Joe Handley

Looks like that isn't a real Charger or a screen used General Lee, I believe he has one of the handful of Crown Vic cop cars that got chopped up, caged, rebodied with reproduction Charger sheet metal and painted to look like a General Lee, so that may, technically be fixable! Apparently they have already restored a screen used General Lee from the '05 movie, it was the car that was used for the "freeway jump", which had been a record flight for any car, let along a 2nd gen Charger.

I missed this one earlier, I've done my best to take care of it, though the interior has a probably not so health layer of dust in some areas (it needs a heavy cleaning in there), it may be my only new car and who knows when I'll be able to afford something different, new or used. I'm hoping that it becomes one of those "survivor" cars on down the road and a good "Day 2" example for one of these as well, these were kind of comparable to 383 Road Runners performance and with the Touring trim package mine is in, comparably trimmed as well.

I’ve looked at those, I kinda doubt the effectiveness for cooler air over the box and are all north of $300 to boot, plus I already have a drop in K&N in the box. I’d rather put that money into an exhaust for the car.

Some of these ads are……..interesting ?

Thanks, hard to believe it’ll be 10 years old in December (as of Dec 2011 build date) and had a been his a few times in the last 9 1/2 years I’ve owned it.

I’m looking at some kind of thermal wrap down the road, maybe something like a header wrap starting and ending at the couplers or even those self adhesive aluminum/fiberglass wrap or gold shielding like used in aerospace and on super cars, Just not sure yet. The air inlet for the airbox is actually a snorkel that is on the left side and right behind the opening between the hood and bumper cover/grill/headlight. Best part is that it’s nearly as far off the ground as the opening on the XJ Cherokees were at stock ride height, which was just inside of and about the same heights as to where where the drivers side headlight is on those!

Got the last of the performance mods I bought for the 200 installed, all that was left was the resonator delete tube and I put that on in 90*+ temps and direct sunlight……I’d have swapped out a new driver side windshield squirter too, but I wasn’t feeling it, even though the tube install was all of 30 minutes of work. I have thought of wrapping the tube in something for insulation since it’s about a food above the right bank cat, but that too will also be for a different, cooler day!

Saw that on Instagram this morning, it is sad .

I think it would be interesting to see what GM’s and Chrysler’s design departments of the 1950’s would have come up with if they had access to today’s lighting technology.

Why do I suddenly have the feeling that a Yenko Civic or Yenko Prelude could make for an interesting what if…..

I just closed out my Netflix account last week, don't think I've watched it since Mom passed last year and it was just a waste of $14/mo.

For the age and mileage, that is good, though it still being port vs direct injection also helps, especially with the valves, you can still see a lot of metal there vs carbon. That said, we couldn’t get the aftermarket intake tube from the air box to the TB on and at one point the silicone coupler from the tube to the TB popped off and dropped down next to the Y-Pipe assembly for the 2 banks, so we had to jack it up, pull the right front tire off, the scoot my fat gut under the front of the car to pull it out only to find the band clamp included would go on, but it was late, I had sweat A LOT, and was getting a bit shaky. I gave up, put the stock corrugated tubing and resonators back on for now and may try to fine a bigger clamp for the TB side of things. While I was under there, I did take a quick look at the floor, looked way better than I expected for a car that is nearly a decade old and lifelong Chicagoland car! I did take the car out and go get dinner for Dad and myself when done, aaaaaand it nearly had a hair trigger on the throttle by the time I got home with the food. I still have the option of getting an exhaust, ported TB, and a tune for it, but considering the Z Rated 235/60R18 BFG Comp-2 A/S+ tires spun nearly as hard off one light as the factory installed. T-Rated 225/50R18 Goodyear Eagle LS2’s did, despite being taller, wider, and stickier makes me think that the TB and tune may not be needed.

His builds did seem a bit “dumbed down”, but it may be geared more towards beginners as it did show some basics as well as basic body mods and kit bashing.

There’s some stuff that just won’t fly for pedestrian safety on cars any more, probably going to be deeper into EV availability before we see pointy cars with front mounted power trains like the 3rd and 4th gen F-Bodies and Chrysler LH cars due to that, as well as the bumper height difference between cars and trucks.

Well, this olease both Dad and myself, we’re swapping the “Upgrade” lower intake onto the Pentastar V-6 in my 200 and one thing Dad wanted to see was how the intake ports looked since the car has burned E85 since nearly new and we found exactly what Dad expected. I bought this car in April of 2012, have put 117k On it, and used E85 almost exclusively from May 2012 to now. I’ve never let the dealership run an intake cleaner through the engine either! Every single port it like this!

Meh, doesn’t look as good as the late 60’s generation and the grill looks like it’s based on the late 70’s car instead.

Probably back in the 80's with the Pro Street cars Revell brought to market.

I think that’s the idea here, keep the truck high and dry but still the tires to something more packed at the bottom and use the chevrons to claw through what might still be somewhat gooey.

Went to go run one of my crawler trucks about a week and a half to two weeks ago and the receiver wouldn’t power up then the speed control would just shut off. Finally got around to look at it today and tried a different Receiver hoping that was all it would be and same thing happened. Looks like it’s going to need a new speed control, so I figure if it’s going to need to be replaced, might as well spend a little extra to replace the 11-12y/o speed control and receiver the truck came with a new 2 in 1 that will work with the radio I put in my 1/24 scale truck.

Thanks, we are too, and I swear what little we did made a big change in the car.

Dad finished the left front corner on the 200 is done and once I was off work, we got the front brakes bled then took it out for a couple hours. Once the brakes started to wear in, it stopped much better, though we had to be careful as it stops a lot quicker and nearly choked Dad with the seatbelt by accident at one point? It also cornered better though it road a touch stiffer, was much more willing to rotate than before and didn’t wallow during directional changes like it had prior to that too. I think Dad is even more pleased with how it turned out than I am too!

Well, turns out I screwed up some on my brakes now too? Dad started finishing the left front while I was working today, and when I went on lunch he let me know there was another issue with the brakes, but this time the one I bought from Napa........it too was a right side caliper! I go and get the receipt so Dad could get things straightened out and before he left, he was looking at pics of my Sister's Challenger R/T Classic with the Super Track Pack suspension, diff, and brake package, which supplied the VIN I used to get most of the parts needed for this swap since the calipers, pads, and almost all of the hardware is the same. What Dad discovered and I had forgotten is that on the LX cars, the calipers are on the door side of the hubs and rotors while the on the JS cars (Avenger, 200, and Sebring) are mounted on the door side of the hubs and rotors, which means that the rotors that would be the swapped left to right on the JS chassis cars that had or were being converted to the EU spec BR-1 brakes. The dealer still gave me 2 of the same calipers, but they were left side, not right......so where I screwed up is when we went to the Napa warehouse (the van's 3dr trip there this week!), I purchased a left front thinking that's what I needed when I really needed a right front to put on my car's left front corner. I went from being pissed at Napa to feeling like a friggin' idiot.?

Oh, that's a great idea!

That one is an AMT 1/32 Stingray.