Re: Slow Progress at Zippy Performance
[Re: AndyF]
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07/24/22 12:48 PM
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I have about 200 subscribers to my YouTube channel and my videos are just short clips shot with a cell phone. Some have voice over, some are just dyno pulls or engine shots with no narrative. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoSY4bQ7I23XK834NLVTC9wI'm going to start shooting with another camera and working to improve the quality of the videos. I don't think I'll make much money off of it but I think I can provide tech information to a wider audience using YouTube than the old magazine article gig. The magazine stuff has just about gone away. You have one more now. That big YouTube money is just around the corner. Lol Kevin
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Re: Slow Progress at Zippy Performance
[Re: Twostick]
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07/25/22 10:17 AM
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This is work that I've wanted to do for well over a decade, and is not really a case of "might as well", "mission creep" or anything like that.
I apologize if I gave that impression, it was not intentional.
Rich H.
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Re: Slow Progress at Zippy Performance
[Re: n20mstr]
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07/25/22 01:04 PM
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WHEN your done, tape up all the "holes" on the underside of the lid., pour in about a quart of por 15. Rotate the lid every 5 minutes or so , get the por 15 in every crevice. then drain the excess out. This will prevent the edges from rusting out ever again , and protect the work you just did. Nice to see all the work you putting into it I drowned the lip with epoxy from the inside once, but will probably do it one more time and slosh it around a little bit more. Had some rotten luck with por15 in the past so I'm anti-por, but had amazing results/longevity with epoxy so I'm pro-epoxy. That's probably too political
Rich H.
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Re: Slow Progress at Zippy Performance
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07/25/22 02:04 PM
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I wanted enough safe clearance for a 31" tire but have enough of a restoration mindset to want a fairly "stock appearing" lip, so I incorporated that change into the quarter replacement.
The first side took about 4x as long to do as the second side. It's true what they say about practice.
By now I'd already cut up several of my new reproduction parts just to make them fit/interface properly with other parts on the vehicle, so it was no problem to cut them up more for other reasons.
I'm skipping the low down stuff but also Leaded all the seams, have done maybe more than my share of metal finishing and so on.
Rich H.
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Re: Slow Progress at Zippy Performance
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07/25/22 02:20 PM
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I've left out alot of details that should probably be posted somewhere else, but anyway now the thread is mostly up to date so here is the current situation.
Stripped the trunk floor and wheel houses of the EDP, applied a few coats of epoxy/good for now. Roof/quarters/dutchman/trunklid epoxy, filled, blocked to 40/80, surfacer and blocked to150/220....ready for 320 overall* next.
*overall because I haven't blocked below the character line at all and don't intend to, until it's up in the air....when it is, then I'll do the whole car below the character line.
Rich H.
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Re: Slow Progress at Zippy Performance
[Re: ZIPPY]
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07/25/22 02:39 PM
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Though it never had the side trim as long as I've owned it, and I have no intention of ever putting it back on, the side emblems are mandatory. "You have to have these". I measured and noted their location before cutting off the quarter panels, after doing some research I found my '69 emblems were in the same location as a '68, I then found others built at the same plant that were the same/other plants had the emblem in a slightly different location. There doesn't seem to be a ton of interest in this, probably because historically the GTX has always been an underappreciated model, and that's ok. https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/3052718/1.html
Rich H.
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Re: Slow Progress at Zippy Performance
[Re: ZIPPY]
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07/25/22 04:07 PM
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OF all the bodywork i do, blocking primer has to be my favorite activity for sure.... this is what "makes" the job Keep up the great work
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Re: Slow Progress at Zippy Performance
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07/25/22 04:52 PM
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Rich,
It’s coming along nice man! Keep up the great work!
Wes
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Re: Slow Progress at Zippy Performance
[Re: dvw]
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07/26/22 12:20 PM
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Great work. I've always been a fan of this car and the antics.
Just dont make it too nice that you're scared to abuse it!
-Dustin 67 Dart, 9 second, 392" G3 Hemi 68 Barracuda 340 F/SA
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Re: Slow Progress at Zippy Performance
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07/27/22 12:38 PM
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Thanks all.
Alot of folks hate hand blocking, but I have to admit I am a little like n20mstr. Knowing how important it is, I want to take my time and really look/feel what is going on.... the repetition and focus needed give it great potential to become a zenlike activity, I've been a guitarist for 43 years and gravitate towards that kind of stuff.
I usually get some tunes going, to help me down that path. Loud is good.
But for filler work, I like to rough it in with power tools/whatever combination of air file or DA seems to be working, before going anywhere near it with a hand block.
Rich H.
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Re: Slow Progress at Zippy Performance
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07/27/22 02:50 PM
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I haven't even evolved beyond spray-bomb jobs and you're replacing panels, etc.
2021 Challenger 6.4L Scat Pack 1320 100% stock: 1.680, 11.894 at 113.75 (DA 175 ft) weight reduction, wheels, tires, Hellcat air box: 1.661, 11.686 at 115.97 (DA 710 ft)
1973 Challenger 452 ci street/strip [2008] pump gas, DOT radials: 1.454, 10.523 at 126.44 (DA 514 ft)
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Re: Slow Progress at Zippy Performance
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07/27/22 04:30 PM
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And yet I send intake manifolds to you for flow testing, because I can't do that.
I couldn't do any of that either, prior to 2006.
In 2006 some bad things happened to another car, and sent me down the path. I have a good friend to thank for getting me started.
If moparts wasn't quite so painful to load multiple pics and if I had a little more time, I could tell a more complete story and probably bore people to death.
There is a huge quarter panel, green metallic paint, and a C body involved, as well as the help of two moparts members in 2 different states.
Rich H.
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Re: Slow Progress at Zippy Performance
[Re: ZIPPY]
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07/28/22 11:26 AM
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2021 Challenger 6.4L Scat Pack 1320 100% stock: 1.680, 11.894 at 113.75 (DA 175 ft) weight reduction, wheels, tires, Hellcat air box: 1.661, 11.686 at 115.97 (DA 710 ft)
1973 Challenger 452 ci street/strip [2008] pump gas, DOT radials: 1.454, 10.523 at 126.44 (DA 514 ft)
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Re: Slow Progress at Zippy Performance
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07/28/22 12:23 PM
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Correction, it was 2005.
My daily was wrecked by a drunk/scary high speed incident, I paid Dwain C. in Wyoming for a quarter panel, a great guy whos username was JackB near Belvedere Il picked up and held it for me strictly out of love of the hobby and wanting to help, drove there and picked it up in my then-GFs/now wife's borrowed minivan, my buddy Todd helped me install it, we did other metal work besides....I painted that giant 23 foot long green car complete...just for the experience and because I liked the car....my second overall paint job......and the die was kinda cast.
That was the point I progressed from pop rivets and bondo with spray bomb primer/lacquer topcoat to proper welded body repairs/panel replacement and epoxy/urethane/base-clear metallic paint, and nothing but 2k refinish products. Sure, I made a bunch of mistakes, it is inevitable, but the green car sat outdoors for about 15 of the past 17 years, and most of the paint is still on it....it fared much better than the GTX.
Big green car repair was on the General board back then, but old posts from General have been blown away.
Rich H.
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Re: Slow Progress at Zippy Performance
[Re: AndyF]
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07/28/22 12:33 PM
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I should be so lucky. I like how the color is more calm in this picture: The GTX won't be blue as long as I own it, though. I already have a blue B body, it's waiting to be redone sometime later.
Rich H.
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