Need Advice on Low(er) Budget Race Build

[bOb shingler]

1966 Plymouth Valiant Signet 100. My hopeful car was a 67 Belvedere but I figured for my idea that the lightest possible car would be the best, hence the Val. I've got a gallery of it when I first picked it up and a few on the progress if you click on Gallery List on here. I need to catch up on the photos I'm way ahead of what I got on there right now but if you wanted to take a gander that's what I'm workin with.

the engine compartment is pretty darn impressive!

 

[greenhornet]

That sounds like a nice setup. I'm still lookin around for parts right now. I actually just got shipped back from Marine Corps OCS in Quantico, VA. I was runnin and tore my knee al up and just had surgery so I'm gonna be laid up for awhile.

Our valiants are twins!!!

 

[Slugger8985]

That car looks awful familiar haha. I love my car it just bums me out that I don't have any money to put into it right now. I just got shipped back from Marine Corps OCS with a bum knee that needed surgery and now I can't work fer awhile so I don't have any money but hopefully soon I will. I'm also gonna start recordin some country music so who knows maybe I'll hit it big and I'll be able to dump all the money in the world into it haha

 

[cuda2ya]

One of the old mags. ran an article "10 sec caddy" all they did was take more and more metal off the car. The car had a basic engine, and if I recall the article right They succeded just by removing weight. I have a 67 cuda that is gutted with a mild 440 (cam, carb, and hookers) It ran 7.50s in the 1/8th. It had a 3000 stall and a 4:10 dana 60.forgot thio

 

[greenhornet]

One of the old mags. ran an article "10 sec caddy" all they did was take more and more metal off the car. The car had a basic engine, and if I recall the article right They succeded just by removing weight. I have a 67 cuda that is gutted with a mild 440 (cam, carb, and hookers) It ran 7.50s in the 1/8th. It had a 3000 stall and a 4:10 dana 60.forgot thio

I agree, find you 4 cheap aluminum rims and start ditching the weight, put your budget in the engine, tranny and rear...

 

[RambleTamble]

One of the old mags. ran an article "10 sec caddy" all they did was take more and more metal off the car. The car had a basic engine, and if I recall the article right They succeded just by removing weight. I have a 67 cuda that is gutted with a mild 440 (cam, carb, and hookers) It ran 7.50s in the 1/8th. It had a 3000 stall and a 4:10 dana 60.forgot thio

---- I think it was 12's and Mopar Action (I think) ,took an Imperial and stripped it (all but 1/2 the grille they couldn't get off) and beat the caddies numbers by like a 1/2 sec.