WINCHESTER GRAY 71 CUDA TOTALED IN THE 70'S HAS BEEN FOUND!

beneath the fog behind the rust Sometimes they come back there's only one internationally recognized Mopar Master Mark Warman joined by his friends family and dream team the ghouls nobody wants to take on the stuff that we take on Reviving The Past 100% untouched Survivor resurrecting the icons of American Muscle we are the sholin priests of mopart uncovering stories it's the baddest car we have here and restoring dreams the most iconic muscle car on the planet putting cars back where they belong on the road here we go beyond a passion oh that's wild one land's obsession with Mopar Perfection this is graveyard [Music] cars 1971 Cuda yeah 343 speed the reason you're leaning on it cuz that you don't like to stand right it's a lot pressure does it matter if I touch well no but just lazy or heavy people usually a lean like that you keep standing uh prostrate so today Mark called me out to go over this 19 1971 Cuda that we just got into the shop Mark's handing this car off to me so I can make sure this car gets through the shop in a timely fashion Mark's super busy we got a 100 cars here he can't keep up with everybody so he's been handing off clients to me and it takes a load off his plate and then I can see the car through the shop at that point I love helping Mark I I love Mark to death I have no problems helping him out the problem that I have is he'll find a way to insult me take a shot at me put me down as opposed to just saying hey Will can you take over this client and then we can just be done but there's always way more to it with Mark if I could find a way to just keep mark on task for a whole day we'd get more cars painted more cars put together more cars would be done if just keep him on task but yeah good luck with that go ahead okay I'm giving Will this car right here to handle for me okay as you can tell there's some slight surface rust in the frame right this is a real 1971 Cuda it's a 340 3speed manual transmission it's good colors ga4 which is your Winchester gray again three-speed manual transmission makes it way down there in the in the production figures much like the convertible that we did the 71 purple car was one of eight with a 340 and a 3-speed this car is rough now we've seen a lot of rough stuff and we can certainly handle this rough stuff we've done many of them we built a car of 71 Cuda from scratch we know how to build them we know how to assemble them our problem problem is time in this particular case we are running out of time everywhere we turn we have this car that has to go the car's setting behind you camera boy this car has to go in two weeks we have lots of work to do this 71 Cuda needs to have literally short of about five metal Parts everything replaced on it both front frame rails both rear frame rails you go to the front you need fenders Hood balance inner fenders firewall cowl work your way back the Rockers I think are good on it which is unlike the Phantom Cuda the Phantom Cuda had bad rockers on it we had donor once back at the AMD installation Center we need wheelhouses in and outer trunk floor main floor extensions rear body panel crossmember quarter panels roof infastructure pieces literally everything on this car is rotten but it is the numbers matching 340 block and the numbers matching 3speed transmission that the guy wants to build into I believe a 446 Barrel tribute car it's his car we're replacing most of the metal on it whether we're going to be able to save the numbers in the body I don't know until we get there but in the end it'll be very much like the cars that we built you got the 71 catalog Cuda the black car with the white Billboards on it 426 Hemi automatic transmission I mean what a beautiful beautiful car that thing turned out to be you know this car is very much like the world famous Phantom Cuda in many ways and in some ways it's not they both need about the same amount of metal in this particular case one thing that they're going to share in common is that our friends at the AMD installation Center had volunteered to do this one body for us that's going to save us months in the metal shop so it's going to hopefully be a leg up so that we can get a little bit ahead or at least caught up on things little bit of R it all there there's some peekaboos up here on the upper cow the floors there's no floors there's no rails could patch okay we know it's a bad car this what's this remind you of being one end to the other your car marks compl completely lost his mind remember when he said his charger just had like some slight surface rust now I have his car cut in half waiting for a new clip to get put on it that's not surface rust the car has been sitting at the bottom of the ocean for the past 10 years this is the same routine so if you're going to take shots at my charger look at your charger we're we're done yeah it's a very very why is that funny there's nothing left now my charger did have a lot of rust on it okay it's all semantics isn't it if if you say surface rust one man's surface rust is another man's rust bucket this particular car of mine had quite a bit of rust on it and yeah we have to put a front clip on it okay I I I want everything perfect on my car I would like to clarify one thing very important to the haters out there that are saying why is Mark working on his car and not mine Josh and I are doing all the metal work on my car we are doing it in the evenings and on the weekends we are not affecting our volume of cars in the least it's exhausting what it typically means is we won't have a lot of footage and coverage of it because the camera Guys these guys did go home play on the weekends but you can see that we had the car dipped and it has a lot of extensive rust to it we have the quarter panels wheelhouses the main floor has already been repl or cut out not quite replaced yet we did get a donor front clip for it so Josh has been working stewardly on the weekends on Saturdays and Sundays with me getting it cut and trimmed and ready of to go into place so where that car is at right now is is the old clip is off of it and it's ready to have the new clip put on to it the only thing I don't appreciate is Will saying sarcastic things about my car I can interpret my car I can diagnose my car any way I want it's s of his business okay you don't see me sticking my nose in his business okay has his own little world out there that he lives in out there in wherever it is all I know is pay attention to what you're doing and don't pay any attention to what I'm doing what one compelling factor helped graveyard cars get off the ground besides the tray the wizard of ice the Phantom Cuda that's right the 1971 Phantom Cuda which was a 446 Barrel four speed how many of those they make 446 Barrel four speed 300 108 so this car is a factory 340 3-speed manual transmission okay it is also Winchester gray beautiful color it's a very very Rusty car that needs a lot of metal but the owner that we're building it for wants a real it's actually a tribute car but in this particular case we're not just going to build a tribute we're going to build an original 71 340 Cuda okay so it's important that we keep as many of the original number as much of the originality of the car as possible and why is that do you remember the 71 Cuda convertible fc7 yeah yeah in Violet car right how many of those were built eight seven or eight I think it was eight maybe okay this is a 340 3-speed hard top how many of those were made little these are good quizzes and the reason I'm doing this is because these are important codes for you to know because when you're out there in the field Will's been helping me a lot with helping customers right I hand a customer off to you and they call up and they say hey I've got this black 1968 Dodge Charger well that's cool we've only got 168 but what happens when they call up and they say I got a 71 Cuda you should know who it is just say give me a paint code and they give off the paint code for this case it's Winchester gray right right and that paint coat is I've only done this color like once so again I'm not just pointing these things out to catch will on camera like a deer in the headlight saying oh I don't know first of all I would like to say you should know will you should know I've been teaching you this Stu for 35 years he should know it he chooses not to know it it the reason it's so important is I won't always be here I won't won't always be a tap on the shoulder away from an asking what's the VIN what's the car what's the engine what's the trans how many were built why wouldn't you want to educate yourself on that so if I have to use means of insulting him putting him down and and yeah frankly catching him on camera and embarrassing him like I've done it's tough love folks I love Willie he's like a son to me he's like an illegitimate son I never had going take a look in here you can just look up the paint code Winchester gray take a look in there go ahead while I take a look around here I don't even know just turn to the page of the book that talks about paint colors this is great this is exactly what Mark does he does it at car shows he does it in front of customers he puts me on the spot knowing I don't know the answer just to make me look silly I don't need to know the paint code until the car comes into the shop and we're ready to paint until then I don't need and nor do I care what the paint Cod is there isn't a page yeah no there is it's I don't know there you go g A4 okay A4 okay how many of those were built 15 turn to the page it talks about how many were built with a 340 and a 3-speed it doesn't tell you this is exhausting you guys at home think he's funny and this is all great and whatever but here's an idea why don't you come down here and work with them for a week let me know what you think then no it it does well I don't know where 151 I would have got there that's [Music] okay so now lately Mark has been pressuring me a lot to get a certain 426 Hemi ready for a 69 Charger the good news is I'm going to have help today turns out old Rollo Pony had the day off and he volunteered to come in and give me a hand Mark felt that I'm getting way behind in the shop here and Royal and I have never had the opportunity to work on building a 426 Hemi have we Royal nope I've never built a 426 Hemi what where have you been ever not here this engine has a lot of detailed Fasteners that hold down the heads and the intake and it's afterm Market Fasteners right yeah okay should we get should we get started heck yes let's do this buddy high five gloves gloves I got them coming up mini hands make light work when Royal helps dugey build out the 426 Hemi for a 1969 Dodge Charger piece of cake piece of cake but will douge discover the limits of Royal's dedication I'm going to need your help adjusting the valves oh what do you mean oh Mark continues to give will the rundown on the 1971 Cuda and reveals what makes this build so important so this is Phantom Cuda 2.0 folks but is Will ready to take full responsibility for this Cuda or is he doomed to repeat his past mistakes he did a public execution it of an innocent flight find out when graveyard cars returns differences in these heads on these hems are really cool they have these studs the down through those holes above the cylinders okay into the valley so you have to put washers and nuts to hold the head down okay and you got to be careful not to drop them down through the lifters or we're done for pressure I can fix that cuz I know me there you go so here's the head gasket we're going to use they have these new fiber head gaskets oh nice so from the Factory originally the head gaskets were just a flat steel shim very thin no coating and we've had a little trouble with those leaking so Mark did some research and got a hold of manini racing and he found a fiber covered gasket that works a lot better so this is essentially the same gasket that we use on the 440 the 383 the 340 all of our other engines it's a really good head gasket and we like this a a lot better than that flat metal shim okay you want to give me a hand with this thing yep all right I'm really glad to have Royal help me with this because these heads are heavy they're back Breakers and setting these down on there and all the details that we have to do to put these heads on the hems it's really nice to have extra eyes and hands to help with this tedious [Music] job nice just like that so we're just going to put a couple head bolts in to hold this on okay so the 426 Hemi heads use the same amount of Fasteners as the 440 and 383 but they're just a little bit different the Hemi heads use four studs that are screwed into the head and they actually go down into the valley above the lifters yep I'll go ahead and throw a head gasket on this side the other difference is five of the long head bolts on the Hemy hold the rocker stands in place so Al together you have 17 Fasteners that all have to be treated differently perfect just like that okay so we're just going to put a couple bolts in to hold these because we have to put the push rods in now before we put the Rockers on oh okay the push rods have to go down through these holes here and once you have the rocker on it's difficult to get those push rods in so now that the head's on we're going to put the outer bolts in place the four nuts and washers on the studs in the valley before we put the Rockers and the five remaining bolts in place we have an outer row of head bolts okay we set the rocker shafts in after we put the push rods in through these holes and then these five bolts become the center head bolts oh okay and then we have the studs inside here in the valley okay that's nuts and washers only right H only chamfer goes up toward the head right that's correct champer side of the washer goes up yep okay that was good thinking on your part Royal putting those uh paper towels in there so I don't drop these washers down through there I just know how my fingers are okay so once we have most of the bolts in place we have to put the push rods in place through the head because they go through tiny little holes they have to go in before the Rockers can go on interesting note the push rods on the Hemi are two different different lengths the exhaust push rods are longer than the intake push rods you get over to the wedge engines and the exhaust push rods and the intake push rods are all the same length this is all just part of the unique design of the Hemy okay I have all the long push rods I got short ones for the exhaust you got the short ones yes yep okay so upper lower upper lower upper lower yep upper lower you've got all the intake in yep okay all of our intakes are in all of our exhausts are in okay ready to install The Rocker assembly yeah cool let's see how this goes huh once we have the push rods all in place it's time for The Rocker [Music] shafts this is a loaded carb it's no Billboards guy wants Billboards on it now the reason you're here and the reason you're going to handle this is cu I'm busy I was talking to Mike AMD the other day nice guy all we were talking about the Phantom Cuda I said boy I sure wish you could do another one of those I got one that's a mess a hot mess and I got snow time and you know he actually volunteered to help oh he's going to do another one he did he did I think that's really cool yeah it was about 8 years ago that the installation Center back there the AMD installation Center volunteered to help us out with the Phantom coup this car is very much like that one it will need to go on a jig and it will need to have nearly every single panel replaced on it I wouldn't trust another shop in this country to do it for me cuz I'm putting my name on it I I sent him pictures I said you sure you want to do he goes it looks just like the Phantom Cuda so this is Phantom Cuda 2.0 folks when you look at that Phantom Cuda and they brought it back figure that every panel's been replaced on it which means parts are just floating around in there and they all come together and all in the car and now it's a car again if you're able to open the driver's door take the striker out and find the original ev2 tour red paint underneath the striker they were able to put that Striker back in space physically on a car that had all new panels on it except for that pillar that is Perfections and the reason old Will's out here right now is we're going to go over a few of the key detail points on the car make sure that you have it ready to ship off to him because he's going to have the AMD installation Center put everything out they will methodically go for from the rear tail light panel to the front valance repair replace straighten structurally reinforce and put the car exactly back where it should be so they're going to help us out with this great but this guy's going to be calling you quite a bit okay all right he's going to be saying hey can you help me out will um I'm I'm I'm wanting to look at some of the cars online what's the paint code for for Winchester you're welcome how do you know that you want to look at it look at up you you pretty sure it's A4 G4 oh ga4 yeah but the computer recognizes A4 but see you sound good if you say that right right says how how many of my cars were buil 343 speeed manual transmission how many were built 25 no it was actually 151 here once again in the book just turn to the page you have that I don't want the book okay this has more to do with Mark beating me down and insulting me and all the stuff he does than actually teaching me something like Tony would do so you want to be able to sound like you're in the thing right I'm handing this off to the wheel Mis the wizard of will but see I also have the luxury when they text me asking these questions I'll just come ask you but you could just answer him what if it's at 11:00 at night and I'm sleeping I'm sleeping too this is all Mark has to do is just say hey will will you take over this car and make sure it gets done on time no problem Mark and be done so I need to make sure that this car is handled with care because it's got to go back to him in this case we're not going to send it back to him on a pallet we're going to have it a roller okay so it needs to be sure it's a roller right now get anything off of it except roller stuff talk to Shane about any used donor parts that we may or may not have okay and I think we have some used rockers and some pieces like that cuz the bigger the donor pieces the better off that we are I think that the used donor parts are a brilliant way to save time money and maintain the structural Integrity of a car maybe even more so than if we do it so meaning this take a look at my charger that I'm working on right now it needed both front fr rails both front inner fenders it was bad so I reached out to the guy up at uh Liberty Moparts and he had a four-door nobody's going to build a four-door now I have a beautiful clean front clip that's ready to go onto my car so I don't have to go out and build the whole front interstructure again like we did on the the catalog card so the more large components like that it'll help out the installation Center and it'll also preserve the original Integrity of a Mopar that was built 50 years ago get this thing loaded up make make contact with Mike I know you have his number let him know what the plan is when it gets back and it's all beautiful there's a few things I want you to really focus on like you did on the 71 Phantom Cuda I feel very good handing this off now to will I think he has grown a lot I don't mean just he put weight on he's done that but I just mean spiritually he's grown uh mentally he's grown yeah we fight and we have fun with it but I have been handing him off a lot of cars lately people like him he communicates well I don't even have the time to communicate and even if I did in most cases I forget will pulled a 187 on a fly right about here what is the what is the he did a public execution it was of an innocent fly the fly was one day old it has a three-day life expectancy you cut it I talked to an entomologist on this showed him the footage and he reassured me that fly it's only got three days to live or he did just stroke out and fell right in the middle of my paint again making me the victim not the villain are you done with that not really I have another key question for you you take the dump in the men's room this morning no no no I am serious no every day somebody goes in that men's room and they take one of those twister duns where you walk in and it's spinning around and there's stuff caught in like in the movie Twister where the cow was going around like that I want to know who it is I don't know I saw corn beef and I want to know who is eating corn beef at lunch or at dinner that's making that happen in there because I'm not going to walk in vomit [Music] again now let's see if we can put this puzzle together we got to flip it though we go that way there we go thank you buddy so I would like to take just one second before they put the rocker assemblies on here to talk about you see the bright purple paint the entire rocker shaft assembly is new Mancini racing makes it this is a good quality part that you can put on that meets all OEM specification so you can still use the original push rods and all those things it's got a chrome Molly shafts which is the same kind of a product that the original ones would have been but they're Billet aluminum the stands versus the original cast iron on so you're going to save some weight the Springs are new the Rockers are original Mopar rockers the only thing they change out is the adjuster instead of being a flat tip screw they put an allen head or a hex head in there but the rest of it is 100% original Hemi DNA looking Parts they're the exact same footprint same height same length same width everything about these is right that's why I got you here I'm always watching keep me in line what you see us doing here is making sure that we're installing the Rockers correctly over the D pins and lining up all the bolt holes lot of stuff that you have to line up all at the same time so while we're putting the Rockers on we have to be careful to make sure all the push rods are in in place in alignment and not lose our alignment on the Dell pins we should probably put the bolts in before we sure that' be helpful screw those down tight I'm just saying I'm good with that once we have the Rockers in place we can put the five remaining head bolts in and torque them down with that done we can go to the other side do the remaining rocker shafts and then we can torque the headbolts okay Royal here we go piece of cake piece of cake torque sequence so the torque sequence is really important on engine you want to follow the torque sequence that's in the book closely and make sure you follow the torque specs one two three one thing that's been really helpful to me is to have somebody pointing out every single bolt that you do in advance because it's really easy to get lost now wait you're getting ahead of me let me do the first one maybe some people are bright enough to do that I am not okay we're going to start at 50 lbs yep we're going to torque it down there it is oh okay that's one two yep two three three there's the easy ones now we got the hard ones still set at 50 right should be so this is the way Mark and I like to do these we go over the head bolts in two sequences we start at 50 lb we go up to 70 it helps us to make this even we've been putting heads on these engines since we were 16 years old maybe we used to overheat our engines and change the head gaskets a lot but anyway this may not be the way everybody does it but this works good for us here we go here I know how to adjust valves okay you watch the cam I'm going to crank the engine you don't need to watch the cam you just watch the the vals we've also got our marks up here Royal oh they're open you can see him I'm not used to that we do things the easy way around here TDC top dead center you like that yeah still take confidence in Royal's capabilities begin to wne Mark it's not okay to hurt my feelings I mean he's only been doing it 12 years for God's sake things come to a head when Royal pulls one of his classic stunts you look at your pick I going to pick up my daughter you said that last week and how will douge fa when he loses his right hand man find out when graveyard cars returns okay Roy if you want to run a really thin bead right across here right in the two corners I'm going to lay that front cork gasket across the front of the valley okay beautiful Mark be proud when installing the intake on these engines I like to use some sealer across the ends and all the vulnerable areas because the intake manifold is the gasket it doesn't have a metal pan gasket like a 440 and 383 do so those D pins or studs help us keep this gasket in place you can use too much sometimes Mark likes to do that I like to use the right amount okay same with the back yes you're doing a great shakes no you're not you're perfect got the Hipp hippie shakes Hippy Shakes beautiful very nice Royal okay all right now we're going to set the intake manifold gaskets in Place nice should I put another Dabba you can not just pretty faces here at graveyard car just and Giggles you know yeah you guys have been teaching me a lot about that Mark it's not okay to hurt my feelings they don't know I'm standing back here right now okay so if you could avoid that kind of stuff it just kind of gives it away what we call the fourth wall you go on back to now In fairness okay being in front of a camera is awkward and I get that I mean he's only been doing it 12 years for God's sake I think it'll hold oil okay Royal's been what we call a slower learner little slow on the uptake if you will well want some help with that oh that's easy yeah that's easy do you not do it on this either I okay it's free okay well interesting cuz I buy it for about 30 bucks or two it doesn't feel free now here's another example of somebody not being a quick learner douge douge slow ability to learn lessons cost him his face once he pulled a burning marshmallow out of a fire and wedged it on his face and his face burst into flames my papa had to put it out with a rake okay we'll see if this holds oil so another interesting thing about the Hem is it uses studs on the intake m fold which is helpful when you're aligning the intake with the valley just make sure you have it all aligned over all the studs properly and all the sealer in place and it should just slide right down once you have the intake where you want it looks good you can install the Fasteners just like that okay where's all this go okay Royal very simple don't drop them okay this goes here it's on that side this goes here just follow the sequence this is the back and towards the front the brackets we're installing now are the throttle cable holder bracket and the throttle return spring brackets the Fasteners on the intake manifold are different lengths two different length bolts and also different length studs so I Like to Lay Them All Out put them in like say an egg carton or a box so they're all in order when you go to install these because it's a little bit tricky okay Roy so these little tiny Quin screws go down to 12 ftlb that's not much so I just I just do these with a little tiny quarter inch tool so anyway I'm just going to run these down just by feel and kind of a crisscross pattern like you normally torque something you know all about that right yep we've torqued a few manif from the center out yeah now as soon as I'm done here I'm going to need your help adjusting the valves oh what do you mean oh who you looking at your pick I got to pick up my daughter you said that last week no yeah you did I wasn't here last week oh the week before last time you helped me you said I got to leave early no that's that's myo just tell Mark I had a doctor's appointment well Royal had a previous engagement he's leaving early again he says something about helping his daughter start a cinnamon roll business so I'll be flying solo through the end of this build but he did promise me some cinnamon rolls when he returns so now that I have the heads on the long block I'm going to roll this over I'm going to put the oil pan the windage tray and the pan gasket in place so the new windage trays that we have is a composite it has the gasket built into it what that means is I don't have to install two extra gaskets and that much more sealer which gives me that much more chance of leaking AG the next thing I like to do and while the engine's upside down is install the exhaust manifolds and gaskets it's that much easier right there all the Fasteners are right in front of you it's that easy to do so the last thing I like to install is the oil pump we use a high volume High Press oil pump to ensure that we have good oil flow throughout the engine before I try to start this engine I want to prime it first with the oil pump pressure it up with oil before we try to run it so when I say Prime the engine what I'm talking about is this oil pump right here it's going to pump oil through the engine it's essentially the heart of the oiling system the oiling system if it doesn't have good oil pressure and volume throughout the engine things fail the way the oiling system works is you have an oil pump that's what he's got right there brand new high volume high pressure oil pump that we're going to install on the Block coming out of the end of it is the drive gear so if you look very carefully on that snout you will see a hex shaped slot for an oil pump drive shaft to go down into you take that oil pump drive shaft which runs off of the cam it'll run the oil pump every time that cam moves it's pumping oil that oil pump drive gear is also a distributor drive gear which all when you set them together you have a distributor oil pump drive gear and you have the oil pump all pass through the front part of the engine and collectively give you an ignition system and oil the engine all of the Big Blocks are that way so we're going to take this priming Rod to run the oil pump we're going to run it down through the distributor opening we don't have the distributor in obviously we're going to drop it down through the bearing where the distributor sets in and it's going to go right down into the oil pump and it's going to spin the pump so this Rod is going to be turning counterclockwise we're going to use an electric drill we're going to spin it and we also have an oil pressure gauge up here when we spin this it's going to go up to whatever pressure this oil pump has the ability to pump up to okay so sometimes they pressure up right away sometimes it may take 30 seconds or maybe 60 seconds but you'll know it because this thing the gauge will read whatever pressure that pump goes up to You'll also feel the load in the drill when you're hanging onto that drill when it catches Prime it's going to Lug the drill down and I'm going to give it a spin and see what happens here's our pressure gauge okay so it hasn't loaded up yet you'll see it on the gauge when it does now you see that oil pressure gauge going up that's beautiful you don't hear the engine bogging down the little drill motor that's not so beautiful you're going to see why we have pressure but no bog down on that drill there it goes it's starting to get some pressure now now what you see Mr Wizard has done over there and all of his amazingness is after checking all of the torque specs assembling everything giving a tutorial to Royal building the entire engine out from the crankshaft all the way up to the intake manifold and getting it ready to do an oil Prime he overlooked one key thing and that is make sure that whoever assembled The Rocker shafts pointed the oiling hole to The Rocker and not to the victim standing there trying to do an oil pressure test I guess I should have put the valve covers on again slow learner let's just imagine that that was gasoline remember Richard prior still to come with royal out of the picture Mark steps in to wrap up the 426 Hemi the right way you put the distributor in so have you taken it out and turned it 180 to make it right but after all these years can Mark trust his own family and friends to do the job correctly is my theory that that is not going to work very well find out when graveyard cars returns so once Doug has the engine all completely built out to a point where we're ready to try to do a test run there there's a lot of work ahead of him still you have to get it moved onto the easy run stand once you get that you have to bolt everything down you have to add a bell housing and a fly wheel so you have something for the starter to engage you have leads that have to be connected so that you have power you have fuel that has to be connected so that you have fuel the exhaust system we have an old decrepit system that we've saved off of a car that works great on the hems we have one for a 383 a 440 and a 340 you connect all of those things which takes some time to make all those connections but you do it as though it's in the car that way when he's got it all laid out we can hook up the exhaust system to it fire that up get ready to crank this thing over because if you do all those things and you turn that exhaust fan on you're ready to start an engine looks like a nice wrinkle around 200° 200° bake okay so you feel good you've checked orl Earl Earl yeah water water we got fuel right according to you yes we have boom boom boom boom boom pumping real nice you put the distributor in so have you taken it out and turned it 180 to make it right yeah douge always puts it in 180 out I put it in the way I feel it should go and then I take it out and I reversing we're good we're doing good now would you like to try to start this do you think the batteries are broke dead I wish sure I'd bet on it all right 1969 Dodge Charger 426 hy4 speed how many were built how would I know take a shot any shot how many 40 1400 207 that's a worst I've ever heard in my life yeah 69 Hemi Chargers huh let's turn that coil power on turn the old fuel pump on double check huh do you don't want to run that you just want to run the mechanical version okay we have the mechanical pump hooked up but he also has it hooked up to a electric fuel pump and you're hoping that it'll suck the fuel pass the electric fuel pump into the mechanical pump and run the engine right okay what I'm amazed at is Doug knows mechanics really well he has a mechanical fuel pump connected but it's getting its fuel source not from a can right below it which is how it's designed to work it' be a fuel tank in this case he has it running in into the fuel pump an electric fuel pump now it has to count on not only doing its job of creating enough PSI which is like four or five lbs to get up to the carburetors but it also has to draw the fuel past the electric fuel pump that isn't turned on doesn't want to turn it on wants to make it draw it up past it all on its own and it is my theory that that is not going to work very well Advance too far turn it back hey hey hey hey look at that listen to that wow yeah I weird it won't pull the fuel past the electric fuel pump will it huh so strange not a quick Alder why is that running after once you have the engine up and running and you listen for things like the lifters make sure they got adjusted right you you look for oil leaks you look for water leaks you set the timing by ear just to get it running you just want to get it running you also need to break in the cam which is usually to set the RPMs at around 2,000 RPM a little give a little take a little for 20 minutes let it run make sure the thermostat is opening up check your temperatures make sure that the water temperature below the thermostat is the same as water temperature above it or very close to it that tells you that you've opened up your thermostat and that the block is now full of water we don't use antifreeze during test runs keep in mind since you are running fast that means the centrifugal Advance is also engaging on the distributor so at an idle the weights are all collected in and you have a real live version of what your timing is is at 2,000 RPM they're flaring out those weights spin out and that advances the distributor so at 2,000 RPM I cannot set the initial timing I have to wait till we get our 20-minute break in once that 20-minute Breakin in and everything else is working we can idle it down I can set the timing to exactly in this particular case 5 6 7 degrees before top dead center we'll play with it more once it's in the car and has antifreeze in it and they fuel that's going to be running on but at that point you set that timing to the best of your ability and that's thing is done and done and ready to go in the car see if it'll back off a little [Music] more go and shut it off tighten the distributor down right there okay we got it we just got to work with those carburetors a little bit I'll try rich the system they seem like they're getting real lean on the idle circuit that's why it's faltering if I can get those to adjust out then I think we've got it set right now I got the timing set at about 5° before I think I have to check the book and see what it is but that's pretty good seems to want to run right there so I hope you're happy Wy you almost blew my face off should be real happy with yourself okay well that should should be a wrap then let's get this thing put together you got the transmission you got the bell housing you got everything ready to go for this thing you got the K member built out you ready to go into the car you got the wheels the tires the suspension everything set up yeah okay thank you thanks buddy thank you good now I think we've had a very very good week we we got our 426 Hemi running thing goodness few little setbacks from our AB normal friends out there but it does run really good and it's ready to go in the car the 69 Dodge Charger this is one we've been working on for a while over in the metal shop it's a numbers matching 426 M fourspeed EFA green car so we can move forward with the metal work and the paintwork and know in our mind that we have that drivetrain done I also feel very good that AMD is going to help us out by doing the metal work on our 71 Cuda Winchester gray car we did do a Winchester gray car one time before you guys remember you enthusiasts of the show it was Winchester gray it was a tribute car much like this one's going to be that one had everything Billboards your window Louver spoiler beautiful car shaker hood but I feel good that will is taking over at the helm and I would like to say after all of the crap that I give him I do appreciate him helping me with the customers cuz we have an enormous amount of them so if you guys are sitting at home right now and you're uh wondering why I'm not calling you and will is it's not because I don't like you I do um it's because I'm busy that's the best I can do it telling the truth cut

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: Ces4tal35fc

Length: 43min 37sec (2617 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 30 2024