AAR resto

[heminut]

getting drunk with my car tonight

Damn that looks clean! I've stood around in the garage with two fingers of Jameson and a splash of water just looking at my Cuda on more than one occasion!

 

[heminut]

I remember as a kid helping my Dad work on various Mopars he owned. Occasionally he would crawl underneath to work on something and I'd wait by the car and him for when he needed a different tool. More than once I'd eventually hear snoring. Dad worked hard and probably just need a break from everything. I usually just let him sleep unless Mom came out.

NOW I know why you have that Cuda sitting so high up in the air!

 

[don selleck]

Damn that looks clean! I've stood around in the garage with two fingers of Jameson and a splash of water just looking at my Cuda on more than one occasion!

I like to do it every once in a while to look at it and check out whats been done and plan the next stages out, seems to help smooth out the bumps and gives me a reason for a therapy session,

 

[GreenOnions]

Beautiful car, and a great thread with lots of very useful information. Should you decide to go with the 6 pack, I have a Progression Ignition distributor on my little 318, it's taller than the Mopar distributor that it replaced. There is clearance, but not much under the 6 pack air cleaner base plate. You may need 90 deg boots on the leads at the cap to make the base fit nicely.

 

[don selleck]

Yes, thanks, will be back to the six barrell, going to tune in the rest of the car, figured it would be easier with a proven carb that was running on it before, then I can concentrate on the 3x2 later and maybe I'll get to drive it a little this summer. (Holley 650 d.p.). I talked to progression before I bought it, they said it will fit. I tested it with the six barrell on it and air cleaner it clears, not by much and it has the 90 degree plug wires on it. Thanks for looking out I appreciate that.

 

[don selleck]

well I tore this thing down in September of 2014, approaching the 2 year anniversary soon, damn time flies. I was thinking about a year, I guess next time i'll just double my estimate and should be close. . Still waiting for a response from the muffler guy, I'm sure he's busy don't want to bug him, bug I just wanna get this welded up to get in line at the ceramic coating, haven't talked to him yet so who knows what his turn over time is. He usually does pretty good but he is good at what he does so we will see.

 

[don selleck]

eric the muffler guy texted me gonna meet him at 11 am.Probably gonna start welding thursday morning

 

[don selleck]

Nice update!

What is the story on the prototype hi-flo mufflers stashed in an attic?

Aftermarket company or way way back OEM supplier attempt?

got the mufflers yesterday pretty heavy has an inlet and outlet as you can see the perforated spiraling facing outwards on the inlet, and reversed on the output. The guy said he was going to be making more of these. I will be doing a video for the sound for him

 

[larry4406]

Slick!

 

[don selleck]

thanks Larry, woke up at 4am this morning, got up and put some coffee on was in the shop at 5, Just finished up mocking up one side. I was thinking keeping it as high as possible. I am using the muffler hangers with the rubber flat stock and bolted on to two pieces of metal, ended up raising the to get the mufflers into a similar position

as i have seen a few original ones on line. The stock metal bands that the rubber hangers attach to the muffler were a little small so I fabbed up one with some 1" 14 gauge flat stock I had, pretty close. I ran up pretty high stay a 1/2" away from the floor at my closet spot, (the seat area in the floor pan). got to the muffler area, not much room there a little over a 1/2" away around the torque boxes. looks like I can just get the drive shaft out. gonna weld it up tomorrow, thinking about have a theropy session again tonight, we will see.