Glen Chiappetti's 1970 Duster

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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