My Daytona Clone project UPDATE WITH PICS !!!

[Daytona R/T SE]

How in the hell did you get the underside to look so freaking clean???

Hours and hours and hours......

[Daytona R/T SE]

Hemi ?

I would REALLY like to put a Hemi/5 speed set up in it, but for right now I'm planning on a 440/4 speed

combo. ( I've already got the wedge/4spd stuff laying around )

If I had any sense I'd sell off a few of these "future project" cars I have sitting around and buy the

Hemi/5 speed set up I really want....

P.S. I'm now accepting donations for the Hemi fund 

[Charger_Fan]

What are the two little holes in the top of the outer wheel wells in that first pic? Sunroof drains?

Great looking progress on that baby, I bet you can't wait to be sniffin' paint fumes!

[Daytona R/T SE]

What are the two little holes in the top of the outer wheel wells in that first pic? Sunroof drains?

Great looking progress on that baby, I bet you can't wait to be sniffin' paint fumes!

Yep! Sharp eyes!  Those are the holes for the sunroof drain tubes...Thanks to DC.Com member BadBob for sending me pics of where they go

[daytonalo]

13k , AND YOU CAN HAVE MY 472 -600 HP ALUM HEAD HEMI ,11-1 HEMI , NEVER FIRED

[hemigeno]

Chris, your car is looking fantastic!!!  I know how hard you've been working on that, and your efforts are certainly paying off.  That plug looks awesome, and it matches the craftsmanship everywhere else too.  Congrats, I bet you're getting pumped now that some of the harder stuff is out of the way.

[Daytona R/T SE]

Chris, your car is looking fantastic!!!  I know how hard you've been working on that, and your efforts are certainly paying off.  That plug looks awesome, and it matches the craftsmanship everywhere else too.  Congrats, I bet you're getting pumped now that some of the harder stuff is out of the way.

Gene, Many thanks to you for all the measurements and pictures of your car that you posted here, on Moparstyle, and sent straight to me...You sure saved me a lot of guesswork !!!

Enthusiasm is growing, as it starts to actually look like something other than the "Exoskeleton" that has been gathering dust in my garage for the last several years.

I've still got a long way to go, but I talked to my buddy that's going to paint it for me the other day-he said he should be ready to start on it late fall/early winter....

So it looks like...

PAINT IN '08 
PAINT IN '08 
PAINT IN '08 

[PocketThunder]

 

After trying to find a picture of a blue Daytona with white wing for Dillon, i remembered this car and was wondering, how is the progress going Chris?

[moparstuart]

  it will be an amazing car ,  that underside it just a thing of beauty

[dillon14]

Chris, your car is looking fantastic!!!  I know how hard you've been working on that, and your efforts are certainly paying off.  That plug looks awesome, and it matches the craftsmanship everywhere else too.  Congrats, I bet you're getting pumped now that some of the harder stuff is out of the way.

Gene, Many thanks to you for all the measurements and pictures of your car that you posted here, on Moparstyle, and sent straight to me...You sure saved me a lot of guesswork !!!

Enthusiasm is growing, as it starts to actually look like something other than the "Exoskeleton" that has been gathering dust in my garage for the last several years.

I've still got a long way to go, but I talked to my buddy that's going to paint it for me the other day-he said he should be ready to start on it late fall/early winter....

So it looks like...

PAINT IN '08 
PAINT IN '08 
PAINT IN '08 

Daytona R/T SE,

WOW!! Looks like you are nearing the end. However, I am just starting. Would you be willing to share some of the info and measurements you received? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[Daytona R/T SE]

After trying to find a picture of a blue Daytona with white wing for Dillon, i remembered this car and was wondering, how is the progress going Chris?

Well since I posted this, I've fabricated my own headlight pivot brackets, headlight cams and steel Z-bars.

I've also ordered a pair of steel headlight buckets and a steel latch tray. I decided to take the easy way out on these and just buy them.   ( Hangs head in shame ) 

While I'm waiting for the new steel parts to arrive, I've been performing a resurrection on my rusted-to-death 70 Charger hood.

I might actually be able to finish the hood this weekend-pics of hood will be posted if I do.

[Daytona R/T SE]

Daytona R/T SE,

WOW!! Looks like you are nearing the end. However, I am just starting. Would you be willing to share some of the info and measurements you received? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Any questions, just fire away!

[moparstuart]

Daytona R/T SE,

WOW!! Looks like you are nearing the end. However, I am just starting. Would you be willing to share some of the info and measurements you received? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Any questions, just fire away!

another great mopar guy willing to help out his fellow cloner

[Daytona R/T SE]

  another great mopar guy willing to help out his fellow cloner

[Daytona R/T SE]

Some light reading for dillon14 and any other Daytona cloner newbies 



http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,10669.0.html


http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,21596.0.html


http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,32287.msg353161.html#msg353161

[BigBlockSam]

  he's a good man. 

[dillon14]

Some light reading for dillon14 and any other Daytona cloner newbies 



http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,10669.0.html


http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,21596.0.html


http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,32287.msg353161.html#msg353161

I am humbled by your expertise and fabrication skills. When I get started on these tough aspects of the restoration, I will take you up on your offer for a little help.

That's why I love these forums, everyone is willing to pitch in and help where they can.

[1968 Charger B5]

I agree sunroof wing cars are awesome, but don't pat yourself on the back too much, Dayclona did that to all their wing cars years ago. 

[Daytona R/T SE]

don't pat yourself on the back too much, Dayclona did that to all their wing cars years ago. 

You're absolutely right.

I should never take pride in my work.

I should never post pictures of my cars on the internet.

Just in case someone, somewhere, sometime in the past has done something similar to what I'm doing.

I should never, ever offer suggestions or help to others on how to build their own cars, based on my experience working on this stuff over the last 30 +years.

Based on your advise I should just go out to the garage, grab the sawzall and scrap the Daytona clone, because it's all been done already.

Goodbye cruel world, it's just not worth doing anymore, because 1968 Charger B5 said so....

[daytonalo]

I'm sure he still wets the bed !!! We need how to guy's around here !! Guy's like us , do it guy's !! Leaders , not followers

[Daytona R/T SE]

I'm sure he still wets the bed !!! We need how to guy's around here !! Guy's like us , do it guy's !! Leaders , not followers

[70charger_boy]

don't pat yourself on the back too much, Dayclona did that to all their wing cars years ago. 

You're absolutely right.

I should never take pride in my work.

I should never post pictures of my cars on the internet.

Just in case someone, somewhere, sometime in the past has done something similar to what I'm doing.

I should never, ever offer suggestions or help to others on how to build their own cars, based on my experience working on this stuff over the last 30 +years.

Based on your advise I should just go out to the garage, grab the sawzall and scrap the Daytona clone, because it's all been done already.

Goodbye cruel world, it's just not worth doing anymore, because 1968 ChargerB5 said so....

[daytonalo]

Just not in a Brokeback  kind of way !!!

[Daytona R/T SE]

Just not in a Brokeback  kind of way !!!

Certainly not! 

[daytonalo]

Thanks cupcake !!!!!!