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Yankee Express RestoMod Project

So, the drop off of the 440 went well. Nice shop, good guys. They were happy that everything had been cleaned.
In about a month when I get it back it will be fully assembled except the intake and carb, valve covers, cam, and dizzy. When it comes back, I'll paint it. The trans is solid silver. I'm thinking I'll paint the block body color & the heads flat hotrod black. The intake is polished aluminum and the valve covers wrinkle black with polished ribs. I intend to continue the stripe package coming up over the edges of the fenders right over the edge and down the inside of the engine bay onto the smooth close out panels I made. So, the engine bay will be the somewhat turbine bronze/ Copper color with the black wide stripe flowing into and down both sides all the way onto the frame rails. Combined all together it should look wicked. The stripe package will be about 20" wide with a body color 1/4" stripe followed by a black 3/8" stripe with a 1/8" edge stripe right up along the black in electric blue at the outside. On the close outs in the engine bay i'll place two small 6" MOPAR "M" decals, one on each panel in electric blue.
 
I had an idea. lol. Plenty of time to contemplate ****....
So. What if? I created a "tray" of sorts that is indented down into the trunk and quarter top surfaces about an inch deep?\
This tray would be about 7 1/2" inches wide front to rear and the length of the rear deck of the car and curving upward on both quarter tops about half way to the side edges on either side. Into this tray would sit a spoiler that sits absolutely flush with all surfaces and curves with a 1/16" gap all around. Pretty unnoticiable....
The spoiler would have electric risers underneath at both sides of the trunk lid that, when switched on, would tilt up the spoiler out of the tray about an inch and then tilt it forward, raising the back edge 5 inches. When switched off it would tilt back level and drop into the tray flush again. I could even continue the truck deck contour lines through the surface of the spoiler as well as the trunk edge lines on both sides to further mask it's presence...

Comments? I have been studying this for awhile and saw this done on "Goblin Works Garage" to a Toyota Supra Spoiler. The robotics I mean. The indented flush idea is mine. It seems a way to have my cake and eat it too. It wouldn't ruin the lines and the look of the Coronet rear face but would provide down force at speed when needed, plus it would be a unique and cool feature..

Here's a sketch...
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So you're thinking of applying the pop-up air grabber idea to the rear spoiler? I saw a new Jaguar the other day, the back spoiler retracted when he came to a stop, it looked neat. The only things I can think of in your instance is the way it goes past the trunk lip, you may have to modify the rain gutter to make sure the water still flows out, unless it never gets wet again. Also, you'd have to have a sturdy mechanism for the risers, there could be a couple hundred pounds of downforce at high speeds.

Nice sketching, by the way!
 
I would keep it on the trunk only. Water leakage would be an obstacle on the quarters. Love the idea!!
 
Three piece tray, quarter trays with their own drains, dropped down the thickness of the spoiler and the spoiler running past the deck lid when it's open. The center drain hose in the deck lid could drain by the rear wheel wells, like the windshield washer hose on cars that have the squirters mounted on the hood. I don't know if I said that right.
 
Photon440 said:
So you're thinking of applying the pop-up air grabber idea to the rear spoiler? I saw a new Jaguar the other day, the back spoiler retracted when he came to a stop, it looked neat. The only things I can think of in your instance is the way it goes past the trunk lip, you may have to modify the rain gutter to make sure the water still flows out, unless it never gets wet again. Also, you'd have to have a sturdy mechanism for the risers, there could be a couple hundred pounds of downforce at high speeds.

Nice sketching, by the way!
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I was thinking the same thing. The ones the Goblin Works crew used were pretty hefty, but, they needed to be with a Supra that goes 160MPH..no plans for it to get wet ever again.
 
Hey-O said:
I would keep it on the trunk only. Water leakage would be an obstacle on the quarters. Love the idea!!
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The portions that go out over the quarters sit in a tray that flows out into the gutter rail of the trunk, same for the tray across the trunk deck, both ends flow out to the gutters. With the trunk open the ends would hang out in the air. There would be a tray on top of either quarter that would be empty with the trunk lid up. I like the ends being over the quarters because they curve upwards on both sides which would give it some contour.
 
Hey-O said:
Three piece tray, quarter trays with their own drains, dropped down the thickness of the spoiler and the spoiler running past the deck lid when it's open. The center drain hose in the deck lid could drain by the rear wheel wells, like the windshield washer hose on cars that have the squirters mounted on the hood. I don't know if I said that right.
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You said it exactly right and that is the exact plan as well. The whole thing would be closed off from the inside of the trunk and quarters. The only parts passing through would be the rods pushing up the spoiler and they would have a soft rubber collar around them to keep debris out.
 
It would be "trick" for sure. need to do some fine detail engineering first on paper, source the bits for the mechanism out of aluminum. I was thinking instead of rams to push up, have two half moon plates with teeth along one edge that an electric motor gear would drive so they rotated up through slots and pushed up the spoiler. Could drill holes through each so when it
is up they can be seen. That would keep it all from protruding into the trunk too far.
 
I would bet money that I could find a Chrysler Crossfire in the wrecking yard that has that mechanism intact. Easy squeezy..
 
452 heads arrived tonight. Well packaged and in good nick.
 
Glad to see you're back at it Ghost

I like the spoiler design too,
lots of details will need to be worked out
sounds like you're on it too
 
good start

going to do a lil' gasket matching ?
&/or any cleaning up of the ports
especially the pockets

good luck
 
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