A couple big decisions on my road runner restoration - help me decide.

[RR Fan Dan]

$230 for a kit, has ceramic shoes and says "31lb heavy trick spring kit" and high volume wheel cylinders. Is the spring kit just a word gimmic is are they actually heavier? I can buy the wheel cylinders elsewhere so not sure I can justify the price.
musclecarbrakes

You don’t need rear drums. Save your money.

 

[torredcuda]

You don’t need rear drums. Save your money.

Keeping stock rear drums, this would an upgrade to the front drums.

 

[RR Fan Dan]

Keeping stock rear drums, this would an upgrade to the front drums.

Do front discs, and stock rear drums. Big improvement. No need for rear discs.

 

[Moparfiend]

If you have been following along I`m working on a `70 road runner ( thread here- `70 road runner, FC7, 383, 727 It`s waited long enough, finally time to get it done. ) and I have a couple decisions to make. I am doing a 90% stock resto on it with a couple add ons like an air grabber hood and Dust Trail stripes along with a few Day Two mods such as period aftermarket wheels, headers/exhaust etc. First is the easier one - car came four wheel manual drums but thinking of putting on front discs as I do drive my cars, many times a bit hard and fast so it would be more for safety. Second is the hard one I am agonizing over a bit - it came M2X9 mediium grade black bench seat but I am thinking of changing it over to white as that just makes the FC7 pop so much better than black interior and is my favorite color combo on a Mopar. Both are easily changed back (interior is more work/cost though) if myself or the next owner (after I`m dead) wanted to but the interior color change to me is a major mod from the fender tag (I don`t have a broadcast sheet). I know the "it`s your car, your choice" response but I`d rather here more form the stock type/resto guys on this - thoughts/opinions?

Check out my thread. Same body I changed over from a green interior to a white interior. I put headers on. I put a air grabber hood on and it’s semi functional. I can control it from interior just as the stock one. But I didn’t have the money for the air intake assembly so I came up with a mechanical design that works really well. White interior is stunning.

I did everything myself painted the car interior metalwork everything.

1970 Plymouth Sport Satellite from Junk to......

 

[torredcuda]

I'm adding the air grabber and have the parts but I'm not going to cut any holes in the firewall so I am going to use some type of electric/mechanical actuator to make it work.

 

[WileE]

I personally don't get it when people ask what color to paint their car. There are only 2 options: If you want it stock, paint it stock. If you don't? Paint it whateverthehellyoulike.

The proper word is "whateverthehellyoulikeandifanybodydontlikeittoodamnbad"

 

[torredcuda]

I asked for others opinions to simply HELP me make mine as bottom line it is my car so I`ll build it my way. I bet if I mentioned putting on tractions bars or swapping in an LS engine I`d get a lot of opinions whether I wanted them or not!

 

[t.flatt]

I worked in a detail shop for a while and white interiors suck!! Not many cars had them, but the boats, what a nightmare! I'm also sticking with 4 drums and no booster on my car.

 

[Moparfiend]

I'm adding the air grabber and have the parts but I'm not going to cut any holes in the firewall so I am going to use some type of electric/mechanical actuator to make it work.

I used an electric motor in my set up.

 

[Jerry Hall]

Color interior is your choice, but I believe it was you that stated that the next owner would be when you are dead, so make it yours. Your car has black interior and to change to a correct white interior only requires seat covers and door panels, because everything else was black.

 

[torredcuda]

plus visors, head rests, arm rests, headliner and A-pillar trim.

 

[Moparfiend]

Door panels and seat covers are super expensive. I got mine from legendary auto interiors. They took about a year to get.

 

[torredcuda]

They don`t reproduce the Medium Grade door panels I need but I have found and bought two sets of pretty decent used ones in brown and blue so I will need to dye the whether I go black or white. Pic is for reference.

 

[Black_Sheep]

The way folks drive these days, a disc swap is almost mandatory.