What did you do to your Mopar today?

[67Charger]

I did something I hate to do. I made a appointment to have my exhaust installed. I have my x pipe and ultra flow mufflers but my headers don't align with my trans cross member notches. I cant bend tubing to make the tail pipes any way so I will let him do it. Over the years all I have had anyone do to it is front end alignment and tire mounting. So now I will make a open header loud trip to his shop. At least the owner has a nice 70 Charger.

You running TTi's? I had the same issue on my '67 Charger 440 too... Took a quick, angled jog to get them to be anywehre close to up/in the cutouts...

 

[Larrry B.]

Picked a few interior parts at the Fall Fling today, new gas pedal too.
Ordered parts online that were unavailable at the show and supplies from Eastwood to finish the floor and seats on my interior refresh.

A few shots of nice cars at the show, some motivation maybe...

Great looking duster.

Good butt shot on two '68s

Nice clean red viper.

 

[Larrry B.]

Nitto NT555 Tires on 18" wheel.
This was on a '69 Super Bee and looked great.
I asked the owner what his opinion was, he drove up from O.C. and loved them.
My build is going the restomod/auto-x direction and I'm thinking about getting these tires.

 

[polywideblock]

discovered I had a rotted fuel line and have at least 1 welsh plug on the way out and a leaking oil pan gasket so guess what is now happening to the SE before it will pass rego yep motors coming out to replace pan gasket and welsh plug. still it now has Australian compliant retractable 3 point seat belts fitted getting there but its going slower than expected .
on a side note the automotive engineer that's doing all this has fallen head over heals with this car ( he's a ford guy ) and wants it bad , found a 71 charger is now his screen saver and he's offered to do a full resto on the rt + offered a quit substantial discount on the road runner resto as a swap for the SE about 50K Australian

he said he'll even wait while I drive it this summer while waiting for the roadrunner to be finished should I do the deal

 

[Cranky]

Been cleaning and modifying parts. Bout time I do something to it....

 

[Mike67]

Well I totally ignored her for the last 3 days.... Been wiring my father in-laws 66 Nova.
I would walk by her and rub my hands across her lines just to let her know I still loved her, and assure her I wasn't cheating on her with the chebby!!!

 

[Brandy]

EXPRESS UPDATE...
I finally got busy inside the car with mocking up the roadster back panel. Some of you might recall that I bought a 66/67 sport satellite back seat upper panel for this. It has the winged shape I need to start the panel and that shape hugs the bucket seat backs just below the headrests. So, I sat on one of the seats turned around backwards and contemplated the rear seat area for awhile. The sport back did not quite reach to both door frames so I would need something that did, and mount the seat back to it.
Now, i'm not Dave Kindig or Chip Foose and I don't have stacks of metal hanging around to make stuff from, nor the machinery to do so. Kinda like most of you I expect. So I needed to use what ever I had on hand. I looked around for anything that was long enough and that would work. I noticed the old Coronet dash panel resting in a corner behind some other stuff, I never throw anything away, and realized that it would indeed go all of the way across, it was light weight, it had a curvature that would work great and I already owned it. Bonus!!
So after much screwing around trying to get it in there by myself I finally got some spots marked with a marker where I would need to drill holes to mount it via the original forked lower mounts and a couple of new holes up near the ends.
After digging around in the spare nut/bolt brake drum container I came up with enough parts.
It went in smoothly at the right position and I think will work out fine. I'll slice the majority of the remaining dash away because it will be in the way of the spare tire mount and window cranks etc.

I laid two footer marker poles across the gap and in line with the trunk contour lines to show where the inside contour lines will fall on the panel when I make it. My plan was that you should be able to stand at either end of the car and the lines will carry all of the way through front to back including the cowl.

 

[Brandy]

Today I cut out a hunk in the top center of the support structure so that the center panel of the larger whole can be inset lower than the two sides and thus line up with the contours involved. I then welded a cross brace a bit lower for stiffness. I got out the cardboard and made some mock panels that will be covering the vertical space behind the seats and also a mock tower that flows down to connect with the end of the center console from the Audi. I don't have an exact positioning of that console yet so it's all hypothetical. The *** end of the console has a curved a/c vent that sits in a pocket. Absent the vent I can make the tower flow down right into that pocket and it will look it came that way. Just noodling around with various ideas at the moment, still thinking on it.

 

[PlagueOfBadgers]

Pulled some more interior parts before the kid had to go to work today. Found this under the back seat.

On top it says "Series 1972 and 1973". Does this mean I can use 72 body parts as replacement parts for the car? The car is a 73 per vin.

 

[mmissile]

Nice...pretty intact.

 

[PlagueOfBadgers]

Nice...pretty intact.

Yes, not bad for 43 years.

 

[Photon440]

You struck gold. Scan it and put it in a safe place!

 

[Brandy]

Put the dash back in temporarily to define the correct position of the console. I made a platform for it to sit on as the Audi had a metal square top tunnel that everything rested on. Now I'll have to make another that gets wider as it goes forwards because the heater/AC unit sits right there in the center with the sound system/ climate control unit in front of it. Once I have the general shape and size that will work I'll yank it out and make it out of steel. The whole dash assembly is very dusty but is in pristine condition otherwise. Now the parking brake will be a handle right there between the seats and the shift needs a cable control as it now sits a good bit to the rear from stock. Anyway, you can see the general outline of my plan coming together for the inside, should be cozy.

 

[71charger_fan]

I took my 108k-mile '04 Neon R/T daily driver for emissions testing. It passed easily. Proving my dad's car advice of "take care of it and it'll take care of you."

 

[YY1]

Replaced the rusted out intake bypass nipple on my 2000 Dakota.

Guess what 2 things you can't get around here at 4:00pm on a Saturday afternoon?

1- nipple, none of the parts stores even list it- good thing I had an old water pump that hadn't made it to scrap.

2- 3/4 pipe thread tap, none of the big box home stores show it either- flea market tool guy had one $5 right at closing.

 

[Brandy]

Replaced the rusted out intake bypass nipple on my 2000 Dakota.

Guess what 2 things you can't get around here at 4:00pm on a Saturday afternoon?

1- nipple, none of the parts stores even list it- good thing I had an old water pump that hadn't made it to scrap.

2- 3/4 pipe thread tap, none of the big box home stores show it either- flea market tool guy had one $5 right at closing.

Now then......isn't hotrodding fun?

 

[mmissile]

That's my biggest complaint about this hobby, these days. If you're fabricating something, you're generally at the mercy of the on-line sellers and the delivery companies. There was a time when you could just drive within an hour...and get anything you needed to keep working. Now it takes weeks, to do a 2-3 day job. Sometimes, it's weeks to do something for a 2-3 hour job. And that's only if you get the correct stuff, the first time.

 

[YY1]

...and it's not "bad out of the box".

 

[67440chrg]

I had my exhaust put on at a local independent shop. He did a good job using my dynomax ultra flows and x pipe. Now it sounds good and will be more enjoyable to spend time in.

Oh and 67Charger my headers are unknown brand I have had them a long time.

 

[PlagueOfBadgers]

Ok, so yesterday we pulled the bottom of the backseat out and found a piece of paper, not in bad shape but bad. After looking at it, the vin's did not match, bummer .

Well today I finished pulling the top half of the backseat out and what do I find, another paper in almost perfect condition AND THE NUMBERS MATCH!!!

I don't know why but this was exciting to find!