Availability of repo cast alum daytona wing

[nascarxx29]

Had a guy from a car show this weekend wanting to find a vendor that offeres a repo cast wing daytona wing for his 69 charger.For under $1500.00.I recall Dane on the board was making wings .Anybody still repoing a cast wing

[THE CHARGER PUNK]

hmmm steel, i doubt it dayclona has one but for $2995, another place makes them as well all steel dont know price or name of site-MATT

[BigBlockSam]

na, i'll keep it.

[dads_69]

I recall Dane selling them for $650.00 or $850.00 last I heard from him. They are not ready to bolt on, but with some work, as normal, you'd be good to go. Though they do weigh 85 lbs. I'd call that extra traction off the line!
Mark

[hotrod98]

After installing Howie's glass wing, I'm not as critical of them as I once was. They have aluminum inserts in the verticals and the horizontal blade. They're a lot stronger than you would ever expect and fairly light as well. We plan to start making them very soon. In fact the glass guy is coming over saturday to do the final alterations of Howie's glass nose to get it ready to make the new molds. I may sell my aluminum wing later if these wings come out the way that I expect them to.
Dane has the aluminum wings cast at a foundry near him. If he gets enough requests, he may have another batch made.
Also, you might mention to the guy that I still have a couple of sets of the wing braces left. Forum members get them for $80 including shipping in the 48 states.

[TomP]

  Will your fiberglass wings be strong enough to sit on?  I weigh 250, so it'd have to be strong.

[daytonalo]

I can have the wings [ uprights ] cast as orig , hollow , for around 2500 . that price would also include center section . I like dane , but his wing weighed as much as a battleship !

[hotrod98]

Will your fiberglass wings be strong enough to sit on? I weigh 250, so it'd have to be strong.

The aluminum piece that runs through the horizontal blade bolts directly to an aluminum piece in the verticals, so we'll see just how strong they are eventually, but I think a child could walk around on it and it wouldn't even flex. How strong does it need to be to run 100 mph or less?

[Arigmaster]

I still need a new center blade for my wing... as long as it's close to original dims...  I cam modify the rest to match it up.

[BigBlockSam]

I still need a new center blade for my wing

what happened to yours

[hotrod98]

If you don't find one before we start building them, we'll make you a horizontal blade from f/g.

Rene, I just e-mailed you 19 pics of your daytona trunk lid taken as it was being modified. Finished the conversion this afternoon. Looks good.

[hotrod98]

Oh yeah, I started spot welding the closeout panels at the rear edge to increase the strength and reduce rattling. It will require a little more prep work on top, but well worth it. Notice the spot welds (7) along the rear edge. Gean Gregory told me that he does his this way. The originals were a little loose sometimes since they were only welded across the front edge.

[wetfeetmi]

 Why in the ever lovin' world would you want to stand on it even if you could?

[daytonalo]

I agree ,I guess these jackasses  are trying to prove that they are not as fat as their wives say they are !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It should be no wonder that this type of individual doesn't get laid anylonger !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[69_500]

Was Gene Gregory the one selling the nose cones at the Monster Mopar?

[hotrod98]

That was him. He lowered the price from 10k to 7500. They turned out nice, but will still need a lot of work where the upper and lower sections are spot welded together.

[BigBlockSam]

Holy shit Batman! that looks great. that looks rite on from here my friend. nice, I'm getting that serous daytona feeling. in the last couple of yrs I've been looking at original daytona's and there contruction leaves alot to be desired. i think if we do these cars right they will be faithful reproductions .  better done. here's the trunk from an original daytona. Rene

[daytonalo]

On my car , I opted to not have that channel that  looked like blind chimps welded it on . Instead the hinge and channel are stock appearing and I used a threaded backing plate , my way gives you infinite adjusting and avoids that lumpy ,shit welding job !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hotrod98]

Larry,
On the trunk lids that I'm converting, I'm trying to make them look as original as possible since they're usually open at car shows. I'm welding them in at the same place as the originals with each of the welds being approximately the same length as the originals. Did pretty much the same thing with the wing braces.

[daytonalo]

Mine look origanal , I just made them work better than the originals , minus the sloppy welds , it uses bolts not studs like Ive seen on a few clones !

[hotrod98]

The originals that I've seen have bolts and the hinges were slotted. I still haven't had a chance to use that tubing bender that I bought. I took it to the dealership last week and that's as far as I've gotten.

[TomP]

Why in the ever lovin' world would you want to stand on it even if you could?

  It's something wing car owners do to show that it isn't a cheap fiberglass wing on their car.

  There's a picture of about 6 or 8 daytonas and 'birds somewhere with all the owners sitting on their wings.   Very cool picture.

[daytonalo]

Those jackasses did that when the cars were worth shit , let see them do that to a car that is worth 200k . If they still do that they need a lobotomy !

[hemigeno]

Those jackasses did that when the cars were worth shit , let see them do that to a car that is worth 200k . If they still do that they need a lobotomy !

I'll do that now, AND after my car gets restored.  You can take my picture too, Larry.  It's a car, and the factory wings were engineered to take in excess of 600# of negative lift (downforce), since that's what the inverted Clark airfoil generated at 200mph.

[Aero426]

Those jackasses did that when the cars were worth shit , let see them do that to a car that is worth 200k . If they still do that they need a lobotomy !

One of "those guys" is my dad.    If you ever met him, that isn't a name you'd use to describe him.