Daytona clone or leave it be?

[Indygenerallee]

One is bigger one is smaller!  Yeah I made several slits and left about a 1" overhang to bolt the valance panel to, I am going to cut the bottom off the driver fender tomorrow, make the filler plates for the bumper indention and stock side marker, need to get some C channel to attach the Z brackets to the body so I can mount the nose and get it closer but still need the hood to get the exact line up to mod the fender edge. One question I sat the latch tray on top of the Z brackets and I had thought it bolted to the top of the core support but found it was short! Got looking at a few pics and it looks as if there is another piece that is bolted or welded? to the core support then the latch tray bolts to it, Anybody have a decent pic of one looks to me the best I can see it's basically a piece of angle. 

[Indygenerallee]

Well I managed to get the sidemarker filler plates cut out (used the lower portion of the new fender!) finished modifying the driver side lower fender, clamped the lower valance to the fenders to get a good look and fitment looks like it is going to be great. sat the nose in front with the Z brackets and latch tray (trying to figure out if the latch tray goes under the nose or on top?) finished up the template for the 69 bumper indention, looks like it is going to work just fine, only thing left to do is make the top fender to nosecone filler but have to wait until the hood gets here to line it up.   
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[Indygenerallee]

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[BigBlockSam]

 

[BigBlockSam]

hey
the latch tray bolts to a bracket that gets welded to the radiator support . that you have to make .
the end of the  latch tray also bolts to the top of the z brackets . that's why the z brackets are boxed    

[Indygenerallee]

Rene, You rock buddy! Thanks!! 

[hotrod98]

Do you have the frame braces and the lower valance bracket?  I still have a couple of sets left. The set includes the two frame braces, the valance bracket and the latch tray support.

[Indygenerallee]

Larry, You got pics? I am kind of in the dark on those pieces. unless the frame braces bolt the Z brackets to the stock bumper bracket location?

[BigBlockSam]

unless the frame braces bolt the Z brackets to the stock bumper bracket location? shruggy

yep

[Indygenerallee]

Rene, where does the lower valance bracket go? looks like the valance bolts to the core support at the rear does it go in between the Z brackets towards the front behind the nosecone? Thanks!

[moparstuart]

 
 you can make the latch support bracket really easy it just steps it down a little ,  daytona one is bigger of course

[Charger-Bodie]

Im confused about the latch tray support on Renes car. On all of the other Daytonas Ive seen The support piece is just flat steel.

Here is a link to a pic of Genos :

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,48725.msg556153.html#msg556153

[Indygenerallee]

1hotdaytona, I see what your saying (Thanks for the link to the pics!!)

[BigBlockSam]

if you look at the pic that mopar stuart put up .it's a step down bracket . kind like a messed up L.
you can see it in this picture too.

[Charger-Bodie]

Looks to be just cut off at an angle to me.

[hotrod98]

There are variances depending on how the nose is made. The latch tray bracket that I have is based on an original but it didn't fit with my Janek nose. I had to make alterations. The frame braces bolt onto the frame where the original bumper brackets bolted on. The z braces bolt to them.

Here's a pic that I got from someone that shows the frame brackets and how everything bolts together.

[Indygenerallee]

Larry, You have a PM. 

[cdr]

hows your fender situation going ??

[Indygenerallee]

I am modifying the AMD 69 fenders there are some pics further up this page of the mods so far done, I have the lower part modified for the valance panel to fit and made the template for the bumper indention filler plate, Rene sent my 70 hood this past week so as soon as I get it I can make a template for the top leading edge of the fender. The time I will have modifying the fenders to work with the nose will be much less than reworking original rusted and dented 70 fenders.

[BigBlockSam]

the hood should have been there already 

[Indygenerallee]

They have not called yet Rene, Usually Greyhound is slow as molasses!! I bet it takes another week!! 

[BigBlockSam]

this is the first time i use greyhound

[Indygenerallee]

UPS just delivered my 5.7 Hemi TTI B body headers!!! And this is my first set of TTI headers ever and the quality of these compared to Hookers or Hedmans is outstanding!!! These are ceramic coated polished!! They have the O2 sensor bungs already welded into the collectors for the upstream sensors I will just have to weld in 2 more for the downstreams behind the high flow 3" cats.


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[cdr]

UPS just delivered my 5.7 Hemi TTI B body headers!!! And this is my first set of TTI headers ever and the quality of these compared to Hookers or Hedmans is outstanding!!! These are ceramic coated polished!! They have the O2 sensor bungs already welded into the collectors for the upstream sensors I will just have to weld in 2 more for the downstreams behind the high flow 3" cats.


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why are ya puttin cats on ?

[Indygenerallee]

Im going to run small (about 6" long 3" diameter) High flow cats from Magnaflow that way the PCM sees the change before and after cat and can meter the fuel properly, alot of people think cats are very restrictive but those were the old cats from years ago, the ones I am putting on there won't hurt performance at all. I wanted to do it also for the fact if the green police ever hammer down any harder on emmisions the car will pass all emission tests in all 50 states, By the time I do the cam swap (50 horsepower right in a cam swap!) and with the OBD II plug in Diablo Intune tuner, the 5.7 Hemi will be making more horsepower than a stock HP 440 and I will probably double my MPG to boot plus the fact that it will be much more reliable, kind of nice if I want to go out for a real long cruise I could just set a fuel saver tune into the PCM or if I am out running around town wanting to send some smoke signals punch in a HP tune!! I plan on eventually getting ahold of a 6.1 Hemi on down the road after the car is built and running and replace the 5.7 with a 6.1 or better yet a 6.4!!!