How would one go about radiusing the front wheel wells NASCAR style?

[Brock Samson]

lowering the front of the car would be a part of that i would think, after all,.. isn't that a large part of why the wells were currved to begin with?..

[Highbanked Hauler]

right, since they have drop spindles now that would be the way to go. Before that I was going to bring the frame rails up in the nose about an inch or two which you would have to take the aprons out to do but I never got that far. You definitely want the ride height set and tires and wheels on that you are going to use before you cut the fenders. depends on how far you want to go.

[69bronzeT5]

Like Dave, I'm a huge fan of your 500......could you share some pictures of it? I never get tired of seeing it

[Brock Samson]

i have several great pics on a memory stick but when i looked for them earlier today I couldn't find them... 

anyhow, as far as doing it to my ride,.. i feel it would be a shame to carve up my good fenders and it really rides so well now I wouldn't want to screw it all up.
but I am amazed with all these clones being built no one has done it yet.
If i was getting into building a charger or a daytona now instead of a quarter century ago,.. I'd sure do it.

[Highbanked Hauler]

    Thanks,My son is supposed to set me up with an easy way to post pix. as soon as he does I will put them up.

  Someone had a 68 charger on ebay that they were modifying for a Daytona Stocker which was half done. He had cut the fire wall and had the tubing in on the nose already.

[tan top]

Like Dave, I'm a huge fan of your 500......could you share some pictures of it? I never get tired of seeing it

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[Highbanked Hauler]

 Thanks again, people either like it or hate it, there isn't any middle ground. I've gotten the (how could anyone do that to a 500) also.The thing most people don't realize is  those parts went on because of the wreck in 97. The tin that is on it was going on the stocker I was going to build.

[Patronus]

that car would need to looses 6" in ride height to get that low
no way your runnin' that on the street, not in Anytown, USA
bag it maybe

[Brock Samson]

my charger was two inches lower front and back when i was running the SB, of course the headers were pancaked the very first day, the wheels rubbed the front fenders even minus the wheel well stainless,.. and jumping a steep hill here in SF with five friends aboard I actually cracked a 904 trans in half... this all happened back in '84 the first week i got her on the road. I went thru another 904 before i adapted a 727 and raised her up an inch. 
That low it cornered like a slot car though. 

[Brock Samson]

 found the pics I saved... of Highbanked haulers' Charger 500. 

[lisiecki1]

^ that is one SICK 500!

[SFRT]

that car rules

[200MPH]

WOW thats is Cool like the color !

[Mike DC]

Yeah, the car looks great.  


As for the NASCAR ride height, that's not truly gonna happen on an intact production unibody.  The racecars had the entire undercarriage sunk farther upwards into the sides of the body.  

Highbanked Hauler's C500 is about as close as you can practically get without hacking the unibody to shreds. 
   

   

[Ryan]

Yeah, the car looks great.  


As for the NASCAR ride height, that's not truly gonna happen on an intact production unibody.  The racecars had the entire undercarriage sunk farther upwards into the sides of the body.  

Highbanked Hauler's C500 is about as close as you can practically get without hacking the unibody to shreds. 
   

   

You maybe able to get close if you were to get the engine and tranny up higher, and tuck the exhaust up out of the way..... obviously it would still require a lot of floor work, but its doable. A NASCAR styled charger is on my list of project cars...... Hmmm.... maybe that 68 r/t on the side of my house could be a good candidate.

[Mike DC]

   
If you're gonna cut up the flooring & raise the motor . . . I would just go all the way and do it like the old NASCAR teams did. 

   
 


 

[Highbanked Hauler]

Yeah, the car looks great.  


As for the NASCAR ride height, that's not truly gonna happen on an intact production unibody.  The racecars had the entire undercarriage sunk farther upwards into the sides of the body.  

Highbanked Hauler's C500 is about as close as you can practically get without hacking the unibody to shreds. 
   

    I think what they did was after the firewall and cowl are cut out was to bring the front frame rails up into the nose a couple of inches and that will drop a car at the cowl about the same amount as it uses the wheel for a pivot point. That way the motor stays at the same hight and the body drops over it with the least amount of work. I can't prove it but I think that is what they did.

  Brock thanks for posting the pictures of  the 500 Some day I'll learn how to do it.