Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
We're still battling with the mods on the Charger. By grinding down some edges on the new firewall section we were able to get the cylinder mounting plate looking level.
Another problem cropped up. Wilwood uses unusual thread designs and it's hard to find fittings to mate with their equipment. They apparently have designed their parts so that you'll have to purchase any additional parts from them but they don't offer many options.
The bottom of those aluminum reservoirs is tapped for a 9/16"-18 thread that is O-ring sealed. There don't seem to be any options to attach a hard line like I'd want to. The fill point on the cylinders has an 11/16" thread which is even more difficult to find fittings for.
Now, Wilwood does sell adapters for those odd thread sizes to go to a 3AN fitting but it's not a very good choice for us. We're mounting our reservoirs only a few inches away from the cylinder's fill locations and would most likely have to loop three braided hoses to couple them together. What should have been a very clean looking installation will look like spaghetti.
We spent a lot of time online looking for other vendors that might have what we needed but didn't have much luck. EARLS sells a 5/16 barb fitting that has the correct O-ringed 9/16-18 thread but it's really not much help. I guess we'll be banging our heads against the wall for another day or two trying to come up with a workable solution.:BangHead:
As far as the system from Vintage Air goes, we also ran into problems with fittings. It took a little while but someone from their tech support was able to direct us to the parts we needed.
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