From a guy that thinks N50's hanging 3" out of the quarter on a jacked up 4x4 ride height duster is a good look.
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From a guy that thinks N50's hanging 3" out of the quarter on a jacked up 4x4 ride height duster is a good look.
diymirage
HP@idle > hondaHP@redline
From a guy that thinks N50's hanging 3" out of the quarter on a jacked up 4x4 ride height duster is a good look.
I'll sell em to you, so you can retire those pizza cutters your running now
I think the oil cooler mounting spot is stupid! Mirror mounting spot is stupid. The wheels are OK. It is more of a gross color clash more than anything.
Kind of digging everything else.
Just keep poking until someone takes the bait.
I'll sell em to you, so you can retire those pizza cutters your running now
Say what? Maybe you are just that oblivious!
Trolling seems relatively rare on the forabody forums. I am grateful for that!
While I love this car, I don’t disagree with these points at all. The fender mounted mirrors is a JDM look that’s not for me but I see what he was going for. The bumper mounted oil cooler was also an odd choice.
Color clash...I see what you’re getting at but it has grown on me.
So I gather that Mopar donated that 5.7 but would it have been any more difficult to run the 6.4L?
The engine was a junk yard find thing. I don't think "MoPar", "donated" anything.
diymirage
HP@idle > hondaHP@redline
maybe you're the one who isnt full aware of the situation?
i thought me and li'l boy blu had an understanding where we both love mopars, but neither one of us likes the other guys taste
perhaps, im picking on him in the same way i would pick on UofM fans (in fact there are a few UofM fans at my church, i tell them that the difference between salvation and sanctification)
at any rate, it dont mean i dislike the guy, or dismiss his knowledge on the subject...it simply means im riling on him
(if you notice the "
" under my statement? that means you got to picture me saying it with a grin on my face)
Actually, the fender mount mirrors may be a tuner thing now, but they started with British rally cars (or maybe earlier, but the brit rally cars pre-date the JDM stuff). Just like the extra lights. Like most things JDM, they were blatantly copied from the Brits when the Japanese sports cars were starting out in the late 60's. And while I don't like the look of the fender mounted mirrors on the brit, JDM or the project yankee car, as I mentioned above I know for a fact you get better visibility with them. That's why they put them there for the rally cars to begin with.
For the 6.4 it wouldn't be any harder to put it in the car, but I think you'd need the ECU controller that Ma Mopar sells now for like $1,500 to make the 6.4 run. Mopar Performance 77072454AB The 5.7's have more options for controllers, or even going mechanical with a carb on some of them.
I'll sell em to you, so you can retire those pizza cutters your running now
Yeah ok. The 295 "pizza cutters" I'm running are 11.1" wide at the tread. So let's see...
This set of N50's are 11.3" wide at the tread, but they're replica hockey pucks so less traction anyway
Coker Pro-Trac Tires 72146
And this set of N50's that might actually put power to the ground are only 11" wide at the tread. Hmmm....
M&H Racemaster Muscle Car Drag Tires MSS-006
i thought me and li'l boy blu had an understanding where we both love mopars, but neither one of us likes the other guys taste
perhaps, im picking on him in the same way i would pick on UofM fans (in fact there are a few UofM fans at my church, i tell them that the difference between salvation and sanctification)
at any rate, it dont mean i dislike the guy, or dismiss his knowledge on the subject...it simply means im riling on him
(if you notice the "
Yeah I know, but you know what? You don't have to put your opinion in every thread the comes up. It gets old. We're all aware we don't agree on this stuff.
It would be great if this thread could go back to discussing some of the modifications on the Project Yankee car without some stuck in the '70's opinion on what it looks like every 3 posts
@72bluNblu, since I consider you the go-to-guy (or at least one of the them) when it comes to the factory type suspension, what would be your recommendation to get the stance/tires sticking out this far on a Duster? I have a 75 shell sitting at dads that I'm seriously thinking about putting like 305s or 315s on all 4 corners to where the tires stick out sorta like these cars but then I'd install fender flares sorta like the new widebody challengers.
Just use the factory setup up front with wide, deep dished wheels?
Wouldn't be hard to do with 315's, they'd stick out that far. With the 73+ disks you'd need an 18x11 with a +6 offset (6.2" backspace) and 315/30/18's. That should clear the frame, and they'd stick out about 1.6" further out than my 275's, so, more than an inch outside the fenders considering the clearance I have. I suppose you could just make it a nice even 0 offset and 6" backspace, that would put them out a good 2" past mine or about an inch and half past the fenders. Once you're out past the fenders it doesn't much matter anymore. If you ran a 68-70 B body rear axle you could run the same exact rims/tires in the back, that axle is pretty much square with a 73+ disk set up. Then you'd need a 2" wide flare (minimum).
Thing is, you'd have to cut the fenders too, similar to the Petty car (maybe not quite that much). No different than hanging the tires out past the quarters on the 70's street freak style drag cars. Once the tires are out past the body, you have to make sure the body and the tires never occupy the same space. So, you either raise the car up (like the street freaks with the crazy lifted rears), or you have to cut the body back. Whatever suspension travel you have is how much you'd need to cut out. So, that would mean cutting a couple inches of fender out all the way around the tire, to make sure the tire never hit the fender on turning or with suspension compression. Then you'd put the flares on, making sure the flares were wide enough to cover whatever amount of tire you added, plus clearance just like for the fenders.
Of course, with the flares you'd have nowhere to rest your foot...
Like the "Fish Tail" drift car, except you'd need bigger flares up front and you'd lose more fender than that
Thanks. I'm actually thinking about trying to do something similar to this 70-71? Camaro.
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