Entry/Update Date: #1, 27 AUG 2013
Model: Gold Duster, under construction hodgepodge of shelf parts, junkyard scrounging and drag racing left overs
Year: 1974
Application: Hobby, Driver, Track days, Autocross
Engine: 365, ported Eddy RPM heads, RPM Airgap, 10.25:1
Estimate HP: 450ish, chassis dyno'd @ 406 hp & 421 tq before Eddy heads/Crane Gold rockers & compression bump
Trans: '75 iron case 4sp OD, Lakewood bell housing, billet flywheel, Centerforce "Dual Friction" clutch, Home built Hyd clutch conversion, Hurst "Pro Billet" shifter, E body Pistol grip, auto to 4sp hump conversion
Gears: stock
RA Ratio: Narrowed 8 3/4, 742, 3.55 sure grip, shortend & resplined C body axles, current Green bearings going back to Timken tapered rollers

Front Tire Size Brand Model: not purchased yet ?x15
Front Rim width: 15x7 4.0"BS
Rear tire Size Brand Model: MT "I" block N50 (give me a break they're all I have and I have 2 sets to wear out!)
Rear Rim Width: 15x10

Front TB Dia: .890s for now but going bigger
Front End brand: stock K fully welded & gusseted
Front Shocks: Hotchkis Fox - to be purchased
Front Sway bar Dia: Helwig 1.125 hollow
Urethane bushing where? Rear suspension, f/r shocks, front swaybar
UCA: OEM w/ Moog K7103 offset bushings
TR: OEM 9/16" to be replaced by 11/16"
Strut Rods: Dillinger chromemoly adjustable
LCA Reinforcement? Full length plate
Caster/Camber/Toe: TBD per board recommendations

Rear Leaf Suspension Model Rate: NA
Aftermarket Suspension: Home built Triangulated 4 Link, 1.5" tubes, mini tub with lower 4 link mounts "in frame"
Shocks: Strange single adjustable w/ current QA1 150# springs to be matched with eventual TB selection
Adj Setting: Compression
Rear Sway bar Dia: NA

Front Brakes: OEM single piston B body caliper, braided DOT hoses
Brand Pad: Wagner 1CM7017 severe duty carbon metalic
Rotor Dia Width: Reybestos 11.75 x 1.0
Caliper Piston: 2.75"
Cooling Ducts: yes

Rear Brakes: OEM '85 New Yorker finned drum
Drum Size Dia Width: 10 x 2.5

Rotor Dia Width: not yet
Caliper: dito above
Parking Brake: yes, OEM w/ modifications

MC: OEM, Power disk off '85 New Yorker w/ 2 to 4 bolt adapter
Booster: rebuilt OEM '74 A body
Dual Circuit Dia: 1 1/32"
Proportioning Valve: OEM '74 disk w/ aftermarket bias adjuster plumbed in rear line
Brake Fluid: None selected yet, high wet boiling point due to NW climate

Steering: Firm Feel Stage 3, Saginaw pump, cooler plumbed into return line, floor shift power steering column conversion

Chassis OEM
Subframe Connectors: Home built 2x3" .120 wall welded & tied into rockers
Torque Boxes: no
Roll bar, Roll Cage: none at this time, designing seat harness bar behind front buckets, rear seat delete option
Aftermarket stiffeners: Homemade 2x3 .120 wall lower radiator cross bar, lowered & widened for 28" aluminum radiator, OEM firewall to fender struts tied into homemade shock tower brace

Comments: Hope I didn't ruffle feathers posting a car in progress

1. Best above improvement:

2. Least effective above improvement: definitely tires and rims!

3. Next improvement Likely: definitely tires and rims!, uprated TB's w/ matching rear coil springs, ultimately fuel injection & Jamie P's 5 speed if unhappy with 4sp OD

4. Above car handles IMO on a 1-10 ( 10 best Z06, 1 yugo): 10 sitting on jack stands VROOM - VROOM!

5. My satisfaction with handing of above car 1-10: 0 right now