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Can anyone decipher this fender tag for me?

Started by rooroo, July 12, 2009, 09:43:02 PM

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Code Description
E44 318-2 Barrel
D31 Light Duty 904 Automatic Transmission TorqueFlite
XP29 X = Dodge Charger
P = Premium
29 = 2 Door Sports Hardtop
F9B F = 318 230HP 1-2BBL 8 CYL
9 = 1969
B = Dodge Main, Hamtramck, MI, USA
397269 Sequence Number '397269'
Y2 Paint Code: Sunfire Yellow
C6X Trim Grade/Style/Color
C = Charger
6 = Vinyl Bucket Seats
X = Black
X9 Upper Door Frame: Unknown At This Time
528 Date Built: 5 / 28 / 1969
153125 Order Number: 153125
A01 Roof Type OR Color:  Light Package
A41 Charger Spring Special w/ Vinyl Roof
C16 Console w/ Buckets
C55 Bucket Seats
G15 Tinted Windshield Only
G33 Left Hand Outside Mirror - Manual / Chrome
L31 Hood / Fender Mount Turn Signal
M21 Roof Drip Rail Moldings
R11 Music Master Radio AM
V1X ???
EN2 End of Codes Assembly Line 2

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Chris' '69 Charger R/T


rooroo

Thanks Folks! Anyone have an idea of what I could get a rebuilt 383 or 440 engine for and whether I could use it with the 904 tranny?

Brock Samson

 Rooroo:
 as mentioned above, now below, a 727 is the Automatic trans of choice, since the 904 was for granny cars like slant six darts and other A-bodies, and not for high performance B-Bodies which a proper Charger - especially a D.O.H. car should be. I know as I had a 904 in my Charger at first (with a built up 318) and had to fix that trans twice before i went and got a proper 727 with a shift kit after a few years... (a shift kit BTW will shift a bit stronger harder and quicker due to stronger springs and higher internal pressure).
the 727 was known in the industry as being one if not the best Auto trans in the business,.. many drag racers use the 727 Torque-Flight because they're so reliable and consistant.  :yesnod:
The cost of a rebuilt (which most will be these days anyhow) 440 or 383 will vary depending upon alot of factors... was it rebuilt in 1980 or three Mos ago?... is it to stock specifications or built to beat a stock HEMI?..
Are all the parts included and it's a complete "long block", or "short block" missing a few thousand $ in add on parts,.. And, is the motor completely documented or was is simply spray painted and sold as new?...
BTW: usually a rebuilt motor gains a few C.I, when the cylinders are bored out the larger pistons will make it grow a bit to 446 Cubic inches from the stock 440 Specifications like mine for example... my 440 SIX-PACK motor complete and installed in the car with all incidentals incl. race preped 727 Trans, MSD-6L ignition, TTI 3" exhaust, 22 " fan with shroud, Billet MSD Distributor, HEMI oil pan with windnage tray (a baffle within which prevents oil starvation under extream driving conditions) a Weiland Stealth intake manifold topped with a 770 Holly street Avenger Carb and a host of Misc. details like belts and hoses, filters, linkages and such cost me a bit over $8.K and in 1999 and alot of these parts took me the better part of ten years to collect. I thought that a fair price. it has proved totally bullitproof since completed and i don't pussy foot around either.
(BTW: I also had to upgrade my wheels and tires to wider and taller 15 inchers because the prior 14 inch tires were overwhelmed by the new Horsepower and simply spun all the time). that was another $2,300.  :shruggy:

Initally the 440 SIX-PACK short block was sold to me for too much money, waaaay too much money as I was inexperianced and mistakenly thought at the time in the mid-'90s that a 440 SIX-PACK block was conciderably different then a stock 440 Magnum engine block... it is not, they are both stamped with the HP2 code but in anycase - the seller - a retired drag racer (makeing no effort to correct my mistaken assumption) told me the motor, though missing all externals (intake and exhaust manifolds, trans,.. belts and hoses pretty much anything and everything,..) ran GREAT! and I still to this day remember his words "It's a great running engine you could just drop it in tomarrow and go". I knew better though, there is a fair bit of wink, wink, nudge, nudge. in the car hobby between buyers and sellers and i allready figgured i'd have to go through whatever i bought in those pre internet days,.. So anyways, when the motor was finally inspected at Mike Blackstone's shop - he found a spun dampner and grainulated pistons in the oil pan. the motor had obviously been severly damaged racing many years before being sold to me.  
As I later found out,.. that the external dampner and some internal bit's like the Cam, rods and of course the top end of the motor namely the 3-barrel carbs and their intake were the SIX_PACK differences not the block its'self, any 440 block can be made into a SIX-PACK motor with the addition of these specific externals and internals,.. so I didn't need to look for a "SIX-PACK" block as i had for the prior ten years.  :rotz:
I have tried to include a fair bit of detail to share with you some lessons I have learned and to prepare you for the time consuming and expensive hobby...
I don't know you other then what you have written/posted so far but i would warn you my rule of thumb is what ever time and money you suspect it will cost,.. tripple it.  :shruggy:
Hope this helps.
Dave.
aka Brock aka Stratocharger aka Harvey Birdman.  :2thumbs:

Brock Samson

 seems to me upon thinking about it, it might serve you well to simply buy a nice driver 318 '69 in need of paint only,.. and repaint it to replicate a Jenny Lee,.. In My Opinion...  :shruggy:

rooroo

I was thinking that but I would still want to drop a big block in it along with the 727 trans. A 318 on a Gen Lee replica seems too much like buying a mustang and putting shelby cobra badges on it. Just no guts to back up the promise.