As the car was bought…
As delivered…
Some more pics…
Vintage Stock date-coded muffler…
Steering-linkage…
Paint scraping…
Painting the car a more serious color with a roller and some semi-flat housepaint…
Original 413 engine…yuck! No love to be found here…
Reinforced the motormounts ‘slightly’…
Freshened-up frontsuspension…
Checking tires for fitment…
Installed some ’71 Chrysler front seats in favor of the worn-down 250 lbs benchseat.
Engine-bay cleanup…
Before…
After…
Preparing 440-engine for engine-bay docking…
Engine-specs:
440, +.030″
Keith Black pistons, 11:1 cr,
Heads:
At first; 84cc Edelbrock Heads, but later on exchanged for iron ’915′ Heads, 1,74″ exhaust / 2.08″ intake valves.
Offenhauser dual 4bbl intake, 2 Carter 625cfm carbs.
Erson cam, mechanical, 256 @ .050″ dur. w/ .534″ valvelift.
1.5 Gold Crane rockers. ARP-bottom end. Fully balanced.
Stock crank and rods.
Thought about making some headers, ’cause no-one else does for this car…
Cutting up 2 sets of headers provide a lot of tube-material.
One set was of a b-body Mopar, the other of a Class A Motorhome, from which I used the collector-pieces…
Rear-axle cleanup…
New reinforced driveshaft…
DiscBrake-conversion (1973 Chrysler parts)…
Designing adaptor-plate to mount bracket on…
Trial-fitting / mock ups…
Computer-design of the adaptor-plate…
Final lasercut-result…
New front brakelines and linelock…
At the moment, the car is storage behind the garage because ‘Project-60′ came rollin’ in and I want to finish that first.
Also,
before the car went into storage, the 440-engine has been removed from the car as plans have changed.
At first I decided to make room for my 496″ stroker engine, but this engine has now been ‘down-tuned’ for now and will find it’s way into ‘Project-60′ for the time being.
Do you still have the 64 413. Looking for one. Mike Marini 978-360-6167
Good reading.
My brother just bought a 9-of-10 New Yorker like yours. Disc brakes upcoming.
He’s got a 2 door New Yorker hardtop in my garage (Canadian Hotrod)..Needs fixing.
Thanks for the good information. We shall amass pieces.
Lee Samuelson
tubalcain@ontis.com
780-352-1933
Wetaskiwin, Alberta
Currently I’m trying to sell my ’64 NY because I’ve just got too much projects going on in my garage at the moment. But no many are willing to buy a project car these days and especially not a ’64 Chrysler model.
Good luck with the brakes. What type of system are you going to install?
What rotors did you use? I have a 63 new yorker wagon I’m interested in putting discs on.
I used ’73 Chrysler rotors. The Aimco partnumber is in the pics above, ’5307′.
You have to upgrade to 15″ wheels when using these rotors though.
Awesome car! I just got a ’63 300. What wheels/tyres are you using at the back, they look spot on fitment. I wondered the width and backspace…
The wheels in the pics are cheap and simple black painted chrome modulars which a friend of mine had once modified the backspacing on for his ’70 Roadrunner.
I recall the wheels are 8J with about 4.5″ backspacing.
The tires are Mickey Thompson I-profile tires, size is around 205/60/15″.
I also have a pair of 325/50 tires which also fit fairly well on these wheels.