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'69 charger r/t-se: Building my dream car

Hey Speedy . . . glad to see you back . . . Just a thought, I've heard that there is a paint for the radiators that won't hold the heat in and will not hamper the heat transfer ( still have not researched it enough to give you a definitive answer ) . . . and that high heat ( read ceramic ) paint may also help with the neat transfer ? ? ?

Once again . . . I've not been able to track down a good article on it yet . . . might be worth investigating . . .

Cars really coming along and looking good ! ! !
 
:hello2:Glad to see your hard at the body work Speedy, paint is coming. Man your car is lookin good, grill looks absolutely perfect.
 
Mr. Speedfreak, your Chargers come a long way, looks like good progress too, as far as the carbs go, I've said it before, I prefer Holley's style of carbs or better yet a Quickfuel carbs myself {or ProMax plates too}, I'm not a big fan of Edelbrocks, as many here will attest, they have their place, but the original Carters are way better, Thermoquads aren't too bad either... those you have seems a little to small CFM... On the Holley you could get a different base plate or main body from Quickfuel or Proform gain another useable 100+ cfm of flow easily on the Holley, if need be... I also have a remanufactured/repaired base plate, I got it with my last 68 RR an Edlebrock/Weber AFB Style Carb #1411 750cfm Performer, w-electric choke, Ill never ever use, I'll let go dirt cheap, like a $50 bill & shipping costs, if your interested, PM me contact information, I'll give you details... good luck
 

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Speedy, If you don't want the "remanufactured/repaired base plate", I would surely like to have it
I have a holly double pumper (650 cfm)for the 440 and just bought a "trickit" for it, but this seems better.
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mr. budnicks, IM me if speedy passes ..

Thanks,

Mike.
 
I don't like to be negative but I'm with Bud when it comes to Eddies, had a brand new one that leaked and vapor locked right out of the box. Granted it was on a 460 with a hot iron intake but it's Holley replacement had no issues. Just the design itself is more inviting for vapor locking with the bowls all one piece with the base and closer to the intake but on the upside they are easy to work on. Holley's and Demons are what I've ran and had good luck with but I'm no carb tech. Good luck, hope you get it dialed in soon.
 
Thanks guys! And thanks for the offer Bud but I must have rambled too much in my last post, the carburetor issue is actually solved I think. After I rebuilt my stock Carter AVS (750 cfm) it ran awesome and the throttle shaft wasn't leaking anymore. My main issue now is just that the starter decided to go out right when I was in the middle of tuning and I'm not looking forward to trying to get it back out of the car haha but thanks again for the offer Bud and yeah Mike if you can use it go for it!

I'm with ya Devin, nothing necessarily against Edelbrocks cause I know a lot of people never have any issues but I've heard nothing but good reviews on Quick Fuel and I like Holleys a lot. Now that I've gotten into my AVS I gotta say for what it is I really like it too, and should at least be good enough to hold me over til I move to fuel injection

Hey Speedy . . . glad to see you back . . . Just a thought, I've heard that there is a paint for the radiators that won't hold the heat in and will not hamper the heat transfer ( still have not researched it enough to give you a definitive answer ) . . . and that high heat ( read ceramic ) paint may also help with the neat transfer ? ? ?

Once again . . . I've not been able to track down a good article on it yet . . . might be worth investigating . . .

Cars really coming along and looking good ! ! !
Hey thanks kahn! And yeah I think that might be the special paint Eastwood sells for radiators, I don't really know anything about it other than them selling it, but I'll have to look into that. One thing that didn't really occur to me either until I saw those pics of Devin's car all put back together, the hood will probably shade everything behind the grille enough that the radiator won't jump out so much. Hardly even see it on his car :thinker:

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Hahaha, good to be back, Prop! :eek:ccasion14:
 
Don't know if I ever mentioned it in my thread but I painted the front of my radiator with high heat flat black so it wouldn't show threw. Didn't want you thinking I didn't paint mine then be scratches your head when yours was visible but it may not show up anyways??????
 
But Speedfreak's too racecar for AC Charlie lol I might regret that for a few months out of the year though.. :icon_hang:

Alright guys, now accepting donations towards a Procharger and intercooler to cover part of my radiator hahaha
 
But Speedfreak's too racecar for AC Charlie lol I might regret that for a few months out of the year though.. :icon_hang:

Alright guys, now accepting donations towards a Procharger and intercooler to cover part of my radiator hahaha


Good thinking Speedy . . . with my luck, the intercooler would still be aluminum or worse yet, anodized RED . . . ( sigh ) . . . LMAO
 
Lol sorry guys, just been busy kicking some more @ss haha. Finally got a solid weekend of work in at the shop, starting with a massive spring cleaning. Took a load of trash out, hunted around finding all the tools that seem to hide themselves all over hell's half acre, and reorganized my parts room. Maybe I'll actually know where stuff is now haha

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Then MCA Mike came by and helped dismantle the passenger side door and take both doors off the car
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Driver's side doorjamb corner before I took the door off :icon_thumleft:
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So since the weather's been awesome this week I took a half day off work today and called in some reinforcements. Me and a friend of mine continued the mad thrash and completely stripped the 5-ish layers of primers/paint/filler off both doors
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Spot stripped the other sides as needed
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And stripped some serious acreage off the doorjambs, door posts, and cowl. Really cool of him to come help out
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Gonna hit the areas that were prone to surface rust with Chassis Saver, lay all the seam sealer, and shoot some All-U-Need. That will then get wet-sanded and topcoated with single stage jet black (just where I'm jambing, the main exterior body will be base/clear when the time comes).

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And for whatever reason tonight was the night every mosquito in a 50 mile radius coordinated an invasion of my shop, so I broke out one of the oldest forms of entertainment and kicked back to the soothing sounds of my high voltage counterstrike

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Which inspired this week's Speedfreak FM selection, I was gonna go with Metallica's Ride the Lightning but couldn't find a good youtube upload of it haha
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Hopefully have some primer/paint to post in the next day or two! :eek:ccasion14:
 
Nice progress work Mr Speedfreak :headbang:

To keep the bugs away, try running LED lamps instead of fluorescent or incandescent. Bugs and Mozzies are not excited by LED's.
 
Nice push on the work Speed, looks like you got allot done, way to go.

Mozzies? Those Kiwi's make me laugh every time they talk.
 
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Mozzies? Those Kiwi's make me laugh every time they talk.

Ahhh....it's the way ya tell 'em :rolling:

I guess I should have said 'Skeeters' :p
 
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