I bought this car a few years back as an engine test bed, from when I was in the Mopar race engine building business. I wanted a car that we could quickly swap new engine formulas into, and take to the track for testing.

The car was built to run in a Street Car style class – (horn, brake lights, turn signals, parking lights, headlights, mufflers, etc…) where it would make a 20 mile trip, and then the laughing gas would be turned on for a couple of 8-second blasts on NOS. It was actually quite infamous in the St. Louis area for a while, before going to Detroit.

The Chassis was built by Jeffers Pro Cars in the St. Louis area – some years back. The motor is an Indy SR Head 440, DinVinchi carb, Jessel belt drive, and other trick parts. The transmission is a Pro-Race transbrake. Both engine and transmission had just been rebuilt and zero passes on them at the time I bought the car.

When we got the car – we took it to Houston Raceway Park for two passes (actually had planned on more – but a door latch broke and couldn’t be fixed at the track) on just the motor to make sure it was all good.

Shortly thereafter, I sold the engine building business, but my son was interested in running in that class, so we disassembled the car and the body was treated to a $20,000+ paint and body job. Everything was repaired, doors latches better reinforced, car was sanded smooth, properly primed, then the basecoat/clear coat in Guardian (Porsche) Red – before being color sanded. The paint is as smooth as glass and flawless. Show car quality – not race car quality.

A forum thread with progress photos of this build can be found at: http://www.moparstyle.com/forums/car-builds-progress-threads/9107-tube-chassis-barracudas-rebuild.html — it will answer a lot of questions.

While the engine was out – Damon from Diamondback Engines pulled the pan, a couple bearing caps and rod caps to verify we hadn’t been lied to – and he found the bearings to be all new. All other inspections of the engine also verified this motor had a professional rebuild. We didn’t pull the transmission apart – but you can see all new gaskets and it worked like a charm on the two test runs.

The car has been fully assembled, with any questionable part replaced with new. The fuel pump was sent to Barry Grant to be rebuilt and tested on a flow bench. Diamondback Engines tuned the motor. All of the NOS items are in place – but frankly since we’re all NSS racers – that’s above our pay grade to tune – and so we’ll leave that to the buyer. The chassis was NHRA certified in mid February 2011. The doors and front clip are fiberglass, and the windows are Lexan. Slicks have two easy passes on them.

As luck has it – my son became more interested in running Nostalgia Super stock, so I need to take a bath on what I have in this car. My loss will be someone’s gain. All this car needs is a new owner, for him to buy the harness and window net (color/style) of his choice, and take to the track to tune the NOS.

The best way to contact me is by email davetheoldhippiegmailcom. My cell phone is 713-899-7704 if you prefer. The price is for a quick sale and firm.

Delivery can be arranged – and I can keep it safely in my shop for a reasonable period of time.

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The Aspen was sold to a racer in West Virginia — and on it’s way to it’s new home.

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Photo of the actual headers on TTI’s mock up

To date, 2.125″ primaries have been the biggest headers for 63-65 Mopars, unless you wanted to spend over $3000 for a header tube kit, labor, and coating for custom headers. If you have the Indy 572-13 heads — you had to have custom headers made with the 572 flanges. I have custom 2 1/4″ headers on both Big Red Ram and the Texas Whale.

At the Monster two years ago — Dallas won a $500 coupon for TTI headers. I’ve been hawking Sam Davis at TTI for years now to come out with 2 1/4″ primary headers — and when I wanted to cash in my coupon — I twisted his arm again. I told him that Dallas has a low 9 second Coronet with a 572CI motor using 440-1 heads, and that I’d like for the car to have the best breathing headers I can get, have removable collectors and cut flanges for easy maintenance at the track, and the ability to continue using them if I put 572 heads on the car.

What Sam came up with is a set of headers that use 572 head flanges, have the primaries step from 2.25″ to 2.125″, have the flanges nicely trimmed for a front, rear, and pair of center tubes going into the massive collectors, and coated. It took a couple of stabs at it because we use a B&M deep transmission pan,  CSR Carbon Fiber trans shield, and a PPP shifter — so Sam bought those items for his mock up buck — and created a nice compact PPP shifter cable bracket that also is a CSR shield bracket. Very nice piece.

We were able to install this in Dallas’ 65 Coronet while on jack stands, by only removing the spark plugs. Nothing else needed to be loosened. It is a tight fit in the engine compartment, around the starter, and the transmission — but you don’t have a lot of real estate to work with in a 62-65 B-Body with all the race stuff, and that’s why TTI has resisted doing these for so long. We did need to switch from a full size Ram truck starter to a mini starter. We used a Powermaster 9523, which is clockable, but Sam assures me that the less expensive 9513 also fits. These are very nice headers — and we’re expecting to see some good performance gains from them.

Now that TTI has these headers mapped, they can make them for other Mopar 63-65 B-Body racers. Since they’ve made them to fit around carbon fiber trans shields, B&M deep transmission pans, and have a replacement for the biggest shifter cable bracket known to man — they should fit just about anything a NSS racer with a 63-65 B-Body has. Since these are semi-custom headers (440-1 or 571-13 flange, cut or uncut, coated or uncoated, polished or unpolished), I would suggest ordering directly from TTI until they have part numbers for the variations. I have no idea what they’ll be priced at — as Sam and I worked out a banner deal on my web sites plus the coupon — but it will certainly be less than full custom headers — and you don’t have to ship your car somewhere. I’m guessing less than 1/3 for custom coated headers.

Please remember — that for years TTI has been a good sponsor of the Dave Duell Classic. Combine that with the best breathing non-custom headers for a BB 63-65 Mopar — and TTI is one of the few working to help NSS Racers.

TTI’s Web Site

 

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Recap Of NSS Racing at 2010 Lonestar Shootout

Scan of the FSC Pages that covered Nostalgia Super Stock

From March 2011 issue of FSC – Permission given from Scott Sparrow 2/16/2011

 

Qualifying

 

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Recap – Click for larger version

 

 

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More On 00 Joe Ewing's Injury

I'm sure most of you have heard (was reported on both NSS sites and the NSS forum) about 00 Joe falling off his motorhome and breaking the ankle of one foot and the heel of the other. The first surgery was about two weeks ago.

Double O Joe will be having surgery on the other foot this coming Monday. Therapy will be a very long process. He will be in a wheel chair for some time, before he can even get to the stage of using a walker.

I'm sure Joe has the best wishes of all Nostalgia Super Stock Racers.

While NSS Racers and Nostalgia Drag Racers has all of this news, and has announced events like the Dave Duel Classic — it appears so few NSS racers check the site to keep up to date with what's going on. Quite a few members are asking questions long ago answered on these sites. I guess you can inform NSS Racers about where to find information regarding news and events specific to them — but you can't force them to read it. It would help if those of you informed about .00 Joe, the Dave Duell Classic, the 40+ NSS races listed in the events column of Nostalgia Drag Racers, the new NMCA points structure, rule changes, and other NSS News to contact those who are in the dark — and let them know what's going on. It is amazing how many haven't heard any of the recent news — and are calling to ask questions long ago answered. Need to get the grapevine working for those who are not Internet savvy.

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Sponsorship Announcement

Public Release

February 2, 2011

Dave and Dallas Schultz with MoparStyle Racing is pleased to announce a sponsorship deal was agreed to today between Royal Purple, Dave Schultz, and MoparStyle Racing for an associate sponsorship of the MoparStyle Racing team cars Vitamin C, Texas Whale, and Texas Black Magic.

Royal Purple manufactures high performance lubricants for most automotive, industrial, marine, motorcycle and racing applications. It is considered the best synthetic oil by many end users. We are proud to use the very best lubricants in our team cars, and happy to have Royal Purple’s support of our team cars.

In addition to the team cars, MoparStyle Racing also owns and operates the Mopar web community MoparStyle, and the nostalgia racing web sites NSS Racing and Nostalgia Drag Racers.

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If your total gross weight is greater than 26000 pounds, (and possibly if the trailer weighs over 10,000 pounds — but that isn’t clear) non-commercial vehicles are required to have the driver carry a Class A/Class B Exemption endorsement on their Texas Drivers License.

You might want to roll your fully loaded race ready rig across a truck stop’s scales to know where you stand. There has been a big increase of Texas DPS pick up with portable scales running around.

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