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On my Duster project I built a custom aluminum tank that sat over the rear axle. The stock location under the trunk floor was consumed with the trans cooler and the exhaust system. The original owner had a fuel cell in the trunk but I wanted some storage space in the trunk so I moved the tank up...

Sounds good. If you're willing to buy really good shocks then I'd go ahead and recommend the 1.08 torsion bars and a big anti-sway bar. But you have to run a good shock like a Koni or else the bars will shake your fillings out.

The Torker intake is not a good intake for Torque. That is why Edelbrock used a different spelling. They knew it didn't make Torque so they called it a Torker. I learned that lesson the hard way! Back in the 80's when I first started working on cars I saved up my money and bought a Torker intake...

Tim loved that car. I enjoyed working on it. It was very rewarding to work on it since Tim was such a good driver that he knew instantly if we had made an improvement or not. But yeah, it was a 99% effort type of car. Very unpleasant to ride in. Tim liked driving it though. He drove it to work...

The Shoney car could be sold. It has been several years since I last talked to the guy who owned it when I took these pictures. He retired and I moved so we just don't see each other anymore.

Last I heard Tim's Valiant was in the Reno area but that was a few years back. The owner was on Moparts and he contacted me a couple of times with questions but I haven't heard from him now for a few years. That car was too stiff for me. Tim and I would take it to lunch and I'd be sea sick by...

It was a 340 reproduction block. We had to a lot of machine work on the block. I had to custom build a set of fixtures so we could hold the block in a vertical mill. Machining the block became a project within the project.

If you look in the background you can see an original MW race car. I think it is an aluminum front end car but I'm not positive. It has been a few years since I took these pictures.

The guy who owns that car lives in the area. The car is complete but I don't think it has run in many, many years. It just sits in the garage. I tried to get him to get it fired up and on a trailer so we could take it to PIR for a club day. I think it would be wild to see that thing out running...

No, they were what Hughes called a Stage 3 port. I think it was before they started doing the "big mouth" head or else we would've gone that way.

Are you saying that it is time to roll this bad boy out of the garage?

Yeah the engine in Tim's car was a 427 inch SB with fully ported Edelbrock heads. It had a small cam and a small carb since it was a street driver with 2.94 rear gears. It made more torque and more hp than a Viper engine so that was good, but it wasn't at its potential. His car really needed a 5...

Yes, with the festival turns in place. Car had big brakes. We fitted it with redrilled Viper brakes originally and then switched to a Baer 6P setup later on. Bottom picture is Tim coming thru the Festival Turns at PIR.

It was close. There was a club racer at the track with a Z06 and he could hold off Tim most of the time, but if Tim was in front he could also hold off that Z06. Both cars were around 3400 lbs with driver and both had a hair over 500 hp. Tim's Valiant would hit 160 mph on the front straight so...