Here is what $5000 buys you.

[mopar4don]

Here is how I did mine if your interested.
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http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,104414.625.html

[Kern Dog]

Thank you, Don. That is nice work.

[Kern Dog]

I have tried to post pictures of some progress but as is often the case, posting pictures here sucks ass.

[Kern Dog]

The firewall patch is in. The pictures are too big to load though.
I did finally get the gas tank after waiting almost 6 weeks.

[Kern Dog]

K member:
Funny story.....In 2010 A guy gave me a 1970 Belvedere stub and K member. I welded it, reinforced the steering box mounts and added a small skid plate. I put that in my red Charger. The original K member from the red Charger was cleaned, welded and reinforced the same way and kept as a spare. Now that K is in "Jigsaw"....So each car has the other's K member.

Check out the reinforcements I added. The steering box mount may be fine for stock cars with skinny tires. For better handling, the mounts need to be braced and reinforced to reduce flex.
The sleeve in the K for the lower control arm can rattle loose and oval out the hole they are welded in so I added thin washers to beef up the area.

[Kern Dog]

Front side of the steering box and the strut rod mounts were reinforced too.

[hemi-hampton]

now your pics are to small.

[Kern Dog]

Ha ha... All my pictures are from my phone but posted using the computer.
I sometimes load pictures directly to the computer, other times I email them to myself. AOL has recently started shrinking the pictures! I'm not very computer savvy but it started maybe 4 months or so ago. The pictures loaded directly come across as 1.0 MB or larger and are larger than this site allows. I started loading them directly to get the picture size bigger because I also post at FBBO, FABO and the 1970Charger Registry. This site I guess I'm stuck with posting the smaller sized pictures unless I can figure out how to resize using Paint or some other program.

[smithenhiven]

I too share your frustration with this site's picture posting process.  I would have started my own thread on my 70 project Charger's rebuild process, but I dont know what's more work; restoring the car, or resizing and renaming every pic to fit this site's demands.

Surely someone familiar with forum coding can figure out a way to auto-size and auto-rename pics when users post images to the site.

End of rant,... nice progress you're making there K.D.

[Kern Dog]

The A/C firewall section was cut out.

[Kern Dog]

I cut the non A/C firewall section from the Belvedere stub  that I used for the frame rails and aprons.

[Kern Dog]

The patch was welded in and sits underneath the cowl pinch weld, over the fender apron and down to where the firewall meets the front edge of the floor pan.

[Kern Dog]

Fully welded, primed and skimmed with some Rage Gold body filler and it looks like it could be original!

[Kern Dog]

Front suspension and steering are in so I pushed the car into the car lift room and was ready to put in fuel and vent lines....THEN I figured that I'd at least remove the undercoating where the fuel lines will be.
Uhhh, yeah....This is where the Snowball Effect begins. I kept going and going.

[darbgnik]

Fully welded, primed and skimmed with some Rage Gold body filler and it looks like it could be original!

Looks great. And much better than the cover plates the AC kits come with.

[tan top]

Fully welded, primed and skimmed with some Rage Gold body filler and it looks like it could be original!

looks good     

[timmycharger]

 

Nice job!  Big fan of the Rage Gold filler, stuff goes on so smoothly and sands very well.

[Kern Dog]

Undercoating removal continues...

[Kern Dog]

Wheelwells have been scraped and are ready for modifications.

[Kern Dog]

That sharp ridge in the last picture....
Every 68-70 Charger owner that has wide tires should be familiar with it. For some strange reason, the factory used an outer wheel tub that did not follow up alongside the quarter panel. Instead, it had that strange ridge in it.
Here is what it looks from the outside with a quarter panel off.

[Kern Dog]

I heard a member here describe this procedure "DE-Humping". That sounds silly to me but it does make sense.
My goal here was to cut into the tub along the ridge. Then I'd push each side out toward the quarter panel, essentially inverting the ridge into a concave shape.

[Kern Dog]

In the red car, the contact was always from the top of the wheel tub and to the rear. This area is greatly improved now. See the difference in the two sides.

[krops cars]

If you are not going to keep that ac section you cut out I maybe interested in it. It would be a nice templet.

[Kern Dog]

I'd let it go for the cost of shipping.

[krops cars]

Message me a price.