THE VERY FIRST C BODY MOPAR TO HIT GRAVEYARD CARZ AND IT'S A RARE ONE! CHRYSLER 300 HURST EDITION.

this week Christine's frame has refitted a 225 slant 6 is disassembled and we continue the Assembly of a beautiful 71 Cuda convertible [Music] [Music] back to life last week was a lot of fun having Tony out I always enjoy giving him a hard time giving a little test he does good he he brushes up see now I don't I'm all natural right if I know the t-man's coming out I don't sit there and study up on everything Tony I know he's just sitting there sweating reading the numbers and reciting them going back over in the mirror you know candyman candyman candyman I don't know that's a different movie but having the 64 Fury going over with Tony was great because I did learn a lot about it and I knew it was rare but I didn't know how rare and a lot of the things that I thought might be Factory and would be awful cool if they were Factory turned out to be indeed in Factory on another note last week was great because we got our 1970 Cuda tribute card dry train got installed in it so really we're down to a final assembly on that car and the folks have been very patient I don't like to mislead people there's still a lot of stress going on from the Christine standpoint we just sent out the anodizing the Chrome the polishing so I'm hoping that we get it back later towards the end of this week or the first and next week's we'll be putting trim on at midnight the night before the show thank you so what's nice is Mojo engineering is duplicating the original quote unquote 489 case now the 489 or the last three digits of the assembly number it's a very popular case and it was the case that that car would have started life well not that one but our muscle cars do it's it's strong you can't break them so Mosier got the patent to build the 489 case and then they put an Eaton sure track in it this positraction unit so it's really a bulletproof setup and it's a lot easier to find than going out and hunting down an original eight and three quarter 489 case with a Sure Grip unit in it that probably winds your house or doesn't uh lock up like it's supposed to it was the right answer for Christine for sure another nice thing about the reproduction 489 case is it has the provision for the pinion snubber a two bolt pinion snubber which is common for the eight and three quarter and then if you have a day net because they also reproduce The Dana 354 and 410 rear ends it actually has the three bolt provision for the really cool opinions number that would come on the danus once you have the axle housing installed the last thing is to put the axles in it this also came with the rear end assembly these are a sealed bearing where originally they weren't you had to pack the bearings Slide the axles in and then you had to set the end play from side to side you no longer have to do that these are sealed you bolt them down you're done you also never have to worry about them again and they're an alloy axle so they're super strong the other thing I like to do in in the spirit of keeping everything original of course the nuts they're they are the original nuts for an eight and three quarter housing that come in our kits our chassis kits that we also get from oer [Music] foreign so one of the one of the last things they did on the rear end was put the information tags on it I just like that I'd like to know what the gear ratio is the factory did it so why can't I we have those tags in stock we get where we are why not put them on there the positraction oil label or tag as well as the gear ratio okay so you've heard me say a million times that the 1971 Cuda convertible is the most collectible muscle car Mopar muscle car on the planet well it's true I mean I'd agree with it you may not own one but that didn't change the facts historically the 1971 Hemi Cuda convertible for example is the single most collectible car selling for three and a half million dollars one of only 11 made nine have more automatics two or more four speeds but that just shows how rare how desirable they are if you want to break those numbers down the 1971 Cuda 340. convertible they made 140 of them talk about a 383 standard engine and a 71 Cuda that made 128 of those move up to the legendary 446 Barrel they only made 17 convertible 71 cudas with a 446 barrel and of course as I mentioned the 11 Hemi cars now interestingly our car is one of only eight ever built but it's nowhere near worth three and a half million dollars but it's one of eight because it's a 340 with a three-speed manual transmission so it's rare and it's desirable it's just not the most expensive 71 Coupe on the planet now this convertible is actually has a sales coat of P like Papa 37 that means it's a power top but they weren't all [Music] okay so on our purple 1971 Cuda 343 speed one of only eight made while we are getting close to the Finish Line on that one having it done this is the part while it's rewarding because there's a lot of fun trinkets to put on the car it's also the part where anything can go wrong from the standpoint if it's the wrong part or you break putting it on or you scratch the paint it's final assembly so while we got the dash built out last week it still has to be installed safely and carefully that's a two-man job to make sure it gets done right oh so what we're working on today is a 225 charger this car is a 225 cubic inch Slant six 68 Dodge Charger with an automatic on the floor you don't take apart too many six cylinders nowadays we sure don't yeah go for it they only made 904 of these and only one of them was a standard transmission that's true that's true we got an automatic on this one got our alternator off I've done a couple of them over the years but it's been a while most of the cars around here are performance cars they're hemis and six packs and 440s and 340s so it'll be fun for those two guys to learn a little bit about the inner workings of the Slant six what a strange little setup see all this stuff coming out of here and then we'll have to do a little bit of digging now it has to exactly how that thing's supposed to be dressed out to be correct so stay tuned for that yes corrosion electrolysis the aluminum is dissolving oh yeah look at all that there we go oh man it's like Chalk in there now one of the things Doug and I have had a little sidebar about he's saying that he believes it's a solid lifter mechanical adjust valve train I just don't see it in 68 on a slant six of course the decal was still in good shape the decal yeah I know I'm kidding I'm just messing with it okay yeah it's all torn up you can almost guarantee him that that lifter is hydraulic not solid so we'll see how that goes still pretty clear though charger 225 huh what would you have bought if you lived in 68. hey if if this was my car I would have loved it I don't care that it only had a 145 horsepower it's an automatic it's a 68 Charger my favorite I'm a cruiser man I'm not a dragon as long as it gets you point A to point B that's right we're anticipating getting the head off this engine so that we can find out whether it's hydraulic lifter or solid lifter so one of my favorite things on the 58 Fury is the wide white walls now I bought these from Coker for one reason there are steel belted radio that looks like a wide white wall bias fly tire so it has the look of yesterday but the performance of today mounting the tires on the rims a piece of cake for the simple fact that I went with a 14 by five and a half inch steel wheel so I happen to have a really nice set we have them painted we had them sandblasted and painted and they're ready to take the tires on them it's kind of fun for me to do mounting and balancing Windows go back to my early days I mean royal royal used to work with me we'd see who could Mountain balance tires fastest which by the way I hold the record for I think it's 13 and a half minutes four tires mounted a balance key to key meaning from the time you put the key in the lock to the time you lock the door back up again so we have a question from our top fan this week Mr Rob Burgess he is asking what is the largest performing engine available in the Plymouth Barracuda Assuming he's talking the 1970s Barracuda not Cuda model 446 pack Barracuda not Cuda model you know what you're doing really good I am I got this new thing I do with them where I do this and yeah you just I gotta hold him it's the 383 four barrel 330 horsepower the 383 two barrel L code like Kimberly Cook's car had had a 290 horsepower and if you had a real Cuda model it was five horsepower more so if you have a question of your own go on Facebook become one of our fans you could become our top fan ask whatever question it is and if you are the top fan we'll hit it next week so Justin did a great job building out the dash it looks really nice it's fully functional he tested it on the test bench all the gauges work so it's at a point where it can be installed in the car that's a two-guide job she didn't want to scratch anything they're kind of heavy they're clumsy so he's going to work with Doug and get the dashboard installed in the car fasten it down then it can continue to build out the rest of the interior okay you on there yep all right there I'm on there too now I don't know of any data out there as far as the factory installation of the dash but when I look at it it looks to me like it's designed to be done by one or two people okay things looking clear yep let's rock it up because you have bolts in the sides that go into the inner hinge pillars if you don't tighten them all the way down because that framework is going to come in and set down on it you roll it up into place you have five screws across the front of it that all just seems very assembly line to me so it wouldn't surprise me that the way we're doing it today is exactly the way they did it back in the day it's a good clean system and it works here you go yo thank you all right once all your connections are made the dashes in place it's a matter of putting the steering column in now the steering column has already been restored that takes a skilled person to be able to know what parts it is to make sure that it works the way it's supposed to put it back together the way it's supposed to do that kind of stuff but with that done which is where we're at it's pretty easy to put in after that you're done with the steering wheel you're done with the dash foreign there we have it our steering column is in and this thing is ready to move on to the rest of the interior 1971 in America it was it was a changing time everybody knows it was there and if you read the history books you had the wind down of the Vietnam War you had gas prices and we're just starting to Skyrocket so 1971 while it may have been the Pinnacle it was a very short Pinnacle it began to decline quickly the best example of that is the 1971 Cuda one of the best looking cars in the world but they made about half of them in 1971 that they did in 1970. it gives you an example of how the times were changing in people's tastes were changing if you take a minute and look at the 1970 and 71 cudas let's just talk about the bs-23 bs-27 cars there were changes even though at a glance they looked the same 70 and a 71 Cuda use if they have the same option hoods they'd use the same Hood the same fenders the same bumpers the same doors the same decklet for the most part that's all true overall they're identical subtle changes were made in some ways such as the outside mirrors were a little different in 1971 than they were in 1970 they got bigger some of the changes that weren't as subtle is like the front end of the 71 Cuda 71 Barracuda Cuda was the only year they had four headlights they had two on each side a high beam and a low beam 1971 was the only year for the Barracuda to have forehead light system The Grille was unique from the 1970. the 1970 had a park lamp that rode up real high it was very Sleek in 1971 they moved the park lamp down to the front balance and they gave it a real cool pointy look to it with reverse scallops in it as you begin to walk around the car you'll see that there are louvers and the fenders these shirt simulated shirt gills in the fenders in 71 they didn't have that in 1970. the rocker molding in 1970 was a really cool bit big but it ran the entire length of the rocker it was about two and a half inches tall and it also looked like fish gills going down the side of a car in 71 it was just a clean aluminum anodized molding the tail lights are different in 71 but similar to the 70. in 1970 you could buy a Cuda with a 375 horsepower 444 Barrel engine they pulled the four barrel engine out of the lineup in 1971. you could not get a 71 Cuda e-body Challenger or Cuda with a 444 Barrel it was only available with the e87 446 Barrel or six pack if you had a challenger the 1971 Plymouth Cuda convertible they built a total with all the different engines of 374 of those cars 140 of them got the optional small block 340. 120 of those came with the standard 383 four barrel high performance would be the Super Commando only 17 71 Cuda convertibles left the factory with a 446 barrel and only 11 with the legendary 426 Hemi our car has a standard three-speed manual transmission making it one of only eight 1971 Cuda convertibles with a 340 and a manual three-speed transmission I'm pretty sure it has adjustable rockers on it so I feel that it has solid lifters here we go look at that look at that it's a holly nice little one barrel carburetor okay so this is the choke stove with the bimetallic spring in it that's what it's called a choke stove uh-huh kind of like an oven down here in the manifold we'll buy metallic spring heats up opens a choke on the carburetor I see foreign might be an original starter yeah look at that intake and exhaust dual manifolds oh it's busted oh yeah look at that it's busted it's all cracked over here all right let's see how can we get in here right here okay we found our rockers a whole bunch of them so now we've found adjustable rocker arms here three teens and other engines didn't have adjustable rockers they were hydraulic on this one here you have to adjust the valve tolerance on The Rocker shafts here a little adjusting screw on on the sides of the rocker on the push rod what we're after here is to pull off the rocker shaft we're going to pull the head off and we're going to find out if this has hydraulic or solid lifters my boat is solid hydraulic lifters are pumped up with oil and they take up all of the adjustment from the push rod to the valve and solid lifters you have to adjust the rocker to take up the difference Lift Off The Rocker shaft adjustable rockers here's the adjusters right here little adjusting screws here's the part that fits into the push rod go ahead and pull out all the push rods one thing I like about the slant 6 is the spark plugs go right in the side of the head through these little tubes and they're pretty easy to change out and a little distributor down here on the side look at those cute little Pistons six cylinders now we can see where the lifters are okay here we go yeah look at that it's a solid lifter no hydraulic guess that means you were right huh sometimes I get lucky hey Mopar Master over here watch what I was saying that's what I was saying about the engine you guys you need to start recording more of this stuff and play it back as well as Sam was high performance yeah that's what I'm talking about no wait what no [Music] so the next step on the coot is to put the carpet in it we've bought our carpet from the same place for years uh many years ago we used to buy it and it would come rolled up in a box which is fine it was a good product but rolled up in a box especially if it had just been formed means that you have to reform it we get ours from ECS so what happens is they come in in a huge flat box and it's just folded in half so when we go to put those in the steaming process is five minutes ten minutes and you have everything fitting nice there's no crumples in the floor like anybody who's put the rolled up in a box carpet in has that we've learned how to get away from that [Music] I know that I've been restoring these cars for many years and I know a lot about it I still make mistakes makes me human but I think that sometimes people can be intimidated right I I don't want them to be but I think I would go back to when I worked at Lincoln Mercury I was kind of intimidated working under the boss I was more cautious kind of like nervous right I hope he's not doing I hope Justin's really taking time to just realize that I'm here to help him help us like the movie right help me help you I want to be able to spend the time that I am with him and feel comfortable that he's absorbing it because I I could do this whole thing with anybody I choose which ones I want to do it which I've learned in the past I've took time and trained people only to find out that they had their own agenda and wanted to go do something else who knows what that is but in this case I've got a really good feeling that he'd like to be here for the rest of his life and that's a good thing because we need some lifetimers here it's going to help us speed up our productivity and not have any kind of QC issues maybe that we've had in the past so like I've said before on any of these cars the hard stuff is the engine the transmission the body the paint getting it all kind of formed together there the fun part is the final assembly yes it has its potentials for damage but putting chrome trim side markers fish gills moldings pentastars wheel opening moldings bumpers grills belt moldings tail lights all that trim just brings that car to life and it's definitely the funnest part I have always felt that the assembly guy has the best job in the house most of the cars that we don't replace the exterior trim on and we have to recondition it we sublet it out to a guy in town here that does metal straightening it usually needs to be straightened usually as anodizing has to be stripped and then re-anodized or stainless and takes a certain hand to do that so this was the kind of thing Justin could do I spent some time with him before on several other cars and showed him it's a pretty humble little setup we have but it works great on this stuff and it allows us to control the end result the finished product as well as the time to get it done the frame still needs to be built out and prepped for our 58 Fury the Christine car and that's a matter of we're converting the front brakes to a disc brake set up on it we have the engine transmission mounting that we have to put into place get all of the things ready so that when we set that engine and transmission on there it's in place final permanently and we can build around it when the body shell comes back around [Music] foreign so the nice thing about Christine is it uses a leaf spring rear suspension torsion bar front suspension just like the cars we work on today I was able to use a Mopar rear shackle brand new ones that we stock that we put on the muscle cars I ordered a pair of replica original duplicate leaf springs and then the original hangers all we had to do was take them off Media blast them paint them and get ready to put it back on so our bushings and our inserts and things like that we were able to use the stuff off of today's car on that car so there's some interchangeability there which I think is kind of cool for that many years another what 10 years prior to the stuff we're working on they were using the same stuff so like anything when I'm when I'm out there working on these cars and you've got a lot of heavy stuff I've said it a million times have good equipment trust that equipment and use it the way it's supposed to be used you won't have your injuries you won't have things getting broken it just is a much better way to be I couldn't always afford good equipment but now that I can I'm filling the shop with it because it makes a difference in the end now originally these cars did not have air adjustable shocks but I wanted to put them on there if you have an air adjustable shock or an air shock we call them as kids if you have one you don't have to use it the leaf springs are going to be there but if you do need more ride height because maybe these Springs aren't exact when they're supposed to be or maybe the car is heavier or lighter who knows you can adjust the right height of the car with the air shocks in the front I can go up there and do torsion bars turn them up if I need the car higher turn them down if I need it lower blah blah blah but in the back if you want to have any adjustment at all and you don't want to lose your ride you want to go with an air adjustable shock [Music] oh once that's done we can mount up the really cool uh wide white wall tires one of my favorite things on the five and a half inch Factory steel Mopar rims five about four and a half bolt pattern after that we'll have a rolling chassis we'll be in a position where we're waiting for the body to come back that's a good place to be so on Christine we had the entire frame powder coated mostly for what two reasons one is powder coating fills an awful lot so you don't have as much body work to do to it to make it have a nice finish also it's durable as hell you can drive that thing down a gravel road every single day of your life and you'll never get that stuff off you can't get it up you can't even sandblast it off you have to Kim you have to physically grind it off of there because it's so durable I let our powder coater go ahead and do the eight and three quarter housing that I had now remember the housing is out of a 1970 Dodge Charger it's only a quarter of an inch on each side narrower than the original rear end that was in the car but the eight and three quarter that we got out of the charger allows us to use all the things we're used to using that breaks the drums the actuators the cables all that stuff Christine never actually existed as a car they use both a Belvedere and a Savoy to portray the evil automobile our Christine is a 1958 Belvedere which was iconic all in its own to understand why we had to jump back to the previous model year 1957 was a big year for Chrysler because a Jetson The Styling that Plymouth was known for and caught the competition off guard Suddenly It's 1960. that's what Chrysler's ads claimed because they completely changed the look of the car dropping the body lanes and replacing them with the signature look we recognize today commonly known as the forward look despite selling exceptionally well the 1957 Belvedere was rushed into production and after issues with rust and faulty Parts Chrysler's reputation and quality and reliability was tarnished despite this Chrysler regained leadership and styling and brought a new suspension system which would keep them on top and handling until the 1970s what was it it was a torsion bar suspension a unique Approach at the time that we muscle car girls and guys are all too familiar with and 1957 was the debut of the all-important torque flight automatic transmission which opened the door to customers who rejected both the manual transmission and the two-speed power flight the torque flight would quickly earn a reputation for durability and efficiency allowing automatic equipped drag racers to win against manual transmission cars 1958 focused on quality which dramatically improved along with some styling changes they replaced the lower bumper pan with a lower grille and installing real dual headlamps which created the necessary foundation for what would eventually become immortalized as Christine foreign George has been working on this 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner this is a convertible which you can tell but it's a 383 four-speed car very very few four-speed convertible roadrunners were built this is one of those now unfortunately the downside to it is it was a really rusty car so when we got it back from the Dipper it needed everything we're in the process of replacing the rear frame rails rear body panel in and outer wheel houses trunk floor trunk floor extensions under seat pan rear step Wells we have already replaced the main floor and the transmission crossmember now ironically the front of the car is in really good shape so there'll be just some small Patchwork that needs to be done up there all right so the piece I'm talking about is right here this is quarter inch plate steel it's shaped and mimics the inside of the rocker itself so it follows the bottom of the rocker up the side and across the top so you see right here it goes all the way out to here and then it spot welds down inside here this being quarter inch plate and it runs all the way from the edge of the rocker here to the very front you won't see that in a hard top car okay if you go out to our hardtop our 1970 Coronet and take a look at that you'll see what I'm talking about it's because we have no roof to hold the car together Chrysler thought and rightfully so it would be a good idea to reinforce the Rockers so that's what these are I believe that this part is actually available in the parts book I think you can go back to the original parts book and actually order one of those back in the day if you were to happen to get in a wreck so we have the other side opened up and this is ready to get the new inner rocker that's how we were able to see all of this we already did the inner rocker front section here like I said with the floor so this piece will go in this set something like that across the bottom it'll get spot welded along here and it'll get plug welded down here and that will help finish off the reinforcement and and the strength of that rocker panel so we're kind of what we wanted to do because it was so rotten in the main structure is we wanted to do it piece by piece so we didn't lose the overall geometry of the car like we have in the past when you blow something completely apart you can lose things lose its geometrical shape and so you're fighting that all the time so in this case if you just leave it together it moves it a lot faster through here so there you go oh [Music] good there man you wanna go through that way yeah so our 1971 Coupe is drawing close to the Finish Line one of the last big things that we have to put on is our convertible top mechanism now this is a power convertible top that's not standard you had to order p37 to get the power otherwise it would have been a mechanical top a couple of the cars that I have Outback so right now we're getting ready to put the convertible top mechanism in we'll bleed it out we'll adjust it as close as we can without material on there then Larry can come out get the material put on it we can do the final adjustments fit them to the side glass and the quarter glass and we'll be ready to put the rest of the few things that are left on and get it out for a drive this is just a rough fit yeah so we just held it up against it into place and then wherever this naturally wants to sit at that time that's probably where we'll lock it down okay and then Larry can play with it if he needs to yeah sounds like you have a power box there here we go I'm a believer I'm a faithful man [Applause] see that side's a little softer but it's going so a little adjustment on that one now remember folks this is our 1971 Cuda 340 three-speed manual transmission that's the standard transmission only eight people opted not to go up to a four speed or to an automatic this is one of eight it's an inviolet white top white interior it's a very rare car you won't see two of these at a local car show so yeah with that we have there's a hundred little adjustments between these bows and the actual vertical and horizontal bars right here but we'll dial those in as Larry's getting the material ready we can start we're going to get the windows rolled up put some rubber in there put your Metro molded rubber in place just even to mock it in there and we'll dial it in Nice Work yep that's beautiful that's a beautiful car it's good seeing that on somebody's going to be extremely happy I think so with all the pieces that we've got done so far on our 71 Cuda it's getting really close to being able to deliver to the customer Larry will come out he'll do the actual material that goes on the top but the mechanism Place everything is aligned like it should be so really with just a few hours after Larry's done we'll be able to wrap this car up call the guy up have him come out and deliver the car to them [Music] I got Nuggie hi Mark don't let me stop you how are you I'm good how are you good haven't seen you in a while okay so a couple days ago we got our engine back for the 1971 Cuda this is the one we've dubbed the Phoenix Cuda the one that uh Wendell had we talked about it a couple seasons ago it got caught on fire had a big explosion so the biggest thing that had me apprehensive was the condition of the engine when we sent it out to the Machine Shop it didn't look very good it's pretty bad after Doug tore it down you could see that there was pits in the cylinders that were pretty deep there was a lot of fire damage so I was completely relieved when the engine comes back and the worst case scenario was it had to be bored out to 60 thousands instead of maybe a standard or Thirty thousands over so yeah I'm pleasantly surprised at how nice this block is but it looks like with some elbow grease and some hard work a lot of the stuff that wasn't made of pot metal or aluminum we're going to be able to reuse on this engine Doug's got the short block pretty much built out except for the camshaft but this is really cool camshaft we always use Comp Cams it has the original three bolts they make a single bolt one a lot of people put them in it's probably less money I don't know but the three bolt is the way it left the assembly line so the three bolt is the special camshaft we're putting in this engine shock to Bill Gibson the guy with the uh Christine that was out here a few years ago the 58 Fury yeah so it turns out that he shipped the car up to New York a couple weeks ago because it's going to make a cameo appearance and next season's Castle Rock yeah there's a cameo scene where it's driving down the road so they used his car to do it I thought that's pretty cool wow lucky guy huh you hear that PD is pretty cool show PD over here peties are in-house uh horror genre lunatic filmmaker anyway yeah I'm looking forward to seeing that that's going to be cool did you ever watch season one or not no I was busy yeah I had to work that day yeah all right our other top fan this week on Facebook is Mike Stackhouse he wants to know if we would ever be willing to restore a 1970 Chrysler 300H as in Hearst we actually have a 308 here from a gentleman down in Florida that we are in the process of getting ready to restore the 300H is a really cool car it's two-door it's a hard top has a fiberglass hood and deck lid uses a high performance 440 in it but Chrysler called it the 440 TNT so if you have a 440 TNT out of a 70 Chrysler 300H give me a call be happy to buy it so if you have a question of your own go on to our Facebook page and post it there if you're one of our top fans and we select it we will answer it next week during graveyard cars doesn't get any better than that right that was good oh yeah okay so the reason I stopped that is I wanted to point out that this is a 426 Hemi so from the factory it had a three bolt cam three bolts held the sprocket onto the camshaft there's only one other engine in mopar's history that does the exact same thing uses three volts and that's from the factory a 446 back or six barrel fiatic you know so that's just a unique thing I wanted to point out that's all it's it that it uses the three bolts now we could have gone with just a single replacement bolt type of Cam they make them the Comp Cam makes the exact ones replica lift duration I mean this is the factory camshaft you know me I like my factory stuff [Music] what are you putting 30 35 yeah it will work better when you turn it on yeah guaranteed guaranteed it's on yeah let's try it again okay [Music] look at that Mark the green lights how are we doing here in a second I'll show you guys the existence and then I'm gonna go back there making coffee normal land I try to talk all this and make them some coffee I doubt she will do me a favor yes sir see this little yellow dot right here next to that other little Mark right actually it's right on it that little yellow dust right on the timing mark that little dot dread on the timing mark you'll notice how the cam gear is at six o'clock and the crank gear is at 12 o'clock that's the way they're supposed to be and when that happens the number one piston is the top dead center of the compression stroke so with my little uh education there on the camshaft and pistons I'm able to let cousin Dougie continue on I think he's ready to start working on the bottom of the engine getting it buttoned up that's like the windage tray the gaskets the pan the sump pickup get it all buttoned up roll it back over then you can start working on the cylinder heads the valve train which is an intricate thing we'll show you that later and at that time once he's done we can get it on an engine run sand and fire it up I think window's going to be extremely happy when he hears that engine for the first time in 22 or 23 years [Music] now the thing about this conversion set is I was able to use the 1970 to 72 rotors inner bearings outer bearings grease seal calipers caliper mounts all that stuff was Factory 1970-72 disc brake so if you have a breakdown Somewhere In Another Country another state another world and you need a caliper or you need a rotor you need pads just tell them you got a 70 Dodge Charger you'll come up with everything you need that's keeping it in the Mopar family [Music] the only negative takeaway I had was with the disc brake conversion you can't use the brake Shields the dust Shields that you would normally use so the stones can go up in there and hit the rotor if you're on a gravel road or something but I think if I have more time I could probably build something that would work but for this particular thing just to get to the show I'm not worried about it [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] when we first got the car Doug and I was trying to get the front brakes working on it what a mess it used dual wheel cylinders dual adjusters it was just a nightmare we had it all adjusted perfectly went out and hit the brakes the steering wheel flipped to the left and we damn near died the worst braking system in the world so I wanted to convert it to a disc brake if it was possible and manageable and it was because I was able to get hold of the guy that actually makes them he's the one that came up with the conversion kit most of the 58 forward-looking 57 to 60 plymouths out there end up having the disparate conversion for that reason I think it was Aaj up out of Portland but he came down and showed us how the conversion Works how to put it together which was really cool for him to take the time to come down and do that but it just makes putting it together on the car so much easier when you have the guy who invented it showing you how to do it [Music] [Music] I really felt like the disc brakes were important when you consider the fact they say a front brake on a vehicle does about 70 percent of the stopping that's a lot to be putting on a pair of shoes old shoes with adjusters that aren't automatic and they just flip around and lock up and try to kill some pork driving down the road [Music] one of the things I had plotted from the beginning of Christine was of course to keep everything in the Mopar family keep it all to the stuff that we know so if we're putting on 70 to 72 disc brakes that's what doug does every day he does he does one a week one complete front K member a week so he knows what they are he knows what parts they are and we have them in stock so it just makes the build out of that front braking system a piece of cake [Music] the windshield trim for this car was beautiful I mean other than needing to be ran across the machine the polishing wheel that we use puts color in it they call it coloring it it gives it that bright crisp look but there won't even scratches in it [Music] [Applause] [Music] after that really he just has a convertible top mechanism the inner workings of that the cables the tie downs the inside of the header these are the clasps that hold the top down the visors the mirror some exterior trim and ornamentation once he's done with that we'll really be getting close to a point where we can take it out and go for a drive [Music] foreign [Music] adjustments on the roof intersect with everything to do with the windshield because that pillar is such an important thing to the windshield they fasten together with with clamps or clasps all of that is established a little bit at a time does the top need to go up in the back does it need to go forward whatever it is those adjustments have to be made so that when you put your clasp in you tighten it down that the windshield header and the roof itself the actual roof have the same reveal the same Gap the same fit all that stuff has to happen while you're putting the windshield and the trim in it doesn't have to happen at the same moment but you want to pre-fit and make sure everything fits the way it's supposed to moldings windshield reveal molding clips they need to be in place so this last little bit is just time consuming and you have to take your time and make sure it's where you want it before you finish that car [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] we had a great week now look at our Christine card the framework is all done on at the rear end Zen the suspension for the rear end the engine and transmission the disc brake conversion everything is mocked up on that frame wheels and tires are on it so it's going to be a lady in waiting for the body to come back marry the two together so we can start assembling that car our 71 Cuda 343 speed car in Violet fc7 one of only eight made people like it when I rattle off the numbers that car is getting a lot closer we got the dash installed in it we got the rest of the uh convertible top mechanical pieces installed in it we got the carpet we've got the steering column that car a lot of trim and ornamentation got done on it so it's really getting close to being done that's a that's a good feeling especially knowing again that we're a little bit behind on that one as we are with so many cars but the owner's really been patient and is super excited to get it back so I'm also equally excited to finish it which won't be long now Doug and his helper over there were able to disassemble the 225 out of our 1968 Dodge Charger this is a little Slant six with the automatic transmission that's all disassembled and ready to go to the Machine Shop in the transmission shop I enjoyed working with Ezra today taking this little Slant six apart because it was new to both of us meanwhile Doug is needy in assembling the 426 Hemi for Windows 1971 cooted the Phoenix Rising 71 Cuda so I'm looking forward to seeing that one all completely built done because there's just nothing sexier nothing prettier in the world of Automotive than to see a well assembled correct 426 Hemi for one of these muscle cars it's the coolest thing on the planet [Music]

Channel: Graveyard Carz

Views: 42,633

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: WCo9Xb6FiBM

Length: 43min 41sec (2621 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 10 2023