Awesome ride!!!! 
But..... Ya can't drive anywhere without traffic!!!!
But..... Ya can't drive anywhere without traffic!!!!
1964 Valiant "Get Runnin & Drivin"
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Vixen wanted her some of that Charger! Maybe next time! lolAwesome ride!!!!
But..... Ya can't drive anywhere without traffic!!!!
Ya know what happens when a Charger breeds a Valiant!!!?????
Somethin Australian?
I don't know. I figured you might!!!! \
Just watch out for Vixen, she ain't no baby anymore!!!!
plumkrazee70
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Man, that sounds soo good! Really nice job!
Lenni
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Here are some pictures and tutorials to assist a drum brake job.
Hi Lenni. This is my build thread......and I totally don't mind you posting this here, but more people will see it if you make a separate thread in the brake section. But feel free to leave it here, as well, since it is A body specific.
Lenni
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That makes sense. I didn't know any better. I posted the information thinking Cley would benefit from it. oops
So, @MadScientistMat and his son came by today to grab a radiator. Cool to meet a couple more members. Super cool guys. I took them over to see Mr. Buddy, who I built the 283 for in his 64 Chevy truck. We stood around and chewed the fat awhile. After that, we went our separate ways. I came home and they were going to the Museum of Avaition in Warner Robins, I believe. So I came on home, parked Vixen in the driveway. After awhile, I realized we weren't going anywhere else, so I pulled Vixen into the shop. When I stopped her, the brakes felt low. So I hit the pedal again and down it went! So I hopped out and noticed a puddle of fluid under the driver's side middle of the car. Yup, she rusted a brake line in two. Nice. Se we ran into town and I got a couple pieces of 3/18 tube, a flare union and bent up a new line. She's all fixed now. Sorry, no pictures. I just whipped it out, because since my truck is down, that meant we were down to one vehicle. Caint have all that, so I got her back in shape again quick. Matt took a picture of Mr. Buddy and I. Maybe he will post it later.
Lucky that the line held until you got home! When you get a spare minute, you should check the other lines, too. But you probably already know that. . . .
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I remember looking under the hood and thinking "Glad to see it has a dual circuit master cylinder." Looks like that was foreshadowing. Might want to get on Buddy's case about his single reservoir again.
Thank you again for the radiator. Hopefully the radiator and clearance for more fans are all the cooling system needs...
Anytime sir! It was a pleasure to meet you both. Did you get to the Museum of Aviation?I remember looking under the hood and thinking "Glad to see it has a dual circuit master cylinder." Looks like that was foreshadowing. Might want to get on Buddy's case about his single reservoir again.
Thank you again for the radiator. Hopefully the radiator and clearance for more fans are all the cooling system needs...
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The other ones are good. They all got upgraded in front of the proportioning valve when I put the dual reservoir master cylinder on it.
Sounds like a good day, well, except the brake line, but it waited till you was safely home.
I'm glad, too. We have the car club picnic today. It's about 35 miles away. We COULD go now, but they chose Palm Sunday and we are heavily involved in our church, so the picnic ain't happenin. They could have chosen last week or the week after next. They'll have great weather though, but we're going to church.
I vaguely remember explaining to my Gramps when the first dual systems came out. He was 67 or 68 then, and of course EVERYthing he'd ever driven was either mechanical brakes or single pot
On a side note, we used to have old copies of Ford propaganda. Dealer hype booklets. Might have been "Ford Times" but not sure. Anyhow, Ford used to dis the "new, complicated, and unreliable" hydraulic brakes, until FORD came out with them in when, 37, 38? THEN it was all great, and not only THAT, Ford had conversion kits for some of the older cars with mechanical brakes to hydraulic!!
On a side note, we used to have old copies of Ford propaganda. Dealer hype booklets. Might have been "Ford Times" but not sure. Anyhow, Ford used to dis the "new, complicated, and unreliable" hydraulic brakes, until FORD came out with them in when, 37, 38? THEN it was all great, and not only THAT, Ford had conversion kits for some of the older cars with mechanical brakes to hydraulic!!
Ford's mechanical-brakes-are-better spin went something like "real steel, from pedal to wheel."
Ford first went to hydraulic in 1939. Plymouth had hydraulic brakes from its beginning in 1928.
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Unicorn head motor progress. I decided everything has laid around long enough. We have a long block. I WAS going to run the gear drive that I figured out how to do, however, this head is too rare and I have too much money invested in it to take a chance, so I went with a JP/Rollmaster timing set and wheeled her in 4 degrees advanced. I will be painting the head to match the Hemi orange block. I just ran out of Hemi orange.
Johnny Dart
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Nice Rusty....Without reading a bunch of pages, whats the specs on the head, and why is it a unicorn ?
mopowers
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Not knowing much about slant sixes, what exactly is a unicorn head?
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It's a 1977 casting. According to Doug Dutra, Chrysler only made about five, maybe less. It'a a factory closed chamber slant 6 head. They were never supposed to make it to production, but somehow this one did on a 77 Aspen. I stumbled upon it on ebay. I had it ported, had 318 valves put in and I enlarged the spring pockets for the Comp 911 big block spring. Here it is unassembled and freshly ported.
A closer shot at the chamber.
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