70 Hemi Superbird Restoration..................errr.....scratch that........
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It's going to be awesome Mike!
wingcarenvy
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Sweet. Brick by brick. It was good to finally meet you at Dragweek. Maybe you should fill everyone in on how it went for you. I didn’t get to see any passes the Roadrunner made.
Hemirunner
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Yeah it was good meeting you as well. You guys did an awesome job on DW! I didn’t fare so well. I had been having all kinds of issues leading up to drag week with head gaskets and tune and had torn it down twice. Somehow, in between all that I managed to pull off a 5.75 1/8 mile pass that should have been good for high 8s at DW. Well, when reassembling the hemi the last time right before dragweek, I used some FelPro intake gaskets (all I had at the time) and I pinched the intake gasket at the four corners and that in turn, caused it to pull the heads up enough in the centers that it allowed coolant to weep into the valley and the oil pan. Milked the oil on day 1 of DW. I decided that opting out was better than destroying a $3000 crank and a $5,000 block, so on the trailer it went. I didn’t know what had happened until I pulled it apart after DW. You can see the green dye that was put in the cooling system. Once I removed the intake, the leak all but stopped. It’s back together now with no issues.
wingcarenvy
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Thank you very much. We had our fare share of issues. We stood it on the bumper on the first pass. That was because i had no tune, hell it didn’t even run until the day we left California. Turns out the new motor makes a lot more power. Ran out of injector and the converter is too loose. But we had a blast! Long week. We pulled in at 2 am at the hotel and saw your car on the trailer and my heart sank. It was really cool to see your car out there. 5.75 is moving!
Hemirunner
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Moving forward at a snails pace.... lol
Hemirunner
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After blasting walk around
it’s currently in a friend’s paint booth for epoxy primer.
it’s currently in a friend’s paint booth for epoxy primer.
Bet your glad blasting is done!
Hemirunner
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Definitely. It’s still a long way from here to a finished car, but this should be a major milestone behind us.
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Hemirunner
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Lol, not in my hood!! Most of my neighbors live under tombstones.(Neighbors): *ring ring* "hello, HOA?"
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Those behind you are use to ashes to ashes.. dust to dust...
Hemirunner
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They sure are. A lot of people ask me me how I can live next to a cemetery. I tell them it’s the live ones I worry about...
Hemirunner
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Bed liner going on underneath and the back of the firewall today. Then we’ll start on the engine bay. Can’t wait to get color on it.
Gunner1
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This is gonna be sooo awesome.
Hemirunner
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I ordered twin 88mm turbos for this rig. My buddy runs twin 80s and his car is lighter lol
That is cool as heck. Pricey too for two of them! Ouch!!!
Hemirunner
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They should make 3000hp to the flywheel. The turbos are cheap compared to the EFI. The Dominator ECU with the 12” dash, all the wiring and the auxiliary injector driver, sensors, injectors and connectors is another 10k.
Hemirunner
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Chuck got the bed liner sprayed on today
747mopar
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That looks awesome, coming right along.
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