When Mopar guys get together...

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Kern Dog

Kern Dog

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A fellow Mopar guy needed help with his Plymouth today so a few more showed up.
Good times...

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The dark haired guy is Dwayne, known at FBBO as 68 Sport Satellite.

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His Plymouth is incredibly clean. I did a Borgeson steering box in it in 2023 along with a Vintage Air installation.
Remember this Dart?

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It is a nice '68 owned by FABO member RB Convert. We rebuilt his MP 360/380 a few months back, he swapped in a 4" crank, Trick Flow heads and painted it all GoManGo orange.

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We got a few more pictures too...
 
The grass is really green now...

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Rich had the idea to place the cars this way to represent Red, White and Blue, American flag colors.

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I liked these pictures because while all three are Mopars, they are all quite different in their styling.

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The Charger has the big wheels that are either liked or hated. I'm set up for good street handling. The Dart looks like a sleeper street racer that will make you wish that you didn't challenge him to a race.

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The Plymouth has the cool street machine vibe but hiding underneath are some cool upgrades for power and handling.

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It was Torsion bar day for Dwayne/68 Sport Satellite. John in blue...(FABO member @jbc426 )

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He went from 1.0 bars to 1.06s.

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The bars swapped out easily. The hardest part was forcing the grease boots over the hexes at the end of the bars.

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His car is clean...

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That is some type of "Anti-Drone" arrangement that Dwayne read about. The car does not drone but I don't know if it did at one time and if he had the tubes installed to address it.
 
Kern Dog said:
That is some type of "Anti-Drone" arrangement that Dwayne read about. The car does not drone but I don't know if it did at one time and if he had the tubes installed to address it.
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We never had trouble with all this mysterious drone crap until the advent of chambered mufflers like flow masters and whatnot. I never knew of any of the old style turbo mufflers to drone. Not once.
 
BSB67 said:
What’s going on with the exhaust system?
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i believe that's a helmholtz resonator (or at least that's what it appears to be). basically it helps eliminate certain sound frequencies (drone).

it's science.

don't ask me to explain how it works.
 
RustyRatRod said:
How's it work?
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i'm not a scientist, i only play a doctor or lawyer on television!

it uses some aspects of the kadenacy effect, but mostly relies on "tuning" the sound waves rather than the gas pressures. though the same process can use gas pressures to garner additional performance or difference in sound-- think tuned length headers, but that's a separate dissertation. i do know that mopar used them with the V10 motor in vipers and trucks.
 
junkyardhero said:
i'm not a scientist, i only play a doctor or lawyer on television!

it uses some aspects of the kadenacy effect, but mostly relies on "tuning" the sound waves rather than the gas pressures. though the same process can use gas pressures to garner additional performance or difference in sound-- think tuned length headers, but that's a separate dissertation. i do know that mopar used them with the V10 motor in vipers and trucks.
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Sounds like some boosheet.
 

I had a friend that was a Mopar guy, he changed a LOT in the past few years and we stopped doing car things, then stopped everything.
It was a sad ordeal. He sold his car to buy property with a married couple (The wife pretended to be interested in being with him after she dumped the husband) but he wasn't smart enough to get his name on the deed. He sunk everything he had into the deal and lost almost all of it when the scallywag and the husband put up the house for sale. Suddenly he was homeless and nearly broke.
I think that maybe he felt that with no car and no money, he had no interest in the hobby anymore.
 
Hey! I was expecting pictures of the culvert retaining wall.
Kern Dog said:
I had a friend that was a Mopar guy, he changed a LOT in the past few years and we stopped doing car things, then stopped everything.
It was a sad ordeal. He sold his car to buy property with a married couple (The wife pretended to be interested in being with him after she dumped the husband) but he wasn't smart enough to get his name on the deed. He sunk everything he had into the deal and lost almost all of it when the scallywag and the husband put up the house for sale. Suddenly he was homeless and nearly broke.
I think that maybe he felt that with no car and no money, he had no interest in the hobby anymore.
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Ouch. Mama always said....
 
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