Chrysler Engineering Daytona #88 restoration at Big Iron Garage

[Aero426]

I feel your pain.   This is SO easy to do.   I run a street spoiler and have lost two of them moving the car around.    With a full depth spoiler you need a spotter even if you are pushing the car.   

[aerolith]

So sad to see the damage Greg!

I think a few wrinkles will 'add to the effect' of a race car!

Very few 'race cars' are perfect, mostly imperfect except when it comes to the mechanicals lol...

Many thanx for the update on the 'Sandcast' Dominator.

If I was a carb, then that's the carb I would want be, living on top of a HEMI, in the best CAR In the WORLD!!!

[charger500440]

what was the high bid on this?

$650,000.

Asking price or no, this is an amazing build and an amazing piece of American racing history. Kudos Greg, and to all those that helped make this restoration possible.

One question for you, where did you get the period correct vintage NASCAR decals?

Thanks,
Mike

[odcics2]

All the stickers, except the Dodge on the nose, Howard's Machine Shop and IR are NOS.
Got them from Larry Rathgeb, Bill Hancock, Milt Wood and ebay
over the course of 23 years.

Reproduction stickers aren't the same.

[Aero426]

How did the dyno numbers check out on the car when the engine was at Petty's shop?   

[odcics2]

Larry R. told me the 200 mph engine made 575 on the dyno.
Nobody ever ran the car on a chassis dyno with the 200 engine, if that's what you mean.

One would think there are trans and rear end losses.
By the same thought process, getting ambient air rammed into
the intake from the base of the cowl at 200 mph would be worth
something. Did it make up for the trans and differential rotating losses?
Guess we'll never know. That day is past.

If George was around, he probably had an equation to get that answer.

[Aero426]

Larry R. told me the 200 mph engine made 575 on the dyno.
Nobody ever ran the car on a chassis dyno with the 200 engine, if that's what you mean.

One would think there are trans and rear end losses.
By the same thought process, getting ambient air rammed into
the intake from the base of the cowl at 200 mph would be worth
something. Did it make up for the trans and differential rotating losses?
Guess we'll never know. That day is past.

If George was around, he probably had an equation to get that answer.


What HP and torque did it pull in 2021 when it was checked and reassembled before being installed in the car?   

[odcics2]

575 hp at 6,500.
That's with the fuel log.
About 550 without.