Roger's 69 Dodge Charger 440 RT/SE Restoration - Part 2

Roger · Post by **Roger** » Tue Dec 14, 10 9:11 pm

After a long spell of little activity, there has been a brief flurry of progress.

Ive started a new thread as the old one ia awol, though im reliably assured its making a comeback!

Ive managed to get all the bits and pieces for the engine that needed to go on prior to painting, and even managed to get them bolted onto it

And so it ws, out with the orange paint

Roger · Post by **Roger** » Tue Dec 14, 10 9:12 pm

another

Roger · Post by **Roger** » Tue Dec 14, 10 9:12 pm

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Tue Dec 14, 10 9:16 pm

Smashing!

I recognise those manifolds

steveo · Post by **steveo** » Tue Dec 14, 10 9:22 pm

looks good !! any of more of your charger ???

Ashley · Post by **Ashley** » Tue Dec 14, 10 11:45 pm

Nice

Hope ya manifolds don't catch fire when ya start that sucker for the first time

Been there dun that

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Wed Dec 15, 10 12:35 am

Glad you're back on track Roger, hope to see the old thread back soon too

Orange manifolds tho? Not seen that before

Not on a serious resto, at least

BTW - you seen this Charger? looks familiar...

http://www.musclecarrestorations.com/ga ... er-69-001/

Roger · Post by **Roger** » Wed Dec 15, 10 12:18 pm

RobTwin wrote: Glad you're back on track Roger, hope to see the old thread back soon too

Orange manifolds tho? Not seen that before Not on a serious resto, at least

BTW - you seen this Charger? looks familiar...

http://www.musclecarrestorations.com/ga ... er-69-001/

If the manifolds aren't painted, it isn't done right

Its factory.

Nice work on the car in the link. They have done the engine wrong though on several counts.

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Wed Dec 15, 10 12:58 pm

You tell him Roger!

I notice you've even done the factory thing of spraying half the earth strap!

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Wed Dec 15, 10 1:22 pm

I'd have thought maybe bare metal with a bit of overspray, but completely orange?

You learn something everyday! Well, i do

Quite a few of those MCR jobs have a few areas that arent quite as original but they seem to have a lot of customers with funny ideas of what looks best!

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Wed Dec 15, 10 2:48 pm

And talking of manifolds Rob...I have some great paperweights on my desk!

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Wed Dec 15, 10 4:33 pm

Ivor wrote:And talking of manifolds Rob...I have some great paperweights on my desk!

Yes sorry Ivor, meant to get back to you yesterday about those, having forgotten for the last couple of weeks

We need to sort a mutually agreeable date to pop over & collect them. I'll pm you again so as not to clutter Roger's nice new thread!

Roger · Post by **Roger** » Wed Dec 15, 10 4:55 pm

Ivor wrote:

I notice you've even done the factory thing of spraying half the earth strap!

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu Dec 16, 10 2:21 pm

Hi Roger,

Looking good there!
Is that a 70/71 hemi oilpan, have you checked it will clear the 69 K-member?
Didn't want to spoil ya day, just trying to be helpful???
I think its overspray on da manifolds LOL.
Keep up the good work, resto's of this quality are few and far between!

Bacca, only slightly jealous?

ps, ask Paul500 or Nick about the screw-driver in da engine frame disaster!

Roger · Post by **Roger** » Thu Dec 16, 10 8:14 pm

baccaruda wrote:Hi Roger,

Looking good there!
Is that a 70/71 hemi oilpan, have you checked it will clear the 69 K-member?
Didn't want to spoil ya day, just trying to be helpful???
I think its overspray on da manifolds LOL.
Keep up the good work, resto's of this quality are few and far between!

Bacca, only slightly jealous?

ps, ask Paul500 or Nick about the screw-driver in da engine frame disaster!

What makes you say that? You had me worried so i just went and checked my original pan to the one on there now. They are identical.

Its actually rather difficult to just get overspray on the most prominent part of the engine. I suspect my mistake was trying to get in all the corners and using 2 coats!