I'm building a collection of old Mopar B body cars. It's not a planned progression. I started looking for a Dart or Valiant and just fell into these machines. Since the Plymouth showed up, the dude with a Pontiac Lemans doesn't drive past my house anymore. To be simple about everything, my focus is getting the Charger started and on the road. This Plymouth Satellite is a unexpected bonus for being ethical and chivalrous. LOL
Right now with the '68 S.S. it will continue to be fixed up so we can pass tech inspection at the track. I'll drive to the track and put some Chevy and Ford's on the trailer early. When they sell all their junk, I might pick up a trailer cheap. e
The brakes are still factory 11" drum brakes. Disc brake upgrade is important for performance as well as a weight issue.
***--->> If I get starting making weight weenie upgrades, I might as well as get the fiberglass body and build a race chassis kit <---*** Curious if the driver side lugs are LH thread or the lugs have been replaced to a RH thread.
Satellite runs and drives ok, at least to the mall across the street. It had "Miss Molly" as a tribute car so I think that fits and some large turned gold flake lettering might be nice. The owner had just picked up the car in March. I haven't tried to contact the original owner from Michigan.
Engine is a RB 440 wedge.
don't know about the bore, stroke or compression. I opened the oil cap and it has aluminum roller rockers. #6 cylinder is burning oil. It is a high rise intake with a Holley L8896 Dominator carb. I got the 2bbl rebuild ok. Tuning the big Holley 1550 double "wino" pumper is rewarding. A carb rebuild and a 2x4bbl is my next notch on the bedpost. MSD ignition and rev limiter (or transbrake). Lime Green Taylor 8mm ignition wires. The lime green color shows hot spots and we will try to re route the spark wires to keep them cool. Big Mopar waterpump and radiator.
The coil, and some paint around the master cylinder, indicate excessive heat, possibly an old engine fire. No other evidence of fire at this point. The coil can be swapped with an Accel SuperStock unit I bought as a backup. The coil wire is also 8mm and needs replaced more than the plug wires. The cost effective solution is the whole 11mm wire package, because the coil wire alone is 1/4 of the price. Good spark, fresh plugs, not a problem.
B&M shifter works smooth. I lost some messages but I thought it has a 3000~something stall converter. That makes me curious because of the rev limiter connection also. looks like a 727 TF. 4:10 rear gears.
Roll bar is fully welded and the floor is needing to be replaced. It seems solid but the price for 2-16g flat steel panels is around $120. AMD listing for the front panels are $199. The supports are solid. My real problem is with the edges rusting in the front floor boards. Needs attention. Passenger rear panel has significant rust damage extending down into the passenger rear wheel well.
I could cut out both wheel wells and install carbon fiber tubs or try to fab some fiberglass tubs or just tack in a steel tub. That would allow a stock 14" wheel or a 15x15 wheel with a strip axle housing from the local guys QA1 or a better gear range with Strange axle and housing. I'm looking at some Bassett wheels 15x15 and 4"backset. Tires TBA.
Suspension mods come with the stock front and a ladder bar in the back. The front can be swapped to a tubular arm package but that will fall under the weight weenie category and saved for the doorslammer tube chassis version.
Competition engineering shocks on 4 cornera and I can easily replace the bushings with an Energy suspension kit. If there is a better bushing kit outside of energy suspension, I would like your feedback too. I want to sandblast the stock suspension down to bare metal and give it a coat of semi gloss clear coat.
Coilover shocks and a 4 link suspension are the next upgrade for this car.
get rid of the leaf springs and let the girl grab some traction.
The hood has a problem with the rear mounts that needed adjustment. The mounts could be moved back over the fender a little to keep the corners pinned down. There is an aluminum sheet (intake) pulling the hood down, in to centerline. The fiberglass repair is complete and could be argued whether that shroud is needed or not. I can see the benefit of a forced air hood scoop, and I'm toying with the idea of stretching some pantyhose over the scoop (as a filter).
We busted the fiberglass bumper off on the trailer wire, unloading the car. That has been repaired. I'm planning to fiberglass mold a homegrown one piece grill, starting with the headlight bezels and then a shoddy outline of the original grill. If there is a fiberglass or lexan airbursh replica of and entire original Satellite Sport grille, I'll be calling your number.
My biggest wish is my son would get out and change those tires so we could drive around and hunt Pokémon. Albeit we won't have a capture record in the vehicle for pokemon, but time slips from the dragstrip, we can still have experiences.
Only thing holding us back from Pokémon hunting is the lighting. MyMopar.com has all the diagram, and from the looks of the original prints, the 67-68 b body cars have the essential color wires.
Both cars could have been road ready since your reply. Life is a beautiful body of work. Train cars pay my bills, and the"old timers" who brought me to this world did train cars. PPL are quick to judge, but when your outside the box, sometimes there is a bigger, happier group of PPL waiting to see your progress.
I have a Project Management degree waiting for me at Colorado Tech University. Send some weekly motivation. A PM; leave a message on my phone. I'm going to drive my Charger to graduation at Colorado Springs in 2018. I will pursue another degree in CNC machining at the local community college. Schooling sucks because it is just a pin prick of the reality that will hit when you star real life dealing with taxes. Any kind of shout out. I sit and look at these cars for hours; Thinking what can I do better. I take a little piece at a time then do some school work . an the best way to attack it is...school work first, unless the weather is in you favor.
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