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It's pretty simple in my mind with the 68-70 B-bodies. if you stay within the confines of the factory wheel houses and you run a sure grip.... Everything matches up pretty well for street friendly fun.
When you outgrow your factory wheel wells with your traction needs, you outgrow a lot more than just the wheel wells. When you need to tub a B-body you need a lot more than just tubs in my opinion. Like a bunch of chassis work, maybe 4 link, narrowed axle of course, cage? Not to mention the obvious HP to turn it all and you best step up to something like a dana 60 as well.
That's a big step to take, big step.
And in my opinion it's the type of project that you build out of a car that is much further gone than mine. Like a car that needs frame rails and full floors do to rust. Because it's going to have to be "back halved" anyways for the 4 link and you'll be making a lot of your own floors anyways...
Every true gear head should have a beast like that, I probably will someday but it won't be with the roadrunner. This old bird has too much going for it with the numbers all matching up. And I don't mean "period correct" or �date stamp correct" engine etc, I mean this car has the VIN for the car stamped on the block and the trans. Somehow it all stayed paired up and in the right car all these years. That's pretty cool, I think.
Now I do have a "too far gone" 64 ford galaxie at home that wants to be tubbed, narrowed 9" rear, 4 link etc. And it is the right candidate in my mind because the floors are so far gone that I'll have to fab my own anyways. I'll likely go around 500HP with that one Spooled & narrowed 9" with at least a foot of rubber on the road per side. An unruly FE/4 spd combo.
Some day.
But the bird is to be more of an enjoyable cruiser.
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I guess ya gotta be a gearhead to interpret all of that. I tried google translator but all it gave back was $ $
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a numbers matching old mopar is rare indeed.
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I think your right Dave, keep it stock.
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Now I do have a "too far gone" 64 ford galaxie at home that wants to be tubbed, narrowed 9" rear, 4 link etc. And it is the right candidate in my mind because the floors are so far gone that I'll have to fab my own anyways. I'll likely go around 500HP with that one Spooled & narrowed 9" with at least a foot of rubber on the road per side. An unruly FE/4 spd combo.
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You gonna go all Joe Dirt and grow a sweet mullet, and get a Bare Foot gas pedal installed?
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That's bare foot. And no on the mullet, I'll just wear the bear head, on my head...
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Not as cool as bare foot gas peadles though.
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maybe I�ll get a baseball cap with a mullet sewn into it for special occasions.
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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. Why, It's almost like Chrysler expected folks to put slicks on 'em! Not that Sox and Martin had anything to add to the design... Your right Dave. If you need more grip than That, your gonna need more frame and chassis, then grunt to spin 'em. 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.
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You gonna go all Joe Dirt and grow a sweet mullet, and get a Bare Foot gas pedal installed? Well then he would go from "gear head" to "car [bleep]".
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Tom, he might want too look at Thorley Tri Y headers.
(I'm sure he has already though) Sanderson....The ones he bought are Sanderson. He called me a bit ago and said it took 3 hours to get them fit in and on.
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I used to eat 390's for breakfast, with my 340.
Yeah, I'm sure. Back in my high school days, a clasmate's brother had a '65 'cuda with the 273 HiPo and 4-speed. A friend aske dhim why he didn't get a real car. He said he hadn't ben beaten yet, but if he found something faster, he'd get it. He showed up one afternoon to pick up Roy in an olive green '68 'cuda 340 4-speed. I asked him what happened to the HiPo. He smiled and said, "I found something faster". Oh, to have one of them now.
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Dave you are an arteest with metal!
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A 69 is ok, but a 68 is where its at... You can thank me later. Dave, Tom's just worried you'll turn around and blow a rod....
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I wouldn't take that bet.
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Hey Tom, Sanderson headers huh? Did he go with cast? For some reason I'm thinking sanderson made some spendy cast iton headers.
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