Mopar_EasternNC
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Been a little overdue starting a thread here.
Brief background: My daughter, Hunter, was taking Automotive classes at Com College and she's into 60's and 70's era cars. We got her a 360 LA with 727 to tinker with and it soon became a priority to find a car to put it in.
Two summers ago, we found one from FEBO member quapman. On the whole way home towing the car, Hunter, was in dreamland. On more than one occasion, she asked, "Is that really my car?"
Between school, work, some crazy family stuff that always seems to crop up, we have not made the progress on the car we'd like to have by this point. Hunter is finishing her AA Automotive degree this semester and is starting diesel school in the Fall, so a good bit of "car work" time has been put into working on cars other than her own. She relishes the time she gets to spend on the Challenger. But, we are enjoying the progress we are making and we recently changed our personal situation so we now have a better place to work on it.
I'll post some updates and pictures in later posts. Here are two to get started.
Unloading the 360 (was about 20 degrees that day).
Yesterday pulling the axle shafts. She's taking the dif in to class to get her teacher to help swap it from 2.76 to 3.23 rear gear and to install limited slip. Can't see it in this picture, but my wife's Subaru is in the next bay getting a transmission swap, so as I said, other car projects take up a lot of time!
Brief background: My daughter, Hunter, was taking Automotive classes at Com College and she's into 60's and 70's era cars. We got her a 360 LA with 727 to tinker with and it soon became a priority to find a car to put it in.
Two summers ago, we found one from FEBO member quapman. On the whole way home towing the car, Hunter, was in dreamland. On more than one occasion, she asked, "Is that really my car?"
Between school, work, some crazy family stuff that always seems to crop up, we have not made the progress on the car we'd like to have by this point. Hunter is finishing her AA Automotive degree this semester and is starting diesel school in the Fall, so a good bit of "car work" time has been put into working on cars other than her own. She relishes the time she gets to spend on the Challenger. But, we are enjoying the progress we are making and we recently changed our personal situation so we now have a better place to work on it.
I'll post some updates and pictures in later posts. Here are two to get started.
Unloading the 360 (was about 20 degrees that day).
Yesterday pulling the axle shafts. She's taking the dif in to class to get her teacher to help swap it from 2.76 to 3.23 rear gear and to install limited slip. Can't see it in this picture, but my wife's Subaru is in the next bay getting a transmission swap, so as I said, other car projects take up a lot of time!
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I call all of this "discovery learning" and it is by far the best teacher, I have been doing it my entire life. There is very little as satisfying as building an engine and hearing it run the first time (and praying for no weird noises). This is an experience that will last your daughter a lifetime.
