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Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340
Posted By: mopars_1
Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:01 AM
Hello all! Finally had some time to get my project posted up on moparts for all to see. I admit, I started the car a little over a year ago so I do have some stuff done already so bare with me..
First off: My name is Kevin Link. I am currently 20 years old, I work with my dad on our family dairy farm and work a second job as a tractor mechanic at our local McCormick tractor dealership. I became a mopar fanatic when my dad bought his T/A challenger when I was 8. My dad and I restored our first car together (70 real triple black charger r/t) when I was 11, and we've since done 6 restorations. I have a wonderful girlfriend that I should point out whos been with me through thick and thin
The car: The car is a 1971 Roadrunner 340 automatic car. originaly GW3 bright white with a gold bench interior. came with rr decore group, a/c, hood pins, 150 speedo, single chrome mirror and 14" rally wheels. car came from wyoming so is relativly rust free! Unfortunatly, as I kind of peiced together, the original motor got froze up so that is long gone..
Plans for the car: I dont plan to stray too far from the fender tag. I plan to keep it simple with the only aditions I plan to make externally is duel painted mirrors, front and rear spoilers and exhaust tips. As for the interior, I am going with buckets with a buddy seat, 15" rallys, factory tach and 6 way seat. I figure that all of this should be relativly easy to turn back if I ever wanted to. One more thing I should point out is that I also plan on building a FAST legal 340 for it
but that wont be comming into the picture for a wee bit.
I dont really have a time line to get the car done, but as impatient as I am, Im hopeing it will be done in the spring sometime. I will do my best to keep current pictures up, so please sit back and enjoy. also, please dont be afraid to critique! Thanks
-kevin
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:02 AM
rear
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:03 AM
engine bay.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:04 AM
interior
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:05 AM
starting to strip it down..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:06 AM
also should ad it was pretty much original paint
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:10 AM
interior all gone!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:11 AM
dash out
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:13 AM
although for the most part it wasn't rusty, the window was left down while it sat and the carpet got soaked resulting into some rusty floor pans
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:14 AM
more
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:17 AM
I will never use anything else but AMD
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:17 AM
welding..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:18 AM
found some rust in the windshield channel..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:20 AM
continued stripping the paint and was really suprised with how clean the body was!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:22 AM
in the mean time, Im buying some parts. When I got the car, it had a pair of 390 date coded rallys in the front and 15x8 in the rear. I was lucky enough and found another pair of 1971 dated 390 rallys from a fellow moparts member!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:23 AM
peiced together a correct dated intake/ carb and a 340 air cleaner. NONE of which were cheap!!!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:25 AM
found an ember gold buddy seat
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:27 AM
now is the fun stuff. found a set of slightly used polyglas G-60's on craigslist. I refinished the wheels and got the tires mounted.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:29 AM
spare tire. I know it isn't the correct 450 wheel but I didn't see the point in spending big bucks for a spare haha. tire is a 1972 dated polyglas I scored on craigslist also for $50 shipped!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:31 AM
had my rally dash restored by auto instruments. If anyones read some of my previous posts, I didn't have very good luck with them. Needless to say, I need to send out my roadrunner emblem again. I wont go into details of the story, but the end results aren't too bad.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:33 AM
rim blow steering wheel courtesy of David Tays (plumbeeper)
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:35 AM
had my bumpers sent out to AMS. Had pretty good dealings with them
assembled the front as much as I could and also put together the rear, but forgot to take pictures before I wrapped it all back up for the mean time
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:37 AM
now for some of my homework
I redid my heater box using a rebuild kit Detroit Muscle (worked fantastic) I also got a new evaporator and heater core
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:38 AM
seat tracks.. I wasn't planning on a 6 way seat, but it just was a spare of the moment buy! still need to get the braces and knobs though
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:39 AM
brake pedal assembly
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:40 AM
E brake and accelerator pedal assemblies
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 05:46 AM
Also through this, Im trien to give credit where credit is due. Ill try and keep a running tally of money spent as Ive kept all of my reciepts. So far, including purchas price, I have roughly $17,000 into the car (many parts purchased from Mega parts, ECS, Legendary)
There are a ton more of pictures but thus far, its taken me all night, but you can get an idea of where Im heading with this. Im trien to be as correct as I possibly can on a budged (sounds insane in retrospect) As of now, the car is sitting waiting for paint. My goal is to get everything ready to bolt on when the car comes back (last I was told, should be March) I also want to point out that even though dad helped on restorations in the past, Im doing %100 of the work myself unless specified (IE paint and upolstry) Let me know what you think. thanks!
-kevin
Posted By: moopa
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 06:02 AM
Excellent work so far Kevin! Thanks for sharing, the '71 Road runner/GTX/Satellite is my favorite.('72's are a close 2nd).
I'll soon be restarting my '72 Satellite project.
Please keep bombarding us with photos!
Mark
Posted By: bigsexy440
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 07:37 PM
So glad you are keeping the Gold guts...
Posted By: Dave Watt
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 08:41 PM
Great project Kevin. You seem to be doing a great job of finding the right parts and pieces. You'll have a blast driving the wheels off of it.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 10:31 PM
I also have to realise that the car isn't going to be extreamly competative in the FAST class, but I always loved the thought of looking perfectly stock and blowing the doors off unsuspecting cars
Posted By: generallee6901
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/10 11:47 PM
Looks like you are doing a great job.Can't wait to see more.
Posted By: scatpacktom
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/16/10 12:17 AM
I'll be watching with great interest
Posted By: FuryUs
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/16/10 03:35 AM
Looking good!
Posted By: sogtx
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/17/10 08:34 PM
Awesome car ...
You will have a lot of fun with the f.a.s.t. class ..
I am no expert yet , but I am plagued by a lot of weight on my car a 71 GTX fast car ..
Take advantage of litening up the car now , the heater box is Mint , but it adds weight.
I see the six way seat . etc. Id be thinking about ANY way to liten up the front of the car ..
If you want to Run real fast..
, if you just want to run respectable times and have fun , leave it "as IS"- But IF you get the "bug" youll eventually be pulling all that pretty stuff out . It Is a HEVVY car
Im assuming youll stroke the pee out of the 340
and beat up some big blocks with it.
Did that car come from NC , looks like I looked at that one before .
Good Luck , look forward to seeing your progress on it .
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/18/10 12:15 AM
yes, I have a 416 in the works. my tenative plan is to use a rebuilt 340 I have sitting in the shop now and enjoy the car for next summer and next winter after building my funds back, pull the motor and build my FAST legal motor. I only plan on running respectable times probably not be too competative as I know that a 71 b-body with a small block (and a/c to boot) isn't going to kick too much butt. idealy if I could run it in the 12's Id be very satisfied. This car supposibly came from wyoming and I bought the car from a moparts member in minnesota (it was listed on this site for a little while too)
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/21/10 03:24 AM
few more picstures.. here is my jack assemby cleaned up and painted the correct colors. I guess there were some jacks that had grey bases and lifts and some were black, mine were with out a doubt black. I sill need to put the caution stiker on the base, but it didn't turn out too shabby.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/21/10 03:27 AM
beep beep horn cleaned up and painted. tested out really good! the camera im useing doesn't take that great of pictures so bare with me. they look better in person haha
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/21/10 03:32 AM
head light assemblys. when I bought the car, John (the previous owner) did an awsome job of rounding up MANY extra parts! I have several sets of these and they all cleaned up to be a somewhat glossy black. I even had a set of beautiful galvinized head light buckets! I assume the paint blobs are for positioning? I was going to do some reaserch and try to mimic this, anyone have any info? I polished up the rings too. I also have a pair of the plastic 'black outs' all cleaned up too but forgot to get a picture.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/21/10 03:36 AM
since my older brother moved out a long time ago, Ive used his room as my personal storage space. Ive been keeping my soft trim and very breakable/ expensive things in there. heres a picture of my legendary stuff in the correct colors (ember gold+ medium gold)
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/21/10 03:39 AM
also had my interior trim and dash frame painted. I used the correct suade texture paint from instrument specialties and it looks friggn sweet!
got my glove box door on and alighned and the latch assembly back on.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/21/10 03:42 AM
another view. I got a really close match for the black on the vin and painted that. I tried to put one of ECS's dry transfers on but I botched it haha, so I have to get another one..
also, since my dash pad was toast, I have a recoverd dash pad comming from Superior dash pads out of payne OH. I heard some really good reveiws about them from some pretty reputable shops and figured Id give them a try. they were pretty reasonably priced compared to just dashes or u/r
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/21/10 03:44 AM
my steering column peices painted and somewhat assembled. I have another one to help me remember how it gos back together! I have the rim blow adapter peice sitting with my steering wheel at the moment.. and that's all the updates I have for now
Posted By: 451 D*O*D*G*E
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/21/10 04:48 AM
Very nice thread i will follow all the way,thanks for sharing..quality work too!
Posted By: Butterscotch71
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/24/10 04:58 AM
Nice project! I've always liked white on a 71 runner.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/24/10 06:52 AM
thank you for all of the positive comments! It isn't going to be on the scale of the Barrelcuda or Dave's valiant, but I want it to be as accurate as possible so please critique!! haha. The body got the engine bay and jams all media blasted last week and returned to the body shop this week. next we're re-hanging the sheet metal for alighnment and go to town on getting it into paint. soon after deer hunting is done, im going to tackle the rest of my steering column and start pecking away at my dash.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 12/09/10 10:29 PM
I got some more picture updates on the way, just need to get them resized. I ended up getting a different drivers side fender for the car. at some point in the roadrunners life, it had a little fender bender and when they fixed it, they took a 72 fender and brazed on a 71 side marker light. I was able to get another 71 fender, but it wasn't anything to brag about and needed a lot of work. as luck would have it, I tracked down yet another drivers fender that was VERY nice for $300. Ill get some pictures up in the next day or 2.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 12/12/10 06:26 AM
got some more pics. first up in the rear bumper I unwraped and snapped a few pic of. I still need the tail light lenses who Ill get from Mike Ross. the galvinizing on the lisence plate frame was very nice also. I just took apart the spring hinge and cleand up some of the bare metal hardware.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 12/12/10 06:30 AM
refinished the park lamps/ turn signals. I know that there is some stipulation weather some had orange or clear lenses, but mine had orange that I beleive are original, so I got some new lenses in orange..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 12/12/10 06:33 AM
I am pretty happy with how the filler neck turned out. mine was pretty rusty so I cleaned it up good and used 40/ 60 tin/ lead soldering and covered the whole thing. it looks pretty stinkin close to my 40,000 original mile duster (maybe a little shineier) and it is plenty soft enough to put your finger nail into it like original. I figured this would be a better alternative to painting it
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 12/12/10 06:37 AM
I threw together my dash frame for looks. I still have to get my dash pad and an ash tray re-dyed to match. I also redid the wood grain on the a/c strip to match a very nice original one I had. auto instruments just painted it brown... I also sent out my roadrunner dash emblem, and heater control to instrument specialties to get redone.
for some reason, my camera is giving everything a wierd red flash. it seriously looks a lot better in person...
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 12/12/10 06:41 AM
I had Jules restore my wiper motor. still need to send out my blower motor and latches to get redone, but I need some money haha
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 12/12/10 06:43 AM
Bill Edwards restored a few seat belts that were fadded. now I have a really nice set
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 12/12/10 06:44 AM
got all my date coded hoses and belts from mega parts
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 12/12/10 06:47 AM
last one for now.. I got my exhaust tips from Mike too (curtesy of my mom for my birthday) I asked for the stainless steel ones as it seems chrome never lasts..
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 12/12/10 03:13 PM
Keep up the nice work.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 12/30/10 05:48 PM
I have a couple more updates. After the car had sat idle at the body shop for an overy extended amount of time (could be much worse), its finally getting worked on. all of the sheet metal was re-hung and gapped. dents are now getting fixed too. still shooting for a march deadline for paint! starting to put my steering column back together. Ill post pics when Im done.
Posted By: johnrtse
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/11/11 03:01 AM
My old 'Bird is looking AWESOME, Kevin! I'm very glad that it went to someone who had the skill and the motivation to put her back to her former glory!!!
Thanks for all the pics- I'll be following this thread closely!
John
Posted By: 71rm23
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/11/11 04:08 AM
Quote:
refinished the park lamps/ turn signals. I know that there is some stipulation weather some had orange or clear lenses, but mine had orange that I beleive are original, so I got some new lenses in orange..
Yea, depends on the SPD of when your car was built. Dont recall if you stated it in a previous post. Dont have when they changed them right off hand right now. Anyway, great looking car. Keep up the good work.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/12/11 06:09 AM
my car was built in mid march sometime. seems like march was the period where everything was changing over... Ill have more pics by the end of the week. thanks john for the positive remarks
also should add that I know the 6 way seat was discontinued in december, but I thought it would be an awsome addition either way
Posted By: Edison62
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/12/11 02:04 PM
Kevin, your RR looks great... are you staying with the original outside color on the car? I had a 71 RR and really regretted selling it almost the minute it was gone.
Again... great job...
Bryan
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/12/11 07:57 PM
yes, I plan on keeping the original color combo. The only things Im changing are simple things that a person could change back in a weekend. thanks for the comments
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 03/28/11 09:31 PM
I have some more updates, just need to get pictures uploaded. I have the steering column all finished up and the seats recovered. its been a little slow lately and the body isn't any closer to getting painted than it was 2 months ago
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/19/11 05:46 AM
more pictures as promised, just a little late.. here are the seats. they turned out ok. I know the vinal shrinks a little after being in the sun, but these almost look too wrikley. Ill just have to give it time and see.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/19/11 05:46 AM
back seat
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/19/11 05:47 AM
door panels
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/19/11 05:49 AM
steering column. Im really happy with how this turned out. I went through everything on it. all I need now is my center cap for the steering wheel who Ill be getting fro BE+A
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/19/11 05:50 AM
another
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/19/11 05:53 AM
I was able to assemble an almost complete set for my owners manual package. The only thing thats a reproduction is the warranty card curtesy of ECS. and the only thing Im missing is the stopping, accelerating and passing record sheet. everything else in this is MINT!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/19/11 05:57 AM
as of now, the body hasn't been touched since december and even prior to that, not much has been done. not to mention hes already over estimtion by $3,500. I am seriously considering taking it to another place.. and thats all I have for now.
Posted By: ryangtogtx
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/20/11 12:24 AM
Looking good Kevin. Who are you using for your paint/body? I agree with you about the seats. If you had an upholstery shop do them for you, I would take them back and have them tighten them up. Otherwise, if you need a name of someone, let me know. They look pretty "sacky" and they will only get more loose once you start sitting in them.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/20/11 04:28 AM
Quote:
Looking good Kevin. Who are you using for your paint/body? I agree with you about the seats. If you had an upholstery shop do them for you, I would take them back and have them tighten them up. Otherwise, if you need a name of someone, let me know. They look pretty "sacky" and they will only get more loose once you start sitting in them.
I am having a guy by the name of mitch lafferty paint it (use to work at the resto shot El cars in cameron) I did have a sit down with him and expressed my disscouragment and he told me it will be ready for paint by the end of the week 
I did also have the seats done in an upolstery shop in Eau claire. If anything, Ill see how they work out this summer and take them back in the winter if they havn't gotten any better.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 09/14/11 02:18 AM
I have a lot more progess made! but between haveing my home computer struck by lightning, moving, having a baby and working more hours, I neglected to update this post currently, the car is painted, front suspension is tore out ready to rebuild, and headliner is also in.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 09/14/11 02:19 AM
another..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 09/14/11 02:21 AM
engine bay..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 09/14/11 02:23 AM
VERY straight
very minimal body work done and 99% bondo free (not even a skim coat!)
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 09/14/11 02:25 AM
headliner was done while at the body shop. back glass was also put in
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 09/14/11 02:27 AM
ralley wheels done! found a set of BEAUTIFUL set of real original 15x7 brushed trim rings!!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 09/14/11 02:30 AM
got a cool set of floor mats
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 09/14/11 02:32 AM
cleaned up some of the original panels and some were too chaulky to save so I re-dyed a couple
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 09/14/11 02:34 AM
heres my dash pretty much all done with the exception of the ash tray. turned out really good! this is all of the updates for now..
Posted By: ScottSmith_Harms
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 09/14/11 03:45 AM
Good looking project! Looks you've made some major progress
Posted By: 71rm23
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 09/14/11 11:43 PM
Quote:
got a cool set of floor mats
Nice..where did you get those?
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 09/15/11 12:50 AM
I just got them through legendary. they have all sorts of colors to chose from. I figured Id get some rubber mats instead of the carpeted logo mats as it seems they are a son of a gun to keep clean
Posted By: rrbrucea
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 09/15/11 07:16 PM
Quote:
Nice project! I've always liked white on a 71 runner.
Don't listen to Eric, he NEVER admits this in front of me!
White looks great on these cars--I love mine! Nice project and what you've done looks fantastic.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 10/02/11 03:46 AM
got the car on the rotisery last week.
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Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 10/02/11 03:57 AM
starting to put together the underside to where the factory would have undercoated the car (fuel system, shocks, brake lines ect) Im borrowing a technique from Mike Ross at BE+A. 2 coats of 3M body schutz with a coat of transtar over that. hopefully it will match the original stuff pretty good.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 10/02/11 04:00 AM
front suspension off. I ordered a bunch of stuff from Bill Rolik to rebuild the front and rear suspension. (Spicer brand for the front) I also plan on having steer and gear redo my steering box. hopefull this next week Ill have all of this stuff off to get sand blasted and ready to paint/ rebuild.
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Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 10/02/11 04:09 AM
my rear axle assembly.. I carefully presure washed it to reveal some factory inspection stamps/ marks. got some pretty good ones to show up. I will try and replicate them best I can..
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Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 10/02/11 04:12 AM
some more.. you can tell it was a 741 3:23 non sure grip, but Ill be putting in a 489 3:55 sure grip and mark it accordingly..
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Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 10/02/11 04:14 AM
another.. I think it the first digit is a 'G'? anyone else want to guess?
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Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 10/02/11 04:17 AM
anyone want to guess what this says too? I think the last 2 digits are '71' but I have no idea... that it for updates. hopefully this next week will yeild some more!
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Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 10/02/11 04:19 AM
Quote:
Quote:
Nice project! I've always liked white on a 71 runner.
Don't listen to Eric, he NEVER admits this in front of me!
White looks great on these cars--I love mine! Nice project and what you've done looks fantastic.
sweet runner! definatly want to see more pictures of that!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 10/02/11 04:28 AM
also forgot to mention! I've been dealing with Jeff Patterson (rapid340) on building me a FAST legal 340/ 426 that could push me into the 11's! should be pretty exciting needless to say! figured it'd be a better idea to have somebody with as much experiance as he does build it rather than me haha
Posted By: sogtx
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 10/07/11 02:34 AM
11's in a 4000 lb 340 car ? Dont go hi compression if you dont have to.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 10/07/11 04:06 AM
Quote:
11's in a 4000 lb 340 car ? Dont go hi compression if you dont have to.
doesnt hurt to be optamistic 
I would be very happy at 12's even, but Im not sure what compression Ill be running yet
Posted By: sogtx
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 10/07/11 04:12 PM
I would keep it pump gas by all means, is all I mean .. Unless you want to have a car like mine that you cant drive to a cruise night .. I think that you will see that a lot of the FAST cars may be starting to be more competitive with hovering around 12-11:50 ,
and then the guys with multiple cars can do what they want ..
I blew up my driver car at the end of summer and now Im bummin. Im looking at a 4200 # boat anchor that I insure
and shouldnt really drive more than 5 miles AND spend time looking for race fuel .
BE creative and lighten the car to go faster ..
But its still nice to drive a sweet showcar around - and tell everyone it runs 11.90 ..
Youll have fun either way , good luck keep us posted
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 10/07/11 04:17 PM
Quote:
I would keep it pump gas by all means, is all I mean .. Unless you want to have a car like mine that you cant drive to a cruise night .. I think that you will see that a lot of the FAST cars may be starting to be more competitive with hovering around 12-11:50 ,
and then the guys with multiple cars can do what they want ..
I blew up my driver car at the end of summer and now Im bummin. Im looking at a 4200 # boat anchor that I insure
and shouldnt really drive more than 5 miles AND spend time looking for race fuel .
BE creative and lighten the car to go faster ..
But its still nice to drive a sweet showcar around - and tell everyone it runs 11.90 ..
Youll have fun either way , good luck keep us posted
thanks for the heads up. I wouldn't mind so much having to run a little more than pump gas. I still have a lot of things to work out with Jeff though. thanks again insight is always appreciated
Posted By: wasacuda
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 10/16/11 03:44 AM
Sweet ride keep up the good work!
Posted By: ryangtogtx
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/08/11 04:07 AM
Hey Kevin. I haven't been on here for quite awhile. Looks like things are on track for next spring. the marking on the rear end is a G for 1971 and the numbers next to it would be the code on the broadcast sheet for the rear.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/09/11 10:09 PM
hey Ryan, good the hear from you! I plan to have it to mopars in the park this next year. I guess it does makes sence about the G. I have a couple small updates, but nothing too fancy. Ill have to get the camera out and post some pics. I also picked up another car in the mean time
71 340 duster survivor! Ill be posting pics in another thread.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/11 04:45 AM
got a few more parts painted. heres the original trunk lid soon to get a gull wing
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/11 04:47 AM
AMD duel exhaust rear valance.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/11 04:51 AM
front suspension ready for rebuild/ paint. should be getting my new ball joints in the next day or so along with my newly rebuilt power steering box from firm feel. I went with the stage 3 firmness
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/11 04:54 AM
rear end ready for rebuild. I started on rebuilding my 489 case with a new set of 3.55's but I got into it and found of my sure grip unit is toast. now im on the hunt for a clutch style unit to throw in it.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/15/11 04:57 AM
also started detailing the underside starting with the wheel wells. Ill have more pictures of the underside to come, but this is all I have for now
Posted By: XXHEMI
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/23/11 03:21 AM
Kevin,
Great job! Looking foward to seeing your Hot Rod at a FAST event.
My two son run in FAST. They run pretty good?
Ed
Posted By: 68427vette
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/24/11 03:35 PM
great job,, i love the fact you kept it white/ gold,,
the other poster, post more pics of the finished white one!!
Posted By: rrbrucea
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 12/06/11 02:33 PM
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 12/06/11 10:04 PM
Quote:
Okay, since you asked for it, here it is... but mine isn't as nice as what you're doing, it's just a nice driver.
Bruce
Hope it's just a LITTLE inspiration for you, keep up the great work!
that looks awesome!! I really love the all white with no strobe (considered putting one on at first) Im also inspired after seeing your car a while ago to run a second set of wheels with radials and torq thrust. thank you for posting them
Posted By: rrbrucea
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 12/06/11 10:24 PM
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 12/07/11 04:03 AM
Quote:
Thanks, and you're welcome! The car never had any stripes, just the pinned Road Runner emblems and decals on the quarters. Now for some REAL inspiration, here's what the car looked like in 1988. 
that looks awfully familiar I have more pictures to post soon also.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 03/25/12 05:48 AM
oofta, ive been neglecting to post updates. Ill have to take more pics this weekend. I've got the rear pretty much all together, ready to bolt under the car and starting to put the firewall together. also, my front suspension is half rebuilt. the bottom side is pretty much done and in a little over a month or so Ill be going to pick up my motor
as of lately, Ive been painting tractors on my weekends to to raise money. painted an IH 1026, 1066, 806, 1466 and a case 400 all within 5 weeks haha so time to work on the car is slowed down. still shooting to have it done for mopars in the park in farmington MN. although its probably hopelessly optamistic. doesn't hurt though right?
Posted By: fc7freak
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 03/25/12 01:06 PM
Man have you got alot of energy. Your roadrunner is going to be awesome. I hope your Dad is recovering well from his accident. I farm myself and I know how quick an accident can happen. Good Luck!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 03/25/12 02:41 PM
good to be young
dads doing ok I guess. he had 1 surgery in november and and replaced a bunch of eye stuff. now hes schedualed to have another one on june 11. should be done after that. not much for pain, mostly just cant see out of it.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/05/12 03:40 AM
here are some pics. I got the rear axle just about done. Im getting the correct stamps made up as we speak. and also I have to get my brakes finished up..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/05/12 03:43 AM
I also used a parkarizing kit to do the black phosphate coating on the backing plates. also being my car originally had 3.23 peg leg, I had to improvise on the markings as I went to a 3.55 sure grip.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/05/12 03:44 AM
again..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/05/12 03:46 AM
leaf springs.. I still havn't done up the one bolt.. I duplicated the daubs on the ends. I also used bill rolik's leaf spring rebuild. top notch quality. I also used a cold gun blueing kit to replicate the heat treat on the springs that I learned how to do off this site.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/05/12 03:53 AM
started putting together the firewall also. waiting to do the heater box and dash until I get my date coded windshield I ordered from ECS to seal the car up. Id sure hate to get mice in there and make a mess of my new harnesses.. anyone know where the 2 pieces on the floor go?
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/05/12 03:57 AM
got the back side of the dash all put together also with my new M&H harness courtesy of mega parts. again, if anyone wants the parts supply of year one with better prices and personable service of Jamie and Roy, I highly recommend buying from them. they always ask how my roadrunner is coming along. can't say enough about them.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/05/12 04:01 AM
also for my dash, I used Jackson speaker service to restore my original speaker. turned out awesome and the price can't be beat. the radio is near perfect I won off of ebay for $10. the variable wiper switch is an NOS one I got off of ebay along with an NOS light switch. never had a lot of luck with useing old switches. everything else is original, cleaned up. very happy with how it turned out.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/05/12 04:09 AM
also forgot to mention, I got my 4973 carb sent out to Scott Smith for a resto. sent out a bunch of stuff to Jules the wiperman also. a few weeks to go before I go to pick up my motor from Jeff Patterson. I want to get the rear end under the car by the weekend. progress is moving slowly but surely.
Posted By: sogtx
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/06/12 03:49 AM
Man, great job, when youre done with that one are you for
Hire ? My project is stalled due to too many distractions.
But soon enough ....
Awesome progress ...
What did you end up doin to the engine ?
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/06/12 04:00 AM
Quote:
Man, great job, when youre done with that one are you for
Hire ? My project is stalled due to too many distractions.
But soon enough ....
Awesome progress ...
What did you end up doin to the engine ?
ya, I would love to hire out. hit me up if your interested. for my motor, I hired Jeff Patterson to build be a fast legal 426 small block. he sort of wants me to keep some of the stuff between him and I, so Ill respect that. should be a pretty sweet set up though.
Posted By: sogtx
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/09/12 05:24 PM
Wish you were closer to Rochester or me closer to WI
Its just the details now, its downhill from here.
Keep us posted with further pics!!
Any chance for a FASt race this year ?
Posted By: CuriousYella70
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/09/12 06:07 PM
Quote:
got the back side of the dash all put together also with my new M&H harness courtesy of mega parts. again, if anyone wants the parts supply of year one with better prices and personable service of Jamie and Roy, I highly recommend buying from them. they always ask how my roadrunner is coming along. can't say enough about them.
Do you have contact info for M&H Harness? I'm needing a new harness for my 70 340 Duster rallye dash and seriously do not want to pay $550.00 for one from Year One. Also - was yours complete or did you have to splice in new wires for switches, etc. like Year One says you have to with theirs?
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/09/12 06:20 PM
Quote:
Wish you were closer to Rochester or me closer to WI
Its just the details now, its downhill from here.
Keep us posted with further pics!!
Any chance for a FASt race this year ?
Id sure like to help out in anyway I can. Im not sure on if Ill make a race this year. seems like lately, free time is decided on a week to week basis haha. Im definatly going to hit up the local track a time or 2 before I get out to a FAST class race
Posted By: 70440+6bbl
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/09/12 06:21 PM
Looking good Kevin! I can't wait to see the final results
I
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/09/12 06:23 PM
Quote:
Quote:
got the back side of the dash all put together also with my new M&H harness courtesy of mega parts. again, if anyone wants the parts supply of year one with better prices and personable service of Jamie and Roy, I highly recommend buying from them. they always ask how my roadrunner is coming along. can't say enough about them.
Do you have contact info for M&H Harness? I'm needing a new harness for my 70 340 Duster rallye dash and seriously do not want to pay $550.00 for one from Year One. Also - was yours complete or did you have to splice in new wires for switches, etc. like Year One says you have to with theirs?
just go to www.megapartsusa.com they dont nessisarily list all of the harnesses on their site, so its almost better to call. my harness was just plug right in and go, no splicing, cutting or crimping. VERY pleased with the fit of it. I looked up what I payed and it was $504 opposed to YO $560. not a huge difference in price, but anything helps and in past experiance, anyway to not deal with YO is a plus for me.
I did get more done this weekend. I got the rear brakes almost all together and I think the moment to roll the rear under the car is almost here
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/16/12 03:35 AM
more stuff done this weekend. heres a pic of the fuel tank. this was done a while ago, but never posted a pic. I tried to duplicated the original factory applied undercoating. Im probably going to try and retrofit an in-tank electric pump, but I need to do more research in this.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/16/12 03:47 AM
also got some rubber on the ground! everything came together real nice. Im very happy with it.
also, I highlighted it, pic came out too dark. please excuse the dirty shop, Ive been painting tractors all winter and havn't had time to do a thorough cleaning.
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Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/16/12 03:49 AM
mounted my polyglas and ralleys. I ordered new drums and plan on painting them red, just havn't gotten them in yet.
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Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/16/12 03:51 AM
also mounted the heater box. Im now waiting to get my date coded windshield in to start putting the rest of the interior together.
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Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/16/12 04:00 AM
thats all I have for now. Ill have more to post hopefully by next week. seems like Im getting more free time lately
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/23/12 02:43 AM
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Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/23/12 02:46 AM
couple more updates. got the brakes all together. when I got the car, it was gutted so all new components with wagner and brake best. I had to find a set of park brake levers for an 11" brakes..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/23/12 02:49 AM
restored wiper linkage. not as good as what Jules would do, but I dont think it turned out too bad.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/23/12 02:51 AM
few more things on the firewall. I was going to get the master cylinder on, but I didn't get time to replate the studs.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/23/12 02:54 AM
thats it for now. was a busy weekend.
Posted By: basketcase
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/24/12 11:57 AM
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/30/12 02:35 AM
got a bit done this weekend. trunk weather stripping on. I usually hate this job...
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/30/12 02:37 AM
got some sheet metal on! trunk lid is adjusted out. I started putting the passenger door, but my help had to leave before it got finished and I never got to the drivers side. car kinda got dirty
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/30/12 02:39 AM
got the dash in also. still some buttoning up to do. the more I see the 2 'fresh' golds with each other, the more I really like it. different needless to say!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/30/12 02:43 AM
kind of piddley, work, but I got the drums painted. I mixed my own colors using IH red and Case power red
going by other pics on the computer, I think its pretty close. dont mind the incorrect lug nuts, haven't gotten them yet.
goals for this next week:
-mount drivers door
-install gull wing
-restore/ polish trim
-install rear bumper and valance
Posted By: F1Scamp
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/30/12 03:02 AM
Cool build!
Can't wait to see you out there hammering on that bad boy. Looks like Jeff has his work cut out for him to get that puppy in the 11's. She looks portly. lol
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/30/12 03:07 AM
Quote:
She looks portly. lol
portly? common, 71 b-bodies are slim, sleek cars 
If I were to be in the low 12's, Id be more than satisfied.
Posted By: 71rm23
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/30/12 09:44 AM
Kevin:
Where did you get that dash from? Car looks great!
Posted By: AdamR
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/30/12 01:22 PM
beautiful work !
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 04/30/12 04:11 PM
Quote:
Kevin:
Where did you get that dash from? Car looks great!
the dash is one I picked up at a swap meet and put my original speedometer in. I had it restored at auto instruments. I wasn't very happy with their customer service at all.. work was ok. the emblem and heater control was done at instrument specialties and the pad is from superior dash pads. the dash pad fits ok, not great. the gap between the speaker tray and the pad is pretty wide, I can post a picture tonight.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/07/12 03:40 AM
got a bunch done on the back side of the car
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/07/12 03:40 AM
underneath the trunk lid.. I got the jack decal almost in the exact same spot as the original.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/07/12 03:41 AM
got the drivers door on along with the mirror. I also put the 'extensive amount' of decals on the car. please excuse how dirty the car is..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/07/12 03:44 AM
starting to clean/ assemble the front end a little.
goal for next week:
-install glass
-work on getting front suspension done
-maybe stainless trim..
thats it for now!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/07/12 03:50 AM
I guess one more showing the blacked out tail lights. those decals were a pain in the butt!!! turned out ok I guess.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/15/12 03:47 AM
few small updates.. busy weekend between mothers day and field work. suspension is all cleaned up. just waiting for some more RPM and krylon battery protestant to duplicate the cosmoline on the LCA's
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/15/12 03:49 AM
K frame cleaned and painted along with sway bar
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/15/12 03:52 AM
master cylinder all done. I found the correct studs and plated them. also, I black phosphate coated the cover. all I have to do is bleed it out. and bolt it on. that all I really have for now.
Posted By: rrbrucea
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/15/12 05:15 PM
Looking really good! I'm digging this build!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/15/12 06:20 PM
thanks! Jeff is pretty much wrapping up my motor. hes going to be doing the break in for me sometime hopefully in the next week. tenativly get it shipped up to me maybe next week sometime. then I can start detailing the crap out of that too.. I think Ive spent hundreds of hours trying to gather details on a 71 340 motor. not an easy task. lol
Posted By: 70440+6bbl
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/15/12 06:38 PM
Keep up the good work Kevin, your doing a great job!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/29/12 02:59 AM
some pretty big steps made on the car in the last week and a half. got the from suspension pretty much done. just need to do the brakes and a couple small odd stuff. turned out pretty good. I used krylon battery protector to duplicate the cosmoline. turned out pretty good.
also, i still have to get the sway bar bushings.. so please dont mind that haha
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Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/29/12 03:03 AM
steering stuff together. I put earlier that I had firm feel rebuild my original box to stage 3 specs. I went pretty thin on paint for the box as well as the supplier to chrysler always had it pretty thin.. all the bare metal parts are unpainted, but treated with ECS's RPM. works very well imo. the ball joints are all spicer bought from Bill Rolik
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Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/29/12 03:04 AM
more stuff put on in the engine bay. just waiting for a motor! of which I should be getting this coming week
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Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/29/12 03:12 AM
last one for now. my pride and joy for MANY COUNTLESS HOURS!! as some of you know, 71 roadrunner grills had natural black plastic for the black-out area. I obviously couldn't have it any other way
so I hunted for a long time for a suitable true roadrunner/ gtx grill. I found one on ebay and bought it come to find out it had been spray bombed black (after I had asked if it was with an answer of NO) I decided to keep it and mess around with it. after several attempts to chemically strip the paint with easy off oven cleaner, it didn't make it any better. I then got walnut media for my blast cabinet and very lightly (60 psi) blasted the grill. after if was paint free, I used light steel wool to get a more natural look and I think it turned out great. it would have certainly been easier to paint it black again lol. the silver I used a krylon nickle shimmer metallic that I think looks pretty close to some original grills Ive seem. the bumper is chromed by AMS who did and awesome job (some sticker still stuck to the top..)
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Posted By: ChargerCrazed
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/29/12 03:21 PM
Your resto work is looking great. Switch all the upper control arm cam bolt assys around (if all of the cam bolts are installed the same way as the last pic). Washers and nuts should be seen in the engine compartment.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/29/12 04:04 PM
Quote:
Your resto work is looking great. Switch all the upper control arm cam bolt assys around (if all of the cam bolts are installed the same way as the last pic). Washers and nuts should be seen in the engine compartment.
will do
Posted By: ryangtogtx
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 06/06/12 09:26 PM
Looking good Kevin. Keep up the good work.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 06/07/12 03:38 AM
thanks! i saw you ryan at the mopars in the park, i was going to say hi, but you were talking to another guy. your gtx looks awesome! I hope my roadrunner turns out as nice as your car.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 07/13/12 04:57 AM
I have a few more updates on its way. I haven't had a lot of time to get pictures up yet. soon!
Posted By: DynoDave
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 07/13/12 03:20 PM
Posted By: RSNOMO
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 07/13/12 09:28 PM
Coming along nicely...
Good to see another 'fuselage' being resurrected...
Those of us who've pulled 'em all the way down know what it takes...
On your park lights...
I've never seen a '71 RR with anything other than amber lenses...
GTX lenses display 'RS23'...
Posted By: AdamR
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 07/20/12 01:21 PM
Amazing work ! Cant wait to see what it runs !
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 07/20/12 04:30 PM
Quote:
Amazing work ! Cant wait to see what it runs !
niether can I after some delays from my ignition parts not coming in, Im finally taking my motor to the dyno a week from today. Ive got progress made in other areas of the car, just nothing picture worthy yet!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 07/24/12 06:05 PM
Ive been trying to upload pictures onto my home computer, but I think I might have a virus, its not letting me.. Ive had to push back the dyno until this friday due to my pertronix not coming. I am all set to go now though. Ill keep working on the computer problem also!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 07/31/12 06:10 PM
well got the FAST motor dynoed on friday and Jeff hit his mark and then some
my best pull with headers was 512 hp and 539 ft lbs of torque!
Ill have to scan the dyno sheets when I have an opportunity. the manifolds weren't quite as impressive, but what do you expect. I dont remember the numbers for those off the top of my head.
also, still waiting to get my computer fixed. the house we were renting sold so I am in the process of moving and thats consuming my time in the last week.
Posted By: ryangtogtx
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/02/12 09:24 PM
Did you have Jeff from Wheelers do your engine? He's doing our max wedge right now.
Posted By: ScottSmith_Harms
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/02/12 09:55 PM
Wow Kevin those are some stout numbers! Was that dyno pull run with headers? Which intake? Heads. Compression, Cam, Carb with or W/O a choke? etc.? Love to hear some details
Posted By: Rapid340
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/03/12 04:26 AM
I did the motor and it was a lot of fun doing something like this for what may be the heaviest of muscle car era 340 cars (I was guessing close to 4000 lbs). The motor was built with more emphasis on mid/upper-mid torque than peak HP because of the application. I think Kevin will really be happy driving this car.
It is a pump gas (9.9:1 compression) FAST motor. The heads and intake are true 71 340 castings along with a 4973 71 thermoquad. The cam is a solid flat tappet (similar results could have been achieved with a hydraulic on this one but Kevin had a preference for a solid and he wanted a real noticeable idle).
He called me after the dyno session. The best numbers with headers(he didnt know size of the headers) were 515HP and 539 TQ. The B-body manifolds yielded 474 HP at 5800 RPM and 496 TQ at 4500 RPM. He ran the carb with the choke installed and he did not have any jets to lean out the carb with the manifolds. This along with two recommendations ( extra speed secrets) I gave him will bump it to 500HP and well over 500 ft-lbs with manifolds when he gets around to it. They ran 91 octane pump gas (didnt know what brand)
Note on manifolds: This was the first set of b-body manifolds I have ever ported. They are restrictive. I would describe the drive side as almost identical to the 71 A/B passenger side but with the dump in the rear rather than the center. Also the exits on both are 1 7/8 rather than 2 1/4 on the A pass side.
BTW after seeing some of the pics of the restoration in this thread I have to say I am pretty impressed. I believe Kevin is only 21 years old.
Posted By: scatpacktom
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/03/12 04:31 AM
Where was the engine Dyno'd Jeff?
Posted By: Rapid340
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/03/12 04:37 AM
Quote:
Where was the engine Dyno'd Jeff?
I dont know the name it. It was a shop near him in Wisconsin.
On a side note, he said he won $100 bet with someone that dynoed a BB Ford with him.
Posted By: ScottSmith_Harms
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/03/12 12:05 PM
Very nice Jeff, I'm impressed!
Posted By: AdamR
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/03/12 01:00 PM
Awesome ! I love these stock looking cars !
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/03/12 04:15 PM
like I said, Im VERY pleased with what Jeff had done. the dyno was done at Powerline Performance near Chippewa Falls. as of now, the motor is painted and almost all the details are done. the goal is to get the motor in the car this weekend. the only thing im waiting on is the transmision to get a little work done. Im certainly lost when it comes to trannys.. better hired done for me.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/03/12 04:17 PM
btw, thanks for posting the numbers Jeff
we just got into our house here a few days ago and everything is in disorray. I feel bad for keeping you guys high and dry for pictures.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/03/12 11:23 PM
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Did you have Jeff from Wheelers do your engine? He's doing our max wedge right now.
what the heck ryan, I didn't know your doing a maxie car! but then again, theres a lot I dont know haha. whats the story on that?
Posted By: ryangtogtx
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/04/12 05:13 AM
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Did you have Jeff from Wheelers do your engine? He's doing our max wedge right now.
what the heck ryan, I didn't know your doing a maxie car! but then again, theres a lot I dont know haha. whats the story on that?
It's a '63 Dodge 440 Max Wedge clone. White w/ red stripe and interior. It should be pretty cool when done. We had bought a '62 Fury convertible from Buzz. He claimed it was a real MW and I tried to convince him it wasn't after I did alot of investigation into it. We bought it anyway because it was completely rust free and the engine in it was a '62 vintage 413 with high compression, real max wedge heads, a stage II intake and stage III carbs. We did the body and paint in our own shop and had all of the stainless restored. It was basically ready for assembly, but ultimately, we really wanted a hardtop. Long story short, we sold the Fury and bought the Dodge. We kept the engine out of the Fury to use in the Dodge, but we are having Jeff at Wheeler Racing Engines build a 440 using all of the MW stuff instead of the 413. Hope to have it done by next spring. If you know anyone that would like a nice 413 short block let me know;). Also, the GTX should be in the December issue of MCG.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/04/12 06:25 PM
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Did you have Jeff from Wheelers do your engine? He's doing our max wedge right now.
what the heck ryan, I didn't know your doing a maxie car! but then again, theres a lot I dont know haha. whats the story on that?
It's a '63 Dodge 440 Max Wedge clone. White w/ red stripe and interior. It should be pretty cool when done. We had bought a '62 Fury convertible from Buzz. He claimed it was a real MW and I tried to convince him it wasn't after I did alot of investigation into it. We bought it anyway because it was completely rust free and the engine in it was a '62 vintage 413 with high compression, real max wedge heads, a stage II intake and stage III carbs. We did the body and paint in our own shop and had all of the stainless restored. It was basically ready for assembly, but ultimately, we really wanted a hardtop. Long story short, we sold the Fury and bought the Dodge. We kept the engine out of the Fury to use in the Dodge, but we are having Jeff at Wheeler Racing Engines build a 440 using all of the MW stuff instead of the 413. Hope to have it done by next spring. If you know anyone that would like a nice 413 short block let me know;). Also, the GTX should be in the December issue of MCG.
wow, sounds like a cool project. congrats on getting the gtx in MCG!! I take it they saw it at mopars in the park? looking forward to reading it.
Posted By: hemi68charger
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/04/12 06:55 PM
To Kevin and Jeff,,, great job.......
Posted By: Rapid340
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/05/12 03:01 PM
Here is Kevins carb. Scott Smith did the restoration. I snapped a pic after I did some mods to support the bump in power output.
Posted By: Rapid340
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/05/12 03:08 PM
Here is a pic of the shortblock. It gives a good illustration of a stroked SB. You almost need binoculars to see the piston at BDC.
Posted By: Rapid340
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/05/12 03:10 PM
Breaking in the cam befored being shipped to Kevin.
Posted By: F1Scamp
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/06/12 01:01 PM
So whats the "extra speed secrets"? Inquiring minds want to know. Motor seems like its making some damn good steam, I think thats about optimum cubic inch for this style motor. I think it should tickle the 11's no problem.
On a side note, how's your motor Jeff? No pm, no call...
Posted By: Rapid340
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/06/12 02:18 PM
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So whats the "extra speed secrets
Brian, when I'm running .26 second faster than you I will let you know. 
The way you've got that car launching I would'nt hold my breath.
I think 11's are going to be really tough with Kevins car on polyglass. Did you notice the power steering box? Also, he is going to be running 3:55's.
I havent had much time to work on my own stuff and when I did get some time it was 100 degrees and 90% humidity in my garage. I had the car out on my local side roads for the first time this year only a week ago. Seems to be running OK. I'm hoping to break it in at the Nationals this week.
Hopefully you can beat up on me (I mean meet up with me) at one of the events this year.
Posted By: F1Scamp
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/07/12 12:50 PM
Well I hope to see both cars at an event this year? Kevin, your doing great work. Its gonna be a heavy car, but if you have any need for an 11 sec. time slip, your chance would be this fall. Either MIR or Cecil. All us smallblock guys will help you out as much as possible. If you need tuning stuff for that 71 carb, I have a ton of jets and rods for those.
Posted By: Rapid340
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/07/12 01:31 PM
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All us smallblock guys will help you out as much as possible
yea, all two of us
Posted By: AdamR
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/07/12 01:43 PM
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All us smallblock guys will help you out as much as possible
yea, all two of us
One day I'll join you.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/07/12 04:10 PM
hey guys, I really appreciate the support. the mopar community it one of the best out there! I got the motor in the car last night btw! I have a LOT of pictures to post. I might just bring my camera to my job and upload here. as far as hitting the 11's, I would be thrilled. I know this roadrunner was not a great car to start with, but I wanted something different and would take everyone by suprise. a stock 340 runner wasn't going to suprise anyone
Posted By: scatpacktom
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/08/12 01:53 AM
Only Two of you guys?
Here is my 340 4sp Road Runner
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/22/12 04:15 PM
I tried like heck last night to get pictures uploaded onto my grandmas computer with no success. after an hour, I finally got them onto the computer then when it came to resize them, it wouldn't let me after many attempts. where the car stands now is it has the motor in it and for the most part everything is hooked up and the motor turns over (havn't really tried to start it yet) I have a few electrical bugs to work out and hopefully this weekend, the front clip and glass will go in. after that, interior. Im obtamistic it wont take long from this point. I have a lot of pictures to share once I get a chance to get them up.
Posted By: cdp
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/25/12 05:10 AM
why not share some more pics of the black 340 4spd.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 08/27/12 04:17 PM
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why not share some more pics of the black 340 4spd.
are you talking about the dart listed in my sig?
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 09/24/12 07:17 PM
after fighting with our laptop for a long while trying to get it fixed, we are going laptop shopping this weekend. ill be uploading pictures then
and I have a TON of updates. if all goes well, the car should be road worthy in a few weeks...
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/04/12 10:49 PM
finally get some pictures up. a lot of summarizing will be done. I have a lot of more progress made after these also. car is almost done. here is the motor about ready for the dyno. as said before, its best pull made 512 hp and 540 ft lbs torque
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/04/12 10:57 PM
904 trans getting a little work. went with a low gear set, cheetah auto/ manual valve body, semi rigid bands, deep pan, and dynamic converter
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/04/12 11:00 PM
engine painted with correct hemi orange paint from frank baddleson. tried to paint it sloppy as the factory would do (intensionally thin in areas)
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/04/12 11:04 PM
thermoquad built by Scott Smith and then I sent it to Jeff Patterson for some slight modification
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/04/12 11:05 PM
TTI exhaust bought with dynomax ultraflows
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/04/12 11:08 PM
engine bolted to the tranny bolted to the k frame along with some other accessories. almost ready to bolt into the car
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/04/12 11:10 PM
last engine bay shot before motor is in
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/04/12 11:12 PM
car backed out and washed also. tail lights are from BE+A
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/04/12 11:13 PM
engine in car!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/04/12 11:15 PM
radiator from Glen Ray. did a fantastic job!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/04/12 11:18 PM
I need to take way more pictures as the car is almost done. but this is the last one for now with the steering column installed. all I have left is a few pieces of trim, adjust the side glass, carpet, seats, door panels and figure out a few electrical bugs!
Posted By: AdamR
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/04/12 11:43 PM
Looking good !
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/05/12 01:28 AM
I just went out and snapped a few pictures tonight. Ill have to back the car out of the shop to get a decent pictures later on. the reflective 340 decals on the hood are really hard to make out..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/05/12 01:29 AM
rear..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/05/12 01:31 AM
trunk compartment..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/05/12 01:33 AM
nearly complete engine compartment. its my winter project to restore my a/c. latches were restored by Jules Daddio
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/05/12 01:37 AM
close up on the drivers carb. also showing my dr1114429 solenoid!
restored by Scott Smith. extra wiring on the coil is the Pertronix ignitor 3. the rev-limiter works very well.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/05/12 01:40 AM
passenger side. missing the clamps for the hose between the air cleaner and breather. also, I fixed the oil leak on the valve cover
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/05/12 01:44 AM
date coded alternator rebuilt by a local shop. I did run the reproduction date coded belts for a little while, but while idling it once, they flipped over and got ruined. now they are gates. I guess after reading up on them, its probably for the best. also running the carter high volume fuel pump
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/05/12 01:48 AM
drivers side. I got a date coded power steering cooler. originally it didn't have one, but I opted for one being I went with the 3.55 sure grip. green top group 24 battery was from a moparts member who I feel terrible I cant remember off the top of my head. had AWESOME service though. its correct per my build sheet.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/05/12 02:01 AM
and finally, the dyno sheets! his spelling isn't exactly perfect.. first sheet is with the manifolds. Jeff and I talked about a few things I can do differently to bump the hp level to over 500 hp.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/05/12 02:03 AM
best pull made with the dyno headers. basically the only change between the first sheet and this one. thats it for now.
Posted By: 68KillerBee
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/05/12 09:20 AM
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drivers side. I got a date coded power steering cooler. originally it didn't have one, but I opted for one being I went with the 3.55 sure grip. green top group 24 battery was from a moparts member who I feel terrible I cant remember off the top of my head. had AWESOME service though. its correct per my build sheet.
Fred Gilmore? I got mine from him too.
Car is coming together great! I think you'll be surprising a few people.
Posted By: NV69B7RR
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/05/12 01:58 PM
Your RR is looking really good and coming together nicely! Great job
That things going be a screamer..
Keep up the great work!
Posted By: ryangtogtx
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/05/12 07:16 PM
Looking good Kevin!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/06/12 03:42 AM
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drivers side. I got a date coded power steering cooler. originally it didn't have one, but I opted for one being I went with the 3.55 sure grip. green top group 24 battery was from a moparts member who I feel terrible I cant remember off the top of my head. had AWESOME service though. its correct per my build sheet.
Fred Gilmore? I got mine from him too.
Car is coming together great! I think you'll be surprising a few people.
yes, thats the guy! excellent service. I hope to even surprise myself!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/06/12 03:44 AM
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Your RR is looking really good and coming together nicely! Great job That things going be a screamer.. Keep up the great work!
thanks! trying to keep up with you and youd duster! which is also coming along very nicely I might add
Posted By: dangina
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/06/12 02:00 PM
read the whole thread and wow! what a great job you've done! I'm currently building my 71 rr right now and may have to refer back to this thread for some pics (I bought my project through a guy who stipped the whole car done to the shell and gave up)
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/07/12 01:18 AM
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read the whole thread and wow! what a great job you've done! I'm currently building my 71 rr right now and may have to refer back to this thread for some pics (I bought my project through a guy who stipped the whole car done to the shell and gave up)
thank you very much! if you need ANY picture for further referance, I can certainly try to help out.
Posted By: Christopher 417
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/09/12 07:25 PM
OMG its unbelievable. You just change the whole and convert a scrap into
an awesome car. I
you. Really you have done great work. I am just
shocked to see the all modification. You rebuild the complete car. Great
skills. Thanks for sharing your work.
Posted By: MoparAddic
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/14/12 04:25 AM
Outstanding job! Your going to love all the attention you get while driving! You just dont see many of these around anymore. This one took me 6 years to finish.
Posted By: mopar383
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/24/12 05:44 AM
Love it !!!!!!!!!!!
Posted By: sogtx
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/24/12 07:10 PM
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since my older brother moved out a long time ago, Ive used his room as my personal storage space. Ive been keeping my soft trim and very breakable/ expensive things in there. heres a picture of my legendary stuff in the correct colors (ember gold+ medium gold)
Wonder how i could get my wife to move out 
The car looks more and more gorgeous eacvh time i check up on this post , any test drives yet ?
Posted By: PasiR
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 11/25/12 08:54 AM
Awesome detailing, keep the pics coming.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/02/13 10:29 PM
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since my older brother moved out a long time ago, Ive used his room as my personal storage space. Ive been keeping my soft trim and very breakable/ expensive things in there. heres a picture of my legendary stuff in the correct colors (ember gold+ medium gold)
Wonder how i could get my wife to move out
The car looks more and more gorgeous eacvh time i check up on this post , any test drives yet ?
I backed it out of the shop and the tranny slips like none other 
Im taking it back out and to the shop that rebuilt it. otherwise, I put in my ECS dated coded windshield the other day and just sent out a bunch of my a/c stuff to classic auto air for restore. I bought a NOS pump also for my car. the one in the pics is just a donar to fill the void. I also bought a new condensor/ dryer and expansion valve off of a ebay member thats suppose to be correct. still havn't gotten it yet though.
Posted By: sunroofgtx
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/04/13 06:52 AM
Congrats. Everything looks killer. Can I use those awesome pics of the awesome spark plug wires !!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/05/13 03:01 AM
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Congrats. Everything looks killer. Can I use those awesome pics of the awesome spark plug wires !!
by all means, use them! thanks for the compliment. I can try and get a better picture with the air cleaner off to better see the wires?
Im taking the car to a local tranny shop on monday also.
Posted By: sogtx
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/05/13 01:46 PM
Fuuuudge
I hate bashin people , but jn this case i will .
Had Fireball tranny in Canada build me a
Tranny . First time around used the wrong
Clutches with an aluminum drum , drum toasted .
And tranny leaked like a sieve ..
aND Found a crack in the case after hours of
Strainful checking .. Sent him pics
He DID rebuild the tranny . Never thought to look
At the case ... He used the SAME one ..
Had DaVe D hook me up with Godfather
Racing , i have a correct killer tranny now ...
Are you sure you have to pull it ,
Did you start it in neutral to get all the juices
Flowin ?
All the linkage right etc etc . That's odd
That a new tranny slips .
I dont know much about the valve bodies
And passages and all that , but check and double check
Before yankin it . Deep pan ? No filter extension extension ?
Posted By: scatpacktom
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/05/13 05:42 PM
Car looks very nice
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/06/13 05:23 AM
I talked to a different tranny shop and im taking the whole car there on either monday or tuesday. he said it might be something as simple as a band adjustment. my tranny is a 904 cheetah fwd valve body, semi rigid band, deep pan with filter extension and a dynamic 9.5" converter. not sure on the clutch packs or drum. its times like this I really wish I knew transmissions better
also, when the rear was up on jack stands, it would roll and shift through all the gears. none of the fluid smells burnt either. it does howl (sound like a brake dragging) when the car is on the ground and giving it throttle in gear.
Posted By: cdp
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/07/13 02:00 AM
I had the tranny in my 71-GTX rebuilt right after I bought it in 98. Put it in myself. All seemed to work OK, then it would just stop working and howled a little bit. In that time, the car has been in storage for the last 15 years. Finally took the car back out and it turns out that I didn't engage the torque converter all the way. Ruined the front pump. $600 later, it was fixed right.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/21/13 11:14 PM
Have a small update... I brought my roadrunner to the tranny shop 2 weeks ago due to major slippage. They told me they wanted to do some initial pressure checking and minor adjustments and if that didnt fix it, they would call me and let me know before tearin into it. Sounded good to me so gave them the go ahead. This morning got a call from them asking for my cam specs and i didn't know off hand so i gave them jeffs number. Call them back later and apparently they had the whole tranny out and figured my new dynamic converter was junk and wanted to order me a new converter. I called dynamic and they told me the symptoms didnt sound like a converter and more like leakage issues. Called tranny shop and asked if the pressure check and everything else was good and they told me theh never even checked it, just tore it down without runnin it... Kinda pissed i asked why they didnt, they told me it was because i told them it was slipping!! DUH!! Now im goin to go get it on friday done or not. Im almost scared to look at it...
Posted By: fc7freak
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/22/13 12:06 AM
It's kind of tuff dropping off a car as nice as yours to a tranny shop. It will probably be fine but I can understand you being nervous.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/22/13 12:43 AM
Ya, its nerve racking.. Im just mad because they didnt do what we agreed on and possibly making an un called for high bill..
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/22/13 02:25 AM
Don't pay the bill since they don't have a signed work order for the tear down.
Posted By: 71rm23
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/22/13 12:51 PM
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Don't pay the bill since they don't have a signed work order for the tear down.
X2
Posted By: RSNOMO
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/22/13 06:48 PM
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they don't have a signed work order for the tear down.
Yes...
Required by law here...
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/22/13 07:30 PM
I stopped by the shop to talk with them after cooling down a bit. I explained to them how i felt and what we had taked about. They told me they would not charge me for the tear down, or reassembly. And ill get it back fixed by friday. Ill post how that goes
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/27/13 01:57 AM
Update... I was too mad yesterday to post. Went to the shop again yesterday and talked to the owner who btw was drunk at 2 in the afternoon.. And asked how the roadrunner was going. Told me they couldnt find anything wrong but they replaced the clutch packs and bands which the clutches were slightly used and the band was brand new... Wouldnt even show me the old ones saying they were junk and threw them away. Then told me he was ready to order me a new converter because my dynamic was junk and had too much stall at 3500 and my motor isnt nearly big enough for that. He then proceded to tell me dynamic is run by a bunch of kids who dont know anything and that cheetah makes crappy valve bodies. Didnt help he had a drunk buddy there agreeing with everything. Also earlier i was told they didnt pressure check it and now hes telling me he did and it had good pressue so im getting 2 stories... This is going to be a night mare. Stay tuned
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/27/13 02:01 AM
Btw, i asked him if he called dynamic and he said he didnt. Not sure how he knew the stall considering dynamic told me it would stall around 3-3200? And im pretty sure i never told him?
Posted By: RV2
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/27/13 03:25 AM
Get your car out of there!!!!!!'
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/27/13 03:35 AM
I want to, but i cant get ahold of him this weekend. I want him to just bolt the dang thing together so the motor aint hanging.. I wont have a day off now until wednesday....
Posted By: HemiChallenger
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/27/13 03:51 AM
Dang dude sorry to hear that. I have had nothing but problems with local auto trans guys as well. I wish the best for you
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/27/13 04:11 AM
Ya, its not a good feeling. Its almost like im dead in the water right now.
Posted By: jon01
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/27/13 07:27 PM
I'm sure sorry to hear of the trans troubles, Kevin.
The car sure did turn out nice though! I look forward to hearing about how it does at the track as well!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/28/13 04:08 PM
Just got off the phone again with the tranny shop. Told them i want the car and tranny the same way it came in ready for me to pick up by wednesday morning (my next day off) we'll see what happens
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/30/13 07:14 PM
Car got finished up today and i was able to pick it up. Set me back 550 though but they did manage to fix it. Wouldnt elaborate on what was wrong though. The car is sitting in my shop at home now, and the headache of dealing with them is over. Now to move on and ill have more updates shortly
Posted By: 71rm23
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/30/13 07:18 PM
Ouch. I'd tell them its their dime, not yours. Maybe consider small claims court (?). With all the hassle you went through, hopefully the car is fixed right.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/30/13 09:23 PM
Unfortunatly, its probably more hassle than its worth. Figure its an expensive leason learned. Now if the tranny doesnt work, ill do something of it
Posted By: RSNOMO
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/30/13 11:15 PM
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I backed it out of the shop and the tranny slips like none other Im taking it back out and to the shop that rebuilt it
Am I reading this right???
The trans was rebuilt by 'them'; zero miles...
You take it back, and they charge you 5 bills to 'fix it'???
Posted By: 71rm23
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/30/13 11:27 PM
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I backed it out of the shop and the tranny slips like none other Im taking it back out and to the shop that rebuilt it
Am I reading this right???
The trans was rebuilt by 'them'; zero miles...
Thats what I got. Hell no would I pay a penny more...IMHO
You take it back, and they charge you 5 bills to 'fix it'???
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 01/31/13 12:20 AM
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I backed it out of the shop and the tranny slips like none other Im taking it back out and to the shop that rebuilt it
Am I reading this right???
The trans was rebuilt by 'them'; zero miles...
Thats what I got. Hell no would I pay a penny more...IMHO
You take it back, and they charge you 5 bills to 'fix it'???
well, I had a buddy of mine that isn't exactly a tranny guy but knows his way around them enough, put it together as a favor. I would have taken it back to him, but he didn't have the time to get at it for a long while, and I dont want to take advantage of a favor from him. So I took it to this shop expecting it to be something simple like an adjustment or something of that nature, which Im sort of beleiving that was the case in the end. They lead me to beleive it was probably just a band issue or possibly valve body issues at worst and wouldn't take much to get it going being everything is new. Next time I get a tranny done, its either getting farmed out to a reputable place to start or Im going to be hitting the books and do it all myself.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 02/02/13 05:40 PM
Picture of roadrunner home
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 02/02/13 05:44 PM
Finally got drip rail trim on. Was a beast not to put any dings in it, but i succeded
also have my ecs date coded windshield in. Still need to polish trim though.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 02/02/13 05:54 PM
Sail panel boards done. My original boards were in decent, straight shape, but the paper type covering was rough. I obviously didnt want to go with the incorrect headliner material and repops are crap. I got the idea to recover them in wall paper. Went to menards and found a plain white paper with a very soft, almost grainless texture that i thought looks close to factory. I used upholstery glue, glued it on and dyed them. Turned out a lot better than the alternative and it only cost 5 bucks. If anyone else wants to try this, i have a pile of wall paper you can have
Thats all for now, plan on getting more done asap. Mostly i have left is instal 1/4 windows and adjust, seats carpet door panels and a little tweaking here and there
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 02/25/13 05:53 AM
Few small updates. Got the a/c pretty much ready to go. Had my hoses restored at classic auto air. Turned out nice. Need a way to get rid of the 'parker' stamps on hoses. I bought a condensor, drier and sxpansion valve off ebay. Condensor is pretty close to original. Drier wasnt even close so i bought a nos one along with the switch..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 02/25/13 05:55 AM
Nos compressor, i gotta have my clutch unit sent out to be rebuilt yet..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 02/25/13 05:59 AM
Have my door panels ready to go. Only one is an original that didnt get chaulky. Otherwise the otheres were perfect brown ones. I dyed them all with Herbs interior dye and they turned out great. The arm rests are original the had to be repaired. All of them turned out great. Thats it for now, sort of stalled out until i can talk my dad into doing more trim polishing.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 02/25/13 06:06 AM
things left to do:
install 1/4 windows and adjust
put together a/c and charge
carpet seats and door panels
windshield trim
buy/ install wheel well trim
front end alignment
Im sure there are other small things, but thats the bulk of it.
Posted By: RSNOMO
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 02/25/13 07:08 PM
Be nice to have air, if need be...
Got the R-12???
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 02/26/13 03:52 AM
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Be nice to have air, if need be...
Got the R-12???
going R134A. I learned my lesson not to buy another a/c car. the cost just isn't worth it not to mention the clutter...
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 03/19/13 10:00 PM
just listed the roadrunner for sale. I will be finishing it and posting up dates on it. I just need to move in a different direction in my life. thanks for following and helping me out when I needed it.
Posted By: sogtx
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 03/20/13 02:03 AM
Mustang ?
Com eon .. wanted to see this thing run ..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 03/20/13 02:50 AM
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Mustang ?
Com eon .. wanted to see this thing run ..
if it doesnt sell right away ill run it until it does. Im thinking I need to get out of the hobby for a little while and get a different perspective on 'the big picture'..
Posted By: 71rm23
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 03/20/13 12:04 PM
Quote:
just listed the roadrunner for sale. I will be finishing it and posting up dates on it. I just need to move in a different direction in my life. thanks for following and helping me out when I needed it.
Where do you have it listed at? Sorry to hear you listed it Kevin.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 03/20/13 12:30 PM
I listed it here, FBBO and craigslist. Maybe ebay later
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/14/13 03:48 AM
Interior and glass in!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/14/13 04:22 AM
Back seat..
Left to do:
Finish up a/c (working on it at the moment)
Adjust drivers door glass, cant seem to get it to roll down all the way??
Fix leak in brake line
Front end alignment
Should be ready for mopars in the park unless something catostrphic happens!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/14/13 07:43 AM
youll also have to excuse the bad quality pics, I just took them with my iphone..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/14/13 11:24 PM
Drivers door got done. Tomorrow im going to takle the brakes... So far everything electronically works and everything mechanical that im able to try works. Hopefully there will only be minor tweeking if any when its done. Im thinking it should be wrapped up in a week or 2 depending how much time i get
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/16/13 02:22 AM
Got a bunch done today! Brakes are finished up, got my nos compressor ready and mounted and even took the car out for the first time!! Boy is it hard to get traction! Ill be taking it for a front end alignment somtime next week and next friday going to go get the a/c finished up and charged! Looks like mopars in the park is in this cars near future!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/16/13 02:23 AM
Back..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/16/13 02:24 AM
Showing my new compressor.. Needs some cleaning up yet.. Also still need to buy wheel well trim. Thats it for now
Posted By: fc7freak
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/16/13 03:33 AM
It looks like you can now enjoy your new car. It's one awesome ride!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/16/13 04:52 AM
Quote:
It looks like you can now enjoy your new car. It's one awesome ride!
and that I will 
not shabby for a 22 yo!
Posted By: 71rm23
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/16/13 04:55 AM
Quote:
It looks like you can now enjoy your new car. It's one awesome ride!
X2 here
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/16/13 05:05 AM
btw, its off the market as of now. Im working through the bump in my life
Posted By: a12superbee
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/16/13 07:55 AM
I love white cars.
Posted By: 70440+6bbl
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/16/13 04:52 PM
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btw, its off the market as of now. Im working through the bump in my life
Very good to hear Kevin!!! You deserve to have some fun with that beast now, after all the hard work you put into it
Posted By: scatpacktom
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/16/13 05:49 PM
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btw, its off the market as of now. Im working through the bump in my life
Good for you! I never understand why guys pay their money and and don't see the show.
Posted By: RSNOMO
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/16/13 07:00 PM
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btw, its off the market as of now. Im working through the bump in my life
Nice job...
(Enjoy the fruits of your labor)...
Posted By: ryangtogtx
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/16/13 09:19 PM
Good job Kevin! I have to work the weekend of the show, but wish I could have seen your car. If you are able, you should drive to Cumberland this weekend. Our dealership is having it's second classic car cruise-in from 9-2. Nothing too exciting, but it's an excuse to get the car out and something to do. They are having dogs & brats from Louie's and some other things.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/17/13 01:05 AM
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Good job Kevin! I have to work the weekend of the show, but wish I could have seen your car. If you are able, you should drive to Cumberland this weekend. Our dealership is having it's second classic car cruise-in from 9-2. Nothing too exciting, but it's an excuse to get the car out and something to do. They are having dogs & brats from Louie's and some other things.
Man i wish i could, but i have to work this weekend! also not sure i trust the car running quite that far yet. Your always welcome to stop down and see our 'junk' anytime
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/17/13 01:07 AM
Quote:
Quote:
btw, its off the market as of now. Im working through the bump in my life
Good for you! I never understand why guys pay their money and and don't see the show.
Ya, went through a tough moment for the last 5-6 months, but i guess my luck is turning around
Posted By: sogtx
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/17/13 03:51 AM
Glad youre over the bump , sweet car !
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/17/13 07:46 PM
I knew it was going to well! Stumbled on a small electrical issue. Nothing major right now, but my blinkers for the right side wont work when the headlights are on and the left front wont work At all. I havnt had time yet to track anything but i suspect a ground issue.. At least thats what im hoping and that its not the switch. Really would like to avoid tearing the steering column apart. With my luck, id break the rim blow center cap... At least this wont hamper my taking it to mopars in the park..
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/25/13 12:50 AM
A/C is done! Blows freakin cold too! The car is now pretty well wrapped up.. I just need to figure out my turn signal electrrical bug and eventually buy wheel well trim and after that, i guess i cant think of anything else besides drive it
thanks for following my thread! I hope you enjoyed it and maybe even learned something!
. Stay tuned for when it hits the track
Posted By: 70440+6bbl
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 05/25/13 04:00 AM
Way to go Kevin, congrats!!! Stunning work.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 06/04/13 07:45 AM
Well, she made it out to the Mopars in the Park! got to see a lot of members and bs a bit
when I pulled into the show and parked on saturday, Rob Wolff was right behind me and asked to do a photo shoot and do an article on my car! that was pretty neat. also had 2 pretty serious offers to buy the car (not listed even?) so that was flattering as well. for being a plane jane looking roadrunner, I was surprised at the attention it got.. Also pissed me off, someone stole one of my valve stem extensions...
Had a great time though!!
Posted By: Three40
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 06/06/13 10:14 PM
WOW!!! Your Road Runner is stunning. Love the GW3 Bright White. Im glad collectors guide is doing an article on your car. It deserves it.Great combo with the white body, no vinyl top or over the roof stripe with the gold bench seat interior and a 340 with air. Glad to see a great 71 Road Runner get an over the top resto done to it. Are you planning on taking it to The Mopar Nats this year? Hope you do so I can check it out!
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 06/07/13 05:23 AM
Quote:
WOW!!! Your Road Runner is stunning. Love the GW3 Bright White. Im glad collectors guide is doing an article on your car. It deserves it.Great combo with the white body, no vinyl top or over the roof stripe with the gold bench seat interior and a 340 with air. Glad to see a great 71 Road Runner get an over the top resto done to it. Are you planning on taking it to The Mopar Nats this year? Hope you do so I can check it out!
Thank you! I was initially thinkjng about the nats, but i think in going to sturgis this year instead. I might take it to the fall indy show though!
Posted By: 70440+6bbl
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 06/07/13 06:45 PM
Quote:
Well, she made it out to the Mopars in the Park! got to see a lot of members and bs a bit when I pulled into the show and parked on saturday, Rob Wolff was right behind me and asked to do a photo shoot and do an article on my car! that was pretty neat. also had 2 pretty serious offers to buy the car (not listed even?) so that was flattering as well. for being a plane jane looking roadrunner, I was surprised at the attention it got.. Also pissed me off, someone stole one of my valve stem extensions... Had a great time though!!
That's great, proves that your hard work paid off. Sorry about the thief! I have a couple of original extensions. Not perfect, but if you need one, it will fill the bill. Let me know and I'll get one out to you ASAP.
Posted By: Road_RunnerSteve
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 06/07/13 07:21 PM
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 06/07/13 07:42 PM
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Kevin - was great meeting you this weekend. Here are the pics I shot of your car.
And thanks for the inspiration!
steve, it was really great meeting you and your family! i wish I could have had my son there, but it wasn't my weekend to have him.. great pictures btw! and I hope you talk to you again!
I have a couple of original extensions. Not perfect, but if you need one, it will fill the bill. Let me know and I'll get one out to you ASAP.
pm sent!
Posted By: DPelletier
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 06/07/13 08:29 PM
Beautiful car; great job!
Dave
Posted By: scatpacktom
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 06/07/13 09:57 PM
No plans to go to Martin MI for the summer FAST race? That's the way to see what she is really WORTH
Posted By: RUNCHARGER
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 06/07/13 11:31 PM
Great looking car. I agree it would be cool to see an ET with it.
Sheldon
Posted By: ryangtogtx
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 06/08/13 02:22 AM
Congrats Kevin! It turned out great. I wish I was going to be at the dealership this weekend for your dad's A100. Dean is a great guy and a good customer of ours. He & his wife bought a pink SRT8 Challenger from us and his son just bought a new Charger R/T a few months ago. BTW, if you see anyone selling any brand new Ram 20" wheels & tires, alert the police. Someone jacked up one of our trucks and got away with three of them on Wed. night. I think Rice Lake got hit too.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 06/08/13 10:17 AM
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Congrats Kevin! It turned out great. I wish I was going to be at the dealership this weekend for your dad's A100. Dean is a great guy and a good customer of ours. He & his wife bought a pink SRT8 Challenger from us and his son just bought a new Charger R/T a few months ago. BTW, if you see anyone selling any brand new Ram 20" wheels & tires, alert the police. Someone jacked up one of our trucks and got away with three of them on Wed. night. I think Rice Lake got hit too.
I will defiantly keep a look out. thieves are the absolute worst!! I have no clue why my dad bought a van! very out of our norm! I promise Ill bring the rr up there and visit in the near future, we'll keep in touch! as far as the FAST in michigan, Id love to go, but thats next weekend correct? I have to work next weekend, and a guy from the other shift quit, so Ill have to pick up some of his slack to boot. I will go if I can! Theres soo much I want to get done this summer, its ridiculous. the car should be making a visit to our local track in the near future also!
Posted By: mad car disease
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 06/09/13 05:53 AM
Kevin
you did a amazing job. hope my cuda comes out half as nice someday.
aaron
Posted By: johnrtse
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 07/21/13 12:05 AM
WOW! All I can say is WOW!!
You did a hell of a lot better resto on the RR than I could have. I wasn't able to get to Mopars in the Park this year to see it
It looks absolutely fantastic my friend- I'm glad that it went to someone who could really appreciate it and get it back to where it belongs.
Thanks for keeping me posted along the way Kevin
John
P.S. Any progress on the 70 Challenger RT/SE that I sold to your Dad?
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 07/22/13 02:59 AM
Quote:
WOW! All I can say is WOW!!
You did a hell of a lot better resto on the RR than I could have. I wasn't able to get to Mopars in the Park this year to see it
It looks absolutely fantastic my friend- I'm glad that it went to someone who could really appreciate it and get it back to where it belongs.
Thanks for keeping me posted along the way Kevin
John
P.S. Any progress on the 70 Challenger RT/SE that I sold to your Dad?
Nothin yet, im probably going to restore my 69 340 swinger next (have that on a different thread now) and that will occupy the shop. It will get done though by all means, stop out and take the bird for a spin sometime!!
Posted By: scatpacktom
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 07/22/13 02:59 PM
Are you going to the Nats? We have a lane for the FAST and Pure Stock cars.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 07/22/13 05:42 PM
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Are you going to the Nats? We have a lane for the FAST and Pure Stock cars.
I was planning on the nats, but my dad talked me into going to sturgis this year for the bike rally (same weekend). I am checking into and will be making plans on going to Norwalk for the fall ball deal in early September. The nats will be next year, my goal is to make 1 major mopar show a year other than mopars in the park in MN.
Posted By: mopars_1
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 02/10/14 03:10 AM
as Im sure most of you have seen, I've been trying to sell my roadrunner for the last few months. Last Thursday I had someone commit to buying her and sent a down payment. In 3 weeks I'll be hauling it down to it's new home in Ohio. This has been a bitter sweet adventure and I don't think it has really set in quite yet.
On a different note, I kept the FAST 340 and replaced it with a nice stock 340. My stroker motor will reside in my new project that I just picked up yesterday
Just got home from a trim to Missouri with a 71 340 duster that needs a lot of tlc, but when done it will be a phenomenal car!! originally it was equipped with nearly ever option I would have checked off when new including hemi orange, V24 blacked out hood, black vinyl top/ stripes, orange bucket seats w/ console, 3.91 gear, exhaust tips and rocker/ wheel well trim. other than a 4 speed, this is my dream car. My dad just pulled his 70 V code roadrunner in the shop to restore (my old car) so after its done, the duster will get a resurrection that I hope will be even better than the roadrunner.
Again, thanks to all who have gave me advise, encouragement and compliments through this journey. It's amazing what a person can do when you put your mind to something and I'm in every bit proud of what I have accomplished.
Posted By: smokes
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 02/19/14 05:42 PM
Man this car sure turned out really nice! It was nice to see a color that was different that the traditional high impact colors be restored. I actually kind of like the white and gold now because of this car. I can't wait to see what you do with your duster as I have a '71 I am going to be working on pretty quickly here! Very well done resto, you have lots to be proud of! Good for you for sticking with the 340, most everyone yanks them for a big block but they can still roll with the best of them.
Posted By: dangina
Re: Young Gun 1971 Roadrunner FAST 340 - 06/12/14 04:34 AM
its always nice to see a 71/72 restored
great job on the resto!
