What Are You Doing To/With Your Car Today?

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Drove the 72 Demon (avatar) to a local show...approx 200 cars at this one. Absolutely perfect weather!! Once again, enjoyed meeting and talking with many people there. Plan is to drop the mufflers, put the new slicks on, and take it to the track tomorrow or Sunday.
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Demonx2 said:
Drove the 72 Demon (avatar) to a local show...approx 200 cars at this one. Absolutely perfect weather!! Once again, enjoyed meeting and talking with many people there. Plan is to drop the mufflers, put the new slicks on, and take it to the track tomorrow or Sunday.
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We should test out your slicks on my car too.
 
Swapped radiators, old one had a small crack, newer aluminum has a proven track record.

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Rain induced tinkering.

Waiting on Fragola hose, ends and adapters to arrive so in the meantime just finished up porting (enlarging and radiusing) a Moroso filter mount and Derale adapter. Every other remote filter mount whether cheap or high quality race/HD have a good sized recess/channel between the filters o-ring mating surface and threaded return stub. These Moroso’s are machined flat and the ports are just drilled and nothing more. Same with the Derale, as cast. Lots of room for improvement.
Taking cues from the Mopar Performance engine book (page 239) about porting to ensure proper oil flow, and other mounts and adapters, I’ve at least turned both into less restrictive than they were OOTB.

Rainy days ain’t so bad.......

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I finished the brake plumbing yesterday so today I moved the car off the lift and put it on jackstands so I could pull the front wheels and begin the disc brake install.

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Demonx2 said:
Drove the 72 Demon (avatar) to a local show...approx 200 cars at this one. Absolutely perfect weather!! Once again, enjoyed meeting and talking with many people there. Plan is to drop the mufflers, put the new slicks on, and take it to the track tomorrow or Sunday.
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Well we did take it to the track on Saturday ("test-n-tune" day) to see how the new SPC adjustable UCA's would work. Would the 3 deg of caster I set them to make the car stable going down the track? You bet it did! Dead straight - a real relief that that problem appears to be behind us! (As everyone on here knows, with these old cars, old problems can reappear or new ones crop up at any time!)

Combined with the new M/T slicks, the car left hard, went straight, and actually ran within 0.011 of its personal best. It went an 11.15 at 118.24 mph - and that was in approx 77 deg air, a full 20 deg warmer air than the 11.14 runs last fall. So it was a good outing - can't wait to get it back to the track on race day!
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The Carter AFB on my 63 Valiant slant six has been acting up, mostly due to modern gas and having sat too long. Main problem is the accelerator pump wasn't working because the brass piston is stuck in its bore. It's happened before, and is a PITA to get out because there's nothing to grab on to. Have been soaking it with carb cleaner, but to no effect so far. So I'm swapping the AFB for the 500 Edelbrock sitting in the trunk of my non-running Studebaker Lark convertible project car. Don't have the Mopar throttle adapter, so ordered one from Amazon. Should be here today. Of course, I'll need to change the air filter base, too, but I have a couple of spares. One advantage to the switch will be that the Edelbrock carb has an electric choke. May go back to the AFB later, but for now I'm tired of messing with it.

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I also have been prepping my new Edgy finned aluminum head for its installation on the flathead six in my 49 Dodge. Had to rig up a mounting spot for the carb linkage (trimmed a piece of aluminum carb adapter to fit between two fins, had it tig welded in, then drilled and tapped it for the throttle bellcrank), plus drill and tap three holes on the side of the head to mount the oil filter and spark plug loom (which also originally held the coil, but now have an HEI coil mounted on the inner fender for the electronic ignition). The oil filler pipe also bolts to the front-most hole.

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Job was made easier by my brandy new drill press:

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New head goes here:

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I painted the door panels on the ‘74, and had the arm rests reupholstered. I used SEM trim black. The stuff is pretty good. That stainless door trim is no joke once you take it off, it’s never just quite like it was.

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Cleaning up the sun baked peeling Clearcoat on the hood.

A little Basecoat, a little Clearcoat.

All better, Yeah it's a Plymouth.

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cosgig said:
Just for reference, the pedal on the right makes it go. The more you push it, the faster it goes! You’re welcome! :)
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For a long time pedal on the left went right to the floor. Had some obstacles to overcome. Hey you are overdue on the 6 Pack Club Dues. Cough Cough
 
72Dart6pack said:
For a long time pedal on the left went right to the floor. Had some obstacles to overcome. Hey you are overdue on the 6 Pack Club Dues. Cough Cough
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I’m holding my dues until you come and pick them up in the Dart. I really want to see you enjoying that car this year. It will certainly be a big hit when it makes its debut at the cruise in/show circuit.
 
cosgig said:
I’m holding my dues until you come and pick them up in the Dart. I really want to see you enjoying that car this year. It will certainly be a big hit when it makes its debut at the cruise in/show circuit.
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It's just something I've hacked together. No one wants to see this.

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Painted the sides today. Hood and rear still need some work, but they're separated from the side parts by the orange lines, so no need to paint them at the same time. I just wanted to see how the satin black is going to look I will paint the window trims as well, but the last owner sprayed over chrome, so I have to do some extra work on those. The white on the orange is just sanding dust. I was too lazy to clean them up before masking them away. The black part is of course properly cleaned and matted before painting.
Also there will be thin gloss black vinyl tape between the orange and black. No way I'd get good enough line between them.

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Packing the Demon to head to Mopars in the Park this weekend.
 
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