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The Yankee Express, a Vermont Rat.
Ghostridersixseven:
From this...to this.....
;D
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One more.......
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I saw a photo spread on the RoadKill Road Runner that had the exhaust exiting out of the back up light holes. Trick. and I had to have it on the Express.
I shopped around for a 70 RR rear bumper and learned that my pal Gary had one he would sell. I picked it up and brought it home to mock up on the rear of the car.
It was too short. So, to figure out how long it had to be I sliced it in half and mocked up the left half in the location that made the outer edge profile match the upsweep of the edge of the tail extension above it. I wanted a smooth curve top to bottom. I learned that the center needed 4 5/8" added in. An issue cropped up with the bumper mounts too. The 70 Runner mounts ere fine but about 1 1/4" short of connecting with the rear of the car with the bumper in the location it needed to be. So, spacers? Where to put them? Between the mount base and the car, or between the bumper face and the mount ears?
Plus, to get the bumper to sit where I wanted the spacing was different on the top bolts and the bottom. Also the rear valance had to be holed for the exhaust to poke through.
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Ghostridersixseven:
Power corrupts.....absolutely......
;D So, time to talk about brute force. The Chrysler 440 V8 is perhaps the most brutal big block for shear torque that came out in 1967. The 1972 440 Magnum is a real monster. I took a 72 block up to RPM Racing Engines for them to give it some loving attention. It got cleaned, massaged, degreased, cut, scraped and bored. The forged steel crank got polished, the cam bearing fitted, the cylinders bored to 0.40 over and honed to perfection, the decks got milled and the cylinders squared up, new Speed Pro pistons/pins and moly rings, new mains and rods, polished and shot peened LY connecting rods, ARP hardware, Melling High Volume oil pump, some minor repairs to one head. The 346 cylinder heads got fully ported and polished, the valve seats unshrouded, the intake gaskets matched to the ports and excess material ground away. Assembly added a Mancini Racing billet aluminum rear main seal tower and custom bolts, plated timing chain cover over billet steel timing gears and dual chains, new pushrods, positive Teflon valve seals and new guides, valves ground, Comp 21-306-4 Cam & lifters, Comp springs 316-11 and titanium retainers with 10*locks, factory valve hardware. Mopar covers painted VHT High Temp wrinkle black. Weiand Xcelorator single plane intake powder coated in Alien Silver and Black, Holley dual feed four barrel 750 CFM carb and plated fuel rail with liquid filler pressure gauge. Mallory Unilite dizzy with electronic ignition module. Taylor Racing 8mm plug wires with 90* boots. Felpro gaskets throughout. Factory HP exhaust manifolds into TTI pipes. Water pump is a factory MH unit with the right hand drop and the sewer drain inner passage painted in VHT wrinkle Black w. new bolt kit. March polished Aluminum pulley's.
This mill should produce around 484 HP and 476 ft lbs torque. True neck snapper.
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