Blue wrote:Fixed the leaking heater hose and thermostat housing, so back on the road. I want to use original style exhaust tips when I put a proper exhaust on it so thought I'd have a look on eBay to see if there was something cheap I could use for now to cheer it up a bit. I found these that don't look too modern and I think they look ok for now.
Looks good mate, just done the same on mine with stainless tips, couldn't justify the price of mopar ones and these were only £30
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Been after a fly eye air cleaner for a couple of years now, once common but now hard to find and silly expensive. Patience paid off and I recently bagged one at a sensible price, bit pitted but complete and will re chrome nicely at some point. Yenko and Motion cars used these hence the high prices.
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“This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no foolin’ around”
Productive morning, got up early and drove the Barracuda to work to get it up on the lifts. Welded in a set of chassis connectors I'd made in the week. Though I've welded a set in every Mopar I've ever owned and several others, I've never driven in, done the job and driven home and felt the difference straight away. The car feels stiffer and rolls a good deal less in corners than it did. Without a doubt the best mod I've done to the car so far. Sorry no photos I was on a bit of a thrash. Given the success of that I'm going to add the torque box reinforcements that the Hemi and convertibles had at some point.
“This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no foolin’ around”
Ok here you go, I cut a slot in the rear frame rail and the 2"x 2" box fits inside it and extends to the front spring mount. when I do the torque boxes it will all tie in for maximum rigidity.
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“This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no foolin’ around”
About 20lb I reckon. Could be half the weight if you can get 2" box in chrome moly, even if you can nobody is likely to stock it so you don't have much choice really. US car tool sell a U channel set that weld into the floorpan the full length, they should be light but I wouldn't fancy trying to fit a set of those unless the body was on a rotisserie, that's probably 30ft of welding, sod doing that overhead...
“This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no foolin’ around”
Hi blue,looks like a very good modification even for street cars, I had it in mind for the dart but was going to get the ones you mention that are pre cut and weld to the floor,(30 foot of welding) 😂Maybe box section will have to do.
Post up some pics of the torque boxes when you've made them.
Thanks for the post.
RichardðŸ‘
Blue wrote:About 20lb I reckon. Could be half the weight if you can get 2" box in chrome moly, even if you can nobody is likely to stock it so you don't have much choice really. US car tool sell a U channel set that weld into the floorpan the full length, they should be light but I wouldn't fancy trying to fit a set of those unless the body was on a rotisserie, that's probably 30ft of welding, sod doing that overhead...
Indeed... I was looking up an article in Hot Rod Magazine... the welding looks like an epic job...
