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Mopars Of The Month -
December, 2004 |
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1973 Dodge Charger
Rallye By Grant Aston |
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| My Prozac Mopar. Working on
this car kept my sanity through a nasty divorce and has helped with me
with a midlife crisis. When I purchased it two years ago from an ex
neighbor it had been sitting outside under a tattered tarp for many
years. The hypo 340 had been blown up. It had been replaced with a 440
and 727 tranny from a 1977 police interceptor. There were rust bumps all
over under the vinyl top but it was in a drivable condition. |
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| I pulled the engine and
found a worn out timing chain, valve guides, water pump, engine
bearings, cam, etc... The cylinders however were in really good shape. I
did the engine rebuild in my garage. Adding a steel crank, Keith Black
hyperutectic 11:1 compression pistons, Total seal moly coated rings,
Comp cams High energy cam kit for a decent lope. I sold the old heads
and bought a freshly rebuilt pair off Ebay and then ported them per the
mopar performance porting templates, back cut the valves, installed the
stiffer valve springs that came with the cam kit!, Added Proform roller
rockers with shafts and installed Crane cams chrome molly push rods. I
modified the cam to provide more oil to the rocker shaft, and added a
High volume oil pump. A Holley 850 double pumper on an Edelbrock torker
II intake feeds the beast with an average of 13 mpg. I rebuilt the
tranny (my first one) and added a 2800 rpm stall converter. |
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This combination is very
drivable and I can still run my A/C and power brakes. It desperately
needs a sure grip and wider rear tires. I did all the body work myself.
I painted it in my garage and color sanded the E5 base/clear
polyurethane paint, This is the third car I have painted, and installed
the new Vinyl top. The car used to be black with a graduated red orange
rallye stripe down the sides. I think the red is much better looking.
The pics of it are at the local car show. It was the first time I had
ever entered a show and it was the only example of a third generation
Charger there out of over 800 cars. There were a lot of "cookie cutter"
cars there (Mustang's, Camaro's, Chevelle's,
etc...) but mine seemed to get more attention. The judges said that when
I get the interior finnished it might just win an award.
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Grant Aston - Brigham, Utah |
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P.S. This is my first mopar and it will
NOT be my last. Your web site helped a lot with this project, Thanks. |
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Picture's Of Grant's Cool Charger Rallye! |
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