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Re: The Direct Connection Test Car
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03/30/10 03:34 PM
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Anyone remember what the DC test-car(mule-car) way back when was ?
Xtra points if someone has a pic of it !!
I keep thinking Bauman's Whale, but I think they had a number of test cars all over the place so to say.
Stewart, did you get that list from The Koffel's? I remember Susie showing me one of those that she had kept with her in a binder.
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Re: The Direct Connection Test Car
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03/30/10 03:50 PM
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Anyone remember what the DC test-car(mule-car) way back when was ?
Xtra points if someone has a pic of it !!
Fred thanks for that picture. I loved the old round tower at Tulsa. Brings back a lot of good memories. Jim
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Re: The Direct Connection Test Car
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03/30/10 03:53 PM
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White 1970 Duster was one.
Leave the gun.......take the Cannoli's....Mike
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Re: The Direct Connection Test Car
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03/30/10 04:01 PM
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Anyone remember what the DC test-car (mule-car) way back when was? Xtra points if someone has a pic of it!!
I'm assuming you're talking about the first race car that they used with Direct Connection logo's on it. If so then I think it was a white Duster or Dart w/stripes, or maybe it was a red Duster or Dart that they used on the mid-70's DC catalog cover, anyways there were several other race cars used in DC magazine ad's over the years.
It would be cool if someone used the old Paul Rossi colors on their new Challenger drag-pak race car though!
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Re: The Direct Connection Test Car
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03/30/10 04:59 PM
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That "eh, it's just a stock block, might as well use it" piece turned out to be numero uno: 2008 Drag Pak 001, the very first drag pak engine block that was supposed to be used in the car, but apparently was not! It's kind of cool that the first one that was cracked/junk was not the original engine the car was first built with. Maybe someone thought this one was no good or something? I dunno. It ran fine for us. Nobody seems to know why that block was just left laying around, it'll have to remain a Mopar Mystery....but I'm glad we got to use it for awhile. It's tucked away for safe keeping now. And this time without any water in it 
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Re: The Direct Connection Test Car
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03/30/10 05:08 PM
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Anyone remember what the DC test-car(mule-car) way back when was ?
Xtra points if someone has a pic of it !!
I keep thinking Bauman's Whale, but I think they had a number of test cars all over the place so to say.
Stewart, did you get that list from The Koffel's? I remember Susie showing me one of those that she had kept with her in a binder.
NONE of the pics have loaded ...so I don't know what has been posted ....
But HERE ... sixpackdodge .... The WHALE ...   ..another name of THE CAR !
Stewart ... there COULD have been a 68 car but I was in the service then. I went out to Milan in the middle/late 70's when they were testing "regular" stuff like we use here ... converters, intakes, tires etc ETC .....
THOSE guys working on that car were FLOGGERS .... made most of us here LOOK LIKE pure 1st graders !
... like during a torque-converter test .. they would run the car at say 2:00pm ..... then change the converter ... guess when the car was ready to test(at the starting line) again ?
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Re: The Direct Connection Test Car
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03/30/10 05:24 PM
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Turbonetics suggested one big, trash can lid-sized turbo rather than two small turbos....along with their intercooler which was the size of a small dog house. They're the gurus, so we got what they recommended.
After many brainstorming sessions it appeared it would all work....large amounts of steel and aluminum tubing were graciously donated by sponsors....several mockups ensued, alot of time was spent on this thing, and our resident fabricating genius went after it hard.
Some of the inspiration for the layout was, oddly enough, from a 2002-2005 5.7 Dodge Ram truck. They use a small offset AC condensor......we thought, shrink the radiator down, move it to the side like the Ram AC condenser, and mount the turbo up front. It's a drag car, it doesn't need a huge radiator anyway (hopefully).
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Re: The Direct Connection Test Car
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03/30/10 05:28 PM
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You'll notice here we got away from the Drag Pak intake. Though an awesome piece, we couldn't figure out a way to plumb it and keep it all underhood with the DP manifold. The only other intake we had was a used, bone stock 6.1 Hemi intake....nothing particularly exiting there, but the way it worked out, the plumbing came out super clean with the intake mounted backwards (throttle body facing the firewall). When I saw what our on-staff fabricating guru had come up with, I was glad I kept my mouth shut about the other intake I was thinking of (I was briefly considering trying the 5.7 crate intake, maybe after a few hours of grinding to match the 6.1 heads). More coming
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Re: The Direct Connection Test Car
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03/30/10 06:26 PM
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You lucky dog! lol Lookin' good! Have you weighed it? Looks like something Kurt Busch would want to check out first chance he gets!  So that's the Garlits Mile High Nats exhibition car in a new wrap. Did anyone ever do anything with the Judy Lilly exhibition car? I guess that's the one they had at the PRI show?
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03/30/10 07:46 PM
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You could almost chuck the headlights and do the turbos there.
