Starting My restoration on a 65 Barracuda...1st question Instrument Cluster Removal?

pishta said
Forget headers, just run duals down there with 2 new muffler shop headpipes off the manifolds. Run a crossover tube between the duals just under the trans tailshaft. You can mod your trans cross member to accept another passenger side exhaust pipe. Just cut a semicircle where you thin you need it and weld in a band to close the wound. I just saw a white guage decal set on ebay for our cars. Don't clean the plastic lens' with any ammonia based glass cleaner like winded as it will craze the plastic or will bring out any invisible crazing. Just use mild soapy water and an old rag, I scratched one lens using microfiber...? You'll never get the dash back to its metallic chrome shine so whatever you do to it, just carry it over to the middle guage trims. When you rehab your drum btakes, upgrade to the dual reservoir 67 MC. It's just a plug on the rear port of the existing distribution block and an extension of the rear line up to the new reservoir.

Thank you for your response. The car already has dual exhaust. I've pretty much resigned myself to leaving it alone, maybe I'll wrap the exhaust pipes under the hood to make them look more attractive. Right now they are crusty and rusty looking. I will do something with the brakes....I have received several recommendations to leave the drums (refurbished of course) The dual reservoir sounds like a good idea. Are you saying that there is already an input for dual lines in the distribution block (not a proportioning valve)? Just a passive connector. I spent hours and hours cleaning off what I assumed was silver spray paint from the dash panel which was all faded. Finally got the last flecks of silver paint off the surfaces. It was a bear of a job...tedious. I have a beautifully clean yellowish plastic dash piece now. That is not its original finish? Sounds like that surface was chrome covered....Hmmm?