1970 superbee??

[Mean 69]

I need to get off of my duff and introduce this project for real (i.e., I need to pull together some more pic's, and forward all of the stuff to our good friend Scott to update the website....), but here's a pic of what we are building to represent what we envision as an extreme performance cruiser. We named it GTX-treme. The bigger Mopars are huge, heavy, and not what you'd probably build for a track car if you have a clean sheet. But, they make one heck of a terrific road trip car! We're using this one to debut the front suspension setup that we have deep into the works for the Mopars, as well as our signature 3-Link rear suspension. The car is well into progress at my bud's place, Best of Show Coachworks in San Marcos CA, the body work is about 90% complete including rear mini-tubs, completely smoothed firewall, we just need to finish up some quarter panel work and it's ready to block sand.

This is the first Mopar I have ever had, and I can tell you, it's a heck of a lot harder finding parts for them than it is for the Fords and Chevys. This car is getting a 500" wedge based motor (long block is assembled as of last week), with Indy Racing heads (huge ports, HUGE ports) and a nasty solid roller cam. We're forced to fabricate a road race style oil pan for it, and also modify a Victor intake manifold for FI, as there isn't anywhere to go for these pieces. Some friends are helping with the transmission details (TKO-600) which is really nice, but we are fortunate that we have the ability to solve these types of issues, most consumers don't. If you want to restore, or drag race, you're good. Otherwise, you're in doo-doo!

There are still a lot of details to sort out with the build, but the car is getting Boze wheels, Michelin PS2's, huge Wilwood's, A/C, full on stereo with Zapco amps, Dyn Audio speakers, Nav, etc. Custom leather, etc, it should be a really nice car when complete. Again, I have a TON of pictures, I'll try to pull it all together ans show where we are at and give more details in the very near future.

Mark

[HRBS]

I need to do a Mopar bad....

[68protouring454]

damn mark, killer,
jake

[Hooligan]

The mopar I have , the money I don't .

[Damn True]

Originally Posted by jgale

How about a '70 Road Runner...?

Here's mine...
(255/40-18 and 285/40-18 on 18x9" and 18x10" Boyds)

Beautiful car. The '70 RR is my absolute favorite Mopar.

[modmachR]

That is a realy great stance and attitude. Congradulations on a beutiful ride.

[Ummgawa]

No wonder Mopars are so expensive.They all just don't have the potential to look as killer as yours does. Just Awesome.

[67Sally]

Very cool project Mark!
W.

[jgale]

The '68 "GTX-treme" project sounds killer! Can you give details about the front suspension?

[Mean 69]

Thanks guys, and I just realized how rude I was. I didn't mention how nice that Road Runner is, one very, very sweet looking car. These things are all so big, when you see one really nice like that one, wearing black paint, it is really hard not to fall in love with them.

The front suspension on the GTXtreme car will be our version of the replacement front suspension. There are a LOT of folks out there converting the later Corvette spindles to the early cars, and that is a pretty darned good approach overall. However, packaging the new spindle around an old motor, is very tough to do and you need to make some sacrifices in order to make it all work. Rather than go down that path, we designed our own spindle, it is similar in the geometry to the Corvette piece, but there are some important differences that make packaging the rest of the supension a lot easier. In addition, it is brutally tough, we are using the large Chrysler screw in ball joints, and very large wheel bearings (it's not a sealed bearing pack like the C5 stuff, it is a traditional timken stack with readily available bearings when service comes around, nothing proprietary). The rest of the suspension geoemtry and components will all be our custom stuff as well, cro-mo tubular control arms, etc. This same basic setup will be the basis for the other front stuff that we will be offering in the future as well, plans are to adapt it to a very large number of muscle cars, just as we have (and are continuing to do) for the rear suspension. Of course in the case of the Mopars, it'll all be held together with a tubular steel "k member" setup that bolts in where the old one used to reside. There will be some welding required for the upper control arm mount, which also incorporates the upper shock mount. Torsion bars will be eliminated, it'll be coil-over shocks instead. All of the stuff is basically engineered/designed already, it's a matter of building it up and testing, but we have a LOT on our plate right now so it's proving difficult to finish off the prototype. We are very excited, and have extremely high expectations for the setup. It looks like we'll be developing the rear 3-Link kit for the E body cars here in a short while too, which is also exciting.

I agree with Scott, we need more Mopars in here!
Mark