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Re: The Direct Connection Test Car
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03/30/10 12:32 PM
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Zippy... where are they working on it at... cool project Is this a Chrysler sponsored project 
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Re: The Direct Connection Test Car
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03/30/10 12:48 PM
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Zippy... where are they working on it at... cool project
Is this a Chrysler sponsored project
We're working on it after hours, mostly at our own place in north Oakland County.
The car belongs to Chrysler, Chrysler provided the car and the wrap....but we have to come up with all the parts and provide labor/all the work on it. We have been very lucky finding parts sponsors who are interested in getting involved.
I wasn't at the event it was shown at, but heard it got alot of interest and positive feedback which was great to hear. We've got alot of time invested in this thing and will have alot more later.
I have a ton more pics.... if anyone's interested in seeing, let me know....have to resize them before posting.
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Re: The Direct Connection Test Car
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03/30/10 01:13 PM
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Direct Connection ? 
Parts= Mopar Performance
Service=Direct Connection
The parts are still Mopar Performance and that hasn't changed.
Direct Connection was reinstated in 2005, representing a major change in customer service/information.
Hope that clears it up somewhat. It's hard to describe Direct Connection in perfect detail because activities/tasks overlap greatly these days.
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Re: The Direct Connection Test Car
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Since we can't live in somebody else's time (they don't make Deloreans and flux capacitors anymore), we're making our own good ol' days.
The Ramchargers are a big inspiration. Without the "we were the Ramchargers" book, I'm not entirely sure this project would have happened.
Take a look at the car behind the group. That's the exhibition car Garlits drove, complete with the signatures on the hood, etc and was the starting point.
Though everyone's smiling, things got off to a rough start. The water was never drained out of the 392 from when Garlits raced it, it had sat for a long time, and by the time we got it the block was badly rusted inside and freeze cracked. So the first thing we had to do was rebuild the motor, and check everything else out for proper operation etc.
The car already had a tci 904, 9" converter and 4.56 Moser axle in it, everything seemed fine after the engine rebuild (392 G3, similar to a crate motor but with a drag pak intake, same thing it had before) we hoped it was all ready to rock.
That wasn't the case. In initial testing we had no end of fuel system problems.....the car had been previously built with anodized hard aluminum fuel line, and all the anodizing was flaking off on the inside, which then clogged the filter AND all 8 fuel injectors. Nice. I couldn't even make it to the 60 foot mark without it dying. The picture above is from that session in November....
Fixed that, and then later before the snow fell, eventually it ran fairly consistant 10.30s. I don't recall mph, 60 foot time was somewhere in the low 1.50s.
Then the real work began.
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Re: The Direct Connection Test Car
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03/30/10 02:56 PM
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Since we can't live in somebody else's time (they don't make Deloreans and flux capacitors anymore), we're making our own good ol' days.
The Ramchargers are a big inspiration, no doubt about it. Without the "we were the Ramchargers" book, I'm not entirely sure this project would have happened.
Yep, 30 years from now someone will post that picture and say remember when.
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Re: The Direct Connection Test Car
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