BUSTED BLOCK '71 'CUDA MUST BE SAVED AT ALL COSTS. CAST IRON WELDING AND TRICK MACHINE WORK!

this time on graveyard cars an engine that basically grenaded From the Inside Out can the ghouls resurrect a 71 Cuda and save its numbers matching 383 engine historically speaking that's the end of that block with multiple major freeze cracks this site's much worse will a new shop have what it takes to save this numbers engine all the things function after this shop is done with this engine he will be able to maintain the original members matching engine in the 71 Cuda but as expenses Mount and with no guarantees I'll do it for you and I'm charging you for it but I cannot guarantee the repair this is on you will the cost and the risk outweigh the value of saving this numbers matching 383. we know that the value of the car with the numbers matching engine is so much more than without the numbers matching engine I think it's worth the gamble coming up on this episode of graveyard cars [Music] graveyard cars is filmed before a live studio audience one of the cars that we're working on right now is going to feel a little bit like deja vu to you at home because it's a 1971 Cuda gb5 blue just like the Phoenix Cuda but it's different this is a nice little car it was a factory 383 automatic on the floor console buckets leather interior rally instrument cluster just a really good car to start with this car's numbers matching engine but not numbers matching transmission which is a lot smaller of a detail than the numbers matching engine we do have a date coated one for it ready to go in but overall a really great starting point one of the things about this car is it sat for a long time I believe in a very very cold part of the United States so cold that it freezes there now Tony and I talked about this not long ago about preserving a car and storing it correctly this is another example of something that didn't get stored correctly because while it was in that freezing weather it didn't have antifreeze in it so the block we have discovered is broken so what happened to the block was it was stored in a way that allowed water to get into the cylinder so that's bad that'll mean that we're going to end up having to bore it over quite a bit maybe even put a sleeve in it that's okay we've done that before many times what isn't good about the way it was stored was it was stored with no antifreeze in it typically speaking when you come up with a broken block as a result of a freeze crack unless it's some minor little hairline crack that's the end of the engine these areas are Provisions that the manufacturer put into the block so when something stupid happens if it gets way too hot or way too cold and the water either boils and expands or freezes and it expands it should kick out these freeze plugs soft plugs in this case it didn't kick them out when the water froze it expanded and when it expanded it pushed that cast iron block out you can see that there's a pucker to it it did the exact same thing on this site you can see that water got in there this side's much worse this side you can actually see how far it's busted up out of the way so these two areas here are the areas that got broken historically speaking that's the end of that block but we want to try something different on this I've got a company that I've been sending stuff to to do some small Cast Iron Welding I told them about this one they're willing to take it on I wanted to use the viewers to see what is involved in an annual ride right along to see if it actually works or not if this does work and the engine's able to run and hold water not overheat and have oil pressure if all the things function after this shop is done with this engine he will be able to maintain the original numbers matching engine in a 71 Cuda numbers matching means that the engine and transmission started life on the assembly line in that car and they have the vehicle identification number stamped into them that matches the car these are the cars that are called Pure cars no excuse cars these are the cars that will sell for the most amount of money and in the shortest period of time because they are in no excuses car so a good example of that is the big dollar 71 Hemi Coupe that sold at the Mecum Auction a few years ago for three and a half million dollars the reason that's over three and a half million dollars wasn't just that it was a 71 hemi-cuted convertible they made 11 of them and some of those have sold for a lot less money than that this one's sold because everything was right about it Regional Engine original transmission no excuses good colors and it was a four speed those are all the things that drive this market so that's why numbers matching and preserving a numbers matching engine is so important so we've done a tribute Superbird before using the Yannick parts so we're doing a tribute Daytona you guys remember we did the Hobart a few seasons back we had Ryan our technician do it and the craftsmanship that he did on that tribute car with the final fit and finish of that car was second to none and that car looked like an original minus the engine I get it looked like an original Superbird so when it came time to do the Daytona we did the exact same thing with Shane doing the exact process and the end result is going to be the same as last time [Music] foreign now if you guys recall back to our Superbird when we converted it that's the Plymouth Superbird and of course the other Wing cars the Dodge Daytona Charger now the reason I mentioned the Superbird is because we're doing a Daytona right now and another reason I mentioned the super bird is we're using the same company Yannick that provided us with the Superbird replacement conversion pieces on this Daytona putting these parts on the car and starting with a good part not just something that sort of looks like it but is right for the car is very important and that's why I wanted to share all the things we had to do to convert these pieces to go on to the car so this is our original 1970 Charger fender just the way it was made of the manufacturer the things I want to point out that need to be converted for this Fender to go onto a Daytona one is you see the 70 Charger side marker opening that's a nice original side marker opening and it would take the lamp in it for the 1970 Charger the valance panel that you see would go through here real nicely intersects with this part of the fender which is just a stationary part this right here this metal is built into this Fender this is what a 70 Charger fender looks like but we have to change some of that because of the Daytona now on the other Fender this Fender has been modified this has already had all the changes necessary to be able to put it onto a Daytona so if you look at the side marker opening in comparison to the side marker opening on the original 70 Charger vendor you see this is welded up that's because the valance panel for the Daytona has the side marker in it and I'll show you that in a minute the other thing is the valance that goes onto Daytona is wide that's what this huge monstrous gray thing is here that's actually a lower Valance panel it has to go all the way across this opening so what we had to do is on the original Fender over there is we had to cut that out we had to cut it a little bit long from where we were going to fold it fold it up into place so that when you look at the back here you can see we now have a lip to bolt that onto here when I hold it up into place you can clearly see that it fits that plane now that you can put the j-bolts in it and hold it into place you also see that our new Daytona balance has the hole in it for the side marker if this piece of metal were here like it is on the original Fender over there and I tried to bring it in you're going to see I got a problem now another thing of course the Daytona gets is these scoops on the tops of the fenders these come in the kit from Janik right here they're pretty much clean it up sand it now make sure it fits nice and you're ready to paint that but what's underneath it doing that correctly and emulating the original one so here you see this is original metal with the right pattern and the right grid I don't know what those numbers are the Shane who put this on there got in the book and found out what they were and we ordered some of that material cut it to fit and then we used our car liner spot welder to spot weld it in place so it absolutely looks a hundred percent Factory now he'll have to do the other one here shortly that needs this conversion on it but for right now that's what that looks like the only other thing to talk about are the headlight bucket modifications that have to be made on a Daytona from a regular charger in addition to cutting off the small section there on the fender so it'll accept the balance you have to also remove the headlight buckets because 69 Charger had Hideaway headlights had real forehead light system in it that is different than the Daytona which pops up as a hideaway concealed headlight in steps out considerably further than the factory one so removing that and making it look correctly in there so if somebody down the road looked at that Fender they go wow that must have been an original Daytona offender those are the things that are a real claim to fame for us and we pay attention to the minutia what I want to show you is this headlight mounting bucket that you see right here this is the factory mounting bucket that would take the two headlights and all the wiring would go in behind it at Daytona because of the flip up Headlights on it and the design doesn't need this the headlights themselves the concealed headlights they house the buckets in it so what we have to do you can see is take this unit drill out all of the spot welds so that when we're done we have a nice clean finish but that's kind of the one two threes of how the front sheet metal not going into the nose cone which is a whole nother thing but kind of an idea how that front sheet metal from the fender standpoint to balance have to be converted to be able to work foreign the machine shop called and said that our block with the busted intake Valley has more problems than that it's got freeze Cracks around the center freeze plugs at the side of the block that's weird right because it's supposed to kick out the freeze plug that's the whole point behind an expansion plug or a freeze plug is when that water expands it'll push that plug out and that's where it will get its ability to expand not the Block in this case I think the freeze plugs were probably rusted in place it couldn't kick them out and so what did it do it swelled that block up until it cracked so now we've not only got a busted up intake Valley area very badly busted up but we also happen to have busted out areas on both sides of the block around the freeze plugs it's interesting because the broken area in the valley is the same on both sides in the same area meaning they're just horizontally opposed to each other one side is a little bit worse than the other one but they're in the same area of the block the real downside to this is the shop is saying they're not able to tap that metal back down and weld it or drill the into the crack and stop it and repair it they literally have to cut out an area where all that broken metal is and weld in Graft in a new piece of cast iron now let me tell you one of the big risks to all of this the shop that's doing the welding said listen I can't guarantee anything I'll do it for you and I'm charging you for it but I cannot guarantee the repair this is on you Mark if you want to take a chance we'll take a chance and try to do it but if that thing overheats if it cracks if it swells out if it doesn't have oil pressure if it doesn't run right it's on you I'll just make the effort to do it to me I think it's worth the gamble because we know that the value of the car with the numbers matching engine is so much more than without the numbers matching engine I think it's worth the gamble when the guy at the shop started talking about how they're going to repair this it was fascinating to me I wish I could have gone up and watched it they have to get this into a chamber where that cast iron is incredibly hot you'll look at the guy's hands and they have these asbestos gloves on and everything looks super hot because it is they've got a blanket around the engine trying to keep it cool and keep it from distorting while they're welding in this area but I guess the trick to cast iron is it has to be incredibly hot you have to have the right everything the right material donor material the right heat the right temperature the right ambient temperature so it's really a bit of a science and fasten needing to see so at this point the shop has all of the welding done on it they welded up both of the intake valleys it welded up the side of the block the bad part is when they did this because so much heat was generated that we had a twisted block so when it went over to the machine shop and again same report I got from that guy I'm not guaranteeing anything I can't guarantee a darn thing I will try to save this engine for you and so when it's twisted like that they have to lock it down into this jig kind of like we do in our frames and redo the line door for the camshaft for the crankshaft untwist the engine straighten it all back out again and it's just hard to even imagine that you could do that now one of the things they had to do along this process is after they got it all straightened out they were able to bore at forty thousand silver which is great I thought we were going to end up having to have sleeves in it another thing that they had to do was to put bronze guides in where all the lifters go in the lifter guide area and he told me that they're not even Mopar sizes they're actually big box Chevy sizes and it's something they do on big block Chevys after it was all straightened out they had to bore it out so far that it wouldn't take a Mopar lifter so they put this bronze guide in there and that's what it runs up and down on but overall I've never seen an engine ever in my life get that much engine work that much stuff done to it at one time so the good news is we do have the engine back from the Machine Shop back from being welded up like I said it was a complete mess if you look at it during the process you thought man there's no way right now it looks good I mean even cosmetically the repairs look good on the outside of the block where the freeze cracks were around the expansion plugs they cosmetically dressed that up real nice gave it a texture and you can't tell once that's painted you'd never know that thing had a crack on the Block the intake Valley until the intake manifold goes on yes you can see the outside footprint of the repairs but absolutely fantastic job now if you recall I mentioned because of the Distortion to the block and it was all around the lifter area that they had to put the bronze bushings in there the bronze guides so you can see clearly that they stick up a little further than the factory ones that doesn't matter there's not an interference problem there but if you watch that lifter itself it is a really nice tight fit every probably tighter than it would have been against the cast iron now whether or not it's going to work we're not out of the woods just because it looks great doesn't mean it's going to work work so Doug's got to get that thing put together okay so as soon as the engine came back Mark handed it off to me for assembly so that I could get this thing put together assembled and On The Run stand as quickly as possible since there was such a sense of urgency on this engine I I figured I'd enlist Brian's help to come over from assembly and help me put this engine together so Brian is our new assembly Tech here and he's showing real promise so I wanted to give him an opportunity to see how we put these engines together and why some of the things that we put on an engine have to be put on in a certain order I was absolutely thrilled when Dougie asked me to help assemble the 383. I've always loved cars and I've actually built a few engines on my own of course they were always Chevrolets or Brand X crap boxes as Mark likes to call them I was always a super fan of the show actually so I've watched all the old episodes of graveyard cars and I always thought to myself it would be amazing to actually learn from Dougie he's such a great teacher I am going to set the head on there just like that that's what we like yeah so we got our Highland bolts here that's a Highland bolt that's a high level yeah how do you know that well it's an H so we have to remember to put our wire holders on that's right just like that when I'm assembling the engine I put both heads on 17 bolts per head I torque them down in two stages I start with 45 pounds per square inch on one side same on the other then I up the torque to 75 pounds per square inch and I go over all 30 forehead bolts again this is our first engine build it is together that's exciting isn't it it is so we're going to do this 68 times pretty confused okay it is I like to go over them one more time 102 times Doug is confused I don't blame him I'm confused as a listener all right I dropped out in ninth grade I get it I had reasons to drop out in the ninth grade but last time I checked it didn't matter when you graduated or when you dropped out or whatever happened math is still math right you'll see what I'm talking about let's just take a little dive down there on Professor hilkey's math lesson for the day Professor Brian Hilkey tells us that by the time Doug is doing preliminary torque final torque and then double checking the torque on both cylinder heads he's going to have torqued a bolt 102 times fair enough so let's do the math on that 383 and 440 have 17 head bolts on each side Doug makes a pass through there at 35 45 pounds it's an initial torque so he does both sides each side gets 17 17 and 17 is 34 is that fair Pete yes sir it's very fair right you don't argue with that now we come back through we readjust the torque wrench and we go to 85 pounds that's your final torque now Doug's going to torque one side to 85 pounds 17 bolts and the other side 85 pounds 17 bolts so we have 34 on the first pass 34 on the second pass at 68. I'm okay with that then Doug wants to go around and double check them one more time he tells Brian I want to double check them I want to make sure they're still at 85. so he's got to go around one head 17 more times he's got to go around another head 17 times last time I checked 34 68 isn't 102. so maybe they ought to send him back to school I think he was a teacher mark that's right 68 plus 34 equals 102. yeah I know the master right I'm not saying the map's not right had nothing to do with the map all right this was more about the fact that I like to double check that primary torque all right at 35 45 pounds that initial one I like to double check that before I just go oh willy-nilly and start putting 85 pounds so if you did that math and you added 34 17 for each side to the 102 you would have 136 I believe is the correct answer I'm gonna make you do this side I'll do this side okay all right let's do it it's true I was a high school teacher and my rule was hey if I was going to hand out an assignment to the kids I wanted to double check it and I always ask them hey before you turn it back into me double check your work double check your answers maybe the boss man should check his numbers twice before he goes on set all right are you getting tired yet a little bit man you got this I'm trying I'm gonna retire soon I thought I retired once and then I came to work here why did you do that I like building cars that is great me too we have a pretty good crew here it's a good crew sometimes people bring donuts sometimes sometimes people bring donuts I'm not kidding this is a great place to work now on our Daytona since I showed you what has to happen I want to put them on the car and show you exactly how they look in position so you know what a finished product should look like both from a Fastener standpoint and an overall view standpoint so on our Daytona Charger we talked about the fenders before this is what they look like when they're on we've got a 69 Dodge Charger body that's how all the daytonas started with 70 fenders and so the modifications that we talked about earlier where we cut off the lower section of the fender that's how this looks when you actually marry it up against the valance panel it's a clean line clean datum plate all the way across there there's our shaved inside marker that will fill with filler and things like that to make it all smooth but that's why all those Provisions had to happen you see here he's got all the pieces welded in place with the mesh this is identical to the original mesh pattern bolts right down like that 70 Charger out here 69 back there move over to here you can see the lower balance is now in place so if you look carefully you'll see that we have all the bolts in place that hold the valance to the actual Fender itself and then these mounting points back here where they mount to the core support additionally when that nose cone comes in it's going to come in like this it's going to butt right up against here it's going to set right there and that's going to give you your finished off nose cone pieces hey Doug we got those heads on we got the heads on finally so what do we got going on now so what we're doing now is dropping in our hydraulic lifters okay so yeah the machine shop did a real nice job so after we got the heads on and torqued down the next step is to put the valve train on so we're going to set our rest up lifters and all these lifter bores and just set them in uh-huh okay I bet I know what's next tell me those push rods push rods push rods all right show me what you like to do Doug well we like to put a little grease on the end though okay that's why you offered me a rubber glove isn't it yeah so one point to get across is to lubricate all moving Parts when you're assembling an engine I like to use assembly Lube on the lifters the Rockers and all other moving Parts when I'm putting these engines together it's just a good practice drop them right down through these little galleys through the galley yeah through the galley okay engines like Lube yeah especially when they start for the first time yes yeah do you like Lube Doug look I made a mistake on the math okay sue me but I know comedy and this silliness that they're doing over there talking back and forth with sexual innuendos and double entender is that's not funny look at my comedy my comedy is rooted always in a higher intellect type of Comedy there's always a weight of intellect behind each one of my jokes it's it's not sophomoric if I can use that word I haven't dropped out in ninth grade maybe I can't maybe you don't want me to use that word but I think it's sophomoric that type of comedy and that's exactly why I'm going to hold a comedy Workshop here at graveyard cars I think it's going to be a sign up sheet anybody that wants to sign up and take it can they'll learn about timing all right having your own original Fox not just regurgitating somebody else's comedy that you just saw on Saturday Night Live 30 years ago right watch my comedy and you'll see it's very Cutting Edge here's how we do the Mopar Shuffle okay Shuffle yep we just lay them to the outside Rock our men Rock the bolts right down into the holes like that wow look at that like I said I've built a few crap box Chevys over the years and I've learned that Mopar is definitely unique so watching a master like Dougie and learning from him is a wonderful opportunity just that little trick on the valve train would save me an hour of fighting when I have to do this myself hey look at that that's a clever trick if I was doing this in my garage I'd have probably wrestled with it for like an hour dropped them on the floor yep put them down a little bit like that if you want to keep your eyes on the push rods I will do that I'll bring these down a little bit there we go okay I don't see a lot of adjustment in these the hydraulic lifters take up all the adjustments oh that's the beauty of a Mopar well it's amazing okay so I've got this one all ready to go you go for it you do that so well okay I did notice the bolts are different lengths is that supposed to be the case the reason the two inner bolts are longer is because the oil comes up through passages around these two long bolts okay okay now we're going to tighten these down to 35 foot pounds do I have a different torque wrench we do oh excellent It's got lights on it oh wow like a spaceship well Doug likes his spaceships dog likes spaceships they never come and pick me up I'm disappointed my spaceship never comes in [Music] still to come with a new tribute Daytona in the wings Mark takes charge with a detailed Deep dive when you put that window plug in you have to shorten up your trunk lid when Mark's most experienced metal tank gets hands on with the conversion the result could make waves Shane and him are modifying and making things a little bit easier for the people doing these conversions meanwhile Dougie trains Brian on building out Mopar engines instead of being a hundred thousand dollar car when it's done with a non-numbers engine is 150 but it's only there if that engine starts up and doesn't overheat but a major mistake may require Mark's emergency intervention you always kind of expect the bad to happen this is an additional almost twenty thousand dollars when graveyard cars returns okay so now another key component to the aerodynamics of the wing cars is the back window plug they remove the original back glass from a 69 Charger or 70 roadrunner and they put this flush mount Style with a smaller window in it how to install that what has to happen What modifications to the body when you're converting one all of those things are very very important and that's why I wanted to take a minute and show you guys how we're doing the Yannick plugs on these so on the rear window plug you'll see that we've got this area ground down this is for adhesion purposes it is in between here and the area on the car at the sail panel is where we're going to have our panel Bond adhesive also if you look at this trough right here this one goes on the top of the metal piece that's on the car this goes to the bottom of it and then it'll have a rivet that holds it all in place so this is a real solid area so something I think is really cool Shane is the body man that's working on this and he's been talking to Graham who's the owner of genic reproductions he was pointing out to Grant who's all ears at this point how we could avoid maybe doing some of the welding of tabs that we had to do on our charger we had to weld in some different platforms for this to glue to whereas if he was molding this again this rear window plug why not mold the tabs into it with a flange and you just go right in there and use rivets and hold it in place instead of having to weld onto the car so they're actually Shane and him are modifying and making things a little bit easier for the people at home that are doing these conversions across here we're going to end up putting our panel Bond and across these areas here where it meets the trunk trough or the gutter so Shane I'm going to grab him we're going to put all of our panel Bond adhesive we have lots of time to work with that stuff at least an hour before it starts to even begin to kick so we'll get everything brushed on into place then we'll lift it up we'll move it over to here and we'll set it into place and at that point he can rivet everything and we'll be in good shape so I think with that I will grab him and we'll put it on foreign now another thing that has to happen when you put that window plug in you have to shorten up your trunk lid it's not a full-size trunk lid I think it's around eight and a half or nine inches that you cut off of that to be able to make the original deck lid work when you cut that off there's all kinds of ribs on the back side of it and of course the top side of it that you see with your eyes when the car is going down the road that's flat so the part that we're getting from Janik is a really nice piece of fiberglass that has all of the whoopty do's all the rib Provisions in it it goes underneath the skin at the front folds down and then it gets glued into place an interesting note here is if you go look at the original video and pictures that I have of ours that we did here for The Waltons they were really crude and there were huge gaps instead of a nice form fit huge gaps that the new part the reproduction part has duplicated and so I think that's just a really neat little detail so if you were looking at it and you didn't have the advantage of a magnet to see if it was metal or steel or original or reproduction you'd never know now to get that deck lid to fit with that new back window plug besides cutting it down you have to change the hinges so there is a company making steel hinges we bought a pair of those they're much longer and they have more Contour to them but they allow you that articulation that you have to have the ones that we're buying are duplicates of The Originals and with that you pretty much have a complete detailer conversion [Music] so the panel bond is a two-part epoxy that works like a glue they use it on new cars on metal but you can also use it on the fiberglass to steel and it is going to bond it like no other product in the world will bonded it's a 3M product and when that goes in there and they are clamped together and after 24 hours you'll never get them apart if you wanted to take that new piece off that we just added you'd have to Chisel it off and it would destroy it and the only thing would be left is the area that was glued on there so it's a absolutely perfect item to use when putting these together [Music] so what we're going to do now is we're going to put the intake gasket in place with a little bit of a Right Stuff seal okay underneath it so I'm going to run a bead of right stuff into the corners here across the end rails okay so after the valve train is done the next step is to put the intake manifold Chrysler uses a metal Valley Pan that seals up underneath the intake manifold we like to use sealer underneath this Valley Pan to keep the oil in the engine nice little bead in the corners okay and then we do that on both ends so we'll be adding any type of rubber gasket or quart gasket on top of that nothing huh right interesting I guess the intake might be next huh okay we got a manifold that's the front of the engine here this is the front yeah there we go just like that yeah just like that let's just freeze that frame for a second notice anything odd notice anything different about that this is the blind leading the blind this is what I was talking about I'm not making up for the fact that I goofed up on the math the intake manifolds on backwards this 1970 Dodge Challenger RT convertible was used in the 1994 film Natural Born Killers starring Woody Harrelson and Juliet Lewis it is one of 516 ever built with a 383 and an automatic transmission it's also the subject of this week's autopsy report okay so remember guys we read the fender tag left to right bottom to top so let's go let's get started E63 that's the 383 Magnum which comes standard in the RT model d32 three-speed automatic transmission js27 that's the first four digits of the VIN and it also means this is a Challenger RT convertible n0b in means 383 high performance zero is the model year of the car which is 1970. B is the plant that it was built at which is Hamtramck Michigan one one five two five eight that is the serial number all right we're moving on to the next lineup fe5 that's the paint code and that means bright red hrx9 that means high price class black leather bucket seats zero zero zero one piece door interior trim panel nine zero four that's the scheduled production date so it's gonna be September 4th 1969. zero three nine two seven five is the shipping order number all right we move on to the next line which starts with v3x black convertible top a62 that's the rally instrument cluster which comes standard on all the RT models b-51 power disc brakes you don't need no book you got me c16 center console C55 bucket seats g32 right hand outside painted racing mirror and now we're headed to that next lineup it starts with g34 which is going to be the left hand outside painted racing mirror j45 Hood pin tie-downs n41 dual exhaust n42 bright exhaust tip in 85 8 000 RPM tachometer p37 power convertible top R11 am music Master radio v6x black longitudinal stripe y05 build to us specifications en1 that is the end of the sales code and unfortunately the end of this week's autopsy report [Music] oh [Music] you want to know sir intake manifolds on backwards I just came out to check in on everybody and see how it was going and that didn't quite look right to me but that's over there not unusual but it turns out dragon is cracked shot Floyd should train our new guy the right way put the intake manifold on backwards so he's turning that around now well I have learned that if I'm firing up an engine that Dougie gave me to move the distributor 180 degrees before before I start trying to fire it up and put the brackets on that I forgot to put on hey I like that Mark that'll go on just fine that'll be perfect it'll match the intake manifold remember how I said this is the back of the manifold and then yeah he's not a simple turn he's a sweet guy that doesn't mean he's not simple and she starts all I can say is I love Dougie he knows his stuff and hey we all make mistakes okay all right Dougie we're ready for the valve covers we are ready for the valve covers so I be queef onto you thank you very much the driver's side valve so probably one of the most important engines we've ever started maybe maybe Windows numbers matching Hemi was was as important but this is very experimental it had to be started right away one of the things I told Doug and Brian was the minute that you get that thing put together please get it on the engine run stand there are things I need to know now one is I got to make a phone call to the owner this is an additional almost twenty thousand dollars went into saving this engine but again now the code instead of being a hundred thousand dollar car when it's done with the non-numbers engine is 150 because it's got its numbers in so the max there I got to tell you being an old Chevy guy and now building a Mopar engine uh-huh well part out a few things figured out didn't they yeah and then we're pretty close to running this thing right well we have to put the exhaust manifolds on first manifolds all right I am so glad to have your help well it's been a pleasure Dougie thank you yeah there it is all right we're gonna fire this up pretty soon stay tuned will the ghouls gamble pay off if this works the customer will be happy to pay the extra money to save a very rare numbers matching 71 Cuda or will this 71 cudas budget end up grenading like the engine it's all up to that engine running and sustaining good Mark's engine experiment wind up making this car worth tens of thousands more or put the owner the shot and the engine in the red you always kind of expect the bad to happen and it did before Oh coming up when graveyard cars returns let's face it they're going to drive this car it's not just going to be sitting there in the garage for five minutes and say oh we got the numbers matching engine okay good job putting it together thank you Mark I liked your intake man yeah thank you thank you oh sorry I love the intake manifold I loved all that that was good stuff got a chance to see that I thought I'd bring you two guys out here to hear it run awesome your labor all right so I'm gonna give it some coil power you got the distributoring backwards yeah there we go I know Mark wagered a lot on this engine being salvageable so I'm as nervous as he is about running this engine and hoping that we don't have any strange noises or leaks or overheating issues I know if this works the customer will be happy to pay the extra money to save a very rare numbers matching 71 Cuda okay I feel better already too oh could you have the cam off a little bit that's kind of part of your repertoire [Applause] [Music] wow wow dude I don't believe it the thing is starting up really nicely it runs good for an initial fire up the true test is time it has to run on that engine stand it has to run for 15 or 20 minutes we've got to check the oil pressure we've got to make sure it's not overheating we got to make sure we're not losing oil or water anywhere internally causing a milkshake in the crankshaft or something it's all up to that engine running and sustaining because let's face it they're going to drive this car it's not just going to be sitting there in a garage for five minutes and say oh we got the numbers matching engine 80 pounds of oil pressure so our biggest concern is not that it just runs but that it is a functional engine and it will hold water and oil pressure so we have to let it run long enough to open up the thermostat get it up to operating temperature and watch for water or oil leaks that is amazing man a little lifter noise uh-huh I agree with the guys this was a Monumental build and engine fire up a lot at stake here so I was really glad I got to be a part of it our water in the radiator up about it 80 pounds of oil pressure temperature starting to go up sounds really nice any leaks squeaks rattles knocks clicks I'll tell you this is huge and it's huge because you would not believe how many good cars don't have their original engine because a freeze cracked or windowing so far so good we had great oil pressure and no leaks now I'm not saying we can fix every one that's the worst one on the planet so you got a 70 Hemi Cuda you got the original engine but it has a hole in the side of the block we got the guys that can fix it it's amazing that just changed the value by twenty thousand dollars on this car everything is running just like it should 185 degrees at the thermostat nice beautiful best run a little engine we've had in a while yeah our audience is dead they're only 76 degrees oh Pete's running about 86 in that yapper ahead I'm innocently minding my own business checking temperatures and all of a sudden or oh Nice twice you know you learn a lot of things here at graveyard cars and one of the things I've learned is I've got to have cat-like reflexes did it get you yeah at least it's only 185 and it's not 250. no extra charge for that gentlemen [Music] now the good news about that happening is I didn't get hit by it this time Brian got hit because again another rite of passage right he'll know in the future not to be that close to something Doug he's put a hose clamp on um all just good creative ways to teach somebody what not to do remember the Bone Collector yeah remember that Denzel Washington right undoes that pipe that steam pipe turns it over there boils her face off you think she's going to make the same mistake next time no you think Brian's going to trust him to lock down a clamp next time no this is good stuff these are learning moments now who do we have to think for tightening that hose down I don't know let's run through the gamut you tighten that hose down no no I didn't tighten it down nobody tightened it down oh it tightened itself down I don't know well this is a miracle yeah you never checked it I don't know you got a good close-up on that let me check it okay that's the look of a guilty man right there that's that same look when they said Ted what'd you do with that kid nothing I just found her in the dumpster no it's a cash and carry World sometimes you pay a little mostly you pay a lot sometimes you pay all you have [Music] not Stephen King so I'm glad it was your side I bet you heard you're never allowed to do that again [Applause]

Channel: Graveyard Carz

Views: 11,341

Keywords: Graveyard Carz, TV Show, Mopar, Chrysler, Dodge, Discovery Channel, MotorTrend, Restoration, Muscle Car, American, The Office, Christine, Mark Worman, Allysa Rose, Will Scott

Id: ojXLyzuTeWY

Length: 43min 37sec (2617 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 13 2023