Re: Thinking of building a track car, looking for ideas.
[Re: migsBIG]
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12/16/18 03:47 PM
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Yes, the fire was one of several fires that swept through napa county last year. in a yard of about 2100 cars, all but 200 burned from grass fire. So far, 1300 cars were crushed because the city mandated they do mandatory cleanup. they crushed soo many car bodies and trucks from the 1920-1980's. Several hundred cars that were stored there was a fellow moparts member and he lost a 20+ years collection of cars. I was asked with helping him with the cars and was given first shot at some of them. Most have burned interiors, but the bodies mostly did not get structure damage and work case was warped roof. These were the better cars he kept, so that's what I have to work with.
To answer a previous post, the a-bodies were no enough for parts cars and are not a good choice besides not having enough parts. Most of those got VERY hot and got super damaged. The one a-body you saw in the pic, this was it's interior. That is not spider webs on the steering column, but th windshield that melted onto it and liquified.
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Re: Thinking of building a track car, looking for ideas.
[Re: TC@HP2]
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12/16/18 03:52 PM
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Shorter wheelbase E body-better for mid speed turning, gymkana style driving. Longer wheelbase B body-better for sustained high speed stability, top end driving. Shorter and narrow A body-better for tight, twisty, autocross style driving.
71 B bodies-good for full contact racing with the entire nose as a bumper and a higher than average rear bumper height.
68-70 Chargers-high speed aero issues with recessed grill and buttressed backlight. A plus for them-its iconic and universally recognized. Thank you for the list, much appreciated. I think the Charger would be good as I was thinking aero nose or Coronet grill insert like a 500 with rear window plug (also heard the hatchback of a vega wagon makes a cheap rear window plug). The curious yellow Roadrunner is my 1st choice and the Plumcrazy 70' HP Charger is my second choice. To be honest, I'm not fond of those colors so if I got either one, probably end up painting the car snow white.
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Re: Thinking of building a track car, looking for ideas.
[Re: migsBIG]
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12/24/18 10:56 PM
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suspension parts list is slowly growing while I clean out the back shed. Here is a starter list of what I have.
Magnum Force dropped spindles 1972 K-member that can be reinforced. 1.00 torsion bars unused set kyb shocks 1972 Charger disc brakes 1974 A-body disc brakes Stock and Magnum Force tubular upper control arm Hotchkis torsion bars FFI stage 2 box Sell all of that stuff and go buy a used Vette or Viper. Or even something like a MR2. You'll be able to start going to track days right away and it will cost you less time and money in the long run. Been there, done that......
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Re: Thinking of building a track car, looking for ideas.
[Re: AndyF]
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12/25/18 10:27 AM
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suspension parts list is slowly growing while I clean out the back shed. Here is a starter list of what I have.
Magnum Force dropped spindles 1972 K-member that can be reinforced. 1.00 torsion bars unused set kyb shocks 1972 Charger disc brakes 1974 A-body disc brakes Stock and Magnum Force tubular upper control arm Hotchkis torsion bars FFI stage 2 box Sell all of that stuff and go buy a used Vette or Viper. Or even something like a MR2. You'll be able to start going to track days right away and it will cost you less time and money in the long run. Been there, done that......
" All sorts of things can happen when you are open to new Ideas" Inventor of Kevlar
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Re: Thinking of building a track car, looking for ideas.
[Re: jcc]
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12/31/18 10:06 PM
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This is my favorite old school Road race mopar, back before we had a "handling forum": https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/ubbt...tml#Post1106456
" All sorts of things can happen when you are open to new Ideas" Inventor of Kevlar
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