Car
purchased on eBay for $1200. Originally from
Oregon via Mustangs Unlimited in Denver. Six
cylinder car, looked clean, one repaint
years ago, faded and looked old, paint was
white with purple scallops. Gave motor to
101 Auto Salvage, found out later the six
was a Super6 which are hard to come by,
intake and carb given to a friend. Sand
blasted engine bay, door jambs and trunk
area. Chemical stripped rest of the car.
Strip revealed old school body repairs.
Passenger door smashed into supports, front
of rear driver quarter panel smashed, had
been center punched and pulled with lots of
filler.
Glen cut out bad areas, fabricated new
pieces and used templates from the passenger
side to make recreate accurate body lines.
Driver side inner quarter rusted out at
battery tray, fabricated panels to repair
rust and smoothed firewall. Bought car to
build as a drag car. Already had yellow 70
with blower and white 71 Challenger
convertible for cruizing. After restoration
started, Glen thought "How often do you
actually get to drag race? Plans to gut the
car, cage it and throw in a big motor soon
changed to car that could be driven hard and
corner.
Glen knew a pt car would be a ton of money
so he sold his 70 blower car to help finance
the build. Sale of the car barely financed
the motor.
All aluminum 572 Hemi, Indy Max
aluminum block, Eagle crank, Eagle H-Beam rods, Ross custom pistons, cnc ported
Mopar Performance heads, Indy intake - valley and timing cover, Mildon external
oiling system, Cam Motion roller cam, Comp Cams roller lifters, Indy roller
valvetrain. Heads and valve train will cost $7800.
Stage 5 aluminum valve covers ($500), 1150 Dominator from Bigs Performance.
10-3/4 to 1 on pump gas. Estimate 825hp and 750 ft/lbs torque.
Phoenix Transmission 4L80E, billet 9"-11" converter, push button control shift
points and lock-up.
Narrowed Strange fabricated 9" rear, 35
spline Strange axles
Strange nodular 9", billet bearing carrier, billet 1350 yoke, Detroit Locker,
350 gears.
Alterkation K-member assembly
QA1 adjustable coil overs, power rack & pinion, tubular upper and lower control
arms.
Brakes Front: Wilwood 13" slot & cross drilled rotors, Wilwood 6-piston
Superlites
Brakes Rear: Wilwood 13" slot & cross drileld rotors, Wilwood 4-Piston
Superlites.
DIY 8-Point roll cage with ties in front engine bay
Boxed, narrowed and smoothed front frame area for larger radiator
Northern 31"x19", 2-tube, 1" core, double pass, aluminum radiator
2X Spal electric fans in Universal Parts aluminum shroud, Spal shroud doesn't
fit right, Universal Parts fits entire core area.
All hose fittings will be converted to 20AN weld on fittings. Hoses will be
custom made, crimp fit style similar to Nascar.
MSD 6AL with MSD billet distributor.
The smoothed engine bay will demand a
great deal of time to hide as many wires and hoses as possible. This car has no
blower like the last car, Glen says he will do a lot under the hood to demand
attention towards the motor. DIY billet aluminum air cleaner
Corbeau A4's in black/grey microsuede
from Jim Huston at Motorsports Seats & Accessories
Rims: Boze ZE forged, 3-piece wheels,
12x19 rear and 8x18 front.
Tires: Michellin Pilot 345-30-19 rear
and 245-40-18 front.
Caltracs traction control, custom Eaton springs de-arched 3 inches, shackles
have been replaced with circle track style roller bearing assy.
Rear wheel wells widened 3.5" per side. Leaf springs moved in 3.5" per side.
Front spring perchs fabbed into frame to drop ride height.
Thinking about an aluminum drive shaft but no commitments yet.
LED center brake light from Ford SHO, flushed into rear valance panel. DIY
custom LED tailight assemblies. License plate frenched into rear panel with
hidden key lock behind hinged license plate, LED strip light to illuminate
plates.
Bumpers smoothed, license plate areas removed and smoothed, DIY boxed stainless
exhaust tips thru bumper.
DIY sub-frame connectors. On previous two cars these were cut and welded into
floor pans. Glen did not like fit and finish of the carpet area after doing it
this way. He did things a little different this time with extensive cutting and
fitting for perfect fit to the bottom of the floor pans. Having a rotisserie for
this build made this much easy. Rotisserie was DIY and has since changed hands
often between different club members.
This is the third car Glen has built.
First car was the yellow 70 Duster with blower, second was 71 Challenger
convertible. Glenn had restored some pickup trucks prior to these cars and
painted his brothers Cobra. Saying this is his third car may be a little short?
Blower car was frame up resto-mod as there was zero rot in that car. Built the
rotisserie for resto-mod of the Challenger.
Paint: Exotic Paint Candy Metallic Orange. Exotic Paint was started by former
head paint developer for Kozmozky's House of Color. Had considered 2006 Lambo
Pearl Orange but decided there was not enough pop at night with that color.
If someone has vision for paint, would
like to see ideas. No trend paint. Would consider multi-color paint scheme if
someone has vison for paint.
Interior up in the air. Darryl Glausen
from Precision Upholstry. Headline, seats and door panels.
Push button start on dash. All aluminum
gage insert. Likes "JustDashes".
Travis Knowlton building the motor.
Knowltons Thunderhead Racing.
A friend found shark tooth at a swap
meet. Plans to enlist same friends help restoring the grill.
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