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VFN makes both bolt on and pin on hoods. My pin on Valiant hood is only 12 lbs. Im sure the bolt on hoods are much heavier with all the extra support for the hinges. Nice Duster.

Glory Days fiberglass did a fantastic job building a one off fiberglass hood for dads dodge coupe.

Nice score. I bet that cleans up nice. I hope you posty pictures after cleaning it up.

VFN made both the scoop and the hood.

VFN made the hood for my Valiant and added the six pack scoop. For a race weight pin on hood, this has held up to over twenty years of racing and some hard street miles.

There seems to be a bit of bad infomation in this thread reguarding early Chrysler Hemis. Yes the crankshafts and rods are forged, but the pistons are cast with steel inserts in the skirt area. The 331 heads are only good if you get the 1954 on up large port heads. The 1955 are considered to be...

The Valiant has a 360 LA with a 833 four speed from a '71 Challenger and a 8.75 with 4.56 gears. The best ET to date is 12.20 @ 112. The coupe was running 11.9 before a cam upgrade, but hasn't been to the track.

Here is the 1937 Dodge coupe Dad and I built. It features a '57 392 Hemi and a 727 Torqueflite from a Duster, a 8.75 from a 68 Fury. The grill is '37 plymouth. The Valiant is ours too.

I'm running a lakewood bell housing. The quicktime bell looks like it should fit better then lakewood.

No firewall mods needed, until I swapped to a scatter shield from a stock bellhousing, then I had to flatten the pinch weld for clearance. The transmission is from a 71 challeneger with the front shifter mount pad ground off for clearance at the t-bar crossmemberThe E body shifter and linkage...

At full lock left there is contact. I put a steering stop bolt on the lower control arm.

The fronts are 26 7.50x15 MT sportsman.The hood was made by VFN fiberglass. They added the six pack scoop. Here is a couple more pictures.

Yep. Dad bought them back in the mid ninties right out of the Mopar Performance catalog.

My street strip 66 valiant. Its powered by an iron headed 360 with a hydrolic cam. Drivetrain is an 883- 4 speed and a 4.56 8 3/4 rear. Best run to date is 12.22 @110

Black & Blue got a nose job and now runs in A/FX