b7 blue 70 charger as seen at garys picnic NOW SOME PICS

70_charger · Post by **70_charger** » Mon Jul 04, 11 10:07 pm

Hi to everyone, here's some info / pics of my charger since i got it in Oct 2010. My wife brought it as a 40th birthday present for me. 440 4 speed manual with a few chips / knocks on the body but good solid car thou was a 383 4bbl 4spd car in fairly usual colour for charger b7.

First thing was to fit 7x15 and 10x15 torq thrusts with 215/65 and 295/50 tyres but rears catch inner arches with kids in, so new rear 8.5x15 with 275 and new front 245 tyres.

Then next was headman headers and new exhausts with x pipe, then drove it every day untill it snowed, but once gone daily driver again untill santa pod rwyb 16th may 2011 which on bfg tyres with full exhausts i drove down to the pod from stoke kicked the wife and kids out,signed on and gave it ago best was 15.03 @ 94mph with wheel spin off the line but good base line to start from....

Next was new plugs, ht leads,wrap the headers , mopar perf. valve covers and a pair of hooiser quick times 295/50x15 treads on my spare 10x15 torq thrust as dont wanna run slicks keeping it a street car at the mo. Made a towbar to tow caravan to meets. Garys picnic towed caravan there, swapped wheels, removed air filter,tow bar and exhausts ran a best 14.02 @ 99.38mph but could get any more due to clutch release bearing rattling bad and clutch slipping, oh yeah and starter packed up had to be bump started in pair up lane lol. still managed to tow caravan back to stoke thou.

So set about renewing clutch,starter and need flywheel skim but as i was pricing it up had a change of plan and converted it to auto. So found a good tci full competition gearbox not street fighter, full manual rev. pattern with 3500 stall tci converter, trans cooler and b&m shifter for £800 ordered new msd mini starter, braided cooler lines and made a shifter mount to bolt to trans tunnel where the 4spd shifter boot / chrome ring bolted, auto meter tacho and oil catch tank, coolant overflow tank ready for nost. nationals where it ran a best 13.50 @ 101mph but was having running problems @5000rpm in second and thrid, misfire?? vapour lock on fuel?? was very hot on the sunday.

Getting ready now for santa pod dragstalgia 16th of this month busy fitting msd ignition, holley fuel pump and spacer on carb to see if improves running??? hope so and hope to run a bit quick fingers crossed.

cheers everyone for help and advise

70_charger · Post by **70_charger** » Mon Jul 04, 11 10:09 pm

70_charger · Post by **70_charger** » Mon Jul 04, 11 10:14 pm

dont know how to resize pics to post

Mick70RR · Post by **Mick70RR** » Mon Jul 04, 11 10:26 pm

I wondered whose car this was at Gary's picnic. Best of luck with chasing the ET's, I hope your wife is sympathetic because it's all you'll think about for the next few years, and it'll cost you plenty.

charger01 · Post by **charger01** » Mon Jul 04, 11 10:28 pm

Look forward to seeing it at Santa Pod. Nice car fella

Jon Connolly · Post by **Jon Connolly** » Mon Jul 04, 11 10:59 pm

Can your missus have a word with my missus

I got a couple of Dolly Parton tickets for my birthday

Welcome, lovely car

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Mon Jul 04, 11 11:21 pm

Jon Connolly wrote:Can your missus have a word with my missus

I got a couple of Dolly Parton tickets for my birthday

Welcome, lovely car

i would prefer the dolly parton tickets so long as it was a hooker lookalike,

Rich · Post by **Rich** » Mon Jul 04, 11 11:24 pm

Jon Connolly wrote:Can your missus have a word with my missus

I got a couple of Dolly Parton tickets for my birthday

Welcome, lovely car

can your mrs become my mrs????

glad youve poped on here,ive seen the car at drayton mannor,garys picnic and the nostalgias and have been wondering what the story was..
thanks for posting and im loving the enthusiasm,long may it continue...
nice car too

DaveMadders · Post by **DaveMadders** » Tue Jul 05, 11 12:17 am

Great looking car... I imported it from CA not many years ago.

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Tue Jul 05, 11 12:11 pm

Nice car mate, and welcome to the forum

Dave81 · Post by **Dave81** » Tue Jul 05, 11 1:23 pm

Nice looking Mopar you've got yourself!

autofetish · Post by **autofetish** » Tue Jul 05, 11 2:08 pm

Nice car welcome to the mad house

sinny · Post by **sinny** » Tue Jul 05, 11 3:58 pm

Very nice but a few more pics wouldn't go a miss!

Rogue Trooper · Post by **Rogue Trooper** » Tue Jul 05, 11 6:30 pm

and welcome

70_charger · Post by **70_charger** » Tue Jul 05, 11 8:34 pm

Thanks guys, will post more pics when i work out how to resize pics in iphoto.
The wife is right behind me on getting the charger to run quicker and i have been luck that every time out the mods i have made, got a quicker time, shes normally the one jumping up and down when i run quicker , even thou its only 14sec car