Re: Photo Dump: TKX Swapping My '76 Charger
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Re: Photo Dump: TKX Swapping My '76 Charger
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Cool project! Love the license plate! I'd go with the 3G. Even just a stone stock 3G would put you so far ahead of the original 360....
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Re: Photo Dump: TKX Swapping My '76 Charger
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Will be curious to know how you like it. I'm planning on installing a TKX in my 69. A friend installed one in his 69 Mach One, and loves it.
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Re: Photo Dump: TKX Swapping My '76 Charger
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Will be curious to know how you like it. I'm planning on installing a TKX in my 69. A friend installed one in his 69 Mach One, and loves it. Has to beat the last m/t car I had (a miserable pile of a 2012 Chevy Cruze) by a mile. LOL, That is what I drive daily. Definitely NOT a performance car, but it was cheap, gets good mileage, easy to get parts to fix it, easy to work on etc. I refuse to have an expensive daily driver, when I drive 90 miles to work round trip.
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Re: Photo Dump: TKX Swapping My '76 Charger
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LOL, That is what I drive daily. Definitely NOT a performance car, but it was cheap, gets good mileage, easy to get parts to fix it, easy to work on etc. I refuse to have an expensive daily driver, when I drive 90 miles to work round trip. [/quote] Mine was a 2012 Eco model. Bought it when I was driving 17-18,000 miles/year covering events for BangShift. When it worked, it was great...nimble, kind of sporty, great fuel economy, and didn't look like I had completely given up on life. But the repairs...it had a new transaxle put in as soon as I bought it, then the 1.4 ate it's PCV valve, so I did a CruzeKits fix on it and replaced the valve cover, then learned that the hydraulic throwout bearing failed which nuked the clutch. And a clutch job on a Cruze is a bigger PITA than sitting on a cactus. Everything but the engine comes out of the front of the car. Sold the car for a minor loss and wound up with a Chevy Volt instead for the eco-trip vehicle in the fleet. [/rant]
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Re: Photo Dump: TKX Swapping My '76 Charger
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Very cool project. My 1st and only new car. $6300. Had Bucket seats with out console.
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Re: Photo Dump: TKX Swapping My '76 Charger
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Re: Photo Dump: TKX Swapping My '76 Charger
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Re: Photo Dump: TKX Swapping My '76 Charger
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You can slice the seam where the floor pan meets the firewall at the 9, 10.5, 12, 1.5 and 3 o' clock positions, and fold it forward until it's flush with the firewall for more clearance. Helps a lot for being able to reach the topmost bellhousing bolts.
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Re: Photo Dump: TKX Swapping My '76 Charger
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First drive has been completed! One 23-mile trip so far, shifts nice, cruises great. Little noisy, but it's a fresh trans and there's still a pretty open hole in the floor I need to patch up. Only found one problem: Does not like starting off at all. First or reverse. 2.41 open 8.25. Can't imagine why... That's all for now. Off to make a post in the Moparts classifieds...
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Re: Photo Dump: TKX Swapping My '76 Charger
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Plans for a rear end yet? Already hunting. At a minimum, I need to step up to a 3.23. This poor boat is hurting starting out in first or reverse. Once moving, it's fantastic, but 5th is only useful well after 70 MPH. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that the window to get anything built before either Power Tour or Carlisle is just about shut. If I'm lucky and find something, it'll have to be drop-in ready. I've got other, even more pressing issues to contend with at the moment, too...rear suspension is too soft and currently too low, need to replace rear tires (see above), need to get the interior back together, need to figure out why my brand-freaking-new gauge cluster's fuel gauge is as useless as a submarine's screen door. Right now, the car moves. As long as I avoid hill starts, I'll be okay. (if anyone has a rear axle ready to go near Kentucky, let me know ASAP! )
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Re: Photo Dump: TKX Swapping My '76 Charger
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