Winter upgrade plans, what are you guys( and gals) doing
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10/05/17 04:27 PM
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B3422W5
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I just bought a very nice Cope built 904 for my Dart. Will buy driveshaft and convertor to complete the swap from the 727 over the winter. Also going to paint and install a hemi Dart hood and remove the flat hood without scoop on the car currently. I might be a bit too high on expectations, but my hope is these changes might get this thing to dip into the 10's in good air. The current convertor is way off from where it should be. I have whittled 8 tenths in ET off this thing this season, and the 60 has remained identical. So my hope is i am leaving a TON on the table on the convertor front alone. Also having this hillbilly cage cut out the rest of the way and a proper 8 point installed.
One more outing left this week( not going to be good air) then season is over for me
Last edited by B3422W5; 10/05/17 04:28 PM.
69 Dart GTS A4 Silver All steel, flat factory hood, 3360race weight 418 BPE factory replacement headed stroker, 565 lift solid cam Best so far, low 10.30’s 1/4 1.41 best 60 foot 6.56 at 104.17
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Re: Winter upgrade plans, what are you guys( and gals) doing
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10/05/17 04:55 PM
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pittsburghracer
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Aren't you going to the Halloween Classic
1970 Duster Edelbrock headed 408 5.984@112.52 422 Indy headed small block 5.982@112.56 mph 9.42@138.27
Livin and lovin life one day at a time
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Re: Winter upgrade plans, what are you guys( and gals) doing
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10/05/17 05:02 PM
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B3422W5
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Aren't you going to the Halloween Classic Own a business. Can only go to some, not all. Norwalk for the Classic is my 4 days of playing hooky. We are gone all of January, thats becone more important to me than racing at this point in my life.... lol
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69 Dart GTS A4 Silver All steel, flat factory hood, 3360race weight 418 BPE factory replacement headed stroker, 565 lift solid cam Best so far, low 10.30’s 1/4 1.41 best 60 foot 6.56 at 104.17
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Re: Winter upgrade plans, what are you guys( and gals) doing
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10/05/17 09:34 PM
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sgcuda
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Working on losing 25-30 lbs, already down 10. Newest in my checklist is to get a new set of pistons. Hopefully, make some serious headway with the rest of the car.
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Re: Winter upgrade plans, what are you guys( and gals) doing
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10/05/17 10:03 PM
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I'll be working as many hours as I can get at work. Have paint supplies, a couple wanted items to buy for the car, and would like to get a HANS device.
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Re: Winter upgrade plans, what are you guys( and gals) doing
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10/05/17 11:41 PM
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Bad340fish
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I have a few projects for the winter, I am not sure how many will get done.
Finish my Dana Swap(just need to get off my rear and put it in)
I am swapping to a Tunnel Ram with Dual 1000CFM Throttle bodies, I have a Holley Pro Dominator W2 tunnel ram being converted over to EFI as we speak.
Possible swap to a 904 or low gear 904 from 727
Hood Change, lose the heavy stock hood in favor of a six pack scoop. Suprisngly the tunnel ram would work with the stock hood but it would not have room for an air cleaner and I need that fresh air intake. The tunnel ram is coming first, I am not above driving around with no hood lol.
Install Flex Fuel sensor and maybe try E85
I had the intake off to inspect the lifters so I mocked up the tunnel ram before sending it off.
EDIT, I do not know why the pics I upload show up sideways? At least it shows up that way on my end.
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Re: Winter upgrade plans, what are you guys( and gals) doing
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10/06/17 12:04 AM
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slantzilla
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Lost my mind and bought the Buzzin' Half Duzzin' car from Mike Jeffrey on his retirement sale. I pick it up next spring. Have everything to put it back together. It's been sitting 10 years, what can possibly go wrong?
"Everybody funny, now you funny too."
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Re: Winter upgrade plans, what are you guys( and gals) doing
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10/06/17 12:41 AM
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B3422W5
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Lost my mind and bought the Buzzin' Half Duzzin' car from Mike Jeffrey on his retirement sale. I pick it up next spring. Have everything to put it back together. It's been sitting 10 years, what can possibly go wrong? Got any pictures of her. What has it run before? Are the Cox brothers still around?
Last edited by B3422W5; 10/06/17 12:41 AM.
69 Dart GTS A4 Silver All steel, flat factory hood, 3360race weight 418 BPE factory replacement headed stroker, 565 lift solid cam Best so far, low 10.30’s 1/4 1.41 best 60 foot 6.56 at 104.17
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Re: Winter upgrade plans, what are you guys( and gals) doing
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10/06/17 01:15 AM
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Finally wking on my Cuda again. The 30 yr old cage is being removed and replaced. Have a new tubular kframe to install and hopefully get one of my old short blocks back together. No real rush as I have my wagon to play with for now.
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Re: Winter upgrade plans, what are you guys( and gals) doing
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10/06/17 01:32 AM
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slantzilla
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Lost my mind and bought the Buzzin' Half Duzzin' car from Mike Jeffrey on his retirement sale. I pick it up next spring. Have everything to put it back together. It's been sitting 10 years, what can possibly go wrong? Got any pictures of her. What has it run before? Are the Cox brothers still around? I may have some pics on my home computer. Mike had it running consistant 10:50's on spray, best was 10:05. I plan on putting it together as just a nice, reliable, slow Pro bracket car running mid 12's or so. The Cox boys are still kicking, but they haven't really raced since they crashed tbeir '66 at the Nats years ago.
"Everybody funny, now you funny too."
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Re: Winter upgrade plans, what are you guys( and gals) doing
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10/06/17 01:53 AM
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I’m low on funds this year, but my plans are a 6pt roll bar (currently a no-bar car) and reinforce the torque box area. Hopefully I can find enough with tuning the existing combo to offset the added weight and be right back where I was last year performance wise, but have the car set up to handle more punch in the future.
LemonWedge - Street heavy / Strip ready - 11.07 @ 120
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Re: Winter upgrade plans, what are you guys( and gals) doing
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10/06/17 02:46 AM
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Wookie316
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Converter adjustment. Maybe go through the trans. Try and shave 150-200 pounds off the car.
1971 Plum Crazy Super Bee. 572 World Aluminum block with a Cope 727 & Dana 4.10 out back. 9.88 @ 138 with a 1.35 60 NA. Dialed back to 10.0’s. 4000 lbs with me in it.
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Re: Winter upgrade plans, what are you guys( and gals) doing
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10/06/17 02:14 PM
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Mr340
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I already did the hood swap on the challenger due to a little mishap @ Milan. I was thinking about a cam upgrade But I picked up a more door Dart so I'll be working on that. Install my old 340 with a 904, the car is a pushbutton car so I'm looking to keep that if I can find a v-8 pb 904. It also needs a rear axle swap, 8 3/4. Frame connectors. Oh yea and change the bench seat to buckets. Wife want the car ready for spring, I think I have my hands full
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