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So what was the original reasoning behind offset grinding a factory crank? Do you have a buddy with a crank grinder? Offset grinding used to be the only way to build Mopar strokers but we stopped doing it roughly 20 years ago because it was more expensive than just buying a new crank. There used...

For a low deck the only option is Indy. For an RB engine you have more choices. Edelbrock, Trick Flow and Indy all have MW single 4bbl intakes. There are also cross rams, bath tub rams and tunnel rams available.

M1 4500 intake requires a lot of welding to make power on 270 heads. A lot of welding. Figure at least $2000 to have a pro cut the intake apart, add material and weld it all back together. Much less expensive to just buy an Indy intake and have it port matched.

Nobody has ever stepped up to the plate with Mopar specific wheels so what you are asking for isn't going to happen. If you want big, late model wheels on a Mopar muscle car you have to work the angles that people in this thread are telling you about. You can do a square setup with 17x8 Mustang...

If you have a set of wheels that you really, really want then the thing to do is to buy them. And then you can make the car fit the wheels. The rear end housing can be narrowed to tuck the wheels just where you want them and up front you can build a custom hub to move things around. I used to...

It can be really difficult to find killer wheels for muscle car Mopars because of the bolt pattern, offset and bore size requirements. Ford did their fans a big favor by designing a bunch of custom rims that were perfect factory fits but Mopar never did that. I had custom Fikse rims built for...

I like the glass ports that everyone switched over to about 20 years ago. The old school stuff was always a hassle. I haven't tuned an old school carb in so many years I'd probably have a panic attack if I saw one! Everything we see on the dyno these days is brand new XP carbs or sometimes a QF...

Yeah, projects like that often go sideways. They are just so much work that it is hard to find someone who will take it on and do the job correctly without charging a fortune. I work with a local chassis shop who is fast and cheap but sometimes he takes shortcuts that I don't like. But, there...

We highly recommend hyd rollers for all street performance engines. Flat tappet failures have been very common over the last 10 years due to a combination of changes to oil as well as the loss of Johnson lifters. Once Johnson went away the lifter market was taken over by low quality offshore...

Yeah, you can find someone on here saying most anything. Back in the days when I was making engine dollies I had a guy on the forum tell me that he didn't need to buy an engine dolly since he just went to the grocery store and stole a shopping cart when he needed a dolly. So that is the level of...

Depends if it is a heat treated bar or just a mild steel bar. If you can bend it then it is probably just a mild steel bar. Not all bars are heat treated.

I had a bridge crane in my previous shop so I put the rear wheels up on blocks and then lifted the front of the car with the crane. Roll the engine underneath, set the frame down on jacks and then pull the engine into place. Took a couple of hours to put the whole thing together.

Nice throttle bracket!

I wonder if the OP ever thought about the Chevy pickup truck suspension that NASCAR used for so many years. It is a simple trailing arm type of suspension with coil springs. It works for those guys so I'd think it would work for him.

Not a lot, maybe $200 but it will be hard to sell since it is so narrow. Most likely the only person who will buy it will be someone looking for a good deal. It doesn't look like a Mopar passenger car Dana and I don't recognize the brakes so it might be a narrowed truck rear end.

Maybe, I've never tried it. I have seen guys use C body HP manifolds and angle mill them. Not exactly an easy solution but I've heard that it works. On my Duster I just used the smallest header I could find and that seemed to work okay but it was only 600 hp.

I make several different tools for that task: Tools | AR Engineering

I can run a dyno test and prove that headers pick up a lot of power when switching from manifolds. I can also run a dyno test showing that headers don't pick up much power from manifolds. Just because you see a video of something doesn't mean that you aren't being lied to. The trick is the...

I don't think B body HP manifolds are going to fit in an A body so the discussion might be moot. However, in a B body you can build a performance engine that doesn't give up much power to headers. You have to be very, very careful with the cam selection but 500 hp isn't a problem with HP...

Are you running pump gas? Pump gas is really sooty so that might explain the sooty color. If you're running race gas then I'd say you're too rich. You kind of need to know the fuel is in order to read the plugs. In the same engine gas will look different than pump gas which looks different from...

He went with the 427 theme and added 427 logos to the front fenders. I think he picked the Chevy 427 logo rather than the Ford 427 logo but I'm not positive on that. He did get a lot of questions at the track about whether he had a Chevy 427 in the car. He just said no, Mopar 427 which confused...

427 inch small block. It made 520 hp and 510 torque on the dyno. Basically the same power as a Viper engine but in a smaller and lighter package.

Have to rotate the vehicles KD! I have 3 daily drivers so I rotate which one I drive every couple of weeks. The hot rod gets started once a month and driven around the block a few times. I'm probably going to sell it someday just because I don't really need a hot rod anymore. Had it 40 years so...

Start with Doctor Diff

I don't have many parts left anymore. I sold all of my brake designs to Doctor Diff about 10 years ago

The 1 ton bridge crane allowed me to "cheat" on a lot of stuff. I could pick up the front of the car and lower it back down over the engine and trans or I could lift the engine and transmission up into the car from below if the car was sitting on high jacks.

Yeah it works great if you have the right tools. Taking your time and figuring out the next move is a smart idea the first time around. I had the engine in and out of my Duster more than a few times during the build process. Each time I improved the process and decreased the time.

Depends on what you mean by "much newer". 40 years ago that statement was true but these days the parts cars are not much newer, they are roughly the same age. You used to be able to go to a wrecking yard and grab the brakes from a FMJ car for a quick disc brake upgrade. If you were smart you...

Here is one that I had sitting at my shop for a little while. It was for sale and it actually took a while to sell. I figured someone would grab it quick to turn into a race car but I think it actually ended up back on the street.

The post Valiant can be a cool street rod or road race type of car. Not as popular as an E body car so it is harder to find parts and they are a bit smaller so stuff can be a tight fit. I spent a lot of time helping Tim with his red Valiant. That car was a beast once we put the 427 in it. 160...