Tim Bell
Active Member
Hey everyone!
My name is Tim and this is a story about a old guy who chased a car from Texas to New York State to fulfill his dream car aspirations.
I have a 1964 Plymouth Sport Fury and it is my first MOPAR.
The journey to get my old girl back on the road and drag strip, has been from start to almost finished, an expensive journey with a steep learning curve to bring this old girl back to life.
She is a retired Super Stock car that was raced in New England from 1964 till the late 1970's. I am the fourth owner and the original owner was a barber Lexington, Massachusetts. He worked on the Sport Fury between customers and raced it on the weekends. The tow bar connections are still poking through the front bumper to facilitate flat towing to the track, a time way before towing your race car on a trailer to and from the track. The block, transmission and rear axle are all date code correct.
It is powered by a .30 over 426 Wedge block . Max Wedge heads that have been ported and polished. The heads have been port matched to my Edelbrock intake manifold and the rotating assembly is balanced. She has no issues shifting at 6500RPM.
The crank is forged, the connecting rods are Carrillo, the pistons are Diamond, the cam is a Crane roller spec with lifters. The rockers are from Crane also. I put a 850 Edelbrock on top of the intake and the electronic ignition is a MOPAR unit that works fine. I have a 1050 Holley waiting in the wings should I have the urge to remove the 850 Edelbrock.
The block is painted Blue to make it look like a street wedge
It transfers the power via a McLeod dual disc clutch, and a 18 spline A833 Hemi 4 Speed. I failed to look up the specs on it to check the weight. It bounced off my chest when I pulled it. It was an adventure putting it back in after the rebuild.
The rear axle is a Dana 60 with a 4:10 gear set. It has a set of 5 leaf Super Stock leaf springs out back and I experience no wheel hop. The rear drums are the over size ones (11"?), and the front brakes have been changed to 70's vintage mopar disc brake system.
The gasses are passed by a TTI coated stainless set of headers and 3" exhaust system.
I put a new window gasket kit in it from Steele Weather Products, Dyna Mat and a Legendary Bucket Seat Covers and door panels. Everything was fine with the kit. Turns out my car came with bucket seats out of a 1969 Dodge Coronet R/T. These will be for sale, as my seat covers from Legendary for a 64 Sport Fury are way too small.
I bought a Vintage Air unit for it and an aluminum 4 row radiator and electric fan for these Texas Summers. I will need to install a cut off switch to the compressor as they do not like 6500 rpms.
Thanks for letting me ramble on about my Sport Fury!
My name is Tim and this is a story about a old guy who chased a car from Texas to New York State to fulfill his dream car aspirations.
I have a 1964 Plymouth Sport Fury and it is my first MOPAR.
The journey to get my old girl back on the road and drag strip, has been from start to almost finished, an expensive journey with a steep learning curve to bring this old girl back to life.
She is a retired Super Stock car that was raced in New England from 1964 till the late 1970's. I am the fourth owner and the original owner was a barber Lexington, Massachusetts. He worked on the Sport Fury between customers and raced it on the weekends. The tow bar connections are still poking through the front bumper to facilitate flat towing to the track, a time way before towing your race car on a trailer to and from the track. The block, transmission and rear axle are all date code correct.
It is powered by a .30 over 426 Wedge block . Max Wedge heads that have been ported and polished. The heads have been port matched to my Edelbrock intake manifold and the rotating assembly is balanced. She has no issues shifting at 6500RPM.
The crank is forged, the connecting rods are Carrillo, the pistons are Diamond, the cam is a Crane roller spec with lifters. The rockers are from Crane also. I put a 850 Edelbrock on top of the intake and the electronic ignition is a MOPAR unit that works fine. I have a 1050 Holley waiting in the wings should I have the urge to remove the 850 Edelbrock.
The block is painted Blue to make it look like a street wedge
It transfers the power via a McLeod dual disc clutch, and a 18 spline A833 Hemi 4 Speed. I failed to look up the specs on it to check the weight. It bounced off my chest when I pulled it. It was an adventure putting it back in after the rebuild.
The rear axle is a Dana 60 with a 4:10 gear set. It has a set of 5 leaf Super Stock leaf springs out back and I experience no wheel hop. The rear drums are the over size ones (11"?), and the front brakes have been changed to 70's vintage mopar disc brake system.
The gasses are passed by a TTI coated stainless set of headers and 3" exhaust system.
I put a new window gasket kit in it from Steele Weather Products, Dyna Mat and a Legendary Bucket Seat Covers and door panels. Everything was fine with the kit. Turns out my car came with bucket seats out of a 1969 Dodge Coronet R/T. These will be for sale, as my seat covers from Legendary for a 64 Sport Fury are way too small.
I bought a Vintage Air unit for it and an aluminum 4 row radiator and electric fan for these Texas Summers. I will need to install a cut off switch to the compressor as they do not like 6500 rpms.
Thanks for letting me ramble on about my Sport Fury!
