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Think of what it might do if it didn't have to exhale through $hitty cast iron manifolds.

Thanks Butch.

As for the vise grip, it was a win-win. It drew that weld gap together and I hated that made in china knock off vice grip anyways.

Surprised it had enough steel in it to weld.

I was too.

Nice!!!

In 1964 I was at the drags with my 56 Chevy that had a little 283' motor and Corvette quads. I was challenged to a grudge race after the races were over by a guy that had a 56 Ford. He had installed a 406" big block with the 3-2 barrel set up (406 hp I think) and a 4 speed . I thought he would blow me off the track so I told him I would only race him if I could open up my headers. I thought I might have a chance since he had the stock cast iron exhaust manifolds. I beat him by 6 car lengths in the 1/4 mile and was still pulling away at the end.

Funny you should say that. He has them...they're getting coated. He bought a set of full lengh headers, but they hung too far below the frame and created some clearance issues. He lives in a town that is pretty much built into a hill and they would rub or be torn off on driveway entrances and pot holes.

He had to sell them at a big loss to be able to buy the shorter, custom set up.

Tom, he might want too look at Thorley Tri Y headers.

(I'm sure he has already though)

He told me what they were and I can't remember the name of them, dangit.

I took a look at the wheel house and trunk extention fit to the quarter skin.

Actually what I was doing here was marking and measuring for wheel house placement.
I hung the quarter skin on the car by hand and transfered a measurement point from the new skin to the quarter on the car, then I fit the wheel house in the quarter skin the best it would fit, and I transfered measurement points from the quarter skin to the wheel house lip.

Finally I took my measurements based off the new skin and marked them on the car.









That's it for tonight, I'm working inside my brain tonight (making game plan for tomorrow) from the comfort of my chair with some icy hot on my back. I have a feeling I'll be in good shape tomorrow so I can make welding and grinding sparks out there again.

Cool Dave...

I wanted a set of Jardene through the wheel well headers for my dart in 69. Until today in didn't know that Jardene and Thorley were one in the same. you learn something new everyday.

I love this thread!

I hadn't checked it for a couple days, so to make up for that, I went and got my Camp Chickenbuck shirt on for tonight's reading!

Go Dave!

Nice pics! 1969, 56 CHev, 327 dual quad, 365 hp. ........maybe 400hp............11:90 's 69 RR, 440 Six pac, 10:90 ?

We ran that in 1973 ...G Super Stock...street car..??

Are you going to open up the tubs, Dave?
Or restore to stock?

hmmm I have a hard time leaving things stock for long.
Hence the SBC in the Sonett! LOL

There is actually a lot of room in those tubs in stock form.

I want to say a 295/50 R15 will fit inside without rubbing if you get the back spacing right on the rim, 10" rim of course.

That's a 26.5" tire (aprox)with just over a foot of section width and over 10" of face contact to the pavement.

It doesn't leave you a bunch of room but your leaf spring pack is your inboard boundary and of course your outboard boundary is the lip where the quarter meets the outer wheel house.

The inner wheel house is damn near straight up so you'll never rub on the inner with a big tire, the outer wheel house half tapers in so you could rub there with a big tire and a trunk full of deer or something.

I'm sorry, this is not my car. I bought one like it new in 69. I sold it in 72. Like a fool. Mine had no power anything, brakes, steering, air, just power to the rear wheels. I wish I had this one.

you can always move the springs inboard if you have to, but like you said B body's got plenty of room for a descent size tire.
A body's are where you run into clearance problems when you start going up in tire size.