Posts by dana44
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Charger is a good one. I would actually keep the 400 over the 440, only thing wrong with the 400 was a lack of compression. Shorter stroke and larger bore than the 440, a stroker kit in a 400 fixes that without a problem if cubic inches is what you want, otherwise a 9:1 400 will outdo a stock 440 in most cases, and is a little tougher overall (in my opinion) and a little bit lighter overall (around 75-80 lbs off the nose if memory serves me right). Still your call, but complete teardown design is pretty decent for this B body, front suspension and front K member/frame rails are on rubber biscuits and shortens the car up dramatically when working on the body/on a rotisserie. Poly bushings and larger diameter torsion bars really help the handling of these cars, I love the improvement of the cornering in my '68 Charger after I poly bushed and increased the torsion bars to 1.14 inch diameter.
As far as the truck goes, sandblast and epoxy prime first, trucks are pretty easy because they come apart in design by bed, cab, front clip, and frame, so a portion at a time can be done, the rest left out of the way. You can buy each and every piece of sheetmetal for them, and there are tons of parts in yards, lots of years cover the supply.
The Mach 1 will cost you more to do anything to than the Charger so keep that in mind when deciding what to do with her. You will find no difficulty finding parts again, but be prepared to pay for a majority of them, including used parts for sale, it's that Mach and Mustang that does it, but is it a numbers matching and what running gear does she have, some of the combinations can be worth quite a bit of money so mods may not be worth it for value retention.
As far as the truck goes, sandblast and epoxy prime first, trucks are pretty easy because they come apart in design by bed, cab, front clip, and frame, so a portion at a time can be done, the rest left out of the way. You can buy each and every piece of sheetmetal for them, and there are tons of parts in yards, lots of years cover the supply.
The Mach 1 will cost you more to do anything to than the Charger so keep that in mind when deciding what to do with her. You will find no difficulty finding parts again, but be prepared to pay for a majority of them, including used parts for sale, it's that Mach and Mustang that does it, but is it a numbers matching and what running gear does she have, some of the combinations can be worth quite a bit of money so mods may not be worth it for value retention.
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