Racing – BigBlockMopar

Hurst Racing Tires on the ’60-NY

February 6, 2011 BigBlockMopar 0

Mounted the Hurst racing Tires on the ’60 New Yorker today. I wonder how they will hold up.

Vintage style Hurst Whitewall pie-crust Racing Tires with Astro Supremes on 1960 Chrysler NewYorker

Vintage style Hurst Racing Tires on Astro Supremes

August 21, 2010 BigBlockMopar 0

Here are some pic of the Vintage style Hurst Racing whitewall Tires mounted on a set of Astro Supreme wheels. I think this captures the old style dragtire and cool look very well. The wheels [more … ]

Hurst Racing Tires Dragradials

March 26, 2010 BigBlockMopar 0

For the ’60 Chrysler I had some special dragradials made by Hurst Racing Tires in California. They use a brand new tire on which they vulcanise a vintage style tireshape in a soft rubbercompound, perfectly [more … ]

Dodge Dart Right-rear Fender rust repair

Rust issues on the Dodge Dart’s rightrear fender were getting pretty severe since last year, so the time had come to do something about it, as much as I hated it…! The damage was serious [more … ]
Black wheels for the Dart

The wheels on the Dart have been taking a beating about every winter when roadsalt collects and eats into their paintlayer. Overtime, the wheels had become ugly and shabby looking because of that. For a [more … ]
1973 Dodge Dart Rust repair

The time had come to start fixing a number of rust issues on the Dart. First up was the passenger-side floorboard. The floorboard was already rusted and in bad shape when I bought the car [more … ]
Dodge Dart – DynoDay #4

Had the Dodge Dart on the chassis-dyno again last monday at Ludwig Performance in Hillegom, The Netherlands. This is DynoDay number 4 already! The very first DynoDay with the 318ci engine ‘managed’ a shameful 145hp [more … ]
A500 / 42RH OD-unit rebuild

After the transmission it was time to tackle the overdrive-unit. This unit is the 4th gear (overdrive) in the transmission, and has its own set of clutch plates. Overdrive can only be ‘selected’ with the [more … ]
A500 / 42RH Rebuild project

Finally received the transmission repairkit to start the planned rebuild of the A500/42RH transmission I had bought earlier. The A500 (or also known as 42RH) transmission is based on Chrysler’s ‘904’-smallblock transmission. The A500 has [more … ]
Mopar Nats 2018 in Herten, Germany

Here’s a nice video-compilation of the 2018 edition of the Mopar Nationals 2018 in Herten, Germany.
Radiator flushing with citric acid

A recent cooling issue with the 496ci stroker engine in the 1960 Chrysler New Yorker let me to investigate the cooling system a bit closer. The car would run hotter than normal and highway driving [more … ]
360ci Compression Test #3

The first attempt to do a cranking compression test on the 360ci engine resulted in varying values simply because it was too difficult to press the tester tightly against a sparkplug hole and crank the [more … ]
Frame rail damage

A few years ago I had noticed some cracks in the frame rails on the driverside and just a tiny crack at the rightside frame rails. Now during the 360-engine swap I noticed the rightside [more … ]