Performing a simple intake change on my Charger
I bought a nice Edelbrock STR14-6 Crossram intake a while ago and since the season is over here and the weather sucks now i took the old intake off the engine today with the intention to install this:
The overall height including, the aircleaner assembly, with the Edelbrock Six Pack intake is 28cm. The complete assembly with the STR14-6 is 33,5cm. Sure doesn´t fit under the OEM hood.
That´s why i testfitted this:
I still have the old hood that came with the car when i bought it, so i don´t need to cut the nice one. Picked it up at my parents house to see how it will work out.
At least i manged to testfit the base without any problems the first today :laugh:
Working on the hood. There was lots of bondo on it and it got a lot lighter when everything was removed.
I also discovered that my 6 pack aircleaner isn´t sitting centered in my engine bay. For die hard mopar guys a well known fact but new to me. I decided to not just cut the aircleaners space requirement out of the hood but all the metal in the section where the scoop will be mounted at.
Another problem was the top lid. The carbs are mountend on an angle, which is compensating for the angle the engine is sitting in it´s bay.
I would have to modify my aircleaner base to make it fit. But since the linkage of the carbs won´t have enough space to move anyways i prefer to just modify the intake lid it´self with a milling machine and get rid of the carburators mounting angles and also cut a channel into the stiffening piece.
Took care of the angle the carbs were mounted at first the next day. The milling machine was quite fun to work with.
I also installed the see thru plugs for the float bowls. Had them at home for half a year already and never felt like installing them. We also changed the main jets from 62´s to 64´s since the car was running a little lean when idling.
Then i took care for having enough space to move the carb linkage.
Last but not least i also ran into the problem that i couldn´t mount the fuel lines. But that was only a small
problem a grinder solved within 5 minutes
Then i put everything back together.
Today i drilled the holes for the accelerator cable and kick down linkage bracket
Then i mounted everything in the car and checked it for clearance and if everything was moving without resistance
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