Category Archive: Project Cars, Raven Imperial, Unhinged
Unhinged: How R&R Can Get You Back Into Gear In Ways You’d Never Expect
Have you ever gotten to a point with your project that it seems that you’re running around in circles? You want to work on something, so you walk out to the car. Let’s see…I could...
Project Angry Grandpa: How Did Our Billet Technology Catch Can Do?
It’s been about a month since we installed the Billet Technology catch can onto our 2006 Chrysler 300C, and in that matter of time we’ve driven the car well over 3,000 miles in varying...
Billet Technology’s Oil Catch Cans For Mopar 5.7 and 6.1 Hemi Engines Are Easy-To-Install Insurance
Would you pour a capful of oil down the carburetor of your hot rod? Of course you wouldn’t. So why would you let the same thing happen to your daily driver? Oil vapor, along with other...
Project Angry Grandpa: Running For Broke At Wilmington – The Final Baseline Test!
Taking our project 2006 Chrysler 300C to a land-speed racing event at first doesn’t seem right, does it? It’s too heavy to be that impressive, it’s still pretty much stock, and we...
Project Raven: We Tear Into The Big-Block And Learn That All Is Not Well
After dragging home the $400 400ci Chrysler big-block for our 1983 Imperial, we knew without a doubt that we were in for a big engine build…not the blower-and-power type of big build, but the...
Project Angry Grandpa: Our Crotchety Chrysler Gets New Brakes And New Tortion Struts For His 100,000th Mile!
Ok, in the spirit of being honest, we’re a few hundred off of the magical 100,000 mile mark with our 2006 Chrysler 300C, but it is a good testament to both the care that the car received from...
Project Raven: Things Just Got Serious – Our Imperial Is Getting A Big-Block Swap!
Project Raven, our 1983 Imperial coupe, has had a nice winter slumber. A combination of winter weather, holiday season fun and anger at what was found when the 323ci V8 was disassembled combined to...
Project Angry Grandpa: We Put Grandpa On The Lie Detector (For A Baseline Run)
When the opportunity to take cheap dyno runs presents itself, you take it, and that’s exactly what landed in our lap as we were in Somerset, Kentucky covering the first of this year’s...
Project Buford T Justice: The Long Arm Of The Law Gets Longer With A Stroker Build – 388ci Of Budget Fun
By the end of last summer, it was pretty clear that something had to be done with the existing power plant in my trusty Buford T Justice 1987 9C1 Chevy Caprice. The thing was literally pumping oil...
Project Angry Grandpa: Helping The Old Man Breathe Better With A Spectre Cold Air Intake
In order for the 5.7 inside of our Chrysler 300C to make noise and tire smoke, the engine has to breathe, simple as that. We first started by letting it exhale better with the Magnaflow exhaust, and...
Project Angry Grandpa: We Take Our 300C To The NCM Motorsports Park For Some Exercise!
(Track photos of the car courtesy of JRP Photos) Testing a two-ton RWD car on a racetrack on a cold morning in late January sounds like the dumbest idea in the world. Tires won’t be up to...
BangShift Project Files: Hemi Joel’s 1932 Plymouth Is An Exercise In Having It All In One Package
“Hemi Joel” Nystrom is one of BangShift’s more well-heeled forum members. That’s not a dig at him either, as he is a through-and-through gearhead: as far as I am aware of, he...
Project Angry Grandpa: Our 300C Gets A New Fuel Tank – If You Have A Late-Model Hemi Mopar, You Might Want To Check This Out
At first I thought I managed to miss a shift with a manu-matic. Leaving a gas station a week ago, I had our project 300C in the “shift-it-youself” mode with the traction control off, ready to go...
