Originally Posted by TurboRon25
Steve hit the nail on the head. I bought the car in 1995 and daily drove it till 2004-5?? Help me out on this Steve since I blew it up at your house giving your friend a ride.....After that I pulled the engine and it just went down hill after that. Worked on it when I could and when money was available. The digital dash show is from a car a friend of mine bought new and totaled it three months after he bought it. It was then stripped down to the shell and junked. Everything else was kept. He hung onto it for many many years saying he intended to build something. Out of the blue one day he called me up and asked if I was interested. 2004 I think it was, I said yes and paid $2800 for everything. I ended up selling the engine for $1700. There is a LOT of that car in this one. I spliced almost all of the switches, from doors to window to turn signal switch as these were nice and pretty with the white words still on them. The dash shows the miles when the other car met its maker. I originally had 142,000 on the car but it was somewhat more than that as the odometer stopped working for quite some time, so I am not sure exactly how many miles it had on it. Other than almost all of the interior I used only the tranny driveline wise. The exterior paint is still from when it was painted in 1999, just had it buffed out. It is one of the reasons I am a firm believer you get what you pay for when it comes to paint. Steve, still messing around with different computers trying to get it close to what I want before I hit the dyno. Currently spiking to 28PSI and resting at 25PSI for the rest of the fun. A/F is is 10.3-10.8 range and I know there is more left if I get it a little leaner. I have the fuel pressure turned down as low as I can go with it still starting when warm. So I still need to get another cal with a little more fuel pulled. It is a total hoot to drive and much much stronger than before. I fight a bit of lag but when it comes in or I brake boost hang on. Myself and Reaper1 were fooling around about a month ago looking for trouble, never did find any that gave me problemsI forget how many miles Brent's car has, but it has seen daily driver use until he got his hands on it and restored it some time ago. Then, totally restored the car just recently. The 4,700 miles you may be thinking of is of another '89 Shelby Daytona he grabbed the interior/drivetrain from a wrecked car.
I see the cargo cover looks mint, Brent! How did you manage to clean it up so well? I remembered it was stained with "chicken feces" from the Daytonas me and Jaimie partedThere are quite a few locals that were surprised by an old four banger, in true TD fashion. The only thing I regret is the DD pressure plate, it is a biotch to shift, clutch is fully enguaged about 1/2 inch away from the floor board and I always feel like the cable is going to snap at any moment. I have about 2K on it now and everything you put inside the engine is still inside it
I still have an issue in hard right turns with the driver side axle bottoming out against the diff. I have pulled it a few times and trimmed a bit off the end. Each time it had gotten better, just need to do it some more. Other than that I am 150% pleased. Still trying to make it to SDAC this year but nothing is final yet. If I do go I will be meeting up with the guy I bought the car from and cruise up there with him in his 89 GTC TII Lebaron 568 swap. Ironically he is the one that bought the engine from the wrecked car from me, and it now resides in the Lebaron as his old TII was getting tired. Hey I still have those spring perches.....
Yes sir it did donate the dash. As for the price I do not know, but knowing what I spent with no labor, way more than you will probably ever get out of it....but it sure does turn some heads. I have had a lot of non Mopar people give me props and tell me stories of the car that was owned by them, mother, cousin, uncle, ect of how bad @ss and fun that car was, so it makes me feel good.
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