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Sorry to hear...... I had heated mine up to around 120-125` (where our hot-water heater is set) and no change...... Guess it's like BILL said, reformulation....... The new stuff is NOT the same quality as the old stuff.......☹️ DJ

Having ALWAYS had a "unique" sense of humor, sometimes have a habit of clicking on the t-shirt ads, in order to enlarge them (in order to read them), BUT, that doesn't mean that I want the "near porn" ads (that DAVE brought up) popping up in the middle of looking at someone's newest model car/truck creation. I have "found out the hard way" that you have to be careful of "what" you search for (wording can be EVERYTHING)........ For instance, had a brand new set of headers that I was going to sell as the car had a brand new set with it when it showed up, and they weren't needed as "shelf decor". Had grabbed the reducers out for another project, local warehouse was out, catalogs back at the shop across town, so, crank up the laptop to get the part number for the reducers....... HOOKER HEADERS, so, try Hooker Headers. Com., and end up with someone that had obviously hussled the name out from under the company in order to sell it back to them for "big bucks", so next try, oh yea, really!!!!), HOOKER.com. .......... "Stuff" started popping-up hundreds of times faster than I could attempt to block/delete it!!!!! Finally just "crashed" it off woth the power button..... Call #2 son (our family "I.T." guy), tell him I need his help, NOW!!!! After he finds out what I've done (and rolls on the floor laughing til tears), took him several minutes to clean up the mess..... All this to say: BE CAREFUL how you phrase what you are searching for using search engines!!!!! 😉 DJ ps: don't mind ads, just keep em "PG" rated 😊

Gotta agree with you 100% PETE, but as I said, "May only have been the area of the west coast where I grew up, or possibly those people I grew up around". Again, was not trying to add to the confusion, but only attempting to help see thru the confusion.....😉 DJ

Add me to the group that would like to see you build both versions. In my early/mid teens (60's), used to spend much of my summers with relatives in the LA area, and got to go to lots of races at Lion's & Irwindale. Was a GREAT time to grow up, and some of the coolest cars ever. Worked for IHRA, NHRA, IMCA, and multiple race facilities (as secondary income) for most of my adult life, and with that said, the cars from the 60's are STILL my favorites...... If you find the time, built them both!!!!!👍👍 DJ

SID, Not to "add to the confusion", but, technically, BILL IS CORRECT in that the front "inner fender wells" ARE a wheel well. May only have been the area of the west coast I grew up in, or possibly those people I grew up around, but, again, all that I had ever heard them called helped us distinguish between the fronts and the rears......😎 DJ

As to the "original" question: Front: all that I have ever heard these called was Fender wells (i.e.: Fenderwell outlet headers) which, some manufactures had painted a sort of semi-gloss black (many GM's for instance) and body-color on unibody cars (various Ford & Mopar come to mind)....... Rear: were always referred to as "wheel wells" (i.e.: radiused the wheel wells for tire clearance, Like building the old Gassers) and these could've ended up most any color from body-paint color, to undercoating, to mud....😉 Hope, maybe, this can help clear up some of the confusion, then some of the "advice" will help you to answer your original questions.....😊 DJ

I hadn't either.......BUT..... I had one that "sputtered" paint out, and, like BILL, had tried everything that "usually worked" (including heating the can) with all failed results. My "complaint" tho, also includes their little square bottles of brush paint. I have some that are 20yrs old (that were opened and resealed) that are still completely 'useable', while several of the recent purchased bottles, after a SHORT time, develop a thick "rubber film" on top, rendering them completely useless....... Took a phillips screwdriver and poked a hole in one, pulled the "rubber plug" off the top to get to "what was hiding underneath", tried thinning it down (as have done hundreds of times), few days later, same old nonsense. And yes, the top was sealed....... Any ideas????? DJ

CHRIS The more that I attempt to find out about this Cuda, the MORE that I'm prone to believe that it's a "builder" type of Resto-Mod...... Looked like a flawless builder, but different things just didn't seem to "fall into place" for me...... Like the side stripes, WERE NOT what I remembered on the 71 cars when new, did the proverbial google image search, and still didn't find those type of stripes on the 71 Hemi Cuda...... Guess that will just presume that it is, in fact, a Resto-Mod and not some sort of a "one off piece of history"..... Still, was a pretty slick looking old Mopar..... THANKS to all y'all for helping me clear up some questions.... DJ

The heads on the roadster were, in fact, Moser built (I had to chase down the HIGH dollar valve cover gaskets), but those that you mentioned are something that REALLY grabs a person's interest!!!! So, what was the BBC engine built for, road-racing, drag racing, salt-flats speed records,....??????? Would love to know more about those. Thanks again for trying to help shine some light on all this. DJ

Went past there today, no Cuda out front to inspect....... Kind of a let-down.... Would have loved to gotten another lookie-see....... If it was some type of "limited-production" conversion kit, would have been a pleasure to learn more about it and been able to share with our group here, but, no car, couldn't verify anything...... As BILL said, (after a bunch of searching-the-web on 3rd Gen Hemi engines), I really believe it is a 3rd Gen Hemi, and really, with an aftermarket intake/carbs/front cover-with distributor and aftermarket/custom valve covers, the car would still be desirable as a fairly unique Resto-Mod, I mean, Hemi with 2-4's, come on!!!!...... And IF, it actually has some type of OHC set-up, would be even more desirable. If it is, in fact a 3rd Gen Hemi, is the first one that I've seen WITHOUT all the "valve cover mounted coils" , fuel-injection intake system, computer stuff, etc....... Am still pretty "well-versed" on the "old stuff", but NEED HELP when it comes to a LOT of this newer stuff. (Makes me feel like all the old "flathead" dudes did about OHV V8's, back when I was young, and now that I wear their shoes, I understand how they felt.......) ☺️ SPECIAL THANKS to GREG, MARK, KEN, and BILL for trying to help an old "points & condenser" guy that's trying to get by in a "computer-controlled-electronic-ignition-fuel-injected world" 😉😎 DJ ps: at least now can answer my grandson's questions with a reasonable amount of certainty

BILL Your post "got me to lookin'", EDELBROCK builds a 2X4 intake that looks JUST LIKE the one on that engine!!!! Will have to look, but now I think was looking a some sort of "surpentine" belt system..... and the person doing the "explaining" was either misinformed/embellishing some/ or one of the "used-car-salesman" that use to give the good ones a bad name.....😉 THANKS Again y'all DJ ps- still gonna stop and take a better look if they'll let me 😉

Was kinda my thought, that the intake port configuration looked like the 5.7 hemi, (flat on the mounting surface) rather than the angled port-mounting area of the 426 Hemi. Have to go back down that way Wednesday (my once a month bank trip) so think will take another C L O S E R look at exactly "what's there". The heads (ports, etc.) really kind of favor the old ARDUN heads that fit the flatheads of old.......🙄 Just one of those "oddities" that can't let go of!!!😉 THANKS GUYS DJ

There was a local car collector/business owner who has (when I left East Texas 4yr ago) a 32 Ford Roadster with the DOHC heads on a SBC, (many of his cars have been featured in various Hot-rod type magazines), and as memory serves, was reportedly "pretty healthy"...... Only thing I really remember about it, was a set of valve-cover gaskets ate up a $100 bill back then!!! So I would expect a complete conversion kit would be rather "cost prohibitive"..... Would have limited the "buying market" to a very select few.... DJ

COOL!!! Good looking models!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!! Still trying to find out info on that 1:1 car.... Whether would happen to have ended up with a "prototype" engine (of which only TWO were reportedly built), or if in fact, would be a "converted" version with something like the Moser Heads used.... Any MOPAR Gurus out there????? Any help appreciated. DJ

GREG, From what I remember (and have read) this engine never really made it past the development stage, as NASCAR had banned any OHC engines (1965) so Chrysler Corp. just halted any further development.... Shame they didn't follow thru, would've given the Ford SOHC 427 a "rough way to go"!!!! THANKS for the info. DJ

Took the grandson to the Corvette Museum (Bowling Green, Ky.), and across from the Vette Museum was ART'S AUTOS....... okay, some cool looking stuff from the road, we decide to have a look..... Outside, 1971 Cuda, sublime green, nice. Closer, second look, HEMI stripes, nicer!!! As we were standing there admiring the car (and noting the "NOT FOR SALE" on the windshield), the curator comes out with a group of people from inside, and opens the hood..... A Hemi is cool, BUT.... The second I saw pulleys at the end of the heads, well, HAD MY UNDIVIDED ATTENTION!!!!!! Curator only told that it was a DOHC and car was NOT for sale.... I remember, a few years before selling my racing engine shop, getting some literature on some DOHC heads that would 'convert' the Hemi (and seems like the RB also} to DOHC, seems like was MOSER that offered the heads. Wonder if anyone can shed some light on the car, heads, or whatever.... (am "reasonably knowledgeable" on Mopars, but NOT a "walking Encyclopedia", grandson asked some questions I couldn't answer....) Built quite a few of them over the years, but mostly Chevys & Fords...... ANY help appreciated. DJ Would post pictures, but not set up (sorry) b

REALLY SHARP build!!!! DJ

Well Rick, this is something straight outta the late 50's / early 60's..... Gonna be one cool build!!!!! Will be watching. DJ

Would make a great "drag-team-combo", and for the drag car, the 65 Chevelle AWB..... HEY, A NEW COMBO!!!!!! DJ

If they follow the 1:1 car, would be a tilt front end...... would love to see this kit as George's Willys looked when he first came back out of "retirement", with the blown 327 DJ

Now that's a new twist...... Olds powered Olds Gasser, definately COOL!!!! Good to see taking an old kit, and doing something creative with it. 👍👍 DJ

Setting outside is my 1964 Corvair , black inside/outside/back-belly-& both-sides, 58K original miles survivor. Not a 100pt resto, but just a sanitary little car that has managed to "keep on keeping on". Was a factory special order 110horse 4spd with the optional handling package, has Flowmaster duals, little larger carbs, K&N air filters and recurved distributor with a 40K volt coil. STILL a ball to drive, and totally dependable!!!!! My personal thought: Ralph's wife ran off with a Corvair salesman.. 😉 DJ

As BOB said, RON COON RESINS has a "front axle kit" that would already have you most of the way there. The biggest thing on these type of front ends (and was "high-tech" for the time) was the screw-jacks so that you could "pre-load" the front end. There have been many versions/variations of his front end, but because of his successful career & victories, his is probably the most famous....... DJ

The AMT 1949 Ford kit also contains a pretty respectable version of the old Cadillac engine. It was patterned after the 365cu.in. "tri-power" engine (which is externally identical to the 390) with a standard transmission attached, the earlier versions have some really nice "stock/script" valve covers that have the CADILLAC name spelled out in block script. The intake 'could' be "converted" back to a 'single-four barrel' intake, then all would take to complete would be the air cleaner....... (A good friend cast me SEVERAL sets of those style valve covers, so if you find one of the engines with the custom valve covers, and need 'stock' ones, give a hollar. DJ

MIKE PM sent DJ