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That will be a head turner, License it. My wife and I love doing the local cruise nights and yours would be a one of a kind. None left around here they all rusted out.

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When I was on drag week one of the guys gave me another
Rampage a 84 and he's here in mich but he said the
floor was going on it which is the same on mine...
basically the whole floor inside the cab is junk
on mine... thats why this is a perfect candidate
for a tube chassis.... I'm gonna go this weekend
to check out that other one for parts... I talked
to him today and he is suppose to get back with me,
I could use a better hood and maybe a drivers door

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Should look like this when its all done right?

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Thats a 84... dual head lights... mine should be close
but I have alot of flame red paint so guess what
color it will be.... same as my car hauler
also I dont have the ground effects

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Tough to do in just one year...My brother and I went in 2006 with a 78 1/2 ton SWB Dodge. It had been pretty sorted out with a 400/727/8 3/4 combo. 2 weeks before Drag Week we bolted in a 915 headed, Dominator carbed, 493 and off we went...finished 3rd in the 12.00 class. I've been planning to take my Valiant ever since, and just haven't been able to make it.

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I dont think it'll be tough at all... I've built
more than one car in less than a year... I did my
P-body in 3 months but the engine and diff were done
already(from my previous chassis)

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Mike
I don't know the rules for this racing. But why couldn't you use the P Body you already have? You would be way ahead in the set up. What would you have to change to it to run it?

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That car is built just for drag racing... in drag week
you have to drive the roads for more than 1000 miles
and race at 4 tracks... so it has to be street legal
and I sure dont want to wire up the lights, turn
signals and all the rest ... plus I always wanted to
build up the Rampage

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This is my starting point for the '11 edition of drag week, just got it back from getting the floorplan all welded back up from the driveshaft explosion back last November...guess I move alot slower than you!!

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I do everything myself... by next week I should have
all the bad floor out and have all the tubing I'll need
and start on the chassis with in 2 weeks... got 90%
of the engine, I have a 9" that I need to cut down,
got the struts and rear shocks and wheel(might have
to get different rears)... the one thing I'm still
working on is trans... if I want to go with a over drive

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the one thing I'm still
working on is trans... if I want to go with a over drive

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This is my starting point for the '11 edition of drag week, just got it back from getting the floorplan all welded back up from the driveshaft explosion back last November...guess I move alot slower than you!!

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I do everything myself... by next week I should have
all the bad floor out and have all the tubing I'll need
and start on the chassis with in 2 weeks... got 90%
of the engine, I have a 9" that I need to cut down,
got the struts and rear shocks and wheel(might have
to get different rears)... the one thing I'm still
working on is trans... if I want to go with a over drive

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If I may recomend a trans....Check out SMR's 727 shorty over drive that uses a gear vendors set-up. I went with an A500 on mine, but I am sure it would not handle the kinda hp your going to throw at it. I like the 727OD because the JW bell will fit it, and a Lofgran blacket will fit it, as well as its a pretty standard piece. And the OD in that style isn't a parasitic loss like it is with an A500...So you get something that will handle a fair amount of hp and an OD to boot with minimal weight gain. With a full manual VB, it should rock.

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This is my starting point for the '11 edition of drag week, just got it back from getting the floorplan all welded back up from the driveshaft explosion back last November...guess I move alot slower than you!!

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I do everything myself... by next week I should have
all the bad floor out and have all the tubing I'll need
and start on the chassis with in 2 weeks... got 90%
of the engine, I have a 9" that I need to cut down,
got the struts and rear shocks and wheel(might have
to get different rears)... the one thing I'm still
working on is trans... if I want to go with a over drive

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If I'm not mistaken the only class you can run with a tube chassis is Unlimited

As long as you keep the forward frame rails it seems you can do pretty much anything else and run Modified

Rickster

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I think that is incorrect. Pretty sure a tube front with struts, will put you in unlimited. Some of the rules are touchy. They told Eddie not to come back with a lift off front end, or he would be placed in unlimited, even though his is obviously just a back half bracket car.

Even if they did put it in unlimited, so what, it's supposed to be about the weekly ordeal, not winning a class.

Monte

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