Project 72.......
Good morning from South Texas....Wow the good lord blessed us with some great cool weather...but today we are back to the good old gulf breeze...hot and muggy. Gotta love South Texas. ..................................
Been racking the brain my (that 1/4 of one cell I got left) trying to come to a decision on exactly what direction to go and what exactly I want to end up with with Project 72 at the end of the day. Everybody knows there is never enough HP and yeah adding another kit is only good for a little while until the next bottle is needed.......
First I have to take in consideration that Project 53 (Which I am still working on detail wise is still not finished up...Its never finished) has exhausted a very nice bank account and I made mention to the wife that The duster was out in one of the out buildings just colleting dust and she said it can just keep on collecting dust because the bank is closed! Indefinitely!!! She will come around so I finely decided that I want to build a low budget street car, No AC, manual steering manual brakes Small block 360 stroked out to 408 CI, 4 speed car with a good built rear end 3.55 rear gear so it can be driven on the street to go to the local burger joint, a cruise in etc.... I am still going to build a cage, box frame it all the way to the front, sub frame tie ins what ever is needed to build it right. Does anyone have a good book out on upgrades to the A body that I can purchase? Please advise
This being my first Mopar car build I am thinking a 8.3/4 rear end will handle 500HP without any problem. Looking underneath the 72 Duster rear fender well I can already see that the spring perches will have to be moved to the inside of the frame rails, mini tubs are in order and the addition of a single mono leaf will be the ticket to get some decent rubber under the back of car...... Please chime in as I probably should have done a search as this has been asked several hundred times. Just looking to not go the wrong direction ....Thank you in advance.
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Good morning from South Texas....Wow the good lord blessed us with some great cool weather...but today we are back to the good old gulf breeze...hot and muggy. Gotta love South Texas. ..................................
Been racking the brain my (that 1/4 of one cell I got left) trying to come to a decision on exactly what direction to go and what exactly I want to end up with with Project 72 at the end of the day. Everybody knows there is never enough HP and yeah adding another kit is only good for a little while until the next bottle is needed.......
First I have to take in consideration that Project 53 (Which I am still working on detail wise is still not finished up...Its never finished) has exhausted a very nice bank account and I made mention to the wife that The duster was out in one of the out buildings just colleting dust and she said it can just keep on collecting dust because the bank is closed! Indefinitely!!! She will come around so I finely decided that I want to build a low budget street car, No AC, manual steering manual brakes Small block 360 stroked out to 408 CI, 4 speed car with a good built rear end 3.55 rear gear so it can be driven on the street to go to the local burger joint, a cruise in etc.... I am still going to build a cage, box frame it all the way to the front, sub frame tie ins what ever is needed to build it right. Does anyone have a good book out on upgrades to the A body that I can purchase? Please advise
This being my first Mopar car build I am thinking a 8.3/4 rear end will handle 500HP without any problem. Looking underneath the 72 Duster rear fender well I can already see that the spring perches will have to be moved to the inside of the frame rails, mini tubs are in order and the addition of a single mono leaf will be the ticket to get some decent rubber under the back of car...... Please chime in as I probably should have done a search as this has been asked several hundred times. Just looking to not go the wrong direction ....Thank you in advance.
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