1970 Challenger Resto Project

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Offline 71340RT

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Re: Special Delivery.....
« Reply #15 on: April 05, 2010 - 12:21:41 AM »
Lots of work ahead of you. I'll be watching to check out progress and how everything fits.


70 Plymouth Cuda 340 4-speed
71 Dodge Challenger RT 340 automatic
1973 Dodge Challenger 360 automatic EFI
2002 Harley Davidson Dyna Wide Glide
2003 Dodge Stratus RT coupe
2009 Challenger RT Classic B5 Blue
2014 Ram Express 5.7 Hemi 4X4




Offline lilian

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Re: Special Delivery.....
« Reply #16 on: April 05, 2010 - 03:41:42 AM »
You US guys are lucky, one phone call and everything's home 2 days later,

good luck with your project, that will be one nice chally.
BS23N0B

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Re: Special Delivery.....
« Reply #17 on: April 05, 2010 - 07:23:50 AM »
Outstanding.  I sure wish the Easter Bunny would have brought me sheet metal for Easter.  Have fun putting everything back together. 

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1970 Challenger Back from the dead.....
« Reply #18 on: April 20, 2010 - 01:15:35 PM »
Spent some time readying the firewall over the weekend... no working on the Challenger for the next few weeks...on my way to Talladega then home for knee surgery...
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Re: Special Delivery.....
« Reply #19 on: April 21, 2010 - 07:14:12 PM »
 :thumbsup: Great job! Thanks for the pics... I am right behind you on the floor and firewall stuff.  :popcorn:
Mike    Yakima, Washington

Resto Thread:  http://www.cuda-challenger.com/cc/index.php?topic=66668.0

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Re: 1970 Challenger Resto Project
« Reply #20 on: May 08, 2010 - 01:11:42 AM »
Got the Firewall fitted without to much hassle, then set the inner fenders and radiator support in place to see how everything would mesh together, looks nice! Had do do some slight modifications to the floor pan to get it to reach the rockers...weird! The seat holes lined up perfectly on the mounts but the lip came up about a half inch short from the rockers themselves...nothing a little hammer work couldn't fix though.... She's welded in now!!! I should ask, what's the secret to plug welding??? :dunno: I got it to work okay, but were the welds really ugly at first (and yes, I did practice before hand...)

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Re: 1970 Challenger Resto Project
« Reply #21 on: May 08, 2010 - 10:31:34 AM »
Plug welding;  I have a video of a goodmark guy demonstrating this. He starts at the outside lip of the hole, goes all the way around the outside edge, then stops in the middle to finish the center.  One quick circular motion.

If you have the right heat and speed setting, the weld is almost flush.   I also sometimes use a tool from Harbor Freight that looks like a type of vice grips that put a copper back plate under the piece being welded to. Then the welder can be truned way up and you get your 100% fusion without any burn through. 

Make sure top an bottom pieces are always touching frimly or the top metal burns away.
Rob

3 E-bodies, Megasquirt-1v3.0, Edelbrock Pro-Flo-1, Holley C950, FAST EZ-EFI; say no to carbs...yes to throttle bodies

My Pace Car restoration thread:
http://www.cuda-challenger.com/cc/index.php?topic=44869.0


Offline cwestra

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Re: 1970 Challenger Resto Project
« Reply #22 on: May 08, 2010 - 05:02:01 PM »
Floor looks like it fits well.
Corey - in Northern Indiana

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Re: 1970 Challenger Resto Project
« Reply #23 on: February 28, 2012 - 10:18:47 AM »
After 2 knee surgery's in 2011 I took some time off on the car. Now that I'm finally starting to feel better, and my brother in law is back from the Army to help me out, we're off and running. Check it out.... Front end completely welded in and POR 15'd. Just started carefully cutting out the rest of the trunk pan and lower rear quarters this past weekend.

Enjoy,
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Re: 1970 Challenger Resto Project
« Reply #24 on: February 28, 2012 - 10:23:50 AM »
Trunk pan area.... Who knew how good a kid can fit in the trunk..?!

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Re: 1970 Challenger Resto Project
« Reply #25 on: February 28, 2012 - 10:27:16 AM »
Rear quarter slicing.... Taking a little off at a time just to see what's left underneath. Not as bad as I had initially thought!

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Re: 1970 Challenger Resto Project
« Reply #26 on: February 28, 2012 - 05:30:40 PM »
Welcome back to the resto
Hope your knee is doing well.
Looking at you pics, and comparing them from the first posts, you’re making very good progress.
It’s nice to see all that new metal.  :cheers: 

Offline 71340RT

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Re: 1970 Challenger Resto Project
« Reply #27 on: March 01, 2012 - 01:58:35 AM »
Glad your back and hope your knees are feeling ok. We all look forward to seeing the Challenger come together. Good luck with the project.


70 Plymouth Cuda 340 4-speed
71 Dodge Challenger RT 340 automatic
1973 Dodge Challenger 360 automatic EFI
2002 Harley Davidson Dyna Wide Glide
2003 Dodge Stratus RT coupe
2009 Challenger RT Classic B5 Blue
2014 Ram Express 5.7 Hemi 4X4

Offline joelson6

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Re: 1970 Challenger Resto Project
« Reply #28 on: March 01, 2012 - 09:26:43 AM »
jeese louise


you got one hell of a project on your hands. everything you've done so far looks great  :2thumbs:

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Re: 1970 Challenger Resto Project
« Reply #29 on: March 27, 2012 - 05:37:54 PM »
The Autotwirler Mopar Body cart came through! My baby went outside to play today for the first time in 3 years today!!!