As some of may know I recently became the happy owner of my first Mopar, a 1966 Plymouth Fury 2 door post with a three on the tree and Slant Six. Well all sort of dreams of big block power have danced through my head until they were crashed this morning. I found out after a few phone calls to some experts that my car is a bit of a rare bird and putting a big block would violate my first rule.. no cutting! I would have to cut the frame mounts out and weld in new ones from a donor car. I have decided to go a new route, one that will take considerable planning to pull off, at least I have lots of time. The original drivetrain will be tucked away to protect its heritage and in its place will go... a new improved slant six with a turbocharger/intercooler/methanol injection to give it that fun factor that I crave. I plan to make the interior/exterior look factory fresh and give everyone a real suprise when I open the hood. If anyone has any good leads for tech or examples I would be more than happy to hear it.

 

Well the way it has been explained to me by the fellows at Schumacher Creative Services and a few fellows that restore Mopars for a living locally is that the C body k member is integral (i.e. welded) into the the subframe and cannot be removed by removing a few bolts. I checked it out afterward and found it to be accurate. It is a oddity among the Mopar family. I haven't offically checked the rarity, but it was explained that someone had to specifically request that they get a Slant Six, V-8's were the norm on this body platform. Also I want to be able to preserve the originality of it at a later date if it strikes me to restore it to stock. Something about running something so unusual appeals to me, I can defintely throw the dare to be different card on this one.

 

hey my grandpa has an old plymouth fury vip in the back pastur iv ben lookin at it for a few years its ben sitting for 16 years after the guy who owned it was shot in the head but one thing i noticed about its not a normall vip i think the engine only suposed to be a 318 but this engine is huge but i cant figure out what it is and allso i picked the front up and noticed it has a FULLY boxed frame under it is that normall oh and its a 64 plymouth fury vip