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Does it have to be a r!dial?
If not, I'd suggest Hoosier quick time (not the QT Pro)
Very open tread, soft compound..... but a bias tire.
For a radial, I'd look at nitto and Toyo. Both make some very high performance tires (including drag radials). I'm not familiar with what is available from...
I have a set of street 15x6, 15x8 steels for my 62, with radial t/a's. When I swap to centerlines, front skinnies and slicks, it saves over eighty pounds! JUST the wheel/tire swap!
I think the 71-74s are a bit heavier than the 68-70s. Maybe not as much as some think.
My A12 was almost exactly 3700, without me, and I don't remember how much gas was in it.
I think it had lighter wheels than the stock steels, but otherwise stock. 440 6bbl, stock exhaust to the bumper, manual...
You MIGHT get away with that on a 68 charger cause of the wide open wheelwell. You might not be able to run as wide a tire as you would like.
I have two pair of vintage wheels (ansen pro stock, and American daisies) with that exact size and backspace...... and they won't fit anything I own...
Keeping my trucks sorta full has become a habit. Probably cause of the other cars. Two with small fuel cells (5 gals, and eight gals) and one with a small factory tank, and no gas Gauge. Paint stir sticks in the back seat (if there was one).
The gf keeps her pickup mostly full too.
I am not a small block guy, but......
If you change flat tappet lifters to use Magnum heads, (reqd amc lifters for pushrod oiling)you'd better plan on a new camshaft too, as well as new pushrods.
Cheap and easy? Keep your fast burn 318 heads.
Better? Run the 318s, and wait for speedmaster's...
I ran out of gas twice in one night, when I was in high school.
Ran out , walked to the nearest station with my gas can, bought 25 cents worth, fired it up, drove to the station, put in another buck (only had two!).
40 miles later, out again. Good thing there was a gas station on every corner...
Saving twenty cents a liter is like seventy-five cents a gallon. DEFINATELY worth a trip a little out of the way..... to fill a 55 gallon tank (ot two 35s)
Last fill-up of my pickup (diesel), I incorporated a gas stop as part of another errand, and paid $3.19 instead of $3.42 (or more) at my...
I'd leave it alone.
I'd rather have an honest car than a clone, and if anybody knowledgeable sees the bottom of the hood, they'll know its a clone
And bare-nekid black steel wheels are NOT ANY kind of improvement on what you have now..
That makes good sense.
My Mopar has around a 5000 stall, shifted at 5900 (used to shift 6200-6400, found it was no slower at 59)
Tina stalled around 5400 against the brake, I could shift anywhere from 6000 to 6500, depending if I wanted to be faster or slower.
Do any of you guys that use chainsaws sharpen your own chains? Or do you send them out, or just buy new ?
The only place I know of here that sharpens chains charges more than a new chain!?!
There must be a lot of dull chains around here somewhere.
When my vet does right by me and mine, I go out of my way to say thanks. Drop in to the office on the way to other stuff. (Great news when Magnum swallows a piece of ball, or getting a phone call back on a Sunday when I have a question/concern.)
They really seem to appreciate being appreciated ...
Agreed. We have three black&red shepherds, from the same old friend/racing buddy/ breeder.
Two are over a hundred (but very athletic) one is skin-n-bones thin. (Magnum, 75 lbs) And the skinny one gets 150% of what the other two eat.
He's been checked a couple times for worms/parasites. Nuthin...