Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
I worked more on the brake cylinder mounting plate today. We'll probably be tweaking it for a few more days to get it square and level in the car.
If you look at the plate from Wilwood next to the one we had fabbed you can see the difference between the two. We really needed that extra inch of mounting depth and 1&1/2 inches of clearance above the cylinders.
With the plate having progressed far enough we had to turn our attention to mounting the remote reservoirs. I bought a 10 inch long chunk of 1/2" by 1" steel barstock that we used to bolt them to. After a little time with the drill press and a 1/4-20 tap we had them butted together. We'll weld the steel bar to the new firewall section we're fabricating.
Next we worked on the Vintage Air system. Their kit is pretty nice but they could use a better tech writer so that the instructions would be more explicit and easier to follow.
It seems that I need more foresight on our modifications. When I decided to make a custom windshield wiper mount that relocated it inside the car (the decision was made to provide additional clearance for the supercharger) I didn't foresee it would interfere with the heater box.
Even if we'd have had a clear set of instructions we'd have had to throw them out the door. The location they wanted us to use wouldn't work with our wiper motor mod. We ended up modifying our brackets and mounting the box 8" further to the right and an inch lower.
I worked more on the brake cylinder mounting plate today. We'll probably be tweaking it for a few more days to get it square and level in the car.
If you look at the plate from Wilwood next to the one we had fabbed you can see the difference between the two. We really needed that extra inch of mounting depth and 1&1/2 inches of clearance above the cylinders.
With the plate having progressed far enough we had to turn our attention to mounting the remote reservoirs. I bought a 10 inch long chunk of 1/2" by 1" steel barstock that we used to bolt them to. After a little time with the drill press and a 1/4-20 tap we had them butted together. We'll weld the steel bar to the new firewall section we're fabricating.
Next we worked on the Vintage Air system. Their kit is pretty nice but they could use a better tech writer so that the instructions would be more explicit and easier to follow.
It seems that I need more foresight on our modifications. When I decided to make a custom windshield wiper mount that relocated it inside the car (the decision was made to provide additional clearance for the supercharger) I didn't foresee it would interfere with the heater box.
Even if we'd have had a clear set of instructions we'd have had to throw them out the door. The location they wanted us to use wouldn't work with our wiper motor mod. We ended up modifying our brackets and mounting the box 8" further to the right and an inch lower.