I REALLY LOVE YOUR CAR, THESE CHARGERS WERE NOT AS POPULAR AS THE EARLY ONES BUT WITH ME I'VE ALWAYS LOVED THE CHARGER FROM 66 TO 74 .I WILL ALWAYS BE A CHARGER FAN.😊
Love it! I have a 1972 Charger SE and I am in the process of putting a thermoquad on my mildly built 440 to replace the holley that on it now. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful car. I like the 3rd generation more than second. These Chargers look more modern and sporty. The got not so performant engines from factory but that's nothing what can not be changes if someone wants. This one look fantastic, very sleak design and look. Great job! 😊😍🥰
Nice Charger! I would add a Tuff steering wheel. Thermoquad is a nice carb. Have the stock unit in our Lil Red. The A57 Rallye option also included hood pins and the slotted exhaust tips. I had a 1974 Charger Rallye 400 Magnum, 4 spd pistol grip. KY5 yellow blaze with V6R graded reflective rallye stripe. Only bitch is the wheels. The 15 inch magnum 500 wheels would look killer on your car. Just my opinion. I miss the 4 spd!!! The hood stripe was painted via factory. Yours is a aftermarket styled after the 1971 hood stripe minus the Bee or R/T lettering. Nice the buzzer still works. Nice car!!
Love a factory 4-speed Charger like this. I have always leaned more toward drivability over massive performance. Did you ever sell this beauty? I also love your garage setup with the extra height and the 4-post lift. Nice!
I bought a new Dodge Charger (top banana yellow with black stripes, black interior) in February of 1973. The car came with 3:23 rear (should have been a 3:55). I wasn't impressed at all with its performance. I had traded in a 1969 Dodge Dart 340 Swinger that would have blown the doors off of my castrated stock Charger. The first thing I did was install an aluminum high rise intake manifold. I then installed a set of headers, then installed the off-road distributor that cranked in all the advance by 1800 RPM. I then installed a set of 4:10 gears. Lastly, I got rid of the Carter Thermo Quad (leaned down to the max). I couldn't find a strip kit for it to enhance its performance. The engine ran so damn lean. Plugs were white as a sheet, performance terrible, even after all the other mods, so I yanked it and installed an 800 CFM spread bore Holley. Man, did this carb make all the difference. No longer was my engine starved for gasoline. The stock cam left a lot to be desired. I was going to replace the cam, but before I got around to it I sold my Charger for a 454 Corvette.
Chargers were never fast strip cars. They are beautiful and my favorite. I have a 74 Rallye 440 torqueflite with the 3.55s and a 69 R/T SE 440-4 torquflite with 3.23s. Long wheelbase cars like the Charger are very front heavy and have poor weight transfer. They are great speedway cars but if you want to go fast at the strip, you need an A body or E body Mopar, short wheelbase and hundreds of pounds lighter. Every 100 pounds less is a 1/10 of a second. My 70 Duster 340 had a bench seat, radio delete, rubber floor cover, manual driver mirror, no spare tire or jack, smallest battery that would start it. Many a big block went home with their tail beteeen their legs. The thermoquad can take a bit of work, but will work fabulous. The real bottleneck are the 440 heads. 440s relied on high torque as opposed to hp. In fact the 440 was closer to 350 hp than 375. To make a 440 come alive as you said, it needs a good intake manifold, a different set of heads, and more cam.
Fuel. It used to be ok to use low octane..but to avoid ethanol, the cars need non-ethanol premium. Even a bit of that alchohol..being corrosive..will dmg anything & everything in the fuel sys. My dad wasn't convinced..until 10% ethanol regular ate a hole in his fuel filler tube! No kidding..on a 2001 Caravan..a steel filler tube. & it'll wreak havoc with fuel pumps..even on newer veh. A local mech replaces fuel pumps in cars at about 100k miles often, if the owner runs regular gas. Racers that run high % ethanol/methanol have to run non-ethanol through their systems prior to parking them, to avoid corrosion..esp fuel injectors can be ruined in no time, if left to sit for a week between drag race weekends, or whatevs. Same is true in regular passenger veh/trucks, of course.
Nice! I’d run the 4 speed behind the 440 as well. I have a ‘70 Charger R/T 440 Six Pack 4 speed, Dana. ‘72 was the last year for the 440 and 4 pedals. 😆
Please, turn the damn radio off, love the car though, I love the '71-'74 Dodge Chargers, Richard Petty made like those cars, DAMMIT!!! Mopar Nate Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
10:00 US Wheel has a model of wheel that looks exactly like these! I almost bought a set for my '70 440 powered (stock '77 New Yorker mill swap, cept with '74 Thermo-Quad, '69 magnum exaust manis, new milodon oil pump, new Howards billet steel dbl roller timing chain & sprocket set & a mid 90's mopar perf dist..before they ruined them & used miniaturized GM electronics) Fury Gran Coupe, in F8 green. I used Mirada 15x7, 11 spoke alloys instead with 255.60.15 Mastercraft Avengers..i think is the model tire. I haven't driven it since fall, ofc..I'm in Wisc. Leed brakes disc in front. It's funny, bc GTAV has this wheel in game, they call it the 'Kracka', lol. They're about the coolest looking wheel out there, imo. Lovely Charger! Try a metal, or polyurethane biscuit for the K isolators..it'll sharpen up the handling a lot..closer to the superior pre isolated cars. Thanks for the fabulous car tour! p.s. Thermo-Quad is the best street carb, extant. The air on demand secondaries..the phenolic resin body keeps the fuel cool..i bet extra important in AZ..run on & dieseling..all done away with. Like you said..driveability, reliability, mpg..they cant be beat, cept maybe via multi-point efi..which is big bucks.
For a few months I had a 1974 Charger for a shop class car. I only paid $400 for it but it was kind of interesting. It was an R/T model, and originally had a 400 engine but someone had put a 1973 440 in it. It was pretty well optioned for a 74, it had the center console, auto trans and AC, and it was the sandy tan color inside and out, with darker tan R/T stripes.
Hi Paul i would like to talk to you more about you charger but the phone number in the mopar collectors add doest work. Is there another way to contact you?
