I use to own a 1975 road Runner mine had a 400 4 bbl with duel exhaust with a automatic it was the best engine you could get in the car it had lots of options too. I got it from my uncle he bought it used in 1977 and owned it till he gave it to me for my 16 birthday because as a kid I use to love it so he gave it too me and I had it till 2010 and sold the car that was in bad shape but I kept the 400 and 727TF out of it.
I've been reading a lot about those smogger era 400s, and they're amazing engines. The bottom end on those things is stronger than any of the big block Mopars other than the Hemi. You can stroke then to 451 or 512 cubic inches too. Definitely keep it.
@@TheCarFarm I'd totally keep the 360! It looks kind speedy with the 4bbl tunnel ram and headers. It probably has a cam too. Although I'm willing to bet that it's the totally wrong cam for that tunnel ram setup. That said I think if you got it running right and got it to a dyno just to see what it does you'd be in the 300-325hp range. With some fine tuning, some head work, and getting all the parts to work together in harmony, I wouldn't be surprised if you managed to get 400hp out of it. 400 horsepower for 400 dollars sounds like a fun challenge!
@@JK-sc8th i think we will take it to the dyno. There's more of the car coming, but we gotta finish Richards car first. Stay turned. There's even something better coming, too.
No its not so much the value of the old parts its the price ya pay in time & sanity are the real issues making old junk work again. I should know I do it for a living....
I bought a 1975 Dodge Charger for $185 in 1994. Blue on blue with a 225 slant and a 3 speed auto. Slow as hell and not very good on gas. Very similar car, the only difference I can see is the position of the front turn signals. Mine were located in the bumper below the single round headlights.
A guy here locally had one out back of his house under one of those plastic temp canopy storage areas. I just saw it last week on my way down to a small engine shop to get filters for my tractors. Its all in Primer sitting next to a 71 or 72 Fury car now all in primer. The Fury must have been behind the Charger car. I think the guy must pull em inside during the winters and work on em because they were real garbage when I first saw em. The Fury deff got new quarters put on it. When I first say that car the quarters were cut clean off it. So the guy is spending some really serious cash on em... Have not a clue what they look like under the hoods but seeing the work the guy is doing along with seeing something long dead like them cars come back to life is a really nice feeling for me. I restore old pickups and it is getting very expensive too....
We lost a lot of footage on this one, unfortunately. What color is your interior? We haven't decoded the trim tag yet and suspect one of the tags may not belong to that car - need to research it.
I have a 72 NHRA with the 2 Carter AFB 440 package which is also a rare car but mine was in really nice shape just the engine acted kooky as hell like this one in the video and it had one huge rear main seal leak which back when I got the car I was just 19 years old some old timer he charged me like $500 bucks back then to put a new rear seal in it. Its still holding too. The carbs and linkage was all messed up when I got the car and when I would come home on leave from the military my dad and I replaced all that over a year or two... I haven't started the car going on 10 15 years now its tucked away under covers and old blankets down in my dads basement collection at his place. If anyone wants to know what an NHRA RR is they have the super bird wing on the rear and the Richard Petty with the hat profile is etched in the rear roll up windows with a factory roll bar, the other feature is the NHRA factory installed front license plate. The vin however does not match records in 72. The vin says its a 71 RR number with a 383 engine code which there has been a few Mopars Dusters and Demons Darts alike that were Dealer built in Michigan and Canada that stuff does not match up like the Chargers mostly do. Mine seems to fall under that strange dark cloud of mysteries. One can easily tell the car is not some fake the factory trans cross member is for the 4sp trans so it was NOT some regular Sebring car made to look like a RR it is a RR just dates & codes do not match up as does the paint code has the car as the grass green color when it is in fact silver & flat black along the bottom and on the hood. But the seats R frog sheet green inside the car, with a factory bench seat not buckets as one would expect. What gives more evidence is peel the carpet back and the floors are silver. peel the roof liner back the primer is gray not red as if the car would have been green they used red primer under the green paint as far as other cars I investigated. What an old timer told me about the Sebring body RRs is the fact some of em were destined to be Hiway Patrol police cars that had the bigger engines & manual trans in em. Back from 71 thru 73 we were going thru the gas crisis so the factory switched the cars around that had their orders canceled and made em performance cars which were actually still selling. He said the Sebring body style was never meant to be a RR car at all. Talking to other folks it is highly plausible. The Sebring body RRs are among the most controversial cars to even own but I accept the gas/oil crisis as very highly plausible explanation as to why the vin codes may conflict with the cars themselves. Chrysler was a bit like Ford in the 70s when it came to cop cars they were only in their infancy of marking special production runs unlike GM was years ahead on that scale. Chrysler did in fact have some special order codes back then but those codes were just for established customers orders and not each and every production run. Chrysler like AMC relied heavily on dealers to install special options even AC in some cases the factory made kits for dealers to install back in the 60s & early 70s. Mid 70s they started factory options available on almost all their cars but not until the mid 70s...
That's very nice find guys and they are getting more popular and theirs definitely not a whole lot of them around i think you guys will do pretty well with this car. Good luck and Happy Holidays Guys
Don't mind me... Originality guy here. lol, I've always wanted one. I love the oddballs... But yeah 1 year only OOF. That's like finding parts for a 73-75 Grand am or 78-79 Magnum XE > Impossible!!! I'm surprised to see it has that console, and buckets with Power Everything!? Minus A/c Delete? Usually, that was Std Options. Wow. Malaise-era cars like these are so rare now and starting to actually gain quite a bit of value. Still really want a Magnum XE or This, a 75 Monaco would be killer too.
It's not terribly unique - it's still a B-body underneath, and various Dodges and Plymouths externally. I don't think we're concerned about finding any parts that we don't already have.
Engine Masters did a test with a tunnel Ram with single 4bbl and dual 4bbl. The test with the single 4bbl did run lean improper fuel distribution in all cylinders.
I saw it. This was filmed last early fall. But then I talked to Richard about that exact issue, and I think his tests had different outcomes. But don't qoute me.
The hot 360 was code E58 that was the 4bbl with duel exhaust at 230hp. My 400 had the E68 code it was 240hp that was the biggest and best those cars had back in the smog years
Ol car looks pretty solid for an Ohio vehicle. I'd enjoy having it although the rear springs was bad about rustn through the trunk and that pretty much ended all of em...I haven't seen one of em for alot of years. 1st thing I'd check out is the trunk floor and rear spring shackles...I think it's going to be in pretty decent shape for a 1975
Hey, just found your Channel. It looks like you are having fun. I have a pic of the way the pulleys run on non AC cars, if you still need it. It's nice to see someone playing around with a 75 and later Mopar.
Folks is sayin ya get free corn snake in the mail if ya watch these videos.. I haven't figure out how to email anything like that yet let alone a corn snake..
@@RustyZipper Yáll just don't want me to unzip mee trouser and prove ya wrong mate... Wee Americans possess some garden hose size nightmares ladies more than enjoy.
I had one just like that 2door with 318V8 it was like a lite blue color with black vinyl top with blue cloth interior but mine had the 2 square head lights in the front one on top of each other I forgot the year but I regret ever selling it i was 23yrs old when I had it I'm 52 now don't see them around anymore
I have a 75 Fury I drive daily. I used to love it, but now it's being a pain in my ass leaving me stranded constantly. Guess I can't complain though cuz she sat 21 years dormant before my bro in law rescued it from a junk yard. Mines surprisingly in good shape for sitting so long. I'm sure few of these cars exist today. So many people that stop me say they've never seen a car like mine before. I never saw one either. When my bro in law sent me pics of it before selling it to me, I thought it was a Monte Carlo cuz of the taillights. Lol. Anyway....time for me to leave for work. Takes forever to get my car started. 😫 My cars name is Mrs Backfire. Lol
You need to keep that that is a one year only deal that's definitely going to go up in value for what you paid for it to tell around it's worth that that's cool I would get it running and driving and drive it I would say 80% of the people at a car show won't even know what the hell it is that's cool Uncle Tony would like it
I had a yellow one like that and when I 1st got it I tuned it good and it ran pretty durn good for just a 318 engine but the color of it pretty much tuned it into a lemon cause although it ran like a scalded dog I always had brake problems with it but other than that, it wasn't no slouch lol. I sold it to a friend of mine for real cheap and he kept having brake problems to. I put all new lines from a new master cylinder all the way around the thing and the brakes would get hard as a rock like they do when the engine is off and it was a trip when it happened. He was at a bar and someone ran off the road and rear-ended it so hard that the rear bumper was purt near in the back seat lol...That's the only good luck that he had with the car cause the person who hit it, their insurance paid my friend waaaaay more than he paid for and he ended up with a better vehicle. After it got totalled I found out why the brakes didn't work like they should have worked. I didn't think a thing about the brake booster bein bad on it cause the insurance company let him have the car back and I ended up with another one and I put all the brakes on the other car, brake booster and all and it did the same thing that the ye
Nobody likes em? That Thing is very cool, sth one doesnt See all the time, plus its a Roadrunner, nice Interior too. I Like it. Maybe it has got a Race cam?
We're sorry to have mislead you! We're just guys with A.D.D, too many cars and poor self-control - so yeah, I suppose that's normal for car guys. Tell your friends - we need the ad revenue.
FYI you can't take a used lifter from another engine and put it in another engine and expect it to work it's just going to round he lobe on the cam and dig into the lifter the proper way is to get a new cam and lifters or a good used cam and lifters but the way you guys did it will not work it will be fubar in a matter of minutes with it running
@@TheCarFarm the road runner came with a specific paint job an hood, I had fury, black with a burgundy half roof, the car in the video doesn't have the paint or the hood. Looks like a fury to me.road runners came with that body style, the grill an paint are different.
I think the rings are sticking and a port of the transmission flood down in the cylinders and put spark plug back in and turn them over you might smoke like a fright train for a little while but it'll make a depression come up anything sticking and stop sticking
Yes, fairly sure of some ring issues. All the other issues - probably just easiest to do a quicky hone, re-ring and bearing rebuild. Watch for that video!
I found the best spark testers in the world to be soon to be ex girl friends and blind dates ya don't really like. Here sweet heart hold this while I crank her over. When ya hear that really loud ear piercing screaming noise there ain't no doubt ya got spark.
Duh, the footage was corrupted. Duh it's why I waited 6 months to edit this video trying to recover lost footage. Duh, it's why you missed us making the roadrunner horn go Beep Beep.
We're a new channel and were curious to see how many cry babies we could attract. Losing footage for this video due to corruption was just a convenient excuse.
