74 DART'
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Looks great. Looks like your drilling out the spot welds ? If so what’s your method ? Great job as always !!!
67/68/69 cuda dilemma
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moparmat2000
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Combination of rotabroach spot weld cutters and a small ball rotary file on an inline air die grinder. Have a piece of .050" stainless sharpened to a point and bolted to an aluminum handle. Slip that between the metal sheets where the welds are weakened and start tapping the handle to seperate. The first pic is the pieces I desperately needed. This stuff was torched out for the aluminum minitub mod i did not do. And have the pleasure of unFucking LoL
moparmat2000
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Everything I need for this car. All this cutting drilling and chopping and inner roof structure pieces are so I can rebuild the section circled in red in the last pic which is of another members car. This section was what was torched out The rest I will be cutting apart and offering up. Framerails are tentatively sold. Sandblasted it all today. I'm tired.
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moparmat2000
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Got the primer done. Was going to spray the parts tuesday afternoon right after work, but 2 things happened. 1 the weather started to turn bad and was rainy the rest of the week, and the parts got some flash rust on them between monday and tuesday. I was a bit miffed, but packed it all in plastic bags and hoped for the best to try to keep moisture out. I blasted them again today and painted everything. We also made some steel angles to replace what appeared to be missing tabs to tie in the rear wheel houses at the rear ends of both rockers when I took everything apart initially.
I had a bunch of help today. I believe he looks pleased with himself for making that part. Passenger side rocker at the aft end looks waaay worse. I may be sectioning in a piece of the right rear rocker from that cadaver I'm cutting up. A bit of sanding on the drivers side wheel house. I welded in the angle and the upper forward spare tire jack mounting support to the RH outer wheel well using dimensions off the parts cuda back end. We will be sanding that one down and prepping that one for primer this week as well.
I had a bunch of help today. I believe he looks pleased with himself for making that part. Passenger side rocker at the aft end looks waaay worse. I may be sectioning in a piece of the right rear rocker from that cadaver I'm cutting up. A bit of sanding on the drivers side wheel house. I welded in the angle and the upper forward spare tire jack mounting support to the RH outer wheel well using dimensions off the parts cuda back end. We will be sanding that one down and prepping that one for primer this week as well.
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IMFURYS
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Good work as always. My little buddy does look pleased and happy with his progress, lol. Keep up the good work.
mygasser
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you need to get him a milk crate or suchlike to stand on at the vice 
neil.
neil.
moparmat2000
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Good idea Neil. I need to build a step stool for him.
dukeboy440
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always love it when the little ones step in to help. i try to let mine help in low dust, no spark stuff. Slows things down which is good and makes things enjoyable
moparmat2000
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Not much to report in the way of 69 cuda stuff except today I got more dismantling on the cadaver done. It's looking more and more like a Filet O Fish.
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moparmat2000
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"Filet of fish" story of the incredible disappearing barracuda chunk is finally over. Framerails are tentatively sold, the framerail tie bar on the left is sold. Shock crossmember will be up for sale soon. This weekend I will be getting back to the regularly scheduled 69 cuda program. Also a hammer I have had for 20 years that I found lying on the side of the road and was using with my " bomb proof" spot weld chisels just broke. I was not hitting with it very hard since you really dont need to the way I cut and grind the spot welds, and the end just broke off.
With your welding skills, why don't you just put it back together? It would last you another 50 years.
IMFURYS
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moparmat2000
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Epoxy primered the wheel houses today. It will be a go for welding them in tomorrow. Took a floating holiday monday from work. Hoping to get the LH side fully welded in, and get at least clamped in place and started on welding in the RH one. I get this done, and it's on to the trunk floor.
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moparmat2000
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Junkyard day today. Got a bunch of goodies including a 1992 dakota V8 set of metal transmission lines. And some neat oil pressure adaptors out of ram vans. These had a oil pressure sender on the 45° and some 3 prong oil pressure switch sticking out 90°. Gonna use em for running the stock oil pressure gage, and copper tubing for a mechanical gage under the dash. Will take em to work to clean up on break tomorrow.
440jimr
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Good to know about the adapters....
moparmat2000
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Well I got a good bit of work done today. Left side wheel house is welded in for good, RH is fitted and clamped and screwed in place. Tomorrow morning I will weld that one in, and grind it down. Then it's on to the trunk pan. Yaaaay!!!!!! Heres the screws i used to help temp tag it together for welding.
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IMFURYS
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Good looking progress Matt. It'll be better than factory original when you get done.
moparmat2000
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I sure hope so after all the torture and neglect that was inflicted on it
IMFURYS
IMFURYS
I know it'll be better. As you and other have said, they slapped them together to get down the line and sold, with roughly 10 year life span. Your work is more meticulous, better QC and improvements, especially with knowing how to protect from the "r" word. Plus your innovations, modifications and improvements will make it better than new, for both cars.
Just let me know when you get "done" so I can ship mine to your "assembly line", lol.
moparmat2000
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My 13 year old daughter watched days of thunder with my wife and I, and said why cant you build a car as fast as they can. I laughed and said restoring a 50 year old car is a lot harder than building a race car. You have to undo 50 years of neglect and rust issues, find the parts, and of course I work 40 hours a week, and dont mess with it in the summer when its 100° out. Only mess with it on the weekends mostly 1 day a week, if that. I told her if this was my full time job 40 hours a week, had all the parts, and an unlimited income, I could have this done and driving in about 6 months. Plus days of thunder is a movie, so all the movie magic. Plus racing teams typically have multiple people employed building racing cars each with a specific specialty like engine building, or chassis fab, or body and paint, and that is all they do. Kids. Insert eyeroll here.
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moparmat2000
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Test fit of the next big piece
moparmat2000
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Was wondering if chrysler did a fold down rear seat option on the 67-69 barracuda coupe, would the fastback have still been so popular?
Interesting thought, would like to see that. I often wondered what if in '68 they built a few Hurst Hemi notchbacks to compete?
moparmat2000
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I always thought It would be cool to build a 1 of none with space duster parts. Anyhoo I got other fish to fry. Going to have to mod the AMD trunk floor fuel tube opening to 67-69 specs. Turns out theres issues with trying to use the 70 up floor gasket with a 69 tank and 69 filler tube. Easier to mod the trunk floor sheetmetal before installation than come up with something that makes it somewhat of a bastard child in this area. I will just fabricate and add a piece of sheetmetal, close up a few holes, add a few new holes it looks like the cleco pins show the 3 holes that are in the same spot from 67-76. Everything else is different. The green circled holes are what's supposed to be there. The red Xs are pop rivet holes from a cover put in the original piece when it was in the car as a race car. This will be the next project before the floor goes in I guess.
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