Starting a BB Duster project
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Glad to know he isn't a legendary member
DionR
Well-Known Member
Wonder if he got tired of some of our “friendlier” members…
Dartsun
Mopar Dude
What an awesome duster, I hope the guy in albany enjoys it and drives it around.
I put an ad on Craigslist and it sold the next day. It was a cool looking car but it wasn't a fully finished project. Still needed some debugging and some finish work. The body work was done but the paint was just epoxy primer so at some point it was going to need paint. The interior wasn't finished.
The guy I sold it to had an 11 second Mopar race car. Last time I talked to him he said he sold his race car since the Duster was faster and could be driven to the track. When I had it the Duster was a high 10 second car, not sure if he has sorted it out more or not. I didn't have it sorted out for drag racing. I never played with the shock settings or the Calvert adjustments or anything like that. It was just a foot brake car and the transmission wasn't built for drag racing. But it was fast and it hooked up hard.
The guy I sold it to had an 11 second Mopar race car. Last time I talked to him he said he sold his race car since the Duster was faster and could be driven to the track. When I had it the Duster was a high 10 second car, not sure if he has sorted it out more or not. I didn't have it sorted out for drag racing. I never played with the shock settings or the Calvert adjustments or anything like that. It was just a foot brake car and the transmission wasn't built for drag racing. But it was fast and it hooked up hard.
Hey Andy, I just wanna say thanks a whole bunch for detailing that car here as well as the other places I have seen it pictured and talked about which I thought was way cool.
Showing the build here really was awesome.
A big huge THANKS! To you for all of that time and effort.
Rob
Showing the build here really was awesome.
A big huge THANKS! To you for all of that time and effort.
Rob
I'm currently helping my buddy build a 1963 1/2 Galaxie 500 fastback. It has a FE 427 in it that has been stroked to 482 inches. Dual EFI throttle bodies on a tunnel port intake. C6, Ford 9 inch, four wheel disc brakes, etc.
I still have my 1965 Coronet 500 but I'll probably sell it next. I'm winding down my personal stuff. The Coronet is a cool car. Factory 426 four speed car. The 426 has a 4.25 stroke in it now and the four speed was replaced with a Doug Nash 5 speed. The 8 3/4 was replaced with a Dana 60 and the drum brakes were replaced with disc brakes from a Porsche twin turbo.
mopar head
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Was your 65 a factory lightweight drag car? I ask , because I thought 66 was the first year for Joe public could buy a Hemi car?
straight cut or syncro'd?
I'd love to bend your ear about this sniper EFI when I get the car on the road.
mygasser
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it may be an rb 426 not a hemi 426.
mopar head
Well-Known Member
Thanks, that slipped my mind. When I hear 426, it always goes to Hemi
My Coronet 500 came with a 426 Street Wedge. That was the top of the line engine option in 1965 for those cars.
The engine isn't too wild but if you look close the valve covers are made from billet. That is a clue. If you go look at the Duster engine pictures you'll see the same billet valve covers. I made a few sets of those covers and used them on some special projects.
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Street box. I bought the Doug Nash almost 40 years ago. Still have the original receipt. It came with the Hemi input shaft. I wasn't able to install it for a number of years since it required a lot of fabrication. 40 years ago I didn't have the tools or the skills to handle that kind of fab work. I finally got it installed in the car about 30 years ago. There was a ton of fab work required to install that transmission. Back when I bought it nobody said anything about fab work! The magazine articles only talked about how easy it was to install in a Camaro. They left off the part about how it required extensive work to install in a Mopar!
ValiantS
Well-Known Member
It's good to have Andy back posting here again! We may not have everything in common but he is an asset to the hobby.
Longtime tech bud of mine is a Chebby Boy, but He loves that body style, that & the 2nd Gen. A-'cuda notchbacks..
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