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fast 71 gtx #171615
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this is cool ...
nice addition to the site heres my current one of 4 projects .

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Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171616
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after as weekend of soft scrub

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engine compartment before anything

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After a little detailing, what a sore sight

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drove it around til the snow flew and then took it apart ..

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Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171620
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after as weekend of soft scrub




Looks like you scrubbed the chrome right off the bumper

Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: VITC_GTX] #171621
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The rubber bumpars was an add I forgot to post , dont worry theres more...

Alittle bit of TLC to teh engine compartment

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Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171622
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Then one day Dave Dudeks old FAST motor came up for sale on Moparts



The one that he beat up the Buick with

http://www.hotrod.com/eventcoverage/hrdp_0702_hemi_vs_buick/results.html

Wow what a great way to kill myself , Ill install this may as well be Pro Stock motor in my sappy little GTX ...

The Kids starting College , I have one unfinished project ..

But this FAST class is so cool ..

So Ill just drop in this motor complete in my Kframe and whip some but ..

Ha Ha .. Everything is so Easy ..

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Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171623
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So I spent most of my money from the sale of this car ..

to build this car .. Am I nuts ..

No girls at Englishtown are going to pose in front of the orange turd

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Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171624
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So -- it wasnt as easy as I thought ,

The transaction ended up being a little skewed ..

( I didnt buy it from Dave )

It didnt look anything like the picture ..

So Dudek cleaned things up for me a little bit.

Meanwhile how is my turd car gonna hold up to all this HP .

So in went the cage .

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Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171625
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While all the gears are spinning in my head the 72 Car came out of paint ..

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Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171626
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Awesome project man! Love those FAST cars too...I will be looking for it next season if you have it...

Steve

Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171627
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The Only reason Im starting this post is because its way too cold outside ..

We had to start an air grabber factory with all the stuff going on ..

The BEA stuff is OK , but it is not like for like with the original stuff.

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Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171628
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i hear you on the coldness. Last winter i was next to outside and used air tools to grind was horrible, you freeze your hands off. I was almost relieved when i would get burnt welding as i would distract me from the coldness

Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: HemiChallenger] #171629
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heres a cool pic ..

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Meanwhile Im easily distracted .. One Saturday spent picking up this car, boy was it worth it $ 100

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Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171631
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slowly but surely parts are coming together

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Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171632
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My goal was to make it Novembers Englishtown Event

Thank god it got rained out .. nothing ever fits like its supposed to ..

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Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171633
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Fireball Transmission in canada made me a bulletproof tranny

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The Fuel System drove me nuts ..

Find a quiet pump and hide it somewhere

put the right filters in

run and buy a new AN fitting everytime teh one you thought would work Didnt .

I dint run hose everywwhere , a majority was hardpiped ..

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Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171635
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Pretty cool car you're putting together. You'll have a lot of fun hanging out with the guys who run the FAST class. Keep the photos coming.

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Nice project!!

Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171637
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Quote: While all the gears are spinning in my head the 72 Car came out of paint ..

What is that color? GA4?

Looks great!


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Looks good Andy!

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Quote: While all the gears are spinning in my head the 72 Car came out of paint ..

What is that color? GA4?

Looks great!




Yes Winchester Grey

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So as I posted before Im having problems with the shumaker mounts and arruzza mounts .. new kframe on the way ..

SInce i cant do any furtehr work til the motors in , its time to restart and patch the rear quarters ..

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Quote:

Quote:

Quote: While all the gears are spinning in my head the 72 Car came out of paint ..

What is that color? GA4?

Looks great!




Yes Winchester Grey




Great work, I like that color. My '71 SSP is GA4, I like it!! Mine is ready for a repaint though, it's pretty faded.

Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: VITC_GTX] #171642
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So the cars practically together ..
I have a month to kill before my new kframe comes in.. I figured I d patch the rear quarters..

My painter came over and said he needed some fast cash .. He wants to straighten shoot the whole car .. So much for my survivor scheme ..

If the car wasnt as rugged, I woudla left it

So from last Sunday til today I prepped the car ..

It is friggin cold in the barn , but the cars going to get a new paintjob .

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Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171643
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By the way Im gonna write a book on how to waste money while restoring a car .. or how to restore a car backwards .. or something of the sort ..

Im gonna be rich .. If you guys only knew what I went through before i gave in and agreed to let the car get painted ..

pinstriping , color matching , etc etc ..

By the way . you guys with winches got it made ..

Whielk I was letting my beer muscles relax .. I figured Id take a shot to let you know how good you have it with that Warn winch .

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And now my clean shop is CLUTTERED with all the stuff off the orange car..

I told the painter .. ONE MONTH , It needs to be done ..

Id dont know where im gonna stash all this stuff ..

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Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171645
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Time for another car....you know, just to keep the stuff in
Jim

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Id dont know where im gonna stash all this stuff ..



I'll get that engine out of the way for you.


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Strange thread - kinda hard to follow

So, you had the orange one, then bought the blue one and painted it grey? Which engine is going where?

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Quote:

Strange thread - kinda hard to follow

So, you had the orange one, then bought the blue one and painted it grey? Which engine is going where?




Grey one was in shop for paint .. started resto 2006
Got bored waiting so I bought the orange one .. 2007

Now Im two in the hole 2009

Orange One will be ready to race for April
Hemi Stroker - anticipated F.A.S.T. class car

Gumetal One is work in progress .. Stroker 440
with six pack Bob K secret cam and passon alum 4 speed bolted in with an Alterkation .
This one is anticipated to kick Quads butt in his
Watkins Glen AAR cuda
But only if I pay attention to detail .. Tom
( still want to sell your car or ? )

sorry so vague didnt think id get publicity from others that dont know the insanity ive created for myself .

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Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171649
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your making me jealous having 2 of the best looking cars ever made. some day i hope to add another to park next to mine. good luck on your insanity plea.

clem

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in the body shop 1 month eh ..

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Looks like they had enough paint left over to put a stripe on the wall. J/K, looks great!! I'll have to cruise up and check out your collection now that I'm off for the winter and extremely bored... as long as you and Quad don't haze me.

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If your running out of space,I have room for a Hemi.

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Looks like they had enough paint left over to put a stripe on the wall. J/K, looks great!! I'll have to cruise up and check out your collection now that I'm off for the winter and extremely bored... as long as you and Quad don't haze me.




bobo - the fraternity days are way past us ..

WHERE IS YOUR PROJECT CAR >>>>>>>>>> ??????????

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stopped by to check on progress yesterday

getting prepped for cancer removal on the lower parts of the car ..

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hes got two weeks left for his month promise ..

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lil bit more

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treatment succesful

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really wanted to try the amd patch panels . i really couldnt justify $ 369 each

My poor pinstripe

just got back from the shop to spray out a panel .. cant any paint supplier get it right the ev2 looked like diarrhea ..

i returned the paint to the ppg salesmans home doorstep at 9:20 PM friday nite ..

guess what hes remixing saturday morning on his wifes birthday and day off




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actually it looked like dog poop with metallic in it

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I hope it doesn't cut into your time frame

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it did but well see , im on the list for april 25th

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Keep pluging away Andy

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hemi is in the real kframe ..

( should listened to you John RR )

everything was parallel right off the bat and set the motor back 1/2" on my jig than with the schumaker and arruzza mounts ..

paint match was done this am

i hope the wife and kid let me roll up my sleeves and get to work at home

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Nice projects! If times get any tougher we may have to sell our 71 project, one family owned since day one, B5 blue 340 Roadrunner. It's all tore apart and in boxes now.

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Looks good Andy!
At first glance I thought he was doing more than one car.
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Thanks Jim ..


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its back , not rubbed completely , but he went on vacation and i refused to let it sit one more week ..

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The kframe and hemi slid in like planned , finally a level engine ..

I still had to pull the valve cover on the passenger side .. I have to assume they did that in the factory , i just dont see how the steering box would clear without shifting the engine to the passenger side as far as possible ..

rear end went in ,
wheels on
drive shaft safety hoop

The hemi kframe pushed my engine back one whole inch .. arruzzas mounts would not clear the battery tray , and neither did shumakers ..

I really thought my car was tweaked ..
Nothing really beats this real hemi kframe ..

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its back , not rubbed completely , but he went on vacation and i refused to let it sit one more week ..





I don't blame you. By the time he's back you can have an AWFUL lot done on the rest of it! It's shaping up pretty nicely by the looks of it!


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The least you can do is go out a buy a digital camera and put that disposable camera in the trash.... It is a HEMI not a vega, get some good pictures of it not ones that look like you are taking them through a fish tank.....


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Nick your just sour cause i called you at 530 AM yesterday .. you need a nap

the painters the phone pic guy ..

im to blame on the last one .. i left my cam at work , but i picked it up on the way home from dinner last nite ...

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Ok Nick , heres the non fishbowl look ..

hes a messy undercoater , i wasnt trying to hide anything .. the painter just had to reundercoat it

Only added app 1.25 lbs .. now I have a mess to clean .. Itll look good when it ages ..

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much better, now you can continue.....


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Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171678
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Looking great Andy, i may be in need of your painter someday! Did the pin stripe picture help you out?
Jim

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havent laid it out yet but the more info the better .,

I cant beleive the abuse . after all the effort and aggravation with the 440 kframe schumaker arruzzas and now the real hemi kframe ,.. I found a REAL hemi kframe 15 miles from my house ..

needless to say I bought it ,, he also happened to have 71 bbody stuff

got near to nOS 71 gtx wheel opening mouldings too from the same guy ..

Original takeoffs

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Hey, I just found this post !! Where in the HE%@ have I been. Looks great , Andy. Glad I am not going back to stock with my Arruzza's. Sorry. Going to be a killer, boy. Sweet pics(after Nick got you going)..


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Anuther Fishbowl shot

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been busy , first race the 25th .. really hope I make it .. Im trashing along ...

took friday off to get some stuff done ..

Thought I was gonna get her fired on Saturday , But .. was Missing This ..

thank god for imperial parts cars ..

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This is what happens when you dont have that !

Ask me how I know , but not on this car .. Not this time .

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Has anyone else put a high torque starter on a Hemi and tried to keep the stock positive battery cable
wit the proper routing .. ???

yes I know I have some touch up paint to do , only three kframe changes later .

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This is the result , will have to do for now until evans makes me a real harness - thats longer .

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getting there ..

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Its Easter and the management forbid me to work on the car before easter family dinner
I coulda Slid the carpet in and seats ..

so this is how she sits ..

Well see what I can sneak in befor family shows up to eat all the food ..

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I know the feeling, you just need to wake up earlier or make sure your invited guests are interested in your project.
It's coming along nice, where are you planning on racing on the 25th?
Jim

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got fuel pressure ...lines are all tite

house is clean , yard is clean , its 1145 guests at 2 What else can I sneak in :think

uh oh I forgot to put the whine and beer in the fridge , Im geting yelled at gotta go

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I had to do all that too, while finding excuses to sneak in the Masters and the Rangers game. I did use the dogs to get in the garage to do some quick things throughout the day. If it wasn't a challenge, would it be as much fun

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Come on already! Get that thing out in the sunlight where we can see it. And a few smokey burn out pics would be nice too.

Car looks great. Can't wait to see the time results and magazine coverage of the FAST and PURESTOCK events.

I have a Ralley Red 71 GTX with AG/auto that I wanted to do this too. Even picked up a 71 Hemi block.

My A12 is in line 1st though.

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runs and drives and idles Quite nicely
tomorrow will be the shakedown ride ..

no major leaks . All seems to be holding up ..

It paid off to do a couple things over and take my time on other things , she started with one blip of the key and idled

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Messy Pinstripe is done ..........

The imperfections are in plain view in person ..

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Looks hot Andy Can't wait to see it Lets make some smoke

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Tom Had a great weekend without showing off some burnouts , However when everyone left the track Dudek showed me how it should be driven ..

I need some instrumentation to get it perfect ..

and because I have to make stuff difficult , Ill have the laptop next to me showing me my lack of fuel pressure through the LM1 ... I cant believe I may need to put two pumps in



I think this is the nicest pic Ive ever taken .

Wish I wouldnt have had the fuel pressure gage ducttaped to the window , can anyone photochop that out ?

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havent posted since maple grove been up to my ankles in work , family , etc ..

since maple grove , i simplified my fuel system wih a deadhead aeromotive pump repiped and seems to work ok

installed a nordskopf fuel gage that can trigger the kenne belle if the fuel pressure gets low and triggers a lite on the tach .

msd in the heater box

put in a kenn belle boostapump to the msd and fuel pump

new/used leaf springs with front lowering hangers

I figured that i would have a baseline to start from at carlisle so i didnt ballast the trunk .


Smoke all the way down the track .



it was fun though .. so i hope anyone doesnt think that a killer hemi and a nice paint job will get you a trophy .

lots of r &d left ...

Not too many participants at the race for the shootout ... come on guys use these cars what they were built for !

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the car does do nice burnouts

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geeze, that is seriously a sick looking gtx!

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What are your ET's? And what is your set up as far as trans and gears?

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What are your ET's? And what is your set up as far as trans and gears?




My ETS were junk , I speculate 12's until I figure out how to launch the car

Regular tranny with some safety mods and good clutches 410 DANA rear .. Its a real Super Trak Pak

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can you post some more pics of the GTX please


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can you post some more pics of the GTX please




I beg! This is one of my favorite cars on moparts!

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I havent had the opportunity to take any pics of the car in a while too busy tuning , tweaking..

I appreciate the requests , great to know that if isnt a cuda or challenger , people may want to see pics !

This is what I started with though

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And four body drops later a real hemi kframe really is better than conversion mounts

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And this is the crusty car I started with

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do you have any pics of the airgrabber setup ?

how much money do they go for ?


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real ag setup on this one ...

but you can cut your own hood and get parts from mike at http://www.beaparts.com/

OR http://www.n96airgrabber.com/

search for wilsons retorations also ..

you can probably get Everything , Original you need

for less than 3K ( expensive )

Or probably less than 1600 NIC hood , you can modify a flat hood ..

This is a picture of an air grabber factory

If youre creative with sheetmetal , you can definitely cut your own hood.

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Ok this last pic pic taken yesterday ..

Got an email from this guy yesterday who wants a shoot , I like the bikinis but dont want anyone crawling all over my car .

http://www.rochesterracing.com/forum/gallery.php

Next Post will be a pic of 11 sec timeslip ,

If I get to that , and if I really get enthusiastic and spend some more money I could only dream of 10's .

Thanks for nice comments ,gotta figure out how to make this car hook and off to finish My Sunroof car

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Almost Done , Is it ever ?

Every Ounce counts

These repop valve cover will soon look like 71 's

Theyre truly 1.71 lbs lighter than stock and clear the big stands ..

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some hole sawing and tigging and wrinkle paint ,
I should save about $ 400 for a set of repop 71 covers ..

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Come on already! Get that thing out in the sunlight where we can see it. And a few smokey burn out pics would be nice too.

Car looks great. Can't wait to see the time results and magazine coverage of the FAST and PURESTOCK events.

I have a Ralley Red 71 GTX with AG/auto that I wanted to do this too. Even picked up a 71 Hemi block.

My A12 is in line 1st though.




forget the a12 ... This is where its at

Hows This.......................

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More improvements ..

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How do you like the Wilwood discs on the front?

I've installed them in the '63 but it hasn't moved under it's own power yet.

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the wilwoods stop the 2 tons well ..

i forgot after installing the wilwood setup
now its 3900 #

it saved some weight .. , not a hundred but its considerably lighter than stock ..

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the scale im using must be wrong i was at 4080 lbs at martin

I have to go on a diet ...

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the scale im using must be wrong i was at 4080 lbs at martin

I have to go on a diet ...




You were 4080??! What did the car weigh? LOL!

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4080 - 225 ( )


Oh and Tom Cannon smoked me - three times technically ,

actually I smoked myself ..

The best I could do was 12 and small change ..
Dave ran it to 11.84 for me on a hot lap .

I have a lot of things to square away ,

Best Time I had in a while .. Martin was a blast.

If I didnt spend so much time cooling the car down between runs -coulda made a zillion passes during test and tune ..

Martin was a great time .. The track wasnt as sticky as we wished but , it was fun ..

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Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: sogtx] #171720
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Andy,

Tuxedo or Camo? Show or Go? Prom Shoes or Army Boots? Get on that diet and I'll see you in the next round.

Re: fast 71 gtx [Re: scatpacktom] #171721
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Nationals came and went , cant find the time slip but car went a 11.80 something .. and it WAS HOT out. You cant just put a big motor in and expect to go fast.
So after watching and learning for the past two years , I hope to see consistent 11.50's with a few weight savings and some winter modifications to the engine and some more camo so Mr Cannon can become VERY familiar with GTX tailite bezels.
( If I had Toms rt's , I could put a 440 back in it , I need some serious seat time, so if I cant react quickly enuff, I hope some more HP and weight will smoke the competition )
I have some serious weight saving strategies for the winter. Hope to be skinny in the spring.
Wish I could play some more this year , But have to get to work on the Sunroof Car and pay attention to some other junk. To be continued Spring 2011.






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Killing some timee here , well time flies, more family health/funeral(s),etc issues put a damper on play time. Im trying to be supportful and pay attention to home stuff and figures - weve also been buried at work.

update 2011
Decided winter 2010 that the engine had to come out.
Dave built a more aggressive motor for me and It worked out well. Except you NEED race gas to go anywhere .. IF you want to play on the street . Two times out a year is not enuff fun.
If you want to chance driving a race motor on the street for a distance .

http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d34/DaveDudek/?action=view&current=100_7351.mp4

So it runs good but i couldnt leave well enuff alone.

New 8 3/4 with a spool
New cal trak monoleafs

The car is now an animal. More than ever before.

So I Get to carlisle, and spun the balencer. Spent WAY too much time realizing what had happened. Couldnt guess at the timing , BUT I decided to run it anyway ....

Guess who i get paired up with again fOr the slippery 1/8th , Tom c. ....... Almost killed myself on that track.

Couldnt get the car to run right and guessed on the timing. So i didnt abuse it.
( when i gOt home and swapped dampeners i realized i was at 5 deg initial- maybe 12 total lol... )


So as I look at my orange boat anchor that needs loads of race gas to run .

And a shiny convertible with blown head gaskets (
figures special order pushrods now necessary , knew I shouldnt have rebuilt the heads . )
(im sure Ill have it together at first snowfall

I guess Ill have to suffer and beat up on my rusty challenger ... Got the GTX's Polyglas' on it and they suck at high speed but they're fun for burnouts ..

Snow is coming .. gotta go drive before it starts snowing ...

MAybe if the weather holds .. Ill be able to squeak one 1/4 this year , If not - Im in suspense for a whole winter .

BUT Chapter THREE ( MAYBE i SHOULD CALL IT 4 ) coming to a beginning ... Another distraction, but a keeper .. This one WILL be streetable at all times ..




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Even though the track sucked .. We had a good time back at the fairgrounds .

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MIR, MIR, MIR, MIR, MIR, MIR, MIR, MIR, MIR, MIR, MIR, MIR, MIR, MIR, MIR. Oct 29 and 30th. Based on how well everybody ran last year, you need to be there.

Brian


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Man , How do you get all these images
back that were downloaded onto old
moparts server frown

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Traded For 16 Hellcat
Next owner traded for A12
Next owner traded for 71 Six Pack Bee
Now for Sale .. present owner want C1 Vette

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I wish someone would’ve taken it back to the track
At least they modeled a model out of It !
Marketted it as A hemi
Than put a six pack in it .
Keep telling everyone six packs are cooler .

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