardboard and after a few hours the mess starts.
I bought the car in the spring of 1989 the driverain was completely original with around 83,000 miles. I rebuilt the carbeurator and changed it to the mopar style electronic ignition.
Changed filter and fluid in the transmission and drove it, it ran really well.
In 1996 I developed an exhaust leak after I broke a motor mount and it cracked one of the ears on the log manifold. I had a set of rebuilt 906 heads and 68-69 HP manifolds that my brother had bought with an engine.
So I now had an excuse for a complete motor rebuild at about 93K.
(My wife agreed to it which was a surprise)
It was bored .020 over with KB162 Hypereutectic pistons, rods reworked and stock crank.
A windage tray and high volume oil pump and a used .455 cam from my brothers 383 and replaced the original springs with some Mopar fairly heavy duty ones.
I had the shop mill the 906's .040" and .055" on the sides.
It's always run really well.
A series of minor mods followed over the years: a Weiand intake, Carter 625 Competition series carb, Hemi mufflers then Magnaflow mufflers, MSD atomic EFI, an upgraded torque converter and a homemade H-pipe.
About 3 years back I noticed it stopped kicking down at wide open throttle then the pump started cavitating on cold starts. I dropped the pan and found a fair amount of clutch material plugging the filter. So the transmission needed a rebuild or a replacement.
I found a rebuilt 66 transmission from a great guy in Weedsport, NY last summer. He used to race and in the process became an expert at building/rebuilding mopar transmissions.
Got a great deal on it.
Over the years I've also collected a bunch of performance engine parts and this year seems like a good one to expand the project and remove the entire drivetrain for a refresh/upgrade.
Yesterday 04/28/21 I took the day off got the car out of storage set up a work area and began the process of taking it apart.
Here it is backed in, jacked up on nice clean cardboard and after a few hours the mess starts.