Member Rides

[HYRDGOON]

Well we asked for this section so sure as hell better use it. I'll kick this one off.... A bit about your ride, plans and a few pics

AngryBird is actually a 68 Roadrunner dressed up as a 69. 522 CME Crate Motor, Wizard Cooling rad/fan package, currently 4 speed but have everything on hand to swap in a T56 (Thanks in part to custom fabbed parts, a lot of help and a great tutorial by 747Mopar) and also have a D1X Procharger that will eventually find a home with my Stroker. (Stroke and Blow!)

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[Budnicks]

very nice HYRDGOON,
glad we got it too, enjoy

mine is far from finished,
more of a resto-mod too,
but love them all

old photos of "the B_I_T_C_H" {as my girlfriend fondly calls her...LOL}, but you'll get the vibe anyway

 

[Hemi31]

My 66, work in progress. Soon to be a lot more progress.


Gen3 mockup motor


The actual block I am using


Should be a lot of progress in the next few months. Here is the link to the build thread I started waaay back. http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparforum/showthread.php?54551-66-Charger-Pro-Street-w-GenIII-426

 

[Budnicks]

here's some of the parts I have I built 2 of these already,
I purchased 2 of everything almost
1 already done & I still need to do/finish mine, long story

some parts are already installed, some need to be installed still;
Capps/QA1 lower tubular control arms
QA1 tubular K member
SPC adj. tubular upper control arms
Summit 1-3/8" front sway bar
Summit 1" rear adj. sway bar
SSBC 4 piston Force 10 front & rear disc brake conversion
Edelbrock gas shocks
Edelbrock/Halibrand polished kidney slots BFG Radial T/A's
383/479ci Quckfuel parts in the 6bbl
Edelbrock ported alum. heads
full Crane Cams hydr. roller, 1.6 Supergold Rockers blah blah blah !!!
Milodon oiling system & 7 qt. pan
Uni-Steer rack & pinion {I won't recommend it, too limited on headers selection}
custom home fab stepped headers 1-3/4" to 1-7/8" to 4-2-1 Scavenger style collectors
3" mandrel bent exhaust with Series 50 Delta Flow system with a H-pipe
Pro-Car Elite 1100 adj. bucket seat with adj. head rests & track/mounts
S/S 1203 Aeromotive electric fuel pump #8 lines
w-#6 lines from the Aeromotive bypass regulator back to tank
Mancini Racing Alum 3 core large tube down-flow Alum. rad.
custom home fab shroud with 16" Be-cool 2900cfm puller fan
w-a 13" Be-cool pusher fan for just in case
a Mopar Performance alum water pump housing
w-Proform 38gpm electric water pump & A/N upper & lower hoses
3800rpm stall MP Torque Converter reworked, stall to 4200rpm
727tf w-Turbo Action Cheetah rear band apply std shift pattern man. valve body
numerous Coan & A&A internals
B&M Quicksilver ratchet shifter & full round/dual pattern sfi rated Flexplate
{I know but I like the way it shifts & looks}
Calvert CalTracs
MP Aluminum 742 center section, with Yukon 3.73:1 gears
{probably will go with the Dana S-60 from Strange Engineering instead}

I'm sure I missed some stuff, probably about half of it,
but gives you an idea of my style type of build...
Happy Moparing guys

 

[Average Joe]

Well we asked for this section so sure as hell better use it. I'll kick this one off.... A bit about your ride, plans and a few pics

AngryBird is actually a 68 Roadrunner dressed up as a 69. 522 CME Crate Motor, Wizard Cooling rad/fan package, currently 4 speed but have everything on hand to swap in a T56 (Thanks in part to custom fabbed parts, a lot of help and a great tutorial by 747Mopar) and also have a D1X Procharger that will eventually find a home with my Stroker. (Stroke and Blow!)

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Your bird is SWEET!!! looking forward to seeing it boosted
Joe

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This is the 5.7 I am building for Krissy's(wife) 67 barracuda. Not a B or E but an A My opinion its mopar or no car.
forged rotating assembly
ported 6.1 heads and manifold
bigger 6.1 cam.

Mike if this wasn't going in her car it would be procharged too.LOL
Joe




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My 68 Charger.

 

[747mopar]

Here's mine, I keep saying it's done but something always pops up. It's a 69 Charger that started life as a 318 auto but by the time I got it it was missing the motor, tranny and pretty much the whole interior so it was an open canvas haha. This was my first Mopar build and I was determined to built every last bit of it myself minus the upholstery work just to see if I could (painfull experience but it's paying off).


Motor..................456" stroker

Tranny................Viper T56 6 speed

Seats..................03 Stratus buckets and 05 Chrysler 300 rears

Wheels................US Mags "Ramblers" 19X10 rears and 18X8 fronts

 

[Average Joe]

The hood is SWEET!!!

 

[747mopar]

My 66, work in progress. Soon to be a lot more progress.


Gen3 mockup motor


The actual block I am using


Should be a lot of progress in the next few months. Here is the link to the build thread I started waaay back. http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparforum/showthread.php?54551-66-Charger-Pro-Street-w-GenIII-426

Me thinks I'll like this one, the 1st Gen Chargers can look great when done right and it looks like your headed in that direction. Nice

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here's some of the parts I have I built 2 of these already,
I purchased 2 of everything almost
1 already done & I still need to do/finish mine, long story

some parts are already installed, some need to be installed still;
Capps/QA1 lower tubular control arms
QA1 tubular K member
SPC adj. tubular upper control arms
Summit 1-3/8" front sway bar
Summit 1" rear adj. sway bar
SSBC 4 piston Force 10 front & rear disc brake conversion
Edelbrock gas shocks
Edelbrock/Halibrand polished kidney slots BFG Radial T/A's
383/479ci Quckfuel parts in the 6bbl
Edelbrock ported alum. heads
full Crane Cams hydr. roller, 1.6 Supergold Rockers blah blah blah !!!
Milodon oiling system & 7 qt. pan
Uni-Steer rack & pinion {I won't recommend it, too limited on headers selection}
custom home fab stepped headers 1-3/4" to 1-7/8" to 4-2-1 Scavenger style collectors
3" mandrel bent exhaust with Series 50 Delta Flow system with a H-pipe
Pro-Car Elite 1100 adj. bucket seat with adj. head rests & track/mounts
S/S 1203 Aeromotive electric fuel pump #8 lines
w-#6 lines from the Aeromotive bypass regulator back to tank
Mancini Racing Alum 3 core large tube down-flow Alum. rad.
custom home fab shroud with 16" Be-cool 2900cfm puller fan
w-a 13" Be-cool pusher fan for just in case
a Mopar Performance alum water pump housing
w-Proform 38gpm electric water pump & A/N upper & lower hoses
3800rpm stall MP Torque Converter reworked, stall to 4200rpm
727tf w-Turbo Action Cheetah rear band apply std shift pattern man. valve body
numerous Coan & A&A internals
B&M Quicksilver ratchet shifter & full round/dual pattern sfi rated Flexplate
{I know but I like the way it shifts & looks}
Calvert CalTracs
MP Aluminum 742 center section, with Yukon 3.73:1 gears
{probably will go with the Dana S-60 from Strange Engineering instead}

I'm sure I missed some stuff, but gives you an idea of my build

Looks like somebody is planning on going fast!

 

[Budnicks]

Looks like somebody is planning on going fast!

go fast & turn well too...LOL, novel concept....

If it's ever freaken' done, I've built so many others,
someday I will finish this one, if it kills me & it ain't going anywhere,
it's too hard to let them go, done it way too often already...

especially after all the money, time & effort

 

[Mr.SpeedFreak]

Hell, I guess it's my turn! My destroyer of wallets and tires, aka "frankenstein," is a "real deal" numbers matching '69 Charger R/T SE that has always been my dream car, and I'm building it accordingly- within reason of a 23 year old's budget working in a machine shop 9 hours a day lol. Just a basic outline of some of what's done, what I'm in the middle of, and what's around the corner:

Going:
- .030 over, forged, balanced 440. Currently wearing original iron heads, looking to replace with aluminum
- full sequential megasquirt-based efi
- Aeromotive Phantom 340 in-tank fuel pump
- Procharger P1SC, 8-10 psi, front mount intercooled
- Dougs headers 1 7/8" primaries, out to custom 3" x-pipe exhaust and flowmasters
- Viper T56 6 speed
- unsure on rear end for right now, probably need to go Dana. Currently has an 8 3/4

Stopping:
- '75/76 A Body big bearing front disc brake conversion, giant single piston. Would like to do the viper swap at some point in the future
- probably going with Wilwood rear disc conversion
- dual MC manual, wilwood pedal setup (also for adding the "man pedal")

Turning:
- currently thinking 6 point rollbar
- global west subframe connectors
- upgraded torsion bars and leaf springs, probably going to machine 1" rear lowering blocks
- QA1 stocker star single adjustable shocks
- hellwig 1 3/8" hollow front swaybar, adco 7/8" rear
- most likely going with QA1 tubular k member and uca's
- I'd like to go torq thrust II, but currently sitting on Coys C5 17x8" front, 18x9.5" rear. For any kind of autocrossing it'd be nice to pick up a pair of 18's for the front as well
- currently wrapped in nitto nt555's

The rest:
- Triple black with matte black "Laughin Larry" Speedfreak logo tail stripe
- Mildly modified interior panels
- fabricated sheet metal console
- fabricated carbon fiber instrument cluster/ dash panels
- Speedhut custom Revolution gauges
- simple modern stereo and sound system, in mostly stock locations aside from kick panels
- cell phone/ tablet heads up display of engine vitals bluetoothed from ecu
- Gen III Dodge Viper front seats
- undecided on rear seat, possibly just re-wrapped factory seat with center buttons removed
- core support cover panel
- Trunk closeout panels, with trunk mounted battery
- chin spoiler
- no vinyl top, possibly some shaved trim, otherwise pretty stock looking body

Originally bought looking like this with even more hidden issues than were visible:



But I've made a bit of progress over the past couple years (including totally rebuilding my totalled chebbie and recently kicking off a slow start to my own hotrod shop):



[video=youtube_share;bPTtBa66V0k]http://youtu.be/bPTtBa66V0k[/video]



Also have my '67 Chebbie (don't shoot, guys! This is in the off-topic section! Lol) that was also built with turning in mind, and will see some hillclimb action this summer. Corners incredibly well despite the mildly modified suspension (1 3/8", 1" swaybars, qa1 stocker stars) and 15" wheels/tires, although I did box and further reinforce the chassis. Still a work in progress, and the Dodge's ratty twin

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[Rocketman]

I guess it is my turn, it is a 68 GTX, 440, 4-speed, Dana 60.



.060 over
Edelbrock Top End Kit w RPM heads, high rise intake, timing chain and .600 lift springs
COMP XE285HL 241/[email protected] 110LSA, .545 lift- video below
MSD ignition 6AL box
Griffin aluminum rad with Hayden electric push fan
Milodon 8 quart pan with high pressure oil pump
Mopar Performance valve covers and breather poweder coated by Cuda Chick
Hedman Elites ceramic coated with 2.5 exhaust and flowmaster 40's
Hurst competition shifter
American Racing Vintage wheels with Nitto radials

[video=youtube;PViFpRVLzWU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PViFpRVLzWU[/video]

 

[benno440]

didn't see this one, I will put my ride up too.
Engine:


440 (7.2L) stroked to a 505 (8.3L), 1976 water block, acid dipped, all new clevite bearings, stainless plugs and freeze plugs. Block was align bored and honed, cylinders bored and honed +.30, block was also decked for 0 deck height . "Muscle Motors" custom made stroker kit was put together for the build including a polished forged K1 crank at 4.125 stroke with ARP main studs, RPM forged H-beam 7.100 rods were used and keith black 26.7cc valve relief pistons were used. "fluidampner was used for balancing along with a comp cams double roller timing chain. "lunati hydraulic flat tappet cam at 250/252 @.50 duration cam (300/305) with lunati hydraulic lifters and comp cams oversized pushrods. Heads a ported and polished stealth aluminium heads with comp cams roller rockers and cast aluminium muscle motors valve covers. cometic MLS head gaskets used with felpro everywhere else and all hardware is ARP studs and bolts. Oiling system is a melling HV oil pump with a milodon 7qt sump, and stroker windage tray with a hemi 3/8" pickup and remote mount K&N filter. Intake is a match ported edelbrock ch28 dual quad intake with 2x edelbrock 500cfm carbs that have been ported and polished, with a custom fibreglass hemi oval air cleaner, K&N air cleaner with airbrushed lid, fuel pump is a massive clay smith mechanical fuel pump which is fed by a "racepumps" regulator, 1/2" aeromotive aluminium and braided fuel lines from the tank along with a check valve and aeromotive fuel filter with a return line to tank. Ignition is MSD 6AL box with a billet MSD distributor which was custom built and phased by FBO, wires are MSD custom made plug wires and NGK plugs. Cooling is an aluminium high flow water pump fed from a "be cool" aluminium radiator with 2 thermo fans capable of 2750cfm cooling power. Also on the motor is a "march performance" billet serpentine belt kit with billet alternator and billet power steering pump. 1 7/8" ceramic coated TTI headers that have DEI heat wrapping on them going to 3" x pipe with dynomax ultraflow mufflers and dumping at the diff.
Drivetrain:


"Lakewood bellhousing and scattershield", "american powertrain" lightened billet steel 11" flywheel with 11" kevlar clutch and a wilwood hydraulic clutch kit put in. Gearbox is a 1976 23 spline A833 4 speed with OD gear, main case was changed out with early style ball detent shifter setup for strength and brand new gear clusters put in and box fully rebuilt, stronger synchros installed. Hurst pistol grip shifter with custom made stainless shift rods for strength, carbon shifter handle, autometer electric speedo installed for the electric gauges. new stronger uni joints installed on the lightened 3" driveshaft. Diff is a Mopar 8 3/4 with the strongest centre the "489" carrier with an "Eaton true trac" installed and 33 spline axles.


Suspension, Brakes, wheels & steering:


Custom silver powdercoated "Magnumforce" chromoly k member installed with chromoly upper and lower control arms with spherical rod ends ( torsion bars were removed) Qa1 aluminium single adjustable coil overs installed, 2" chromoly splined sway bar installed, 2" dropped spindles, aluminium bushes, mustang II rack and pinion installed with power steering, Rear end is a powdercoated magnumforce chromoly 4 link with spherical rod ends with Qa1 aluminium single adjustable coil overs. all suspension is also height adjustable. RSD 8" brake booster with a wilwood aluminium dual tandem master cylinder, wilwood 4 pot adjustable brake bias, Wilwood drilled and slotted 12.19" discs all round and red powdercoated wilwood 4 piston calipers with race pads. All brake lines are custom made stainless lines and stainless braid where necessary. Wheels are custom made "Boze" shifter forged wheels in 18 x 8" front and 19 x 10 rear, polished lip and powdercoated centre with custom engraved Mopar centre caps, Tyres are BF Goodrich g force KDW 2 street tyres in 245/40r18 front and 295/35r19 rears, very sticky handling.


Body:


Subframe connectors installed, stock fuel tank done over and inner sealed, new 1/2" pickup and sender. brand new chrome bumpers, front spoiler, cusom made functional 2" reverse cowl fibreglass bonnet.


electrical:


Entire car has been rewired with a Ron francais wire kit, custom fuse box, LED bulbs in every light on the car, electric windows, automatic thermo fan sensors, vacuum headlight doors converted to electric. Battery located to trunk, Ultima red top 900cca battery


Interior:


Interior is mainly stock besides, autometer electric gauges, pioneer competition grade stereo, flaming river steering column, hidden radio antennae, custom centre console insert, custom rear package tray with speakers installed and baby seat fittings installed. new carpet and custom floor mats. electric windows. new seatbelts installed. boot has been custom made and carpeted.


Stereo:


Pioneer head unit, pioneer 6" door speakers, 6x9 rear speakers, pioneer dual amps, and 2x pioneer 3500w 12" subs in custom made box, with boston capacitor. and fuses.

Recent additions: Hydroboost brake unit, custom ported rpm intake manifold and 1000cfm pro systems carb









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[747mopar]

Wow, nice clean looking ride Rocketman!


Always have loved Benno's, perfect wheel size and ride height. I noticed your fan setup and have been considering the pusher route myself, got any info on it? If you have a moment I'd love to get measurements from the ground to your wheel opening, I'm getting ready to drop mine just a touch more and want it to look exactly like yours haha. What can I say "you nailed it"!

 

[benno440]

thanks man, the pusher fans are only there because I could not fit the pullers in, but it works great none the less, they are SPAL dual 11" 2750cfm I believe, summit has them for like $300 If I remember.
the measurement from ground to front wheel arch is 610mm, rear is 640mm, I had to wind her up a bit or could not get it out of shed haha.

yours is still one of the nicest chargers around mate,

 

[747mopar]

thanks man, the pusher fans are only there because I could not fit the pullers in, but it works great none the less, they are SPAL dual 11" 2750cfm I believe, summit has them for like $300 If I remember.
the measurement from ground to front wheel arch is 610mm, rear is 640mm, I had to wind her up a bit or could not get it out of shed haha.

yours is still one of the nicest chargers around mate, View attachment 253073

Thanks! I know what you mean, I had a tough time getting a fan and pulley combo that would fit mine. I'm running a thermal clutch fan that does a great job but makes turning the crank for rocker adjustments an absolute PITA. Thanks for the measurements even if they are in metric haha , got a few things to take care of before I tackle that.

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Oh yeah, you REALLY NAILED IT THAT TIME!

 

[bigmanjbmopar]

Does that cheeta valve body have a trans brake in it?

here's some of the parts I have I built 2 of these already,
I purchased 2 of everything almost
1 already done & I still need to do/finish mine, long story

some parts are already installed, some need to be installed still;
Capps/QA1 lower tubular control arms
QA1 tubular K member
SPC adj. tubular upper control arms
Summit 1-3/8" front sway bar
Summit 1" rear adj. sway bar
SSBC 4 piston Force 10 front & rear disc brake conversion
Edelbrock gas shocks
Edelbrock/Halibrand polished kidney slots BFG Radial T/A's
383/479ci Quckfuel parts in the 6bbl
Edelbrock ported alum. heads
full Crane Cams hydr. roller, 1.6 Supergold Rockers blah blah blah !!!
Milodon oiling system & 7 qt. pan
Uni-Steer rack & pinion {I won't recommend it, too limited on headers selection}
custom home fab stepped headers 1-3/4" to 1-7/8" to 4-2-1 Scavenger style collectors
3" mandrel bent exhaust with Series 50 Delta Flow system with a H-pipe
Pro-Car Elite 1100 adj. bucket seat with adj. head rests & track/mounts
S/S 1203 Aeromotive electric fuel pump #8 lines
w-#6 lines from the Aeromotive bypass regulator back to tank
Mancini Racing Alum 3 core large tube down-flow Alum. rad.
custom home fab shroud with 16" Be-cool 2900cfm puller fan
w-a 13" Be-cool pusher fan for just in case
a Mopar Performance alum water pump housing
w-Proform 38gpm electric water pump & A/N upper & lower hoses
3800rpm stall MP Torque Converter reworked, stall to 4200rpm
727tf w-Turbo Action Cheetah rear band apply std shift pattern man. valve body
numerous Coan & A&A internals
B&M Quicksilver ratchet shifter & full round/dual pattern sfi rated Flexplate
{I know but I like the way it shifts & looks}
Calvert CalTracs
MP Aluminum 742 center section, with Yukon 3.73:1 gears
{probably will go with the Dana S-60 from Strange Engineering instead}

I'm sure I missed some stuff, probably about half of it,
but gives you an idea of my style type of build...
Happy Moparing guys

 

[HYRDGOON]

Joe: I have no doubt that 6.1 would be boosted too but I bet it's gonna haul *** in your wifes car! Your car is one of my faves on here and it's what a Pro-Touring ride is all about! Someday I'll get there my hopes are drive it every season I can and get projects done in the downtime so I don't lose the car through a summer.

747: I'm lucky enough to say I've seen your car in person and it's incredible!

Budnicks: You have some really nice pieces into your bird!

Rocketman: That is a fine looking GTX!!

Benno: Another one of my absolute favorite cars on here... absolutely perfect and breathtaking!

Speedy: You are way too skilled beyond your years. Franky is gonna be a mean MoFo when he hits the streets!


Right now my next 2 big projects on the books are the T56 swap in and Procharger install. Just collecting the bits pieces right now and everything will eventually go in.

Eventually get around to full suspension upgrades and spoke to my bodyguy last week since I need a trunk pan about doing some mini tubs at the same time to give me a little more room under there as I'll eventually go slightly bigger with the wheels and rubber. I love the look of my AR 17's but I do regret not going to a bigger to a staggered 19-18 and likely will end up with a different look.

 

[Budnicks]

Does that cheeta valve body have a trans brake in it?

No trans brake

it was $280-ish IIRC from Mancini Racing a couple years ago now

 

[Darius]

Most of you guys have seen my "B Body Stiffening" thread so I won't rehash all that here but here are a few pics and basics
5.7, NAG1 from an 07 Chyarger RT. Dash and console as well as all 4 discs from same car.
Haywire harness with a 24 space fuse block and I lost count of all the relays.
Modern Muscle engine controller and harness. Paramount transmission controller
83/4 rear with a 2.76 gear
17" Torq Thrusts with MCP custom caliper covers
Corbeau seats, leather upholstery
HVAC is also out of the 07 Charger
March billet pully system
Custom drive shaft
Autometer gauges
Alterktion front 4 link rear QA1 adjustables

 

[benno440]

Purdy