My Cuda Project Part II...now at Bruning Auto Design

[DRJDVM's '69]

I had to make some room for the diff pumpkin in the trunk so I made it high enough I could run some lines etc up in the pocket. It worked out perfect to mount up my Finch vent system in the trunk and run my diff vent and fuel tank vent up there. Plenty of clearance even with the car dumped.


I wasn't 100% satisfied with the exhaust Rob and I built....the tailpipe angle to the lower valance was not quite right and the tips didn't line up square..so I re-did the tailpipes to get the angle right and get allitle more clearance to the air bags..and added another v-band clamp to make the pieces smaller


After seeing some of the issue with the frame cracking when the G-link etc was welded to the frame instead of bolted in, I got freaked out since I fully welded in my AirBar. So I made some plates to mount to the outside of the frame, and drilled 2 holes through the plate and the bracket on the inside of the frame. I'm going to run 2 through frame bolts to help spread the load on the frame and act as a safety factor just in case the frame cracks or tears.. probably paranoid, but I can sleep better knowing its beefed up alittle more


last of the rust repair....I cut these pieces out when I had the car blasted and never got around to filling them back in.. until now...

[DRJDVM's '69]

The car has been in bare metal for quite awhile now.... when I had it blasted I did epoxy it but with all the metal work 80% of the original epoxy is gone. So now that I'm finally winding down on the big metal work, I need to get it back in epoxy. So I prepped and shot the doors, front fenders and trunk lid.


So that's where it stands right now for the most part.

Right now I put the car back on the rotisserie and am going over all the welds and doing final grinding/dressing etc. I'm going to have Dominator weld on my brackets for the rear UCA front mounts (any high stress areas, I'm having the pros weld on...don't trust my own enough)....then I'm going to take it back to the blaster and have them "touch it up" by blasting all the underside, floor and any spots really difficult to get to (seams, welds etc) and then get it back into epoxy.

Then mock it all up again, and start my hard lines for brakes, fuel, brakes etc

[DRJDVM's '69]

hey Marty

The rear UCA ?...no its the same length....maybe a turn or two different. I tried to run it in the middle of its threads to give me as much adjustment longer/shorter as possible. Other than that, its the same length as it comes form Ride Tech

[syborg tt]

Originally Posted by DRJDVM's '69

hey Marty

yes I did have Tim shorten those front UCA a tad and the camber improved a lot. I'm still kinda worried about alignment adjustment with the way the front is set up now....we shall see...

On the Airbar set up on my Camaro we bolted and did a couple stitch welds.

[WSSix]

Looks good, Ned!

[Rybar]

Does look good Ned, nice progress and thanks for the update.

[E.rodz]

Nice to see your still at it progress is golden keep chipping away a little at a time just keep your eye on the prize. you are going to run into alot of hurdles when you take on a build of this nature and you are doing a great job overcoming them. great job on the build keep up the great work!

[96z28ss]

Originally Posted by DRJDVM's '69

I wasn't 100% satisfied with the exhaust Rob and I built....the tailpipe angle to the lower valance was not quite right and the tips didn't line up square..so I re-did the tailpipes to get the angle right and get allitle more clearance to the air bags..and added another v-band clamp to make the pieces smaller

Not sure that is going to acomplish what you want. I may be wrong here, but you have the exhaust mount on the wrong side of the expansion joint.
if you want the tip to always stay in the same location, you want to hard mount the tip centered in the valance and have the expansion joint before it, so that the tip will always stay in place as the exhaust moves around.

[66fury]

Yes,more mopars.

[DRJDVM's '69]

Yeah Bob I know the expansion part of the joint really isn't going to come into play with the current mount......it just gives a little more ability to adjust the tip and then clamp it down.... Not that worried about expansion that far back anyway... I have a bigger one mounted further up stream....