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ARE THERE ANY HP ORIENTED MOPAR BOARDS?

TIMINATOR

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Not being a snartaxx here, but are there any boards that are more oriented to FAST street and drag MOPARs? I have been looking around and haven't found a board to my liking. There are tons of resto boards, but that's not my thing.
I'm looking for a board that the folks build and drive 10 second and faster street cars.
There is lots of boards for the GM and Mustang go fast crowd, and I'm on the Turbo Buick board for my 87 Buick Turbo T other car info. I haven't yet found a MOPAR board to my taste. A search brought up HP MOPAR boards, but on most of them the last posts were 2-4 years old.
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Unfortunately due to the rarity of Mopars from the late 60's and 70's, big money is being exchanged for Mopar pristine restorations and now resto-mods. I've posted before, Chevy made more Malibu's in 1969 than the entire 70-74 Challenger and Barracuda production! So naturally there's fewer and fewer people building high performance Mopar race cars!

Please don't get mad, but we cut up a perfectly good 70 Challenger R/T 383 convertible back in the 80's to get quarter panels for the circle track race car! Plus other driving cars. That type of thing makes E-Bodies pretty rare!

luckily we have lots of information available to us thanks to Direct Connection/Mopar Performance and shops like Indy Cylinder head, Mancini, Hughes, Mazzolini, Andy Finkbiener at AR Engineering, etc.

There are several folks on here and FBBO that still have some stout Mopars and can offer good advice. Remember, some upgraded parts for Shivvies and Phords aren't really needed for Mopars. The factory gave us some of the toughest engines and transmission (833 & 727) on the planet. It's just kinda cringey to be racing around in close to a six figure dollar vehicle and worrying about hitting a wall at 100+ mph!
 

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I have looked at A and B and as here, no insult intended, most are obsessing about casting #s, date codes, and correct bolts. That's not my thing. I reimagine a car into what I want it to be, and then build that. Just so you all know that I am not insensitive to your ways, I have a large collection of engine castings, carbs, interior parts, and more that I will advertise when I am more finished with my current Challenger.
I also did not start my project with a pristine numbers matching car, but a base model 318 auto 1972 Challenger that was previously a roll barred, subframe connected, rear springs set inboard, street/strip car. Although it is a rust free Arizona car with a nice body, Arizona is where I live, so I had many to choose from.
I also have some of the take offs from my 1970s Dusters, Demon, Cuda, and trucks.
I will post when time permits.
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We have some right here.

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Unfortunately due to the rarity of Mopars from the late 60's and 70's, big money is being exchanged for Mopar pristine restorations and now resto-mods.

It's just kinda cringey to be racing around in close to a six figure dollar vehicle and worrying about hitting a wall at 100+ mph!
I used to bracket race my Cuda at the local dragstrip but not anymore! That ^^^^^ right there is why I quit!
 

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I would also be interested if you find something , all my life I have built performance & not really interested in restos , although I have built restos for customers but always having better perf , even looking stock !
 

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i’m sure there are many on f_bo who feel the same . perhaps suggest to this site a new forum thread , non-matching bat outta hell forum … it’s easy to grow weary of all the date code stuff . but it has its own place ….
 

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There's nothing stopping us from creating high performance posts until the staff created a new forum. Would be very good for FEBO to start that ball rolling!

I have in my possession Pretty Kit car drawings for E-Bodies I'd love to digitize and post for others to see and use as desired. I'm sure Tig has tons of information even if he doesn't think he's an expert (sorry Tig, you are!).

Just keep in mind, your E-Body race cars running in the 10's and 9's are pretty valuable even if they started life as 318 or slant six cars! But at least you're not destroying an R/T or Cuda! And the younger generations can see what these old cars can do!!
 
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