Lucy; 1968 Coronet 440

[440 Charger]

Week 4.
Got tired of laying down inside. Started fighting all of the hen pecks outside. Most were just hen pecks as anticipated, but some were deeper wounds. Since we are on a 1 year build schedule, anything we opened up we addressed and primed to buy some time.

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Not nice work.

 

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Trunk and seal done.

 

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3 pt belts done.

 

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Steering column back in. Middle to rear interior 100%. Waiting on tranny to finish hump.

 

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Door jamb cut in complete and (1) 20 gallon tank ready to roll. Doors go back on tomorrow. That seals the car back after now 10 months of worrying about the weather.

 

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Pics

 

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Tank in.

 

[1Tlew0]

This is coming along quite well! Can’t wait to see it finished!

 

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Antenna delete, doors back on the hinges. Long time coming and she is now dry.

 

[Nxcoupe]

Nice father and son project. Good to see the youngsters getting into the classic muscle cars. Looks great so far. I hope my daughter and I can do one someday. I really like that dash cluster.

 

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She is not done, she is not there; But (1) year to the date of delivery, she took 440 hp back on her K frame. Big milestone for my crew.
Lot of motor for a little hole. Rock and roll.

 

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Fire in the hole.
Cam break in already done so shaking down for leaks, etc. Tranny still M.I.A. so had to fire without. That is the reason for (3) jacks.
She seems to had a damn bad attitude. Perfect.https://youtu.be/vmqIspGLkaA


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Into the paint booth. The plan is epoxy, (2) passes of high build, blocking, and then final. Sounds like 3 or 4 hard weekends.

 

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A/C hoses finally crimped and clocked. It pulled down and held on the vacuum.

 

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Test burn on LED’s. Trying to decide if we want to burn all (4) for low beam or stay factory and burn outside (2) low and all (4) high.

 

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The Feral Pig is dead. She is wearing (2) coats of epoxy to bed tonight.

 

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Meat has hit the ground. SST got some TKX’s inbound so it comes this week. Paint, tranny, driveshaft; 4 weeks we are driving.

 

[GrabberOrange69]

Making great progress!

 

[furious70]

Will be interested in your tkx experience. I really dislike the tko in my charger even though I supposedly have the good parts from sst.

 

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Will be interested in your tkx experience. I really dislike the tko in my charger even though I supposedly have the good parts from sst.

Would love to hear your issues. My research really did not turn up any known quirks but the guy that rebuilt my NV4500 handles TKO's also on the rebuild. He stated that there were some upgrades that he includes that make it a better platform. I assume the TKX is that change. Do to covid and all the delays I really searched for other overdrive B Body options and could not come up with anything viable. The Tremec magnum 6 speed gets you there, but it is major surgery to make it fit including torsion bar mounts and box frames.
For the record I got the narrow ratio which gives a 2.78 first gear, .68 OD and running a 3.55 sure grip in the rear. On paper, this looks like a great street driver.