I found a set of brand new, virgin, never before used, still in the box, Mopar Performance W5 heads on E-bay. These are the good 1996 castings and of the two boxes, one of the boxes is not even opened yet. After some furious bidding I won the heads!
These heads are the absolute best heads [...]
Entries from July 2009
New W5 Heads
July 27th, 2009 · No Comments
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Out of Gas
July 27th, 2009 · No Comments
MIG welding gas, that is!
Keven and I worked most of the weekend on my car. We are about 70% done with making the driver’s side rear wheel well opening larger. It is turning out to be a bit more work than we initially anticipated, and much of it is because we were cutting out and [...]
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Big Box of Quarter Panels
July 24th, 2009 · No Comments
The truck arrived sometimes in the past couple of days and somehow a big box of quarter panels showed up in Keven’s shop without him knowing about it. We just walked into the shop today to chat about the car, and we were surprised to see the box there! We opened it up like giddy [...]
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Riding Low
July 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Today we lowered the car back on to the ground to see how high it sits with the new split mono leaf springs holding the car up. Not very high! Quite low, in fact. After adjusting the traction bars according to the Caltracs guide, both tires sit less than a quarter of an inch from [...]
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More Body Work
July 18th, 2009 · No Comments
Tiny, whom I still have not met yet, worked some more on my car in Keven’s shop. He polished up my front wheels and welded in a small piece of the passenger side inner quarter panel. Now it’s just sitting around until we get the new quarter panel skins. We’re hoping to get the major [...]
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Quarter Skins on the Way!
July 17th, 2009 · No Comments
We ordered new quarter skins from a company called Auto Body Specialities. We should get them pretty soon. When we get them, we are going to use the skins to basically create larger wheel openings, and at the same time, get rid of all the bondo and restore the full lip around the wheel opening [...]
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