Killer 1970 Dodge Falls Apart - This Is Why I Test Drive Them!

[Music] [Music] last time we saw this superbee nick was giving the recent rebuild a once-over inside the shop now he has it warming up outside for a maiden voyage we built this engine last year for my client to dance at home had it installed in the star then eventually brought it here but he did not know how to put the 6-pack back on so I had it installed I got the engine started and now that city's not here he doesn't brought the hood yet I'm gonna take it for a drive 1970 dodge superbee with a vehicle six-pack are not matching numbers no but it's a four-speed with Athena yeah let's go for right [Music] that's a real six-pack all right you know when the with scar breeders open up it's chaos okay let me tell you yeah just cruise around we'll just Florida to second gear watch this and this other six-pack works we're gonna take off in first gear we're gonna cruise at first gear I'm gonna put in the second then I'm gonna floor it here we go [Applause] so joyride with a six-pack for 40 let me tell ya see we've got a little cabinet it's got power brakes power brakes worked fine so we made a good choice on the camel not one except he's got a very hard spring on the accelerator pedal return and doesn't matter he's used to that buddy in the meantime while driving away this but this one good one that six black opens up let me tell you what the four speed you know when you brought the engine in you had a 8.4 compression ratio now we've got that point doing this one real numbers let me tell you let me try it out before he picks that up and here's what I do most of the time [Applause] a lot of black smoke Nick yeah because the this edge was very well carbonized or ran very rich before we took out the engine so right now by flooring it and I have at full throttle we're cleaning out the exhaust system so a few passes like that we're gonna have a clean exhaust so the meantime just by kicking around cleaning out the exhaust and there will be nothing left okay [Music] all right bull it's good let me tell you man we've got roughly just over four and a horsepower in this engine I tell people you know when you got a worn it over horsepower for a daily driver all right weekend Cruiser show car what do you want it's very good and there it is now just wait for my customer Eve to pick it up and it's all ready to go oil pressures good something feels good and here we are you check everything look at that just the way all of it perfect I don't like to beat the cards once I built these engines but you know what this is one for you build a little muscle car put it in run it beat it goes good deliver the car and here it's ready to go let's I get the hood all right don't let get the hood and it is on his way here so we can put a Roger getting at all and there it is you see this is what we've set some fool he's got stale gas in this thing the fuel was very still so paint a bit of course that I a deep donation and I'm sure he's got old fuel but the car was parked over here but I'm gonna tell him to flip the tank with fresh fuel petrol Canada 94 and then he's all set I did the time yesterday I just at the carburetors we check for leaks vacuum leaks oil eggs everything went well so it's ready for delivery NIC finished his test drive in the superbee just in time the clouds are rolling in some rain is starting to fall time to get the big Mopar inside once you love this pistol grip hey throw it out be body pistol grip Nick thinks that the car is ready to go until this happens as Nick pulls into the garage the pulley on the brand-new reconditioned alternator flies off and shoots across the shop floor oh they're just blew up [Music] I mean they wouldn't touch the alternator he installed it but then again that's press fit that should not come out oh my god that's quite your old test cars man and you beat them this is the reason look who's gonna drive home long distance and he wanted to made it home right now and just the reason why I test my cars look at that just before we deliver it look what happened the pulley for the alternator just came off yes okay let me look for another one look at that hey there's a reason why we do this this is a reason why I beat the cars before I deliver them there it is I didn't expect that first time I see that [Music] I'm here on sided to deliver cars just like that 64 t-bird it just left that's my job here's another reason he's supposed to go today but since it's rainy maybe you won't show up every night is a parking lot here in my shop when people don't pick up their cars for another alternator maybe I'll run into an old one I'll give it to him I don't know if it's gonna work looks pretty old you know what I'll put on TV charges let's go give it a shot this has never happened to me before a pulley on the alternator come off and you know it's press fit on a Chrysler but wherever you had theirs its alternator rebuilt did it do a pretty good job for it to come out like that that's not normal I better put a cover on it I usually never scratch cars but anyways I'm always careful but in the meantime I'll put it on that's a that's for my youtube words I know I'm gonna get a lot of comments on that so you know what you put it on so I'm gonna have to hear about it there you go see there's the bushing in the back and look at this now it's both off a bushing in the middle here it doesn't have it maybe cause vibrations and it came off I'm not so sure but then again I've seen other more parts without the bushing that he pulley did not come off but in this case it came off I don't know why you have to go look at my junk pile again these are things that what was people lose I don't know how they lose something like that every time my car comes in when I need a bushing for the alternator they're always gone because they use them so often you know what I don't know if this is good enough let's go try this one here's an older rusty one doesn't matter as long as it works let's go try it out [Music] there you go pretty crunchy those are the job you know what let's put on see what it does I got that my brother's focus here that delivery car and it's got a major overhaul they're changing everything and look at this I got three mechanics on it wipe is we want to get it done and here we're all here today to finish it off for me nice clean engine compartment with an ugly alternator Wow was it ever dirty but then again Nev will take care of that I should I want to send this up the good result but I don't have anything else so let's put it on to what it does I can't think it's after that you might drive and lose it on the highway do that it's good to break it upside down not Eve I'm not gonna start they're switching everything right now I just want to get the car going let's see how it goes don't fire great but I put up hoping you're on to be sure that's if this ugly thing does this job II 15 59 15 golden Victor much oh good well it's overcharging so it's no good we're gonna take it off [Music] you see that this is the way it took it out yeah right it's supposed to be this way so as the alternate goes up this way it goes my client had it this way that's wrong it's supposed to be this way at least now we've got the upper bushing for the alternator I don't know why I do so many more parts in my life for some funny reason I always find that bushing missing you know it's part of the cars not part of the alternator so for some reason every time I do a job they come with 10,000 bolts washing it or whatever [Music] there it is 13.8 1348 we got it [Music] it took a couple of his spare alternators and some bits out of the junk collection to get this super be ready to roll but Nick always finds a way to get the job done it takes lots of little pieces and a bottomless well of knowledge to put these old cars together right and make them stay together [Music] [Music] [Music] and all you guys have been watching our project on Kowalski here's a little update I'm regaining ready to put my dash together and my cluster of course I didn't get the dash pad yet which it should be on its way later one here this afternoon but I had to frame as yellow see I added painted black and now I wanted to show you something with a cluster about detail work here for example this is the cluster that came out of my car to which I just bought right look at this this is the way it came out yeah that's pretty good shape not bad from what I've seen in the past from all the jobs I bought and here's one that's been done with that my buddy Giuliano while was at eight nine years ago he's restored it for friend of Mines who's given it to me on my 60th birthday and his name is Dowell he did a and of course he wanted to give to me because he knew I was building this project right now and he goes Nick he has no purpose for it and he gave it to me and it's a beautiful piece look at the detail on it okay here's the back of it because once I stall out on the car you do not see this it's called O'Reilly cluster this is the cluster itself with the gauges then of course you got the bell so that goes over it here's one that's been redone and there's one that came off the car as is and just to let you guys know Rolly dashes on anybody existed from 70 to 74 on a 70 71 you got the knob for the odometer and the knob to just a clock it's through the wood grain that's how that's how you know when it's a 70 71 Raleigh Dodge or Raleigh cluster if it's a 72 73 74 cluster the knobs for the odometer and for a clock or through the lens on the gauges themselves so in this case you see this is a 70 71 cluster as you can see old versus restored and then again you have some more parts cluster contains a lot of pieces here's another one here's the one without a white promoter I'm sorry without the rear defrost this is not is one of three knobs something over here would be a power top or really fast but in this case we don't have neither one of them then this is what the car has and this is also restored by Jules Jodi Ann oh my buddy rest in peace he's I've lost him a few years ago he's done this and of course here's the one that came off the car as the weight came off the car so I'm showing you the guys that before and after this is what you do this is what you get when someone restores a cluster hundred percent they're gonna detail work and what's it's installed in the car you do not see this and eventually of course it's all gonna go into kawaski car and then of course this is the one that came off my car that's the heater controls I will continue but I'm stalling that one Joey annulled it for me which is with the speaker balance so I'm going to be installing this on my car because I wanna have a stereo sound front and rear speaker sound and just the one that's fully restored here it is talk about details they and all other little things like a lot of people you don't want to build that car we store cars you know fix the lighter lighter for me is a very important item for example sometimes you've got smokers in your car yes okay we don't want anybody smoking my car I won't allow it but you take this for example look it is brand new and I want to make sure it works if somebody wants to charge the phone while they're cruising with me they could just plug it in and it's guaranteed it's going to work and there you have it oh I want to show something else these are my hinge covers I finally got a I was missing one piece out of the for my fall one not even optical preset here's the front speaker grille I had that clean then I got the other speakers because this car from the factory came with an AM radio 8-track which I will be reinstalling back again in the Kowalski Challenger this is what he had a simple AM radio so I've got a choice so I'll see if I don't get the 8-track that I want that's because it's missing from the car which one of my buddies has one where Darrell says he's gonna give me one and I'll see you next week but in the meantime I've got this which is the original a immediately came out the car but again like I said the car came with an eight-track AM radio [Music] and I want to tell you guys a little trick a lot of guys when they buy a reproduction antenna for a body 72 74 CUDA challenger one of which were aware of is that the antenna goes underneath so when you're sitting there it is and when you get a reproduction at Tanna it's straightforward inside has no 90-degree bend that's from the factory this is what you got as you can see the antenna goes from one little radio and makes a 90-degree turn this way when you're sitting in the car you don't see the antenna wire it gets buried underneath the dash so in this case what I do is you go to an eBay and you buy an adapter 90 degree like this then you plug it in to your radio then you get your reproduction a ton of wire which is straight angle it doesn't have the language to it is straight you plug it in then you put this into your radio you tape it up come on flash you don't see it and looks original so when you sit in the car you don't see the antenna wire making a u-turn you put this in and it's all done sometimes I look at the car and you can see the words just coming down straight from the radio and then makes a loop going up which is wrong from the factory like I said this is the way it comes it has the 90 degree band so it hides away under the dash but of course the reproduction wiring for the antenna it comes to the straight which is in my car it's not correct but that's the way they make it it's not correct anyways but I fix it with this little adapter which only cost like about $7 on eBay another trick from Nick from next garage [Music] take all the little details then you know what it's a lot of pieces to put this - together I'm gonna have to spend some time on it a few nights to put it all together I went from food a few more pieces to come in and waiting for the - Pat of course and then I want to also put my map light in okay I gotta get this cleaned out hook it up with my harness I got the original harness which is in very good shape which I'm gonna reinstall it back in again and of course the lamp I forgot to show you the lamp this is the overhead lab which is your - lights this is one that's been restored which is a seventy seventy one which has four light bulbs you see it 72 to 74 there's only three light bulbs 70 71 71 Riley cluster there is four like in this one and there's the one that came out of the car right here kind of all rusted up but then again it could be cleaned up and look just as good as the other one and here you have it and this what's called a fully restored cluster and - you know I don't know how many hours that Julianna worked on this but I always put a lot of time into it especially this piece here this is pretty unique this is a special touch and you know what's special about this I'll tell you what it is it's because when you're driving this car all the time you're facing this and this has to be beautiful and I want to make sure all the gauges work and of course after I finished with everything I'm going to test everything and I want to make sure everything works so I just can't wait to get it done start to get into the car and get it going and here's another update on my Kowalski and I had my rear glass installed with a sealer and I'm sure it's not gonna leak because I've done many of them even though with the headliner turned inside and one regrets I've done it so many times and here it is and then of course I've stalled my rear glass on my car and I want to show you a place I've just installed in the front of the side of the car and here we are we finally finished installing our dodge nameplate on the riley hood this way it comes in a 1970 Dodge Challenger has seen in vanishing point on all point white and of course I also installed my a plates challenger RT of course this way it was on a vanishing point car as we all know and of course the magic number is right here and this is what he drove back in 1970 440 Magnum and by the way these are nos very rare to find these are nos you know to drill holes on that there's no template that did not find any templates on it but I did my best and I did exactly the way it came from the factory and here they are on both sides [Music] a little later in the day Eve shows up with the super bees hood the last piece in his rebuild after a lot of work and a long wait he'll finally be able to open up his six-pack as he drives the force beat home [Music] and I want to thank all you guys who stopped who subscribed lately because we are a good amount of number this past week and I want to thank you all thank you very much and like I said you guys subscribe share like thumbs up and click on that subscribe button and thank you very much and see you next week and you guys if you look down below the video we have a whole bunch of merchandise that you guys can buy so whatever you like buy it love it wear it and enjoy it and help spread the 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Channel: Nick's Garage

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Length: 27min 7sec (1627 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 08 2019