Me too! You can drive this one too!

Haha, I still laugh at the look on the guys face at Mo-Kan when I asked to drive your Roadrunner...

Exhaust mock up

Subframe connectors

I'm going to make a real push to get this thing together and running before summer is over. I sent the transmission crossmember out for powdercoating but took a couple pics first.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/H9Ldrcmh.jpg?1[/img]

[img]https://i.imgur.com/koCFSFBh.jpg?1[/img]

Nice work.

Kind of silly to geek out about this....but I'm happy with the powdercoating results. lol

Nice work! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a pic from below of a bare block and tranny case mocked up in a car.

Just some of the blown up/damaged junk from the 85+ SRT8s/Scat Packs/Hellcats I've parted out!

Keep it going!! Love these type of restos.

Although the engine bay cleaned up fairly nice, the driver's side inner fender had a lot of surface rust and some rust around the fender tag and under the battery tray. I briefly thought about just having the driver side inner fender painted but knew the colors wouldn't match so I figured now is the time to just do it once and do it right...I pulled everything out of the engine bay and hauled the charger over to my sheetmetal/paint guy. I had him delete the battery tray shelf since the battery will be in the trunk.

While the engine was getting prepped for paint, I realized that the only areas that haven't been cleaned up on this charger were the outsides of the front inner fenders and the bottom side of the front fenders. I got my needle scaler out and hit these areas to remove the undercoating. If you haven't used a needle scaler yet, you should try it. Just be sure to wear ear/eye protection and a mask. I made a short 3 min video on youtube to show how well a needle scaler does. I've used the torch/scraper before but never will again.

I'm going to take your advice on that! I have a Cuda that I'm starting to remove the undercoating this week.....

Thanks again.

What did you think about the needle scaler?

The engine bay has been painted and I'm so glad I bit the bullet and had it done. The "survivor" engine bay left alot to be desired.

Yeah that does look good!
Is that base / clear or single stage?

Also a unrelated question.
You have done a few cars, so I would like your opinion.
I am getting ready to do final gaps on my 69 Charger and it has the USCar tools subframe connectors and torq boxes installed.
When you did final gaps did you have the car on its suspension?

I know it is safest to have the car sitting on front and rear suspension....
BUT I was wondering if I could do the gaps with the car sitting on jack stands? Supported on the rear frame rail and torsion bar crossmember.
Later on would I see a variation in door gaps when it goes on its suspension?

Thanks

The engine bay paint is a single stage.

My sheetmetal guy says the car should on its suspension or on jack stands that simulate suspension load.

My paint guy touched up where the undercoating was disturbed for the transmission crossmember, 4 link, and subframe connectors.

The outside of the inner fenders also received raptor liner.

For a side gig, I part out wrecked SRT8's, Scat Packs, and a few hellcats....so I pulled this 6.4L hemi out of a wrecked 1970 Challenger (of all things!) and the 8HP70 8 speed automatic transmission from a wrecked 2016 Challenger Scat Pack I parted out. The 6.4L only had about 1,000 miles on it...the 8 speed auto has aabout 50K miles on it.