Charger
Setting up the carbs on the blower, I find that we'll need carb spacers in order to have clearance for the carb linkage.
Added the spacers and am starting to worry about the height of the assembly. It's starting to look very tall.
A back view of the manifold, blower, carb spacers, carbs, and scoop.
Although we had considered buying a factory tic toc tach (combo tach/clock), we really wanted a tach with a built in shift light. The 3&3/4" diameter should allow us to build this one into the original dash tach location. It's on it's way. - Another eBay purchase.
Trying to detail as much of the car as possible, red and black were decided on as carb colors.
This is one of the new front brake calipers. I ground the outer face of the rough casting smooth , applied red caliper paint and vinyl DODGE emblems.
The factory dash plastic we had was of three different types and didn't match. The instrument cluster was from a '69 that had the woodgrain aluminum panel over the leather grain. The radio section was also from a '69 but without the woodgrain covering. The piece above the glovebox door was the correct '68 vertical engraved lines.
In order to get all 3 dash pieces to match, we're attempting to cover them with a brushed stainless steel look. First we made templates of the dash pieces out of construction paper.
The next step was to use the construction paper templates to make a stiff backing out of formica.
This is a roll of (brushed stainless steel finish) vinyl. It was too thin to apply directly over the non-smooth dash pieces without showing all the bumps underneath.
Setting up the carbs on the blower, I find that we'll need carb spacers in order to have clearance for the carb linkage.
Added the spacers and am starting to worry about the height of the assembly. It's starting to look very tall.
A back view of the manifold, blower, carb spacers, carbs, and scoop.
Although we had considered buying a factory tic toc tach (combo tach/clock), we really wanted a tach with a built in shift light. The 3&3/4" diameter should allow us to build this one into the original dash tach location. It's on it's way. - Another eBay purchase.
Trying to detail as much of the car as possible, red and black were decided on as carb colors.
This is one of the new front brake calipers. I ground the outer face of the rough casting smooth , applied red caliper paint and vinyl DODGE emblems.
The factory dash plastic we had was of three different types and didn't match. The instrument cluster was from a '69 that had the woodgrain aluminum panel over the leather grain. The radio section was also from a '69 but without the woodgrain covering. The piece above the glovebox door was the correct '68 vertical engraved lines.
In order to get all 3 dash pieces to match, we're attempting to cover them with a brushed stainless steel look. First we made templates of the dash pieces out of construction paper.
The next step was to use the construction paper templates to make a stiff backing out of formica.
This is a roll of (brushed stainless steel finish) vinyl. It was too thin to apply directly over the non-smooth dash pieces without showing all the bumps underneath.