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What did you do with your ebody/Mopar today?

Started by Brads70, March 21, 2017, 03:19:50 PM

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Cudajason

Well. I pulled old girl out this weekend and took Michael to Baseball on Sat and then we went golfing this morning.  The old girl is filthy, I really need to wash it, but man was it nice to drive it.  The new steering box was great and the fix on the brakes was amazing.

Most importantly, if any of you remember my adventure with overheating the last few years, the car ran at 180 the whole time...pretty warm both days to, so that was a relief.  All in all we are good to go for the summer.  Good think too, Michael's grade 12, graduation is this friday and he requested that we take the cuda.  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D 
1974 Cuda. 360 / A500 OD.  Yes its pink, no its not my wife's car!  Yes I drive it.


jimynick

Man, how the time flies by! Glad to hear the situation of your car is improving Jason and good to hear young MichaĆ«l is graduating as well. He'll be styling for sure with your car. Congratulations Mike!  :bigthumb:
In the immortal words of Jimmy Scott- "pace yourself!"

YellowThumper

Dropped a few pulls during an early morning Cars and Coffee show.
Keeping it tame at only 5lbs of boost with an extremely conservative timing set. Also only up to 4500 rpm.
Nice that I can program out to prevent my own stupidity.
Must survive until August........

Life is to be viewed thru the windshield. Not rear view mirror.
You are the only one in charge of your destiny.

Mike.


ec_co

....more....
The only thing flat earthers fear, is sphere itself.

'70 Barracuda B5/B5 225 /6 3spd ... about as bare bones as they came .... now in 4spd flavor

www.eyecandi3d.com for Reproduction Fender Tags

cuda hunter

That looks awesome!  Will make a huge difference in the tin can feeling of the cuda. 
"All riches begin as a state of mind and you have complete control of your mind"  -- B. Lee

ec_co

Quote from: cuda hunter on June 10, 2025, 05:55:14 PMThat looks awesome!  Will make a huge difference in the tin can feeling of the cuda. 

I'm still not even done, LOL. First layer is a butyl layer, second is a hybrid with closed cell foam, third layer is a sound engineer material. *Lots* of time trimming, fitting and rolling it all. By the time I'm done I think I'll probably have 20 or 30 hours just installing sound deadening. I actually plan on driving the crap out of this car, so I want the extra sound deadening/protection. I pray for anybody that has to go in after this and do any repair work, hopefully that's a never.
The only thing flat earthers fear, is sphere itself.

'70 Barracuda B5/B5 225 /6 3spd ... about as bare bones as they came .... now in 4spd flavor

www.eyecandi3d.com for Reproduction Fender Tags

cuda hunter

Are you undercoating the bottom of the car?  To protect the metal from the bottom and avoid further issues in the future?
  That will be a bear to get through all that stuff for sure! 

Looks awesome! 
"All riches begin as a state of mind and you have complete control of your mind"  -- B. Lee


ec_co

It still has most of its original factory undercoating and any pieces that came off I recoated. The floor pan was near perfect with just minor surface rust and zero pin holes at all, the factory undercoating actually held up quite well over the decades.
The only thing flat earthers fear, is sphere itself.

'70 Barracuda B5/B5 225 /6 3spd ... about as bare bones as they came .... now in 4spd flavor

www.eyecandi3d.com for Reproduction Fender Tags

HP2

Don't forget to slap a piece or two in the doors. Makes a big difference in how they sound when closing them.

YellowThumper

Quote from: ec_co on June 10, 2025, 11:51:27 AM....more....

About to start tackling more of that on mine this weekend.
Places of note to include with that is package tray holes and also the inner B pillar holes. That helps prevent the trunk noise from infiltrating cabin.
Life is to be viewed thru the windshield. Not rear view mirror.
You are the only one in charge of your destiny.

Mike.

YellowThumper

Drive to work and a local show on way home.
More debugging.
All told will be about 60 miles.
Key is to finding out is now the drive in stop and go traffic with also warmer temps.
Definitely will need to up the cooling game. Probably start with an oil cooler.
Life is to be viewed thru the windshield. Not rear view mirror.
You are the only one in charge of your destiny.

Mike.


Cudajason

Well a few weeks ago my son asked if we could take the Cuda to his High School graduation. Of course we could!!!!

1974 Cuda. 360 / A500 OD.  Yes its pink, no its not my wife's car!  Yes I drive it.


blown motor

Great pics Jason. That lad has grown since the last time I've seen him.
Who has more fun than people!
68 Charger R/T    74 Challenger Rallye 
12 Challenger RT Classic    15 Challenger SXT
79 Macho Power Wagon clone    17 Ram Rebel

jimynick

And isn't that exactly what I'd've said?! You've got to stop feeding that lad Jas.  :bigthumb:   Is that a FC7 :bigthumb:  robe?
In the immortal words of Jimmy Scott- "pace yourself!"

chargerdon

Got it back from the body shop where a fender bender repair was completed and had the entire car repainted.  FC7 Plum Crazy.   Then started to work on her, body shop wired the LED headlights backwards...fixed that.   Checked all the fluids. 

Today ill take her to a Classic car cruise in at a local church !!