Fun driver project : 69 Charger

[daytona kid]

I feel your pain about the body shop let down/rip-off. Been there done that. It put a black cloud over my progress also, but we must finish, we will finish! Chargers rule!!
P.S. Put those bottom rear corner pieces on as soon as you can while reworking that area to help with their fitment. They are sometimes hard to get right and that can help.

 

[ELLIOT]

UFO spotted in belgium

 

[ELLIOT]

Got somes news

new seats

and the bodyman got things done ! Happy, I'm ^^

Thoseare reusable

The trunk floor cut in half to get it out of the trunk, and weld ack together to install it properely without the quarters. Speaking about quarters

Everything looks solid underneat the quarters.

Thank you Elliot

 

[ELLIOT]

Testing the new quarter from AMD. Looks good but it will need a lot of adjustement.

Thank you,

Elliot

 

[showard]

Lots of work. Looks good.

 

[camtra]

Good luck with this project. I'm also restoring a 69 Charger. One question I have is how easy was the retrofit of the Mustang disk brakes to the Charger? I was considering something similar. Has to be much cheaper to convert than to buy all new ones.

 

[ELLIOT]

Got some news from the bodyshop !

Pretty straight car, isn't ?

Good luck with this project. I'm also restoring a 69 Charger. One question I have is how easy was the retrofit of the Mustang disk brakes to the Charger? I was considering something similar. Has to be much cheaper to convert than to buy all new ones.

The bolt pattern is the same, just have to build calipers brackets. I will do some template after approvement

thank you,

Elliot

 

[funknut]

Good luck with this project. I'm also restoring a 69 Charger. One question I have is how easy was the retrofit of the Mustang disk brakes to the Charger? I was considering something similar. Has to be much cheaper to convert than to buy all new ones.

Have a look at this thread. A guy over at DC.com makes brackets for front and rear.

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php?topic=122780.0

I have both front and rear but so far only have the fronts installed. Works great with the 13.2" front discs (front).

 

[camtra]

Have a look at this thread. A guy over at DC.com makes brackets for front and rear.

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php?topic=122780.0

I have both front and rear but so far only have the fronts installed. Works great with the 13.2" front discs (front).

Thanks guys. Very interesting. I plan on putting 17s on my car any ways and only putting discs on the front.

 

[Charger72]

Interested in watching your progress, keep up the good work.

 

[ELLIOT]

Got a Big block 400 ! Need a stroker set up now !

thank you!

 

[ELLIOT]

final welds are not far away anymore !

 

[ELLIOT]

Super excited !

 

[ELLIOT]

It has been long since I gave the last news !

We added to arche to the jig

Anddd ... Way easier to weld underneat the car this way

Then we took the car to get it sandblast

My bodyman started to work on the front fender which was in really bad condition as you can see

then

 

[440jimr]

Great to see forward progress!

 

[ELLIOT]

Oops double post

 

[ELLIOT]

Back from the blasting

The weldings Begins !! ! Starting with the driver rocker

Since I want to get 295 or 305 tires we minitub it (1 inch)

And with a 295 tires ! The frame rails will touch the ground before the tires touch the tub !

Final Welds

It looks realllly GOOD !!

 

[hunt2elk]

Very nice work. Looks like you picked a very capable bodyman. Not sure if I missed it, but what color combo are you going with?

 

[ELLIOT]

Very nice work. Looks like you picked a very capable bodyman. Not sure if I missed it, but what color combo are you going with?

Thank you !

Yes my bodyman is a great friends of mine with a lot of talent and very young too (25) !

The car will be B5 blue from 2015 Challenger (still B5 isn't ?) with a white bumblebee-R/T stripe. No vinyle top. Going for a prodaily car slammed on the ground

 

[Jarven1977]

Nice work on the inner rear fenders, planning on doing something similar but without removing the rear quarter..