1971 Speedipus Rex

[dangina]

Looks awesome. What did you use to hold the insulation to the roof? Congrats to you on the new arrival.I'll bet she will be a cutie.

thanks! I used the the aluminum foil tape from home depot!

 

[Ron 73]

I had to look at that ash tray twice lol, at first it appeared to be sliced into the tree! Honestly, i thought you used Photo Shop.. Wow, I know i have to get new glasses and have been putting it off, but the video card i put into the computer is very vivid and it sure fooled me a second lol.. Your really doin a great job on this.. Good luck with the little one, Those days are long gone for my wife and I.. We have 7 grand-kids now. Now we can have fun and call mom and dad to come "get-em"

 

[dangina]

I had to look at that ash tray twice lol, at first it appeared to be sliced into the tree! Honestly, i thought you used Photo Shop.. Wow, I know i have to get new glasses and have been putting it off, but the video card i put into the computer is very vivid and it sure fooled me a second lol.. Your really doin a great job on this.. Good luck with the little one, Those days are long gone for my wife and I.. We have 7 grand-kids now. Now we can have fun and call mom and dad to come "get-em"

6 days overdue! the way I look at it I'm on borrowed time!
I got a present today in the mail:
My new spoiler from spoilers by randy! - http://www.spoilersbyrandy.com/Pages/default.aspx
its the first one for the 71-72 roadrunners!

his pic mounted won a front valance:

I'll get some mounted pics here on friday in the daylight when I'm not working so you can see it on the front of the car before I get it painted!!

 

[dangina]

I'll get some mounted pics here on friday in the daylight when I'm not working so you can see it on the front of the car before I get it painted!!

its unfortunate but the spoiler just didn't fit right, had a huge gaps on both sides so I tried my spare valance and same thing. Randy was kind enough to refund my money and is back at the drawing board - he is gonna contact me when the new prototype is finished.

Some changes has happend since I posted this - that friday I mentioned that I was suppose to mount this spoiler, someone decided to turn my world upside down:

His name is Axle Slade and he came into the world on friday Oct19 at 9:04pm weighing in at 7 lbs 8 oz! Future Mopar member, can't wait to finish the car and take him for a rip in the runner like my dad did when I was his age!

Found some pics of at the bodyshop before I got her painted:

I probably spent over 10-20 hours with a pic cleaning these by hand after I acid dipped them to get the 40 year old paint/rust off.

and then painted them on the one side that you see when the door is open

And I am now finally finished with the sound deadner in my car. It took almost a full 3 rolls of B-Quiet. For further reference it took:
1 roll did the roof, doors, and inner fenders to the trunk on the car
1 roll did the firewall to the rear passenger seats flooring
last roll did the trunk and any little place I missed with some spare left over!
I added close to 90lbs to my car but its all good weight?
I Think it took about 30 hrs to do the installation...

I also dropped the whole front suspension outta the car, on my next days off I'll be welding them up and getting them powdercoated! stay tuned!

 

[Ron 73]

Your car coming along great very nice work! That is a very handsome young-un there!! Looks like you have two baby's to take care of, and doing a fine job to... That sound deadner looks real good..

 

[roadrunnerman]

Congatulations on the new arrival. Be carefull,he just might grow up and fit the profile of that shirt you have on him. LOL You will probably have to do what other parents had to do and put him to sleep by the rumble of your car. But it's memories like that will last a lifetime.

 

[dangina]

Congatulations on the new arrival. Be carefull,he just might grow up and fit the profile of that shirt you have on him. LOL You will probably have to do what other parents had to do and put him to sleep by the rumble of your car. But it's memories like that will last a lifetime.

Thanks guys! this quote is true - my earliest memories is my dad taking me for a rip in his 72 runner back in the day (Some I remember I can't even see over the dash, so I'd just look up out of the side window lol)- Its cool that i'll get to pass on those kind of memories to this little guy

 

[Propwash]

Hey congrat's pop's.... Things are looking up! Little man to share you're mopars with and a '71 bird still rolling along. Good deal.

 

[dangina]

I sent the front suspension parts off for sandblasting but first I had to get the old bushing out of the LCA's - The trick with welding a washer to a bolt, then weld to the bushing, worked really well, so well it only took 2 hits with a hammer to get it out!

I got my front suspension sandblasted parts back, time to start welding!

I got worried when I read here or on another forum about a guy who bent his LCA sway bar brackets after he installed his bigger front sway bar, I wish he had a pic of it so I new where it
had bent, so I took no chance and just strengthened where I thought it would happen:

Welded up the k-member and strengthened the areas others have shown on the net, as well as over most of the factory welds:

I built my own skid plate as well, also made sure that i could get my 1 1/4" big hollow front sway bar in there:

And now off to the powdercoaters!

 

[roadrunnerman]

Great idea on taking out the LCA bushings. Those welds look good and stout. Not that you would want to, but you could do a good "jump" and not hurt too much underneath.

 

[Ron 73]

That was a great idea with the LCA's, everything's looks like its going smooth for ya, Good to hear and see it with your updates.. Have a great Thanksgiving, next year at this time should be after some summer months fun in the new car, well it do look new!

 

[dangina]

thanks! happy thanksgiving for you US guys, I wish we had black friday sales here in Canada! Althought I did take advantage and bought a set of shocks from the new hotchkis line! Sweet!

 

[99ss]

Wow... I am looking at a 71 as well.. Is all that boxing really needed?

 

[D575]

Wow... I am looking at a 71 as well.. Is all that boxing really needed?

No, I think he just likes to weld, Must be putting in a huge horse power engine.

 

[dangina]

No, I think he just likes to weld, Must be putting in a huge horse power engine.

Not really lol stock 383 for now, 451 or 470 in the next year or two. I building the car as a protouring car/daily driver. I wanted to stiffen up the chassis as much as possible without putting a cage in...

 

[dangina]

Well I dropped off the K-member at the powdercoaters yesterday, Today I powdercoated all the smaller pieces that can fit in an oven(My buddy has a small setup). For my first time doing it, I can say they turned out pretty good! So good, I'm considering buying a setup for myself

 

[roadrunnerman]

WOW!!! They turned out looking great.

 

[D575]

Those lower control arms look awesome.

 

[dangina]

thanks guys! I used this setup - and they are having 65% off black friday sales at the moment, lets see If I can convince the wife for christmas

http://www.eastwood.com/hotcoat-powder-coating.html

 

[Fargo]

concidering we have the same interest in car styles i might ask you where i can get some front end parts ,i have a 71 satelite that has a flip front ,the inner wheel wells are cut out and all the hood and fenders are welded together ,this was done some 20 yrs ago ,car has been in storage since ,i want to put it back to normal so i need some parts,did i mention i live in manitoba not wanting to go hunting in the states yet