The old saying anyone can restore but can you cut one up!

[Howie]

Here is a shot of a charger without the firewall. I bought a piece from moparstuart to fab in mine however to install the nascar airbox and all the other bells and whistles you gotta cut.

[moparstuart]

we did it also on mine but to put an a/c style firewall out of a 70 charger R/T total .  dont tell chris G

[moparstuart]

and another picture

[moparstuart]

and another

[PocketThunder]

I have one of those firewalls in my 69 SE parts car.

[daytonalo]

Howie , every race Daytona that I I've seen had a completely different firewall . That slope on the firewall  that every street car has is not present on the race car .

Larry

[BigBlockSam]

every race Daytona that I I've seen had a completely different firewall 

Sure every race team did there own fab work.

[Howie]

That is what I am planning on doing. I am wanting the nascar ram air box and to do that I need to cut it out. I have looked at a lot of pictures lately and gonna see what I can do.  Larry, I wasn`t planning on cutting and all the extras but since I want to make it similar to nascar style I am going to put the 5 on 5 wheels with the floater rearend and rivet the bumpers to the qtr panel. I don`t know about the dual shock thing but well see what I can get done.

[Aero426]

Nichels firewall off the #88

[moparstuart]

Nichels firewall off the #88

wow look at that small master cylinder ?

[Aero426]

Yes. they ran those old single master cylinders.  That is typical.

[69_500]

Ah who needs to stop when your going around a track. 

Oh waits that right, every once in a while you need to head down pit road.

[Aero426]

Here is a good shot of the side of the firewall, so you can see how much is fabbed up.   This one was modified for a 71 Charger which is the way it is setup in the photo.

[moparstuart]

Ah who needs to stop when your going around a track. 

Oh waits that right, every once in a while you need to head down pit road.

first car to break the 200 mile an hour , why stop right ?

[69_500]

Thats right can't hit 200 if your constantly riding the brake.

[Aero426]

Nichels firewall off the #88

While we are at it, people always talk about how "stock" the old cars were.   How many "stock" production pieces can you identify in the photo? 

[moparstuart]

Nichels firewall off the #88

While we are at it, people always talk about how "stock" the old cars were.   How many "stock" production pieces can you identify in the photo? 

not a whole hell of alotl

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

maybe the steering box coupler & maybe the torsion bars?

[69_500]

I think that most people (me included) refer to these cars as STOCK because of how they looks externally. IE they were close enough to the street version of cars that people could identify what was on the track with what they had in the garage or saw on the street.

[hotrod98]

If I were building a daytona stock car clone, I think I would stop at the cosmetics. I mean, where do you stop?
A true total clone could only be driven on the track, if indeed it's a total clone. Somewhere, concessions are going to be made for drivabilty.
But then again, Howie, I'll do whatever you need me to do. 

[Howie]

Hotrod, I`ll take care of all the mods. But I will turn it over to you for the paint . I wasn``t going to take it past the external mods till you gave me that phone # and now I am ready with the chop saw and dotco. At least my car isn`t going to be the ony one. There is another nascar daytona in the making.

[hotrod98]

Howie...put down the sawzall and step away from the car. 

[moparstuart]

Howie...put down the sawzall and step away from the car. 

LOL!