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68 Hemi Super Bee clone

Posted By: DaveDudek

68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/23/11 12:59 AM



















Here`s she`s in PPG DP primer and the work will begin.. :63


Posted By: johnscudashop

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/23/11 02:03 AM

Looks great!!! Doesn't look like there is any rust. What are the details on the drivetrain and color. One of my favorite B-bodies
Posted By: DaveDudek

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/23/11 02:11 AM

Baddest stock blueprinted Hemi i`m capable of building, column shift auto, Black exterior with black bench seat interior, red stripe and redline tires. Because of the solid cam, light weight and rear overhang I believe this car is the sharpest tool the Mopar camp has in it`s shed for Pure Stock/Factory Stock racing. We will see..
Posted By: NV69B7RR

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/23/11 04:24 AM

Ohh man I can't wait to see how this turns out!! Lookin good so far.
Posted By: ArcticCuda

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/23/11 09:47 PM

Wow! That is one of the most solid bodies I have ever seen!

Keep pics comings. Thanks! Pepe
Posted By: JS29R0B

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/24/11 06:00 PM

This is gonna be AWESOME!
Posted By: Three40

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/24/11 10:12 PM

Hey Dave, I told you its hard to beat that Texas sheet metal!!! Looks great cant wait to see that bad boy tearing up the Pure Stock Drags.That car will look sinister in black with the red bumble bee stripe. Two thumbs up bud. Wish I was still in Michigan to look at up close.
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/24/11 11:57 PM

Wow, what a pristine shell to start with!
Posted By: OrangeProwler

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/25/11 02:20 PM

Wow I miss dry sheetmetal. That's a really clean start. That thing is so solid it makes me want to crush my car since I'm picky.
Posted By: aspenrt360

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/25/11 04:07 PM

gotta agree that is the cleanest shell i have ever seen!
Posted By: DaveDudek

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/25/11 07:42 PM

Thanks guy's.. I'll post some pictures when we progress. Right now just sanding primer on her belly..
Posted By: ScottSmith_Harms

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/25/11 08:33 PM

Super sanno install job on the Hemi plates, etc. Dave
Posted By: jrwoodjoe

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/25/11 08:51 PM

MAN, is that car solid!! Looks like you are on your way to having something nice Dave. Keep the updates coming.

Joe
Posted By: DPelletier

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/25/11 11:33 PM

I knew that car was solid, but it's sure nice to see it all nekid like that!


Dave
Posted By: 440jimr

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/26/11 04:35 AM

Dave,
Do you feel that the air grabber is not worth the weight or are there other weight differences between the 68s and 69s?
Posted By: DaveDudek

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/26/11 12:17 PM

I`d say the Air Grabber is not worth the weight, I always wished i could pull it off the Roadrunner but the rules of FAST would not allow it, at this time i`m unsure of the other differences but the NHRA stock class has the 69 about 100lbs heavier than a 68.
Posted By: 440jimr

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/26/11 06:00 PM

Thanks,
I've often wondered about that. I guess I should have said ramcharger instead of air grabber since it's a Dodge.
Another question I have is about the black paint and interior. Black is my favorite color on any vehicle but I wonder if the reflective qualities of a lighter color would be beneficial to keep the car cooler? In other words, would a light colored car ET better?
Posted By: Troy

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/27/11 07:00 AM

Quote:

Thanks,
Black is my favorite color on any vehicle but I wonder if the reflective qualities of a lighter color would be beneficial to keep the car cooler? In other words, would a light colored car ET better?



I think a good coat of wax on the paint will allow the car to cut the wind better so that will offset the heat retention of the paint color.

But to be honest with you...you might have a point there. I know many stock, super stock racers don't paint there engines just for that very reason.
Posted By: DPelletier

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/27/11 04:17 PM

Quote:

Thanks,
I've often wondered about that. I guess I should have said ramcharger instead of air grabber since it's a Dodge.
Another question I have is about the black paint and interior. Black is my favorite color on any vehicle but I wonder if the reflective qualities of a lighter color would be beneficial to keep the car cooler? In other words, would a light colored car ET better?



I agree that the Ramcharger's benefit doesn't offset the added weight. No the paint color of the car doesn't make any difference.

Dave
Posted By: Tommy The Chryco

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/27/11 07:48 PM

totally agree!!
Posted By: 383man

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 10/31/11 04:18 AM

Wow is that looking good. One solid car. Cant wait to see it all done. Ron
Posted By: 440jimr

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 11/10/11 01:38 AM

Hey Dave,
Any new pics or updates?
Posted By: Troy

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 11/10/11 04:28 AM

Quote:

Hey Dave,
Any new pics or updates?




LOL...you read my mind!!
Posted By: domingo

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 11/27/11 03:19 AM

Man, that body shell is cherry!!!

Are you building it for FAST or for pure stock?
Posted By: 68KillerBee

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 12/14/11 06:41 AM

Any updates...
Posted By: DaveDudek

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 12/15/11 01:35 PM

Yes, give me a day or two and i`ll post the updated pictures..
Posted By: JS29R0B

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 12/27/11 02:57 PM

Come on Dave we need pics!
Posted By: 440jimr

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 12/28/11 08:19 PM

x2
Posted By: Troy

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 01/02/12 10:44 PM

.....x3
Posted By: rayztoy

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 01/07/12 03:26 PM

Quote:

Come on Dave we need pics!



Posted By: 72N96RR

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 01/09/12 04:36 AM

sexiest rear end on 99% of all Mopars ever built..

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Posted By: JohnRR

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 01/09/12 06:42 AM

Quote:

Yes, give me a day or two and i`ll post the updated pictures..



Been almost a month now ...
Posted By: drmopar

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 01/09/12 07:14 PM

He has been busy working on a max wedge car, his old black GTX (read road runner) and about a million other peoples hemi's. Iam sure he will chime in soon!
Posted By: JS29R0B

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 01/09/12 07:49 PM

I hope so!
Posted By: Troy

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 01/10/12 12:43 AM

Posted By: DaveDudek

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 01/25/12 07:13 PM

I finally found a worthy rust free hood..




Here`s some shots of the body, this is the last coat of primer, once she`s blocked paint will be following shortly..












The upper and lower control arms were so nice i left them bare metal just like the factory. Didn`t sand blast or wire wheel them, i simply hit them with metal cleaner and they came out this mint..




The brake pedal assembly is also bare metal, not painted cast iron gray. This car was super clean... and the tail light are original chrome and very nice.



Correct Hemi cross member..
Posted By: drmopar

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 01/25/12 07:38 PM

That is one thing you will never see with a repop quarter panel is the body line in the middle of the panel. It is very nice to find such a solid car to work with. Iam sorry that the " machine " is playing games with pricing Dave.
Posted By: JS29R0B

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 01/25/12 10:26 PM

Lookin GREAT keep those pics coming!
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 01/26/12 09:07 AM

Car is looking good Dave! You better not paint it black though, you may catch hell!
Posted By: drmopar

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 01/26/12 02:17 PM

Quote:

Car is looking good Dave! You better not paint it black though, you may catch hell




Good times!
Posted By: ScottSmith_Harms

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 01/26/12 02:59 PM

Dave looking sanitary just like all of your other builds! NICE!

*What did you use as a metal cleaner for those control arms? Those things look spotless!
Posted By: 68427vette

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 01/26/12 03:09 PM

teh body work is superb must be ruff working on such nice cars!! awswome build!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted By: domingo

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 01/26/12 04:33 PM

What a nice body, the suspension arms are just amazing. Mint!

Will look killer im sure.
Posted By: 440jimr

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 01/26/12 06:56 PM

Sweeeet! That's going to be a beautiful car!
Posted By: DaveDudek

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 03/09/12 06:49 PM










Posted By: DaveDudek

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 03/09/12 06:59 PM

Posted By: JS29R0B

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 03/09/12 07:11 PM

Wow it is lookin GREAT!
Posted By: ricks_RR

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 03/09/12 08:23 PM

that is awesome but i am glad you are going to be polishing it




ricks_RR
Posted By: big-block-dave

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 03/11/12 08:08 AM

WOW Dave, that looks like GLASS, might be TOO fragile to race!!!!!!
Posted By: cdp

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 03/11/12 04:37 PM

Just goes to show you that it pays to start out with a rock solid body!

Are you going to share any details on the Hemi build?
Posted By: DaveDudek

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 03/11/12 09:35 PM

I just might post the engine build pictures and dyno results. Basically a blueprinted stock type build.
Posted By: LimeliteAero

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 03/12/12 01:31 PM

Quote:

I just might post the engine build pictures and dyno results. Basically a blueprinted stock type build.



Posted By: Troy

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 03/19/12 07:16 AM

Very cool ride!!
Posted By: DaveDudek

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/24/12 02:26 AM

Fresh back from paint, started assembling her Monday, more pictures to come. Snapped this picture with my cell phone before i left for work..

Posted By: 71DemonRON

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/24/12 02:42 AM

VERY NICE !
Posted By: Hemi ragtop

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/24/12 12:27 PM

Quote:

I just might post the engine build pictures and dyno results. Basically a blueprinted stock type build.



Please do! I am shure a lot of us would love to know what a "stock" HEMI was capable of!

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Posted By: moparclown

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/25/12 12:45 AM

That looks incredible
Will I see it at the Fall Musclepalooza at LVD?
(I am the guy that had the red 69 fastback with the small block crossram)
Posted By: ScottSmith_Harms

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/25/12 01:36 AM

Dave that Bee is looking Bad Azz! NICE!
Posted By: JS29R0B

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/25/12 03:15 PM

Very Nice....
That cell phone takes a good pic!
Posted By: drmopar

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/25/12 05:03 PM

Believe it or not, he is trying to have the car done for the mopar nats!
Posted By: JS29R0B

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/25/12 05:35 PM

To Race or Show? or Both?
Posted By: DaveDudek

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/25/12 06:24 PM

OK, exactly one week in... No show, race only, I`m gonna make the Nats god willing and I will be at LVD..



























Posted By: 68427vette

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/25/12 07:41 PM

NICE!!

looks awsome,, someones
credit card is on FIRE!!

SWEET!!
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/25/12 09:41 PM

Im loving the 11 second factory stock decal on the back window already. LOL C'mon Dave give me mine now too then!
Posted By: 68KillerBee

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/25/12 11:09 PM

Coming together good! Awesome color choices.

You should do this with it too at the Nationals! https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/show...e=3#Post7260939
Posted By: 493RT

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/26/12 02:47 AM

AWESOME !!! Love the Red Lines...
Posted By: big-block-dave

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/26/12 06:38 AM

Dave, super super SWEEEEEET looking. Hopefully i'll be at LVD to see it in person!!!
Posted By: drmopar

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/26/12 05:17 PM

Impressive progress Dave and Mr. D! Hard to believe its going together so fast.
Posted By: DaveDudek

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/26/12 08:28 PM

Another cell phone picture, but she's on the ground and engine assembly will start tomorrow..

Posted By: mopars_1

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/26/12 09:16 PM

dear lord.. I think this is now my current favorite car...
Posted By: Dan Halen

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/26/12 11:58 PM

That car is SCHWEEEEEET!

Are you running anywhere in the Mid Atlantic area this year, I'd love

to see that thing in person.
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/27/12 04:57 AM

Every time you sell a car I think "What is that guy thinking?!?"

Then you build something even more badass!

Then I realize, "...okay, that's what he was thinking!"


Very nice!
Posted By: Dartnut

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/27/12 10:14 AM

What an awesome build!
My hat's off to you for the incredible attention to detail.
Can't wait for more pics!
Posted By: 68KillerBee

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/27/12 12:39 PM

Don't forget, these F.A.S.T. cars would likely win their classes in car shows and still run the low 1/4 mile numbers they do. It's mindblowing.
Posted By: JS29R0B

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/27/12 01:20 PM

It would be killer to see the Roadrunner and the Bee lined up against each other...Wonder which one would be faster?
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/27/12 01:36 PM

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It would be killer to see the Roadrunner and the Bee lined up against each other...Wonder which one would be faster?



The road runner was a F.A.S.T car, this super bee will be a factory stock car. 2 different animals. The road runner went 9.98 @ 139 mph. The fastest factory stock hemi car has gone 11.35 @ 124 so far.

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Posted By: JS29R0B

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/27/12 03:23 PM

Oh well Dave could do a fun run and give him a few lights.
The Roadrunner is a wicked car.I still miss the purple Challenger.
Posted By: drmopar

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/27/12 03:55 PM

Keep your eyes open for Hot Rods Drag week coverage, I am sure you will see a certain "Road Runner" in the action. It conquered FAST and now going on Drag Week action.
Posted By: DaveDudek

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/28/12 10:12 PM

Posted By: hemi68charger

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/28/12 11:51 PM

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Another cell phone picture, but she's on the ground and engine assembly will start tomorrow..





Wow !!!! She's awesome........
Posted By: JS29R0B

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/29/12 01:30 PM

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Nice Truck!
Nothing beats Black done correctly
Posted By: big-block-dave

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/29/12 11:07 PM

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OMG Dave, don't race that car of GLASS she might shatter!!! That's some paint job!!!!
Posted By: DaveDudek

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 06/30/12 12:55 AM

Martin & Keith at the Paint Machine get the credit for the paint work. They got me in & out and i left happy.
Posted By: srt

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 07/01/12 01:53 AM

Great car/build!
I don't believe there can be a better platform for the purpose
Posted By: 383man

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 07/01/12 12:55 PM

That is stunning Dave. What a beauty. Ron
Posted By: domingo

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 08/05/12 10:04 PM

wow.
nice....

and it came together real fast.

hats off.
Posted By: drmopar

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 08/08/12 04:04 PM

I have seen the car and it is absolutely gorgeous. Dave and Dave Sr. did a great job and it makes VERY good power, I hope with the projected cooler temps on Friday and Saturday at NTR that Dave gets some strong 11 sec time slips. I can not devulge how much power it made at the wheels, but it is right at the top of the heap with the other hemi cars in PS.

Posted By: pettyblue440

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 08/08/12 04:45 PM

how about a spy shot or do we have to wait until friday?
Posted By: drmopar

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 08/08/12 04:53 PM

Just picture a near perfect black hemi 68 bee with redlines, dog dish caps on black steel wheels. That is the car. He will be at the track tomorrow.
Posted By: 69Cuda340S

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 08/09/12 03:25 AM

Wow that car is stunning...
Posted By: UCUDANT

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 08/09/12 04:22 AM

Posted By: DaveDudek

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 08/12/12 08:07 PM

Here`s some finished shot`s I took over the weekend.



















Posted By: JDMopar

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 08/13/12 02:36 AM

I saw it yesterday,sitting in the pits. The pictures are nice, but they just don't do it justice. That car is awesome,and all of your hard work certainly shows.
Posted By: ogopogo

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 08/13/12 03:07 AM

I am AMAZED how quickly some people on this board can put a show car together,I must be all thumbs

Super sweet car awesome !
Posted By: drmopar

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 08/13/12 04:01 AM

11.38@123 also!
Posted By: JS29R0B

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 08/13/12 02:00 PM

FREAKIN AWESOME
Posted By: v8punch

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 08/13/12 04:26 PM

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FREAKIN AWESOME

Posted By: 69Cuda340S

Re: 68 Hemi Super Bee clone - 08/14/12 01:32 AM

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