Re: My first A body.
[Re: Crizila]
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04/15/17 04:18 PM
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Picks or it didn't happen.lol
3520 pound race ready 1973 Street/Strip Dodge Dart - Stock stroke 440/727
10.49 @ 125.0 on 93 pump gas & ET Street Radials. More to come...
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Re: My first A body.
[Re: Crizila]
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04/15/17 06:58 PM
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Good to hear a new project is in the works. What flavor a-body?
"Just a Bracket car dressed up like a streetcar"
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Re: My first A body.
[Re: Crizila]
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04/17/17 03:58 PM
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Cab_Burge
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What brand and year is it?
Mr.Cab Racing and winning with Mopars since 1964. (Old F--t, Huh)
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Re: My first A body.
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04/18/17 01:02 AM
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You finally got a real car! And if I wreck the front I have tons of parts for it... At least tell us the year and model...
The funny thing about science is that if you change one miniscule parameter you change the entire outcome to the way you want it.
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A-Body's RULE!
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Re: My first A body.
[Re: Crizila]
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04/21/17 12:33 PM
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Looks pretty decent.. now its just time and money to get a real nice driver... there are times that I wish I would have built a stock style car that just looks nice.. but I seem to always go crazy and build something else
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Re: My first A body.
[Re: Crizila]
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04/21/17 04:11 PM
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Nice looking Duster John! Check the front end really well, probably has all the bushings rotted out. Check all the torsion bar mounting points too, A bodies rust/break in those areas a lot.
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Re: My first A body.
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04/21/17 05:26 PM
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Nice looking Duster John! Check the front end really well, probably has all the bushings rotted out. Check all the torsion bar mounting points too, A bodies rust/break in those areas a lot. Thanks Big D. Actually, torsion bar mounts look good. I will look more carefully for cracking in that area. Ball joints are good ( some one has done some work on it at some point in time ). Upper control arm bushing are fare ( will replace them anyway ). Both strut rods are bent and could use new bushings. Do I have to do something with the lower control arms in order to get the strut rods out so I can straighten them? Don't want to change the lower control arm bushings as they seem ok. Still haven't figured out why I can't get the camber in line on the left side ( negative 3 degrees and out of adjustment )? Something gotta be bent, just aint seeing it yet. Could be the frame mounting points? Under body of car ( floors, wheel houses, rear extensions, unibody frames, K frame / mounts, are all rust free. Might consider sub-frame connectors while I am down this far - could need them with that 300 HP nitrous shot to that 225.
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Re: My first A body.
[Re: Crizila]
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04/21/17 06:33 PM
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MR_P_BODY
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Nice looking Duster John! Check the front end really well, probably has all the bushings rotted out. Check all the torsion bar mounting points too, A bodies rust/break in those areas a lot. Thanks Big D. Actually, torsion bar mounts look good. I will look more carefully for cracking in that area. Ball joints are good ( some one has done some work on it at some point in time ). Upper control arm bushing are fare ( will replace them anyway ). Both strut rods are bent and could use new bushings. Do I have to do something with the lower control arms in order to get the strut rods out so I can straighten them? Don't want to change the lower control arm bushings as they seem ok. Still haven't figured out why I can't get the camber in line on the left side ( negative 3 degrees and out of adjustment )? Something gotta be bent, just aint seeing it yet. Could be the frame mounting points? Under body of car ( floors, wheel houses, rear extensions, unibody frames, K frame / mounts, are all rust free. Might consider sub-frame connectors while I am down this far - could need them with that 300 HP nitrous shot to that 225. 99% of the time when its that far out something is BENT in the front end.. look at the frame rail on that side.. doesnt take much.. to be that much out I would say that car was hit in that corner EDIT Years ago I use to do frame straightening on cars of that era and normally it was bent.. if you cant get the front end to get into spec
Last edited by MR_P_BODY; 04/21/17 06:38 PM.
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