Prince Valiant

Everyone know Hal Fosters stories about Prince Valiant. Would he have used our new purchase as workhorse nowadays? Of course, nice red interior with fancy mopar mats, airconditioning, auto trans and v8.


1966 Plymouth Valiant V100


1966 interior

Hot Rod Hangar

Knud Tiroch and his son Dominic will run a Reality Soap called "Hot Rod Hangar" from on 7th of January 2008 on SAT1 channel. Main content will be driving not wrenching. No easy task with old cars :-) BTW " Hey dude, yes Knud I mean you, there is still a new 440engine waiting in my garage to burn rubber of your Challengers rims off. Pick it up"



Teaser

727TF transmission

Overhaulin the 70' Cuda Torqueflite transmission was an easy task. It takes some hours to inspect all the parts and change clutches, seals and some bearings. Due to low milage all of the hard parts were in pretty good shape.


Insideview


valuable scrap

67' Barracuda

67 Barracuda Formula S package, 273 Commando V8, column shift, Torqueflite tranny, this car I owned in the early 90s, selling it later to my friend Ali who restored it to high standard. It got a nice color, dogdishcaps and a healthy exhaustsound too. Watch the Vid or take a look at Alis Blog. http://schwarzlackenau.blogspot.com/

Overhaulin 70'Cuda 383

Overhaulin Austrian Style, the fish will be restored without hurry and with knowledge of the owner, no prank, no con-Foose-ion, seven months instead of seven days, it will cost hard earned money and in the end nobody will yell "Oh my god".
I have to take care of the 383ci Commando engine and the 727TF transmission. Just a basic overhaul to stock specifications with some blueprinting.


383 HiPo Fish

Superrare...

...carbon Mopar W8 intake auctioned DownUnder goes for about 1000Euros. Built for a handful of Chrysler LeMans engines used in the Dallara SP1, which competed successfully 4th place overall in the 2001 LeMans Endurance Race. There is not much known about this engines rather than they were similar to detuned USAC Silver Crown engines.

Engine
Engine Builder: JOHN CALDWELL CDI
Manufacturer: MOPAR
Type: LEMANS
Displacement: 365
Horsepower: 650+
Torque: 500+
Induction: CARBON FIBER INTAKE MANIFOLD WITH EFI
Heads: CUSTOM RAISED PORT W8 HEADS FOR LEMANS ONLY
Block: MOPAR ALUMINUM MADE FOR LEMANS
Main Caps: PROGRAMS BILLET CROSS BOLTED
Crankshaft: LA ENTERPRISES BILLET 3.37 STROKE
Connecting Rods: CARRILLO
Pistons: CP CUSTOM
Camshaft: LSM
Valves: 2.18 1.625 DELWEST TITANIUM
Valve Train: JESEL AND T&D
Races: 1


Ebay auction


Mopar Lemans engine


Dallara SP1

Enjoy again ...

the big bad fat Olympia Charger qualifying at Nuerburgring 2007.


qualifying run

My first V8 car

... a 1967 Dodge Coronet 500 Coupe, 318ci 2bbl. engine, auto trans. I couldnt afford the car alone, so I bought it together with a friend. Insurance and tax costs were really high 1985.


Me 1986

Congratulations

to the Olympia Charger team who finshed 25th overall out of 65 competitors at Le Mans classic 2006. Enjoy the big fat Charger roaring down Mulsanne.


Le Mans lap 2006

Olympia Charger

Next weekend 7-9th July the Olympia Charger with Christophe Schwartz at the wheel will hit LeMans. Take a look at Le Mans Classic 24 Hours for further info and results. Good luck to you and your team!



Practice at Le Mans

Mopar goes Le Mans

The McGriff Dodge Charger that ran the 24 hours in 1976 will run again at Le Mans Classic in 2006!



For full coverage visit http://www.olympia-charger.com/

440 Swap '72 Charger complete

Ready to eat rice

Status 440 Swap '72 Charger

The bigblock 440 is sitting now in the Chargers enginebay. Hooker Super
Competition headers fit quite well. 727 tranny is still out of car. The
transmission tunnel was welded too small during former rustrepairs. I
have to say that the hole car is a piece of crap. I have not seen one
part where I can say whow this one looks nice. Bad chrome, bad interior,
no options, 4 drums without power, 14" wheels, .....
Buhuuu... I am really sad to put my nice little 440 in that car.

Is there anybody out saying "money stinks" ?!

440 T&C engine ready for installation

The overhauled 75' 440 T&C engine is given a new home in a 72' Charger the next days.
Engine has STD bore size mild streetable Crane cam 114LSA and about .500 lift, topped with 2.14 IN, 1.81 EX hardened seat insert 906 heads and Mopar dualplane intake. Nothing fancy for longlasting troublefree operation.

On the picture you see the engine was given a trial fit of the hilborn injector manifold to take measurements for my future Jensen 500ci EFI Hilborn project.


Draw a deep breath !

Most stylish Mopar website

Thanks to D.Behlau this is the most stylish Moparsite in Europe.
Hurry up click the link for this mind-blowing eyecandy.

440ci for 73' Barracuda

Last evening we assembled the 440ci engine for a customers 73' Barracuda. Engine got a standard performance job. SpeedPro forged, coated 060 over pistons for a 9.5 to 1 static compression ratio. Pocket ported 452 heads with 2.14, 1.81 stainless valves, new valvetrain and pushrods. First time I use not a proven camshaft design and opted for a new hydraulic grind from CompCams. Named Xtreme Energy XE274H 230/236@50 110LSA 488/491 lift. Should be good for lumpy idle and at least 400nethp with 1 3/4 headers. Intake will be dualplane M1 with 750cfm 3310 Holley and half inch spacer. Completion next week.

New camshaft

A new camshaft was orderd today for the 500ci wedge engine in my Jensen Interceptor. The cam is a custom grind Compcams with 241/247@050/112LSA and 545/545 lift. It is very similar to my current cam Engle 238/244@050/108LSA and 537/545 lift except the fact that the new cam has less overlap to recover idle, vacuum. Should be more suitable to the future Hilborn EFI setup.
I will run the new cam with 1.6 rockers for a total of 581 lift.

Ringfailure Jensen engine

Picture of ringfailure during a 175hp nitrous shot on my 440ci Jensen engine. A quarter inch of chrome came off the SpeedPro topring, most of it was sticking to the piston ringland. Produced a loud squeaking noise at low engine speeds.

All that happened during quartermile run on Pannonia racetrack at end of 2003 season.

Projects

current

- building 440ci engine for 73 Barracuda
- building 440ci engine for a bigblock swap 72 Charger
- servicing Georges #69 Mustang
- assemble & install Josephs headrepaired Aston Martin Vantage engine
- bring my Suzuki Katana 1100 back on the road

future

- fitting hilborn EFI to my Jensen Interceptor
- testing new camshaft in Jensen Interceptor
- restoring old dragster chassis "Ratcatcher" for display
- decision if 75' T&C Chrysler will be kept alive
- restoring 65' Buick tail for display

440ci problem solved!

The 440's overheating problem was a haircrack in the exhaust valveseat of cylinder #4. I have often seen haircracks on Chrysler bigblock heads but this one goes down to the water passage. heads are unleaded 452 castings. Will switch to 906 castings with 2.14, 1.81 valves. Engine will go into a 72' Charger. No decision yet for cam and setup.