67 Coronet 440...gets a 440?

[Corvus]

Stripped the 440 down. It's real clean. Was able to get the heads off by hand and just pull the lifters out. No ridge in the cylinders and not even that much carbon. All the plugs looked good too. Think it might actually have only 6200 miles.

 

[Corvus]

Beautiful Draglites showed up the other day. Going to get the 255/70 Cobras on and hopefully have these tire fitment shenanigans behind me. We'll see if spacers will be required, but I need to pop out the LH studs first for the shank style lugs.

 

[bearman]

really like the build

 

[Corvus]

Hello all, been a little while. Took some time off to get into drumming hah. Finally got RH studs on the left rear, mounted the Cobras on the Welds, and slapped them on for the first time. Baaarley clears the leaf springs, but it does clear. Much more room on the outside lip now. Wasn't able to dig into anything even after shaking the rear all around. Fingers crossed, but this looks like an easy fat rubber solution.

 

[Corvus]

Well the fiasco ain't over yet. They looked good, but nearly got shredded by the leafs on a short test run. Didn't scrape the wells though, so hopefully some small spacers will sort it out. What a damn headache fitting decent rubber on these cars

 

[khryslerkid]

Well the fiasco ain't over yet. They looked good, but nearly got shredded by the leafs on a short test run. Didn't scrape the wells though, so hopefully some small spacers will sort it out. What a damn headache fitting decent rubber on these cars

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Went through the exact same thing with my '62. Before I had the tires mounted the rims had plenty of room. The Coopers that I had mounted bulged out more than expected. Acually I should have used a 4 1/4" backspace than the 4 1/2". That would have been perfect because I had to use 1/4" spacers from Billet Specialties. Longer studs were required also.

Here's my fix...
https://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparforum/threads/taking-up-new-residence.114133/page-17

 

[Corvus]

Went through the exact same thing with my '62. Before I had the tires mounted the rims had plenty of room. The Coopers that I had mounted bulged out more than expected. Acually I should have used a 4 1/4" backspace than the 4 1/2". That would have been perfect because I had to use 1/4" spacers from Billet Specialties. Longer studs were required also.

Here's my fix...
https://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparforum/threads/taking-up-new-residence.114133/page-17

Clean. I was wondering about stud shoulders as well. I just replaced the ones on driver side but to standard length. I don't think a couple thousandths would cause me an issue since I'm using shank lugs. Going to have to think through options. Ugh