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Engine Bay Clean-up & Chassis Reinforcement Planning

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Richard Petty Tribute 1972 Dodge Charger Needs Help to Race Again! (It Has Serious Problems)

What happens here

With the engine and transmission removed, the team plans to power wash the engine bay and inspect the chassis thoroughly. They aim to identify any additional weaknesses, particularly around the frame and suspension mounting points. The immediate goals include replacing cheesy bolts with stronger ones and potentially adding extra support bars to the chassis, as well as installing new seat belts and refreshing the interior hardware, and ensuring that all hardware is securely fastened to prevent issues during racing.

Goal: Clean the engine bay and finalize plans for chassis reinforcement and interior safety upgrades.

Tools and materials

  • High-Grade Bolts — Replacing existing low-quality bolts
  • New Seat Belts — Upgrading safety features
  • Race Car Chassis Dodge — The frame of the vehicle requiring reinforcement
  • Support Bars — Adding extra chassis reinforcement

What they say

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if that says anything either i also grew up as a farmer so it's not like i'm well trained i grew up as an idiot on back roads with a lot of tickets and then we did the same thing yeah by trade i was a bad college student i didn't go to college i don't want a technical school so yeah i got a plumbing degree or i'm sorry certificate plumbing i don't want to bend this fender oh yeah oh yeah we're taking this thing to pebble beach i can't that's the fender oh let's go on the pike's peak what if we just crank it up a little bit yeah and it'll fall out yeah it'll buff crank that soldier boy i don't think that you could possibly bend anything else worse than it already is no it's fine i don't think that like this is you hit this it's no problem it does not matter back there can you see no you're you're not on anything it just hasn't picked up that's floating it just hasn't picked up that silent motor yet there you go there we go what are we hitting now nothing you're free keep going come back a little bit towards you and yeah yeah we may have to pull the distributor maybe okay so here we go monkey monkey [ __ ] football yeah that was exactly what i was thinking one of the early sucking ones that doesn't look like a t10 it looks like a poop junkie junk jump tomorrow or during the day or come over and sort some stuff out and you know we'll put that other motor and transmission and all that you know to deal together and then maybe tomorrow night we can drop that other motor back in there cool sound good to me and i'd go through this chassis and make a list of all the things that you think we need fixed and if we need to add a few bars to this to keep us uh you know we can um i don't think if there's anything we should do that would be easier with the engine out exactly i could do that now like power wash it yeah get it on casters not that that's gonna make it look any better i'd make a list and i say mitch if you want to come over during the day and start swapping out some of these cheesy ass bolts with some real bolts and some of this stuff and you can get the porta power out porter power from that side of the frame to this side and push these you know push this all back out i mean just make sure all that stuff ain't gonna come vibrating out of there i mean that don't even have a lock nut on it i get it i get it you're trying to do something and it's not but it don't tin snips work the same it don't cost nothing to run a pair of tin snips right or a rivet…

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