Startin to work on the Clone Runner (it's PAINTED!)

71Beeper · Post by **71Beeper** » Sun Apr 03, 2022 2:50 pm

Man, its great having a neighbor that has an industrial size sand blasting cabinet at home.

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Got the pieces blasted and ready for paint.

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71Beeper · Post by **71Beeper** » Mon May 09, 2022 8:53 pm

So the time has finally come for me to get my engine broken in.
I took it in to a buddy I went to high school with that owns an engine machine shop.
It's located in Fonthill, Ontario.

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So Friday night I get the engine off the stand and hooked up to the engine hoist.

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Next was to get it in the back of the minivan and onto the cradle.

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71Beeper · Post by **71Beeper** » Mon May 09, 2022 8:58 pm

Saturday morning I arrive to his shop.
Unload the engine and get it ready to go into the dyno room.
Here is the dyno room.

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Here's the engine mounted to the dyno.

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Here is Al checking rocker arm clearance.

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We primed the engine to get oil everywhere it needed to be and the result oil pressure was this.

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Got the engine fired and put thru it's heat cycles.
That was it for Saturday.

71Beeper · Post by **71Beeper** » Mon May 09, 2022 9:03 pm

If any members here read the magazine RPM....Als shop was featured in thier June of 2021 edition.
They had a display of the article in the dyno control room.

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Anyway, I come back Sunday and Al has already put the inner valve springs back on the engine.
The inners were left out by the guy who put the engine together because of the solid cam its running it would be easier on the valvetrain during break in.
BUT we have a problem....

The underside of the rocker arms hit the valve retainers.

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71Beeper · Post by **71Beeper** » Mon May 09, 2022 9:14 pm

So over we go to the machine shop and Al grinds away a relief in the area that was hitting on all of the rocker arms.

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Next I put the rockers back on their shafts and line them up with their respective valves.
Al does the rocker clearance once again - .012" on the intakes and .014" on the exhausts.
Then fire up the engine and get the first pull.

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423 horse at a touch over 5000rpm. I'm

Now, Al wants to put a small phenolic spacer under the 800 Holley. It's about 1/4" thick.
Next pull....

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441 horse! a 20 horse increase with just a tiny spacer!
One last thing and tweak the timing to have 37 degrees total.
Bam......

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460 horse and 480 ft lbs of torque!
Can't wipe the smile off my face.
It's just a 0.030 over 360 with 340 J heads and a solid cam......
Now its

time.

71Beeper · Post by **71Beeper** » Sun May 15, 2022 7:42 pm

So this weekend I had some time to put together the steering column.

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Got a new turn signal unit for as the old one was broken.

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Cleaned up the turn stalk with a little mothers polish.

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All in all not too bad and not to hard to do.

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71Beeper · Post by **71Beeper** » Sat May 28, 2022 8:57 pm

I installed the pot coupler today.

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And the finished column.......finally.

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71Beeper · Post by **71Beeper** » Sat May 28, 2022 9:01 pm

Moving on to the dash cluster.
I had to make a new gasket.

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And fit it like so.

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Bought a glove box at a local Mopar swap meet.

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Got the proper screws ready.

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Put it all together.

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71Beeper · Post by **71Beeper** » Sun Jun 05, 2022 4:39 pm

I had some time today to install the dash cluster & wiring harness holder into the dash frame.

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71Beeper · Post by **71Beeper** » Sun Jun 12, 2022 7:22 pm

Today, I was going to attach the wiring harness to the back of the cluster.
The original harness was hacked by the previous owner when he turned the car into a drag car.
So I bought one from a member on Moparts site.
He assured me that there were no issues with this harness.
Well, I found issues...in the back of the fuse box.

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As you can see, the red connection looks like its had some excessive amps going thru it.
And some electrical tape to add an additional wire.

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So I dug out my original fuse box which was in better shape.

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And switched over all of the connections.

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71Beeper · Post by **71Beeper** » Sun Jun 12, 2022 7:23 pm

Its much better now.

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71Beeper · Post by **71Beeper** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 7:51 pm

Now its time to attach the wiring harness to the dash cluster.

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As I started attaching wires in their proper places, everything started out going smoothly.
I plug in the headlight switch and the wiper switch, no issues there.
I go to plug in the heater motor and the dash lights for it and I run into a problem.
Now as most of you go know (or maybe didn't) that the heater control for 1971 cars is different from the 1972 cars & up.
The blower motor switch is above the heater control levers and mounted in a horizontal pattern.
Here's what it looks like on the back.

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Now I see I have one dash light bulb and socket but not two as required.
Then it dawned on me.......this harness is for a 1972 B-body.
So now I call up a friend who has some B-body harnesses he's collected over the years and ask him if he has the 2 sockets and blower motor switch plug that I need.
He texts me back this picture.

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Okay, what about the blower switch plug? he says you have to come to house and we'll have a look.
So, I go over there and we find a nice 1971 Charger SE harness and lo & behold the plug I need.

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But this harness has not been cut so he will not cut it for me. But at least I know what I'm looking for.
I buy the 2 light sockets and go home.
Well after a nights sleep I'm back at it and thought to go and look at the original wiring harness that came with the car.
Well holy crap

look what I find...

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I've had it all along and the other end that plugs into the resistor is the correct one.
So one little splice and we are back in business.

71Beeper · Post by **71Beeper** » Thu Jun 30, 2022 8:06 pm

At least the rest of the wiring harness plugs went to their respective places.

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Plus I did by pass the amp gauge.

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71Beeper · Post by **71Beeper** » Wed Jul 06, 2022 1:52 pm

So I come to find out that this so called 1971 wiring harness that I bought turns out to be a 1973 wiring harness..

The way I came to that conclusion is because of the door jamb switches.
For 1971 the drivers side door jamb switch is a 3 prong unit.
The passenger side jamb switch is a 2 prong unit.
When I looked at my wiring harness this is what I have on the drivers side:

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2 wires.
This is what I have on the passenger side:

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One wire.
This was the setup for 1973 cars.
Not a big deal actually cause I'll use one of my existing jamb switches and order a 1 wire switch from Amazon.

71Beeper · Post by **71Beeper** » Wed Jul 06, 2022 2:01 pm

While I'm waiting for the dash pad to come in along with other bits to finish up the dash assembly, I'll get started cleaning up my wiper linkage.
I am converting to a 3 speed wiper motor set-up.
That means my existing 2 speed wiper linkage will not work.......BUT wait a minute.
There's a guy in Montreal that sell a kit that will convert a 2 speed linkage setup to a 3 speed.
The kit consists of a 1/2" dia steel plug along with a new bushing and drivers to install said bushing.
You weld the plug in on the linkage arm where the big hole is.
You can see the welded in plug at the bottom of this picture.

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You can also see the new bushing near the top of the photo along with the 2 drivers.
I also drilled the hole for the bushing - You do get dimension locations on where to drill the new hole.
Before I install the new bushing I'm going to take the rest of the linkage apart and get it cleaned up and ready for paint.

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