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Some pictures of mockup of the front fenders.

Mockup pictures of the nosecone assembly on the car.

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I had a guy who was parting out a 4 door B body cut the upper part of the inner front fenders out for me. I decided to go with stock upper inner front fenders so I can bolt the fenders and the hood on the car like a stock Charger. I will have to fabricate inner fender lower sections to attach the inner fenders to the Loughlin chassis. I will make bolt on bead rolled steel panels so they can be removed to work on the car. I figured that I would need to cut the upper inner front fenders up to fit around the crash bars, but all that was needed to make them fit was a half round notch in the lower step area! I can't believe how well the stock Charger pieces are fitting! I am starting to think that I may know what the heck I am doing here!

I will have to fabricate inner fender sections to connect from the back edges of the factory inner fenders to the top of the cowl, firewall, and frame. The firewall is set back almost a foot from a stock B body. This allows the engine to sit lower and further back in the chassis for a better center of gravity.

Just minimal notching was required to make them fit! I will be able to bolt a stock Charger hood on it too! Part of what I am trying to accomplish with the project is to put as much Charger back into the stock car as I can, while still maintaining the cars purpose!

I have decided to call this project NASTONA. Take one NAScar chassis,add one NASTy Hemi,and one dayTONA Charger body and you get NASTONA.

I will be following your progress.

Looks like great progress so far.

Enjoy!

Red

I'm picking away at it. I dug out a pair of hood hinges yesterday for the car. I also have to check the inner front fenders for tire clearance. I may have to mini tub them,I am hoping there is enough room for the hinges to collapse if I have to tub them. I am also considering going with air ride instead of the coil springs. I may setup the car to use air ride on the street and be able to switch back to the coil springs for track use. The TTI headers should arrive sometime this week.

I like where this is going.

Very cool!

Cool stuff. Have you set any performance goals or a 'performance profile' for the build?

HP?
Gearing?

Just wondering if a shredding stoplight bruiser is the focus or perhaps hitting 200mph +

According to Edelbrock the top end kit for the Hemi made 705 horsepower on a 426 Hemi short block with a 750 Holley carb and headers. My engine being a 472 stroker Hemi, with the Fitech dual quad fuel injection system,I am hoping that it will dyno at somewhere between 750 and 800 horsepower at the flywheel. The dyno will tell the truth. As far as the rest of the driveline goes,I have been told that the Tremic TKO 5 speed may not hold up to my engines output, so I am thinking of going with the Tremic 6 speed transmission. With the double overdrive 200 plus MPH should be obtainable. The rear axle is a full floating 9 inch so any gear ratio is possible, and can be swapped in easily in about 15 minutes! The rear wheels don't have to come off the change out the rear axle chuck. What I hope to achieve with this build is to have an aero car that can be adapted to whatever type of racing or driving I want to do with it,be it autocross,circle track, top speed trials, or limited street and cruise duties.

I worked on the hood hinges last night. I was going to go with aftermarket billet hood hinges, but because of the crash bars they will not fit. So I modified a pair of factory hinges, and the will fit perfectly. I had to remove the hinge springs and the areas that the springs were attached to get the clearance needed so the hinges could collapse correctly next to the crash bars. I will have to use a prop rod to hold the hood up when it is open. I did the same thing on my 71 Challenger convertible, which has a fiberglass Challenger T/A hood on it. I used a piece of half inch electrical conduit, it slips right over the factory hood pin. I drilled a hole in the conduit so the hood pin clip fits through the conduit to secure it to the car. I had to put a bend in the conduit, then I put another hood pin in the top end of the conduit. I drilled through the conduit and the hood pin and secured it with a cotter pin. The hood pin can then be installed in the hood pin hole in the hood,and then secured with another hood pin clip. This setup works well on my Challenger.

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Well, there is good news and bad news. The bad news is that my $1200.00 headers are MIA. UPS is saying that they delivered them and left them by my side door, but I don't have a side door, so I don't know where they delivered them to, but it wasn't me. I am not going to say what vendor I bought them from, as they are trying to find out what happened to them! I hope to hear more from them soon! The good news is that the R/T door scoops that I bought from a fellow Moparts member came in today, and they are really nice as described by him. I was cleaning out my closet the other day and I found a brand new pair of emblems for them that I had bought years ago! Score!

Looks exciting!
Totally awesome project!!

I was able to locate my missing TTI headers on Craigslist! It seems that due to a one digit typo on the shipping address,they were delivered to the only rental property in my neighborhood! After a few phone calls where I exchanged pleasantries with them,they said that a guy that helped them move out last weekend took them! They were returned to me tonight!