Once more, I've been fiddling with the hot rod. This time, FrankenPlymouth gets new shoes. I'm kinda excited because this opens the door for my monster brake upgrade. I'll be working on that pretty hard now.





Excuse the horrible picture quality. I took the shots late last night when I slammed 'em on after work. The poor widdle thing is filthy and I was too tired to do any better. The suspension hadn't settled after jacking the car up so it's sitting a little high up front.

Only one side is mounted at this time. One rear was damaged and I've got to get the flush mounted valve stems to clear the calipers. Hopefully the rear wheel will be repaired by Tuesday and the new valve stems will be here on Thursday.
Maybe the new stoppers will be on next weekend?

 

OMG! You're making a Batmobile!

All kidding aside, it looks VERY nice. Keep us up to date on the project.

Cheers!

 

Lookin good!
Quite a feets!

 

the Batmobile gots nothin on the hot rod.

 

HOLY HORSEPOWER BATMAN!!!

 

While not quite unholy, it's not too far from weapons grade horsepower.

I put down 657 hp and 742 tq at the wheels a few years ago. It was packing in excess of 500 ft/lbs from 2,800 through 6,000 rpm. Gotta love having anywhere torque.
That was back when I was blowing 17 psi through a carburetor and giving it a little rubbing alcohol on the side.
Now I've got distributorless fuel injection and swapped the junkyard heads for some Edelbrock aluminum heads.
The fuel pressure regulator failed and the new one sprays fuel like it's going out of style. I'll try to fix that little issue this weekend when I work on my brake conversion.
After that is done, we'll see what it's got.