New Member: CCK Historic '66 Barracuda FIA race car

Jon Connolly · Post by **Jon Connolly** » Tue Jul 03, 12 6:24 pm

Welcome Daniel

What an interesting project

What are your plans engine wise ?????

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Tue Jul 03, 12 6:56 pm

Hello from a fellow 66 barracuda owner

always wanted a go at circuit racing but I don't think my pockets are quite deep enough.....

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Tue Jul 03, 12 7:25 pm

If you haven't found it yet, this is the guy for Mopar 4 speeds. He makes his own bushed aluminium cases and the only truly interchangeable 5 speed.

http://www.passonperformance.com/

Adrian Worman · Post by **Adrian Worman** » Tue Jul 03, 12 7:56 pm

Welcome aboard Daniel, ta for the chat today mate

AllKiller · Post by **AllKiller** » Tue Jul 03, 12 8:13 pm

Nice choice of car, welcome
I also know where there are two of these knocking about....different locations

charger01 · Post by **charger01** » Tue Jul 03, 12 8:38 pm

Adrian Worman wrote:Welcome aboard Daniel, ta for the chat today mate

Welcome aboard Daniel. Was good to talk to you today Mr Worman. Always a pleasure

MrNorm · Post by **MrNorm** » Tue Jul 03, 12 9:52 pm

Welcome, nice project!

I would certainly find out all you can about the legendary "Green Brick" also an A-Body circuit car, that Mopar Action Tech editor Rich Ehrenberg built years ago and raced with great effect on One Lap of America etc, IIRC he hit over 160mph on the straight at Willowbank or Road America. The best thing about the car was the ethos of using as many off the shelf Chrysler pieces as possible - based on the belief (subsequently proven!) that the basic Mopar suspension design was extremely capable and can be made to handle very well without major reconfiguration.
e.g. http://www.moparaction.com/Tech/archive ... p-pix.html

It was street legal as well so looks like you are going further than him but he wrote the book on a lot of what makes these cars handle well.

I also highly suggest you get onto the handling forum at Moparts http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/pos ... rd=Corners, if you post on there you would get some good info too.

Adrian Worman · Post by **Adrian Worman** » Tue Jul 03, 12 10:55 pm

You could check out one of our members, Roger, he runs a company called Monkfish Racing located in Buckinghamshire, they specialise in chassis set up and modification, really know their stuff on Mopars

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Wed Jul 04, 12 9:58 am

Welcome aboard Daniel, nice to chat to you the other day and I'm pleased Ade and yourself have got a deal sorted!

As I said, there's enough knowledge and expertise on this forum to see you get the car built ahead of schedule...which is nice!

Gibbo · Post by **Gibbo** » Wed Jul 04, 12 2:51 pm

Hi Daniel welcome fairly new myself the info offered by these guys is top notch spoke to you yesterday about parts for my daughters 1965 Barracuda will be intouch cheers Clive.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu Jul 05, 12 8:44 am

Thanks for all the warm welcomes. I will keep you posted on the project. A lot of you have already been in touch with parts and or advice which is really appreciated. As this is an FIA car it will have to remain largely stock. The suspension must be stock although springs and shocks are free. We have about 15 years experience building racing cars. If you look at our website you can see that building race cars from unlikely vehicles is a bit of a specialty for us. We must run the 273ci engine that the car came with although we are allowed headers and camshafts are free. Thanks again,

Daniel

latil · Post by **latil** » Thu Jul 05, 12 9:20 am

Welcome,what an interesting project

It appears that your premises are very close to my mate Bob,he lives on the same road and until recently was running a steam roller.

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Thu Jul 05, 12 12:23 pm

MrNorm wrote:I would certainly find out all you can about the legendary "Green Brick" also an A-Body circuit car, that Mopar Action Tech editor Rich Ehrenberg built years ago and raced with great effect on One Lap of America etc, IIRC he hit over 160mph on the straight at Willowbank or Road America. The best thing about the car was the ethos of using as many off the shelf Chrysler pieces as possible - based on the belief (subsequently proven!) that the basic Mopar suspension design was extremely capable and can be made to handle very well without major reconfiguration.
e.g. http://www.moparaction.com/Tech/archive ... p-pix.html

It was street legal as well so looks like you are going further than him but he wrote the book on a lot of what makes these cars handle well.

I also highly suggest you get onto the handling forum at Moparts http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/pos ... rd=Corners, if you post on there you would get some good info too.

he basically proved what the aussies had already prooved in 1971 with a 6 cylinder charger

capable on a circuit that wasn't just a banked bowl at 100+ MPH

have emailed with Mr Eberg before

he is a very nice chap

go to mopar action site

punt $5 into his holiday fund
and ask tech-y questions

Dave

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Thu Jul 05, 12 12:29 pm

cckhistoric wrote:Thanks for all the warm welcomes. I will keep you posted on the project. A lot of you have already been in touch with parts and or advice which is really appreciated. As this is an FIA car it will have to remain largely stock. The suspension must be stock although springs and shocks are free. We have about 15 years experience building racing cars. If you look at our website you can see that building race cars from unlikely vehicles is a bit of a specialty for us. We must run the 273ci engine that the car came with although we are allowed headers and camshafts are free. Thanks again,

Daniel

don't limit search for cams just to the US

http://www.camtechcams.com.au/chrys_sb_sol.html

http://www.wadecams.com/

rockers

http://www.yellaterra.com.au/products/c ... Submit.y=8

Dave

MrNorm · Post by **MrNorm** » Fri Jul 06, 12 12:14 pm

Dave999 wrote: have emailed with Mr Eberg before
he is a very nice chap
go to mopar action site
punt $5 into his holiday fund
and ask tech-y questionsDave

Yes I've corresponded with him a few times over the years - if you have a serious question he'll usually answer. He also has an interest for the unusual, and I think even had some involvement in a rally A-Body barracuda over here in EU. So Daniel if you contacted him I'm pretty sure he would be interested in your project and may have some good connections or advice for you on A-Body specifics.

There are some pretty simple things you can do to make a big difference. Very high on your list should be reinforcing the steering box mounts, there is a lot of flex there that affects steering feel and accuracy....