Took the Charger out today...

[1BAD68]

I finally was able to get the car out since the rebuild.
48 degree's here so I took off early for lunch and fired it up.
All I can say is DAMN! what a difference!
I know its no big block but it revs like a jack rabbit on crack (that doesn't really make any sense) and it has a ton of torque now.
I still need to fine tune everything but so far this was the best 2grand I ever spent.
Thanks to everyone on the board who gave me advice and especially 'firefighter" for answering all my stupid questions.


Here's a short video, this is just going fairly easy on the pedal only 3200 rpm's...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6woZpJKuIEw&feature=user

one more, this one I only hit 3800 rpms, still breaking it in...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eme4o53k_rU

[69Charger_440]

Just out of curiosity, what exactly did you do?  No pics?

[1BAD68]

oh yeah I forgot to say, I stroked the 318 to a 390 and added a TF2 shift kit to the 904.

[Brock Samson]

  will it do the quarter in 11?.. 

[TruckDriver]

Cool! The spring fever is hitting everyone. Even the guy up the street from has his '71 Mustang out today.

[1BAD68]

will it do the quarter in 11?.. 

I have no clue nor do I care, right now I'm just happy that it runs good and fries tires 

now its on to the disc brake conversion and finish the interior.

[CB]

you must be very happy 
Sky sure  looks blue
Congrats CB

[charge-it]

What gear ratio is in the rear?

[440charger68]

How much money did you put into the 318? I also have 318 68 charger, and i would like it to have the power of a 383. What kind of work have you done? And by the way, your charger looks kick a$$.

[1BAD68]

It has 3:55 rear gears.
I have just under $2000 into it, that includes machining, new pistons, rods, crank, bearings, rings, gaskets. I did all the assembly so there was no cost for that.
I still could go further with new heads (I'm using stock heavily ported heads) bigger carb and torque convertor but I'm on a budget.

[terrible one]

Aghhh! I want to take mine out! 

[Death1970Proof]

I finally was able to get the car out since the rebuild.
48 degree's here so I took off early for lunch and fired it up.
All I can say is DAMN! what a difference!
I know its no big block but it revs like a jack rabbit on crack (that doesn't really make any sense) and it has a ton of torque now.
I still need to fine tune everything but so far this was the best 2grand I ever spent.
Thanks to everyone on the board who gave me advice and especially 'firefighter" for answering all my stupid questions.


Here's a short video, this is just going fairly easy on the pedal only 3200 rpm's...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6woZpJKuIEw&feature=user

one more, this one I only hit 3800 rpms, still breaking it in...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eme4o53k_rU

Who cares if it's not a big block! It looks sweet and hauls @ss! With todays hop up parts you can make these small block mopars walk the dog! My 367 small block will hopefully be every bit as sick as your 390. I love small block mopars. I know what to do to them 
Your motor looks almost identical to mine! How big of a cam you got?

[firefighter3931]

one more, this one I only hit 3800 rpms, still breaking it in...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eme4o53k_rU

1Bad, you hot dog....you do know that burning rubber is illegal   

Looks and sounds great....nice job ! 



Ron