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Sorry for the lack of updates. Started a new position at work about a year ago, really cuts into my time and motivation level. Also, with the border closed, my parts supply is cut off... I have always gone to the WPC swap meet in Michigan, the Indy swap meet, Moparfest etc. nothing in the last...

Awesome work, as always! Can’t wait to see what you do next!

Once I had everything where I wanted it, I mig welded the inside of the brackets. These welds will be covered as I made a top plate with a couple holes that I went over with a dimple die. This is with the top plate and j-bar laying in place. I have some more work to do but it should stiffen the...

To tie in the the shock mounts to the j-bars, I made up these brackets from 1/8” cold rolled and some DOM tubing. Obviously I was inspired by the Hotchkis Duster.... It was a compromise of getting the bar as close to the corner of the firewall/inner fender landing plate, keeping it within reach...

My TIG welder is being delivered today! Unfortunately, it’s being delivered to my buddy’s in Michigan. I’m not sure when we will be able to cross the border, but it will be waiting for me when we can. In the meantime, I tack welded everything with MIG and will do the final welding with the TIG...

Thank you, I appreciate the compliment.

Onto the j-bar project. I started by removing part of the seam between the cowl and firewall in order to make a nice flat spot to incorporate a rigid landing pad. I seam welded everything behind the plate for rigidity and to keep the water out. I wanted to tie in the three different planes where...

I shaved the lip off the frame rail in the engine bay, just “in case” I ever swap to a new Hemi. You need to remove the lip to clear for the alternator. I think it’s a bit stronger being fully seam welded and it creates a nice flat area for a landing pad for future j-bars.

I like it.

I sandblasted the pedal assembly parts, then added a zerk fitting to pack the pins and bushings with grease. I drilled a hole through the inner tube to allow grease to reach the inside bushings and drilled and tapped the outer tube for the zerk. After painting and assembling everything, I pumped...

After tearing the assembly apart, I did the Herb McCandless clutch pedal ratio mod and added about .625” to the pedal arm length as seen in this pic from Mopar muscle. Then I made up a couple mandrels in order to make some bronze bushings to replace the factory plastic pedal bushings. I found...

Took a break from the rust and welding and decided to restore a set of clutch/brake pedals I got at moparfest a few years ago. I got these for a steal at $75.

Well, no work on the car today. I fixed my deck because it was sinking from a rotten post and procured my boys into fixing the fence that they riddled with hockey pucks. I did do a quick clean up in the shop so hopefully that will give me some motivation to get out there. As for the rest of the...

g Thank you. Posting a few pics and a blurb of what you are doing sometimes makes these projects look easy but it’s the timeline that doesn’t show up in the thread. If I did this for a living I would go broke. I was off 6 weeks for covid and spent 6-8 hours a day in the shop. That’s when I...

I made a wheel tub brace/trunk close out panel to stiffen up the new outer wheelhouse and clean up the trunk area a bit. Laid out the design on cardboard and transferred to sheet metal. Then I drilled holes in all the radii to make cutting out the final shape a bit easier. Next I bead...

I left a 3/16” gap between the quarter and the tub. It will be filled with seam sealer after the car is epoxy primed. I’m going to removed a large portion of the quarter lip when I fit the tires. Officially de-humped!

Been a while since I’ve posted....Going back to work has cut into my car time. When I cut the quarters off of the car I decided to cutout the outer wheelhouse for future tire clearance. Everyone knows how much the outers occupy space that a fat tire would love to inhabit. Here’s my take on...

On to the quarter panels. I originally was just going to patch the lower sections in front and behind the wheel tub. Upon further inspection, I uncovered some shoddy repairs so I decided to replace the panels further towards the body line. I removed the outer wheel tubs leaving about 3/4” of...

Nice Build! What size and brand of tires did you end up going with?

The rear cross member was composed of three welded pieces. The outer ones spanned the width of the trunk drop downs and were previously patched....terribly. Since I had to cut them back to install the trunk drop downs, I cut the patch out plus a bit more until I hit solid steel. Then I laid out...

A few more posts and I’ll be caught up to where I am at the moment. Thanks for the compliment!

Unfortunately, I didn’t take many pictures of the trunk drop down replacement. There are a lot of welds on these to drill out and I had to manipulate the new AMD units quite a bit to get them to fit. I ended up having to cut a pie shape out of the front area where the drop down meets the quarter...

Thanks Tanker. I appreciate it!

Thanks! I’m the guy who gave you the wiper pivot bolt....over by the freez

Side two, shows a little bit more of the progress...

The bottom of the quarters, on both sides of the wheel tub, were crudely patched so I removed the bottom 10-12” or so. This exposed the rust on each rocker panel, the trunk drop downs, and the ends of the rear crossmember/bumper mount. I got a good deal and great service from Dave @ Roseville...

I bought some torque boxes from USCar Tool. Painted underneath them with POR15 to make sure everything was protected from future rust. Had to trim a little here and there to get them to sit how I wanted and then burned them in. I also poured myself a beer from the keg....red solo cup. Makes...

It took about a week of intermittent work but I got all the undercoating off of the car. Thank god for the rotisserie. This is a crappy job... propane torch and a putty knife.

Haha! Thanks for the compliment I think....my work was throwing out a bunch of old tubing. It had paint on it and weld beads here and there. I sifted through and got enough usable pieces to build the rotisserie, cleaned the paint and ground off all of the welds. They also threw out and bunch of...

I made a rotisserie out of 90% scrap metal. I got the basic plan off of the internet somewhere and changed what I wanted. I used a sprocket from Princess Auto (the Canadian version of Harbor Freight), and designed a spring loaded pin so I can index the car wherever I need. It works great. I...