71 V24 Duster rebuild to redo
Since I got the car for cruising but also to get back into drag racing, I had to decide what to put into it for a power plant. When I purchased the car the fellow wouldn't sell the engine that had been in it (a healthy 340) so I started asking the good members of this site for help and got some good advice but a couple of weeks after I got the car the engine became available and I purchased it and had it shipped. The vinyl roof had been removed and paint and glue ground off and black primer applied to protect the bare metal. Every time I walked past the car I thought, that doesn't look so bad and decided on a non factory paint scheme with orange below and under the side stripes and black completely on top meeting an orange border just above the stripe. There were some small bubbles in a couple of places on the car so I decided to strip it down to metal and start frome scratch. My intentions were to finish the car and race it before our local drag strip shuts down for the season but I just found out that the 4 spd trans which came with the car was actually a cast iron 3spd OD trans so that put a stop to that idea. I'm now going to continue working on this car as a winter project with the possibility of the installation of a viper 6spd trans. The following pics are the engine, the car stripped and now sealed with epoxy primer. I will be updating with any progress. Kev
Since I got the car for cruising but also to get back into drag racing, I had to decide what to put into it for a power plant. When I purchased the car the fellow wouldn't sell the engine that had been in it (a healthy 340) so I started asking the good members of this site for help and got some good advice but a couple of weeks after I got the car the engine became available and I purchased it and had it shipped. The vinyl roof had been removed and paint and glue ground off and black primer applied to protect the bare metal. Every time I walked past the car I thought, that doesn't look so bad and decided on a non factory paint scheme with orange below and under the side stripes and black completely on top meeting an orange border just above the stripe. There were some small bubbles in a couple of places on the car so I decided to strip it down to metal and start frome scratch. My intentions were to finish the car and race it before our local drag strip shuts down for the season but I just found out that the 4 spd trans which came with the car was actually a cast iron 3spd OD trans so that put a stop to that idea. I'm now going to continue working on this car as a winter project with the possibility of the installation of a viper 6spd trans. The following pics are the engine, the car stripped and now sealed with epoxy primer. I will be updating with any progress. Kev
