1965 MMP's Barracuda Hemi swap! The Ever Changing Build
So last night I jacked the car up and cut all the exhaust off. Ditch that lame crap...
Removed the manifolds and all.. Surprised everything came out without issue. except the passenger side manifold has been hacked on.. ugh so I may be on the hunt for another or bite the bullet and build my own..
*Side note Q&A
- I'm not quite sold on the "hot rod" sounds, I would really like to have a different sound from everyone else. So I was thinking of running a Y pipe style exhaust @ 3.5" with a single center mounted race muffler with single dump out passed the diff... maybe!?!?
- Now this would all be custom mandrill bent stainless tubing, Custom formed collector at the Y and custom race muffler and flow pipes...
Had a bit of free time last night before putting my boy to bed, so I used the lumpy **** of a 318 to mock up my intake and Whipple charger. just checking fitment and clearance under the hood. I'm soo proud to say everything fit soo nice and tiddly. I have a ton of room to work with if needed... I was on cloud 9 after that last night...
This also means I can finally finish this manifold so its off to sand blast on Friday before welding ;-)
This is a shot with the hood closed fully. Even at this angle you can see I have about .5" to 3/4" from the hood rib or support, and a ton of room over the pulley snout, with gobs of room around the throttle body area towards the rear of the SC body...
So last night I jacked the car up and cut all the exhaust off. Ditch that lame crap...
Removed the manifolds and all.. Surprised everything came out without issue. except the passenger side manifold has been hacked on.. ugh so I may be on the hunt for another or bite the bullet and build my own..
*Side note Q&A
- I'm not quite sold on the "hot rod" sounds, I would really like to have a different sound from everyone else. So I was thinking of running a Y pipe style exhaust @ 3.5" with a single center mounted race muffler with single dump out passed the diff... maybe!?!?
- Now this would all be custom mandrill bent stainless tubing, Custom formed collector at the Y and custom race muffler and flow pipes...
Had a bit of free time last night before putting my boy to bed, so I used the lumpy **** of a 318 to mock up my intake and Whipple charger. just checking fitment and clearance under the hood. I'm soo proud to say everything fit soo nice and tiddly. I have a ton of room to work with if needed... I was on cloud 9 after that last night...
This also means I can finally finish this manifold so its off to sand blast on Friday before welding ;-)
This is a shot with the hood closed fully. Even at this angle you can see I have about .5" to 3/4" from the hood rib or support, and a ton of room over the pulley snout, with gobs of room around the throttle body area towards the rear of the SC body...