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Offline pdsbartech

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Heavily modified 70 Barracuda-6speed/Gen 3 Hemi
« Reply #45 on: February 04, 2016 - 06:43:54 PM »
If you're already at a solid state level, it's going to beat you to death. I can at least raise and lower mine 5 inches. The picture posted is with it fully raised up




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Re: Heavily modified 70 Barracuda-6speed/Gen 3 Hemi
« Reply #46 on: February 11, 2016 - 11:12:18 AM »
RMS used to offer front airbags but the arm (leverage) was so short and a smaller airbag had to be used. Between the short arm and small bag, required bag pressure was so high (around 100 psi if I remember correctly) that the ride was very rough. RMS abandoned the front airbags...
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Re: Heavily modified 70 Barracuda-6speed/Gen 3 Hemi
« Reply #47 on: February 11, 2016 - 11:19:31 AM »
Nice workmanship!  :2thumbs:  Curious as to what your doing for UCA's and mounts...

Thanks! Upper control arms/mounts are included with the RMS front suspension setup I bought.
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Re: Heavily modified 70 Barracuda-6speed/Gen 3 Hemi
« Reply #48 on: February 11, 2016 - 11:20:20 AM »
I was excited to see the front frame rails in the car!








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Re: Heavily modified 70 Barracuda-6speed/Gen 3 Hemi
« Reply #49 on: February 11, 2016 - 11:51:23 AM »
Crazy mad fabrication skills! Where do you guys learn how to do this kind of work? Amazing stuff!  :cheers:
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Re: Heavily modified 70 Barracuda-6speed/Gen 3 Hemi
« Reply #50 on: February 11, 2016 - 01:47:30 PM »
I don't know where Matt learned to do that. He's just good with metal.
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Re: Heavily modified 70 Barracuda-6speed/Gen 3 Hemi
« Reply #51 on: April 29, 2016 - 10:03:39 PM »
The roof skin is now off. For the most part I was happy with the condition of the structure









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Re: Heavily modified 70 Barracuda-6speed/Gen 3 Hemi
« Reply #52 on: April 29, 2016 - 10:08:40 PM »
This was an area that surprised me: the top corner of the cowl on the driver's side was pretty nasty...I'll be ordering that from 521 Restorations in the near future



The AMD roof skin is just resting in place but seems to fit well.

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Re: Heavily modified 70 Barracuda-6speed/Gen 3 Hemi
« Reply #53 on: April 30, 2016 - 07:17:41 AM »
Looking Great!!
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Re: Heavily modified 70 Barracuda-6speed/Gen 3 Hemi
« Reply #55 on: April 30, 2016 - 01:31:09 PM »
:iagree:

Thanks guys. I appreciate the encouragement!
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Re: Heavily modified 70 Barracuda-6speed/Gen 3 Hemi
« Reply #56 on: May 01, 2016 - 11:58:29 AM »
This will be a really nice car when you are finished.
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05 Hemi Durango, 01 Ram 4x4, 14 Ram 2500 4X4, 10 PCP Challenger 6 spd RT, 01 Viper GTS ACR, 52 B3B w/330 Desoto Hemi, 70 Hemi RR (under const)
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Re: Heavily modified 70 Barracuda-6speed/Gen 3 Hemi
« Reply #57 on: May 02, 2016 - 08:36:19 AM »
You sure have my respect. My car was a piece of cake compared to the work you're doing!!
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