This is my new project,it is a little outside the box for me. I saw it for sale here on Moparts, and the seller was more than fair with me on it. I was going to get a used Hellcat Challenger and sell off a bunch of my project cars, but then I saw this car and I had to buy it. I have this sick plan to drive a Hemi powered fuel injected stock car on the street!

I saw the car here on Moparts, and the following weekend it was on my trailer! I jumped in my truck on Saturday went to Virginia, and the car was in my garage on Monday! The wife was my co pilot! We got to visit with family in DC too! It was an awesome trip!

The car is a 1970 Charger R/T body on a modern Loughlin style Nascar chassis,with a Dayclona areo body kit. The car came with tons of new parts, including an ATL fuel cell, a Tremic 5 speed, a hydraulic clutch throw out bearing kit, Brembo 4 wheel disc brakes, and a full floating 9 inch rear axle.

I was told that the chassis was built in a Nascar fab shop,whoever built the chassis was an amazing fabricator. Everything is tig welded, but unfortunately one of the previous owners was trying to turn it into a Fast and Furious wannabe and they butchered the fenders,doors and hood. They also cut and distorted the rear window plug trying to put flush glass in the car. I will probably have to cut the rear window plug out and build a new one. Who ever did this was not the same person who built the chassis. I have been undoing all of the hack work that was done by this guy. He made the hood so that there is one large depression instead of two like the factory Charger hood. He gaffed the fenders and doors up by cutting and welding all over them with no rhyme or reason.

I was able to locate a drivers side NOS door skin,so I was able to fix the drivers side door.

I got the door finished and on the car, I also test fitted the painted racing mirror too!

These cool steel door panels were in the car when I got it. They bead rolled them to look like stock Charger door panels. I have to drill them for window cranks and inside door handles. I want working glass and doors that open like a stock Charger. I had a nice Texas rust free door for the passengers side.

I fitted a 70 Charger dash frame into the car, I had to modify it to fit around the roll cage. The tube that comes up from the floor to the crash bar behind the dash fit right in the hole for the ash tray! I couldn't have planned that if I tried! I welded up the speaker and defrost holes in the dash!

The previous owner was going to build a tube frame to mount the fenders and the nosecone assembly, but I decided to go with a stock 26 inch radiator support, because the whole nosecone assembly was designed to fit that radiator support. I couldn't believe how well it fit! All I had to do was cut the lower corners off of it and it dropped in like it was made for it. The inner gussets of the stock radiator support fit perfectly! They made the frame rails the same width as the factory frame rails!

By going with a stock 26 inch radiator support, I can mount the fenders like they were done at the factory. I had to modify the fenders to clear the rocker panels. This car has a full frame so the rockers are extended further forward than a stock Charger.

More pics

This is the other side.

The modification like the other side.

I also had to modify the 70 Charger fender to accept the Daytona front valence pan.

Unfortunately the original owner of this project decided that it was a good idea to cut up an original 70 Charger R/T to build this car. It is not something I would have done, but it was done in 2003. Now a days a project like this could be constructed from AMD body panels and not have to sacrifice an original Charger to do so! Especially an original R/T! I will add more pictures tomorrow of my project. We will get into the engine next!

This is my 472 Hemi engine that I bought in 2005. It is a Cummins built crate Hemi engine. I have never run the engine, but the dyno sheet that came with the engine said that it made 531 hp. These engines were plagued with issues so I have always planned to have an engine shop go through it before I used it. It was going to go in my 70 Charger R/T SE before I bought the stock car. I bought another Hemi short block that will be rebuilt and installed in the Charger so it will get a Hemi too. I bought the Edelbrock 705 horsepower top end kit for the 472 Hemi, and the top end from the 472 Hemi will go on the 426 Hemi short block, so everything I remove from the 472 will be used for the 426.

The 426 short block

The top end kit

The roller lifters don't come with the kit,neither do the push rods,rocker arm assemblies, or adjuster studs. I also bought a Milodon stroker windage tray, because crate Hemi engines don't have one. I believe they are a must to insure top end oiling which is critical to a Hemi's survival.

I ordered the Fitech dual quad fuel injection system for the car.