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[BlueC]

I smell some serious money spent to spin a 493" to 7500 on a street engine . Titanium valve train , rods etc... I love a hot rodded MoPar RB !

I read all about it years ago. The original owner/build spent some coin on the car, built circa early-mid 2000s. IIRC, he built it to mess with his buddy's then new Corvette. I don't think there was anything exotic done to the engine, more or less a nice stroker kit, worked over aluminum heads and intake. B/RB MoPars have shaft mounted rockers, so they're more stable than a stud mount with high spring pressures and RPM. I've heard that a stock 413 is stable up to around 7K, but that's not really something I'm willing to test with mine.

Probably something like this.

 

[ColoJeep]

I read all about it years ago. The original owner/build spent some coin on the car, built circa early-mid 2000s. IIRC, he built it to mess with his buddy's then new Corvette. I don't think there was anything exotic done to the engine, more or less a nice stroker kit, worked over aluminum heads and intake. B/RB MoPars have shaft mounted rockers, so they're more stable than a stud mount with high spring pressures and RPM. I've heard that a stock 413 is stable up to around 7K, but that's not really something I'm willing to test with mine.

Probably something like this.
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Shaft rockers work well , my concern would be valve weight , retainers and spring pressure required to keep the lifter anywhere near the cam @ 7500 .
I think that engine would have huge valves to feed those cubes .

 

[BlueC]

Shaft rockers work well , my concern would be valve weight , retainers and spring pressure required to keep the lifter anywhere near the cam @ 7500 .
I think that engine would have huge valves to feed those cubes .

I just tried to read some of the original MoPar Connection magazine article, but it's scanned in and hard to read, so I don't know what the details are. The current owner says it makes 550 hp to the wheels (dyno) and runs a 12 sec 1/4. Not bad for a big cruiser that you can haul some friends around in.

 

[srimes]

View: https://x.com/TheLtColUSMC/status/2068142549139894772?s=20

 

[NashvilleTJ]

Beautiful day here in Nashville for Cars and Coffee:

You don't see one of these every day:

 

[BlueC]

You don't see one of these every day:

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View: https://youtu.be/biN9X_pBTUg?si=6t7awIARHAhNu1Zk

 

[BlueC]

That same 'tube channel has this Stude on it.


View: https://youtu.be/eA0a5ZxgodA?si=4ecE4Bm3i7tZinw5

 

[ColoJeep]

I just tried to read some of the original MoPar Connection magazine article, but it's scanned in and hard to read, so I don't know what the details are. The current owner says it makes 550 hp to the wheels (dyno) and runs a 12 sec 1/4. Not bad for a big cruiser that you can haul some friends around in.

I love big cars that are fast ! My buddy had a 95 Impala SS with a Wipple S/C with a smaller pulley , wilder cam , and a high stall convertor . It launched real hard like only a heavy car could . Yet it could get up to 130-140 m,p.h. on the interstate. I was glad he put big Baer brakes on it to slow back down !

 

[Squatch]

I don't think many people would fight for that thing. Rides like a cloud if you like comfort. I'm just surprised it still exist. Most of these lost their driveline ( 8 3/4 rear axle and 10/11:1 413 ) to hot rodders decades ago and the bodies were sent for scrap.

I wouldn't fight anyone for it, but I'd still like to own it. It being a sedan rather than a hardtop makes it kind of appealing to me. Less wind noise around the window seals a when cruising around.

My God, I've gotten old...

 

[Squatch]

There are a couple of guys over on the "C-body" forum who have hot rodded these big Chryslers.

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This '66 is named "The Flying Whale" and if I remember right she has a 440 laying down ~600hp. Its a street car, and the guys say for such a big girl she can scoot.

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No. No, no, NO!!!

 

[chili_pepper]

No. No, no, NO!!!
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Kind of like a guest's dog pinching a link or two in the middle of your new living room carpet, eh?

 

[ColoJeep]

No. No, no, NO!!!
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69 Camaro Z/28 YES , mid 60's full size Chrysler not so much .

 

[Squatch]

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Not to take away anything from the coolness of that, but there's a difference between a burnout and doing donuts. Them there's donuts, son.

 

[Frank M]

 

[BlueC]

My God, I've gotten old...

I'm your kids age, and I like 4-doors for what they are. Like a good whiskey in a barrel, I've matured, or something like that.

 

[MtPockets]

Not to take away anything from the coolness of that, but there's a difference between a burnout and doing donuts. Them there's donuts, son.

Probably the same Navy Officer who was photographed shooting a rifle with the scope mounted backwards....

 

[chili_pepper]

Hard to say from just a photo, but the paint work on this would appear to be very nice. Like the color as well.

Great color combo on a really cool vehicle.

 

[Frank M]

Hard to say from just a photo, but the paint work on this would appear to be very nice. Like the color as well.



Great color combo on a really cool vehicle.

The paint was nice on that Pontiac.
I like that color combo on the other too

 

[5632]

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Pontiac never made a big block.

 

[chili_pepper]

Pontiac never made a big block.

In fairness, Pontiac probably never supplied the Firebird with a full roll cage and drag slicks, either. I don't think they were going for production spec with this build, but I could be wrong.