Thread: Two years and the bodies finally back on...

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Originally Posted by NTFDAY

And another old Mopar rises from the dead. Absolutely outstanding.

Thank you, my dad was a Mopar man, my sister and her husband are, it's in the blood. Although I do have a Vette and Mustang, they all seem to get along in the garage! I'm going for the running boards,plumb the air ride in to the body and get the nose assembled with radiator components this weekend.
I'll get fenders in two-three weeks, I see some people use the rubber strip and others don't. Any thoughts on the various products available?

And thank you for the help on a complete wire set up, ordered a Haywire 21 circuit..

Nice work and I am glad to see another mopar on the road again. Is that an early pick-up dash? Very cool.

Thats great! Nice to hear and see its coming together for you. Keep the pictures coming.

She`s looking great!! Cant wait too see her done. keep us updated.

Great eye, yes it's a 64 p/u dash in upside down to fit,the bottom part also. I played hell finding guages to fit the front plate hole size. They just don't make mini's anymore. Rebuilt the speedo, used a 67 Charger ignition and light switch. The dash is a little busy with the air ride switches,guage and vents, but I like it and it's user friendly..Stereo goes in a overhead console..

Got the body bolts in and nose on this weekend,all clear, BUT, problem, the front nose sits at 6" off the ground with the air ride down, can't put on 3" drop spindles, the oil and tranny are 3" from the ground now. I need the nose at 6" for drive height. So I stopped forward progress and contemplating my next move. Any ideas?

Doesn't sound like you can go any lower unless you do some serious rearranging on the components....Like raising the engine and tranny up in the chassis to get the clearance on them when the bags are aired up at ride height....

Update: I called the guys at ECI Components, I bought my disc coversion set up from them, man were they helpfull. Mark mocked up a set of Fat man drop spindles on their set-up for me just to make sure everything would work or if I needed a caliper spacer. then I called Fat man for the spindles, they made a set just for the ECI brackets and there ya go. Two differant companies working togather and both were as cool as could be. Now I'm going to make a oil pan deflector shield to bolt in front. Aired out the oil pan will be 1" from hitting, aired up it will be about 4" and from looking at few other rods, thats about an inch higher than theirs. My nose will sit aired out at about 3" and at 6" driving.....Hopefully!!!