My V 10 Charger Project

[hydroforce2]

sardillim- you said earlier it shipped to Ct.  What part?

[road/track]

Its been almost 2 1/2 years since I've given any updates,  finally the new house is done and the new shop is set up.  I was able to find a used Continental frame machine to use as a bench so the car can stay in one place now and is perfectly level.  Work to resume very soon

I'm not even want to think of how the house will look like when you spent 2,5 years of the same energy on that...

Just amazing project 

Why do I site here in front of the PC instead of doing something in the  garage 

[Musicman]

Good to hear that you are back at it again! 

[mauve66]

 

[1974dodgecharger]

Man I dig the V10 in the old chargers!!!  If one was selling one (if I had more money) I would get hit for sure damn.

[sardillim]

Got back on the car for a little while today,  first thing I did was make the final connection to the steering.  I had the wrong universal joint and one of the last thing I did was order the correct one before I had to stop working on the car and it was sitting on the shelf for the last 2 + years. 

Then I turned my attention  to the rear of the car,  the viper rear frame section is a lot narrower than the 69 charger frame rails so I want to take advantage of the extra room and move the inner wheel houses in to accommodate a larger rear tire.  This is going to be tricky with the viper's IRS, I took one of the inners and started trimming it to see how it would fit , the nice thing about using the chargers wheel house is that it will match the contours perfectly were it needs to be filled in to meet the inner.   The other option is making the inner,s from scratch.  We'll see how it goes.  The good news is that I now have a wopping 19.5" from the frame rail to the lip of the inner wheel house

[69_Charger_RT]

Nice - glad to see you working on the car.  Love watching your build 

[sardillim]

Started today by installing the r/r suspension and bringing it into a rough alignment , then bolted up a loaner wheel and found that it will not work, offset is not what i need , i guess i will stick with plan A which is converting the rear to a 5 lug pattern, that will give me a lot more wheel options.   Second was attempting to make one of the new wider inner wheel houses, tried to do this in one piece of sheet metal   ( *** FAIL***)  there is no way to get one piece of sheetmetal in this space all at once.  Will try again next weekend

[JB400]

Quite an interesting project

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Daum never realized how wide the Viper rear wheels were

[sardillim]

Made magic this weekend  I turned 1 brand new one piece inner wheel house into a two piece.  It took me a day and a half of trimming to get the inner to fit the car, I decided to use factory wheel house after a failed attempt at making them. ( I would Have had to make them in too many pieces)  So after all the time spent fitting I went to weld in and both full cans of weld through primer i have were NFG.  Really looking forward to getting this part of the build done. I think the next step will be to start making the floor and then hang the quarter panels

[sardillim]

Finally   wheel houses are done,  so far this has been the biggest challenge on the car.  Getting the replacement inner wheelhouse to fit the viper rear clip was extremely time consuming. Not a simple cut and fit, numerous small cuts until the panel fit.  Next I will be starting the rear floor under the rear seat and rebuilding the upper rear shelf panels.

[Baldwinvette77]

YES, OH GOD YES!!! more please 

[sardillim]

Got an little work done this weekend , I was able to re-attach the all the brackets that connect the upper rear body to the wheel house's.   Also converted my cheepy Woodward fab bead roller from manual to power via a $32 harbor freight power drill.  Next week I am going to start to install the rear floor section and re-build the upper rear shelf area.

[sardillim]

Worked on the rear floor under the rear seat,  I decided to buy the floor section and attempt to fit it around the new viper rear clip.   I was surprised how much of the floor pan I wound up cutting away and how Little was left of the panel when it finally made it into the car. Next I will be re building the upper rear shelf  and finish connecting the floor to the rear wheel houses

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Thanks for the update! Coming along nicely now

[fy469rtse]

great build , fantastic work, are you going to do the outer wheel house's to give those big tyres I imagine  are going on this car, the factory only pressed those out like that from the coronet outers, at least give some thought to just even streamlining them to match body contours

[sardillim]

by the way  if anybody is installing one of these floor pans I would strongly suggest that you do some additional welding to the seat belt mounts and the brackets that lock in the rear seat.  I found the welds not to be very strong.

[Stevearino]

Man, every time I get to thinking my project is pretty special I come across something like this. This is gonna be one bad ass piece when it's done. Hat's off to you goin in as deep as you are. You can tell this is not your first rodeo.

[NorwayCharger]

Like a lot 

[Musicman]

 

[sardillim]

Finally I was able to put some time in this weekend.  I was able to get some of the small tricky pieces of floor in and started on making a piece that will go between the inner wheel houses. 

[Baldwinvette77]

Oh baby 

[JB400]

There is a black 69, v10 powered in this months issue of Mopar Muscle.  Might want to take a look.

[Musicman]

Good to see your back at it!