Dang, never mind the power, that's some torque. Car looks nostalgically sharp with a nice rake. You should be able to reach 3200 easily in your sleep. After that, the bug may bite you to go to no-mans land like I did and find all the hidden ounces. I would suggest to gut the doors sparingly and leave the windows, locks and opening mechanisms to function like stock. You would be surprised on how much can be gutted and still function like stock. I'm about to install my year one A-990 door panels soon, so I'll photograph the internals and inner skin to show how it can be done. Suggest chrom-moly roll bar or cage. About a 30-50 lbs savings depending on how many points it ends up being.
Have you removed all of the undercoating/ sound dead material?
Love the "Color me Gone" theme paint.
Lee, thanks! You're the 1st one to notice the Color Me Gone theme. The previous owner did the blue "Ramcharger" stripes (didn't know that was a Dodge, I guess) so I left them on.
Please do post door innards, that could be my next step.
Looks like I'm going with the Caltrac setup & monoleafs. Should shed another 20# or so. I've had them before on other cars, but never compared the weights.
I'll have to save my beans for the new cage ($2000)- maybe next year. Ya see, my other currect project is a 426 Hemi Duster. I'm on the same war path on losing weight (especially on the nose to compensate for the Hemi).
On a side note- I'm having to save many beans for the Foose 18" Rallye wheels (called Challenger) for the Duster. Um, yeah they are $700 a pop! You should ride the black chrome hoops- they are hot!!
I can't recall if you have- or are needing the aluminum bumper brackets? Jeff can hook you up shortly. Mine are his prototypes.
'70 Cuda "Badfish 2"- in the works
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