Bird conversion

[DonC1]

 

[Hemi Runner]

Don,
   What does that steel wing weigh?

[moparstuart]

Don i know larry roper and I both need a set of those scoops

[Charger-Bodie]

Why are people wanting to go away from glass on these? What's the draw to having them steel?

[nascarxx29]

Steel scoops wont warp or crack.And you can lean on them

[Hemi Runner]

Why are people wanting to go away from glass on these? What's the draw to having them steel?

My concern is weight, the lighter the better, so whichever one weighs less is my choice!

[DonC1]

I'll weigh my next completed steel wing...overall not that heavy at all and no where near as heavy as a OEM wing.

I rolled out a aluminum - almost 1/8" thick ' tona fender scoop....then sanded it with 600 grit...which looked very cool too...but then polished it-

weight on this scoop is about the same as the ' glass scoop.

[Budnicks]

you do wonders with sheet-metal 

[JB400]

Looks wonderful

[DonC1]

 

[fy469rtse]

  I lve builds like this , getting inspired to build my power bulge bonnet over my victor junior intake

[hotrod98]

Don, the hood that Tom made for my Black Ice bird was built using an original 70 Roadrunner air grabber hood that he grafted the front of the bird hood onto. Remember, this was done many years ago when no one thought anything of cutting up original parts. He did an excellent job. Looks and operates like a factory part. I have a regular style Superbird hood but would never take this one off. I like it too much.

[moparstuart]

Don, the hood that Tom made for my Black Ice bird was built using an original 70 Roadrunner air grabber hood that he grafted the front of the bird hood onto. Remember, this was done many years ago when no one thought anything of cutting up original parts. He did an excellent job. Looks and operates like a factory part. I have a regular style Superbird hood but would never take this one off. I like it too much.

[DonC1]

Larry,
using the RR hood is not as 'easy ' as it looks. The RR hood at cowl is approx. 52 and 3/4" wide and stays that width all the way while the Coronet hood is 52.5" at cowl and narrows down at the front before the insert to 51 and 3/8" so if Tom did indeed use a RR hood he would have had to have taken a narrow pie slice out along each edge of the RR hood to match the coronet/sbird fenders along with matching the hood drop insert edges etc....would be easier to convert a coronet hood but I don't have one...so the RR hood it is. Where is Tom these days?

[moparstuart]

Larry,
using the RR hood is not as 'easy ' as it looks. The RR hood at cowl is approx. 52 and 3/4" wide and stays that width all the way while the Coronet hood is 52.5" at cowl and narrows down at the front before the insert to 51 and 3/8" so if Tom did indeed use a RR hood he would have had to have taken a narrow pie slice out along each edge of the RR hood to match the coronet/sbird fenders along with matching the hood drop insert edges etc....would be easier to convert a coronet hood but I don't have one...so the RR hood it is. Where is Tom these days?

alaska   

[hotrod98]

He told me that it definitely wasn't easy altering the roadrunner hood. He added inner stiffeners on both sides but I can't tell they're there. The hood is definitely heavy. He put fiberglass hood springs inside the stock springs.

[DonC1]

I never understood why Ma Mopar stamped offset speaker holes on the rear shelf- I finally got round to 'correcting' that, well at least my 6x9's will match. 

[djcarguy]

looking good super smooth an clean bottom of floor. what else an pixs an progress ya got going on with this build?? have ya finished the nose cone?    just waiting too see more,thanks for sharing.latter   

[remta1]

I never understood why Ma Mopar stamped offset speaker holes on the rear shelf- I finally got round to 'correcting' that, well at least my 6x9's will match.  

yeah why did they do that ? anyone know ..bet ya theres a thread about it somewhere

[hemigeno]

I never understood why Ma Mopar stamped offset speaker holes on the rear shelf- I finally got round to 'correcting' that, well at least my 6x9's will match.  

yeah why did they do that ? anyone know ..bet ya theres a thread about it somewhere

Chrysler didn't offer two speakers for the rear - just a single speaker in the package tray, even if you ordered the R22 AM with stereo tape player.  Sales Code R31 just got you one rear speaker.  If I'm not mistaken, the second hole was for intake air to feed the rear defrost (which exited out the slot in the center).

 

[DC_1]

Good stuff!

[moparstuart]

 most of my cars have always had the hack job 2nd hole cut   

[remta1]

I never understood why Ma Mopar stamped offset speaker holes on the rear shelf- I finally got round to 'correcting' that, well at least my 6x9's will match.  

yeah why did they do that ? anyone know ..bet ya theres a thread about it somewhere

Chrysler didn't offer two speakers for the rear - just a single speaker in the package tray, even if you ordered the R22 AM with stereo tape player.  Sales Code R31 just got you one rear speaker.  If I'm not mistaken, the second hole was for intake air to feed the rear defrost (which exited out the slot in the center).

 

awesome , thanks for letting us know

[DonC1]

Got the other ' tona scoop prototype almost done...still needs a little tweaking

[JB400]

Looks great.