85shelby

[85shelby]

     Looking for any info on my 85'shelby charger. First off ,fuel cap.
    Next is what T-body to use to up hp. And last does any parts from an 87 Daytona fit my 85 shelby.

[WM23N1]

I love shelby chargers. But unfortunatly they are not very popular on this site. Try this one as its more geared to turbo cars. http://www.turbododge.com/forums/index.php

[Khyron]

always loved the little guys too, but I agree, this site is more geared for the 66 - 74's...


but at least yours has 2 doors

[TruckDriver]

always loved the little guys too, but I agree, this site is more geared for the 66 - 74's...


but at least yours has 2 doors

I owned 4 of them

[TylerCharger69]

Ahhhhhhh...memories......I used to have an '84 Daytona....Didn't take much time to burn up the turbo in that little 2.2...lol

[Ghoste]

I had one of the little chargerettes myself.  I did something to the head but I can't remember what now.   I recall it was supposed to be a common failure.  Broken cam follower maybe?

[Plumcrazy]

I had an 83 Shelby Charger, great handling car.

Only problem was snow.  It went from handling like a weasel in a drain pipe to handling like a tiger on vaseline. 

[Khyron]

tiger on vaseline. 

I just got the funniest mental image of that!

[dads_69]

Turbo II set up is whats recommended for the 2.2 set up. The turbo I style only put out 145 H.P. or so. I have and had a turbo II in a '86 Omni GLHS. Fast cars, ran a 12.89 @ 109 mph top speed by the last owner was 133 mph or so. Thats how I got the car, impound! I'm selling the turbo II set up also if your interested.
Mark

[Drache]

Ahhhhhhh...memories......I used to have an '84 Daytona....Didn't take much time to burn up the turbo in that little 2.2...lol

Blew my turbo in my '84 Daytona doing a little racing and getting busted for it.... 

[nh_mopar_fan]

Those cars were really squirrely when that turbo kicked in.

[Ghoste]

Especially when you were shifting.  Man, those little buggers had some awful torque steer issues didn't they?

[TylerCharger69]

I agree....those front-wheel drive versions were not all that!!!

[nh_mopar_fan]

The other thing I remember was the turbo whine when you got into it. Man, was it loud. I always had passengers looking behind us to see if there was a cop coming. They thought it was a siren.

[69_500]

I had a Shelby charger GLHS and loved that car. Then again I prefered the later IROC R/T Daytona I had over that.

best sleeper car from that era though is the Spirit R/T's. Had 2 of  those.