Nice rides, you guys! Yeah, Greg...I've been a mopar fan since my first 'hot rod' ... a 70 Coronet with a 74 Cordoba engine/trans~plant and a super bee hood and period spoiler. Even without really being built, that car would lift the front end off the line...I loved it! You're correct...my current is a 65 Belvedere. But that power plant is a rare one: 318 Poly. Very few performance items are made for it anymore: one company makes headers (TTi - and they used my car for test fitting so I got the first set), one company makes valve covers (in Australia), nobody makes an intake manifold (Weiand stopped production a couple years ago and now they go for 2½ times what they were new. The aluminum dual quad is a Weiand...made of 'unobtanium'...I've seen about 8 of them and this one is worth about $800 if I wanted to sell it.
So it's an expensive motor, punched .060 over, port & polished heads, mild street cam. It will accomplish what I set out for: being different!
Next time you need to wring out that GT40, please be sure to let me know and take me for a ride in it! The most exotic car I've ever driven is a 930 Turbo. I used to work for a company that sold high performance Porsche/BMW etc. parts and I was the US contact for Lamborghini parts for a couple years til I left. We had all sorts of exotics in our shop...F40's, Testarossa's, Diablo's, Pantera's, an 800 hp twin turbo 911. I loved selling clutch kits for the Countach - $5,200 parts, $5,000 labor!
When I get the Plymouth back on the road I'll have to make a road trip and come visit you!
