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AgDieseler
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Arts & Crafts Garage
My truck and car are the reason the garage exists.
It's a space for doing, and lately I've been spending a good bit of time on the '70 R/T. It's fairly complete - interior, trim, mouldings, lights, glass, suspension, drivetrain - really a rolling shell with no engine or transmission; perfect for my purposes.
It arrived at the shop filled with three things: lots of parts, copious amounts of rat piss and ****, and a rattlesnake that had taken up residence in the truck. No doubt it wanted to be close to a reliable meal. The snake didn't wait long to move out, and truthfully I only ever knew he was there from the shed skins in the corner of the shop and the trunk.
The interior was a biohazard, and I ordered the 3M mask and glove setup and got to cleaning the emptied car. I filled my shop vac several times and finished with a thorough rinse of the floor and inner door panels. It was funky.
Having never disassbled a Mopar, I started cataloguing and bagging and tagging the screws, clips, brackets with detailed notes as to how they went together and where. The reprint service manual was a useful guide. I should also say that every project - garage, house, car - is a chance to work with friends and family. Here's a buddy helping me take out the suspension and get it loaded up in the body cart:
Disassembly should move along nicely from this elevated height:
The objective is to build a car that will drive across the country and perform competitively against whatever monochromatic German machine it might encounter, as well as more recent iterations of American pony cars.
Initial plans are to maintain the solid rear axle and torsion bar front, making thorough upgrades to the unibody such that we create a rigid and predictable chassis that delivers power to ground and doesn't just evaporate the rear tires, which will have the largest contact patch we can reasonably fit in the wells. Big brakes, precise steering, a well sorted suspension, around 600hp, an overdrive, and a target dry weight of 3700 lbs are all part of the plan. Maybe I'm aiming high.
Performance and long range comfort are the priorities, and in that order. There is a budget, so it will be built by hand and not a checkbook, and after stripping part of the rear quarter, it looks like I'll be placing at least one order with AMD for some new sheetmetal.
Delayed updates, but the space has seen some additions in the form of a Quincy QT54 and a Hobart 210MVP; each have transformed the method and speed at which I work on projects.
Now, back to sanding.
David
My truck and car are the reason the garage exists.
It's a space for doing, and lately I've been spending a good bit of time on the '70 R/T. It's fairly complete - interior, trim, mouldings, lights, glass, suspension, drivetrain - really a rolling shell with no engine or transmission; perfect for my purposes.
It arrived at the shop filled with three things: lots of parts, copious amounts of rat piss and ****, and a rattlesnake that had taken up residence in the truck. No doubt it wanted to be close to a reliable meal. The snake didn't wait long to move out, and truthfully I only ever knew he was there from the shed skins in the corner of the shop and the trunk.
The interior was a biohazard, and I ordered the 3M mask and glove setup and got to cleaning the emptied car. I filled my shop vac several times and finished with a thorough rinse of the floor and inner door panels. It was funky.
Having never disassbled a Mopar, I started cataloguing and bagging and tagging the screws, clips, brackets with detailed notes as to how they went together and where. The reprint service manual was a useful guide. I should also say that every project - garage, house, car - is a chance to work with friends and family. Here's a buddy helping me take out the suspension and get it loaded up in the body cart:
Disassembly should move along nicely from this elevated height:
The objective is to build a car that will drive across the country and perform competitively against whatever monochromatic German machine it might encounter, as well as more recent iterations of American pony cars.
Initial plans are to maintain the solid rear axle and torsion bar front, making thorough upgrades to the unibody such that we create a rigid and predictable chassis that delivers power to ground and doesn't just evaporate the rear tires, which will have the largest contact patch we can reasonably fit in the wells. Big brakes, precise steering, a well sorted suspension, around 600hp, an overdrive, and a target dry weight of 3700 lbs are all part of the plan. Maybe I'm aiming high.
Performance and long range comfort are the priorities, and in that order. There is a budget, so it will be built by hand and not a checkbook, and after stripping part of the rear quarter, it looks like I'll be placing at least one order with AMD for some new sheetmetal.
Delayed updates, but the space has seen some additions in the form of a Quincy QT54 and a Hobart 210MVP; each have transformed the method and speed at which I work on projects.
Now, back to sanding.
David
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