Our Mopars... and ONLY Mopars :P *Lots of img.*

[moparman44]

This is the VIP:






This is a 78 Magnum, which recently (and sadly) got scrapped.



This is the Demon from years ago when we bought it restored. It is now rollcaged and a new fram was put in. Building the motor soon:




I may post pictures of the Laser my dad built with nothing but the shell. He used a Charger (dont know year) front end, and built the frame and put a roll cage in. It is now in Knoxville TN as a show car. He claims he isn't proud of it because it was more of an experience than anything.


Hope you like em.

[DeltaMustang65]

Hey, I recognize these!

I have a couple questions. I can never figure out why some folks use such tiny air filters. There is very little surface area on the Demon's filter. Is there a reason for that?

Also, it looks like you've wrapped your headers. I've heard that doesn't work too well. How is it working for you? I'm just gathering opinions where I can, since I'm eventually going to ceramic-coat mine.

[nightmare75]

Here's my Mopar.

Nothing fancy, but it gets me and my drums (and my golf clubs) where we need to go.

I apologize for the crappy picture quality. My sister stole the good camera and left the crappy one for the rest of us.

[moparman44]

to Delta: The headers were wrapped because of brake fluid being boiled, and he couldn't touch the steering column because it was so hot. It also quiet downed the engine compartment to the point that you could hear the exghaust.
Ceramic Coating's good for looks and durability, but the wrapping is good for heat and sound suppression. You may wanna figure out what you want for your Mustang.
We used tiny air filters because we're poor, and we bought the Velocity Stack for 50, and couldn't afford the $100 air filters

To Nightmare: Hehe.. What year is it? We know a guy that took a 93 Dakota, Changed the Entire bed, changed the wheel wells, etc and if I can get a picture of it I'll post it. He did a great job on the fabrication, it just needs painted now.





By the way, the Demon pics are a FEW years (around 6) old, as I said it has a frame, tubbed, no motor atm, 12 point rollcage, and is going to have a 318 thrown in it (we are hoping to use a build by Mopar Muscle Magazine that got 400 horse, bolt on) and bracket race it.

[nightmare75]

It's a '95 w/ the 3.9L V6 Magnum, manual transmission.

[DeltaMustang65]

moparman44 said:

to Delta: The headers were wrapped because of brake fluid being boiled, and he couldn't touch the steering column because it was so hot. It also quiet downed the engine compartment to the point that you could hear the exghaust.
Ceramic Coating's good for looks and durability, but the wrapping is good for heat and sound suppression. You may wanna figure out what you want for your Mustang.
We used tiny air filters because we're poor, and we bought the Velocity Stack for 50, and couldn't afford the $100 air filters

I'm positive ceramic coating provides better heat insulation than wrap, especially when coated on the inside and out. I'm actually waiting for an estimate from Jet-Hot right now.

I'm not concerned with sound suppression. When done, the majority of the time this car sees action...I'll have a helmet on. ;D Most of the sound coming from the engine bay at this time is the goddamned fan (non-clutch, regular-ass fans FTL!).

I've never heard of brake fluid being boiled before, nor steering columns being hot. So the wrap actually fixed that? How were you running the car when that happened?

The price of air cleaners and filters is obscenely high. I don't see how they get away with it. It's probably due to abnormally high demand from dumbass ricers or other trash who haphazzardly toss those things on anything they drive thinking that's all they need to race.

[moparman44]

Yes, it may, but I build Mopar for a lot of reasons, but the main reason is the fact that they are cheaper to build than any other car. The reason he wrapped it is because it is a whole lot cheaper. They last longer when coated, but like I said it is a WHOLE lot cheaper, and works great.

Every few miles, the headers caused the brake fluid to boil, and he'd have to scrape it to clean the mastercylander, and cause the steering column to get so hot he couldn't touch. Yes, the wrap fixed it completely.

By the way, what are you hoping to run in the eigth/quarter?

Also, my dad run 12.40's (quarter) at 106 miles per hour with a Feather Duster (76). It was a rebuilt 440, and the only modification was a Hemi grind cam (smallest cam by Purple). The car would take off like a rocket and just before he was 2/3's of the way there it would max out at 106 because he was running 4.88 gears, with Groundhog 29inch truck tires that were so hard they would dig pavement. I could imagine what it could do with 4.56 gears, or even slicks. It most likely ran a 5 in the eighth.

In the Mopar Performance Chassis book, they went through and put the 360 (mopar) 383 (mopar) and 350 (chevy) against each other for roundy round performance for the dollar. They talked to a lot of chevy drivers and added up the price, which came out 2000 dollars cheaper than a 383, and the 383 put more hp out. The Chevy also had to get rebuilt many times a season, while the 383 would last a couple seasons.

[DeltaMustang65]

moparman44 said:

By the way, what are you hoping to run in the eigth/quarter?

I don't really know. I'm building this car for the track, rather than the strip. I guess I may have the many years of GT to thank for that... ;D

Basically, for my little project, I chose to challenge myself to see how well I can get this car to perform on the track while keeping it period-correct and looking stock to the untrained eye. A competent-handling, all-around sleeper, I suppose you could say.

[moparman44]

OOh, ok. That is what I was thinking about doing later with an a-body.

If I were you, I would put in a rollbar, just for the fact that if you DID flip, you would have a better chance.

That is up to you though, of course.

[DeltaMustang65]

If I do that, I'll just go with the whole cage. No point fooling around. Honestly, with all the crap flying around on the street these days with bars (and cages, to a lesser extent) I doubt anyone would think much of it.

[Lupin_IV]

If you want to race, you're best off going with a full cage, so that you know it will be able to compete.

[moparman44]

hehe that is actually what I meant. we have a 12 point in the demon.

[DeltaMustang65]

Jet-Hot says gave me an estimate of $275 out the door, shipping and all, for my Hooker Comps. Not that I'm having it done soon, I was just curious. I'm plenty occupied with the "foundation" for the car for now.

Also, I re-learned something about the wrap. Much like an exterior-only coating, heat is trapped on the inside WITH the metal, speeding up the destruction of the headers. That's why the stuff voids header warranties. You guys probably know this, I just think it's cool when I learn, forget, and learn again something gheys like DRZ will never understand.