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1965 Dodge Coronet 500 #2492781
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I've had this car for a long time. It was a street racer back in the 70's and then a daily driver during the 80's. It sat in my shop for most of the past 20 years. I'm now starting to work on it a bit and hope to have it back on the streets this summer.

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Re: 1965 Dodge Coronet 500 [Re: AndyF] #2492782
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I'm spending a little bit of time in the interior cleaning things up. One mistake I made over the past 20 years was ignoring the chrome. I should have polished the chrome once every few years but I didn't and now most of it has small rust pits. So I think I'll need to pull the chrome and have it redone.

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nice! the '65s have great lines.


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One of my favorite cars on Moparts!


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Re: 1965 Dodge Coronet 500 [Re: AndyF] #2493654
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I weighed the car today and found out that it is heavier than I thought. Good news is the weight distribution is pretty good. 51% up front and 49% in the rear. The gas tank is almost empty so if I filled up the tank the car would have a 50/50 weight distribution front to rear. The bad news is that the car is almost 3800 lbs with nobody in it. If I filled up the gas tank the car would weigh over 3800 lbs.

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Great build. One of my all time favorite body styles. I love 65 Coronets. Looking forward to following this one.

Re: 1965 Dodge Coronet 500 [Re: AndyF] #2494111
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Originally Posted By AndyF
I weighed the car today and found out that it is heavier than I thought. Good news is the weight distribution is pretty good. 51% up front and 49% in the rear. The gas tank is almost empty so if I filled up the tank the car would have a 50/50 weight distribution front to rear. The bad news is that the car is almost 3800 lbs with nobody in it. If I filled up the gas tank the car would weigh over 3800 lbs.


Isn't gasoline about 6 lbs/gallon? I'd imagine with an extra 12 gallons, it would weigh almost 75 lbs more.

Still cool you'd be able to achieve almost 50/50. How did you do it? Fiberglass body panels?

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Originally Posted By AndyF
If I filled up the gas tank the car would weigh over 3800 lbs.



Curb weight...

Thirty-four hunert OEM...

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Re: 1965 Dodge Coronet 500 [Re: MuuMuu101] #2495358
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Originally Posted By MuuMuu101
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I weighed the car today and found out that it is heavier than I thought. Good news is the weight distribution is pretty good. 51% up front and 49% in the rear. The gas tank is almost empty so if I filled up the tank the car would have a 50/50 weight distribution front to rear. The bad news is that the car is almost 3800 lbs with nobody in it. If I filled up the gas tank the car would weigh over 3800 lbs.


Isn't gasoline about 6 lbs/gallon? I'd imagine with an extra 12 gallons, it would weigh almost 75 lbs more.

Still cool you'd be able to achieve almost 50/50. How did you do it? Fiberglass body panels?


No fiberglass, the body is all steel. The 50/50 weight is due to having the battery in the trunk as well as having a fairly lightweight engine. Aluminum heads, aluminum intake, aluminum carb, mini starter, aluminum water pump housing, aluminum radiator, etc.

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I've driven it a few times and worked on a few bugs. I think I made a mistake by putting an aluminum flywheel in it. The car works great once it is over 2000 rpm but it really doesn't like driving slow. Even with the steep first gear ratio it will start lugging at low speeds. Some of that could be the carb since I have a 1050 on there at the moment. I'll see how much of that lugging problem is solved with the EFI. If that doesn't solve it then I'll have to pull the engine and swap flywheels.

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Pulled out the original '69 Dana 60 and now I'm working on installing the new S60. The new rear end has 3.23 gears, helical diff, 35 spline axles, billet pinion yoke and a Doctor Diff rear disc setup.

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Also got the Coronet over to the chassis dyno recently. Ran great with the new Holley Sniper setup and it made 485 rwhp. Sounded good and pulled hard.
https://youtu.be/xG3-_YJGdZ8

Re: 1965 Dodge Coronet 500 [Re: AndyF] #2548653
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Cool video, and even cooler car.

Cheers! thumbs

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The old Coronet got a little ink in Hot Rod recently: https://www.hotrod.com/articles/holley-hyperspark-install-tune/

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Picked up a steel hood scoop for the car so this will be one of the winter time projects. I'm still thinking about how to go about mounting it.

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Cool project, Andy. I love the '65's. I thought they were a little lighter, as well.


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I pulled the 512 inch low deck out and am in the process of building a 426W for the car. I have an original 426W block but I'll use Trick Flow heads and a 4.250 stroke crank to pump it up a bit. Should make 550+ hp.

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I've had factory HP manifolds on the car for the past 20 years but I've decided to use headers with the new 426W engine. I bought a set of Schumacher try-y headers but of course they don't fit with the Lakewood bellhousing.

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Where is this project currently?

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I was thinking the same thing !


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