You are a smart dude really man I don't know if you know how smart.Im 63 and grew up in the muscle car times,really where you would have been right at home!.I could tell you stories for sure! Love the direction you taking showing normal everyday working guys there is hope for them to have a hotrod with a little work! A big fan you have made me! 150 ,00,200,500,000 cars normal guys could never own ,you give normal working guys hope,
You know what's the coolest thing about your channel? You have the knowledge to do all of the modifications to the motor, transmission, suspension headers, and the gumption to do it! That's is why I like your channel! Can't wait to see more! PEACE ✌️
This channel deserves way more subscribers. I would rather watch this any day than watch a couple of actors bolt together thousands of dollars in parts that neither I or any of my friends could ever afford.
Out of all the vid's I have watched with you,This is my fave, You took time out and did a I don't give a f... show that made me smile, I remember times when money was short,Parts scarce back in the 1970's when I had a do or die situation, It happened but it took some mix and match to make it happen, Thanks for the memories.
Chris, Umm, your new house has more room to work, but I miss your old outdoor shop already! Oh well, I'll get over it.Great to meet you at the MATS! Steve with the real mullet. I will get my Mopar pics together to email you soon. By the way...great work on da Duster!
I'm amazed with how many engines you've put together with what you have layn around that most usually works lol..I'm learning quite a bit when it comes to the back yard builds that's pretty much how I had to do it but I always put new parts in em to make sure I'd be rolling good for at least a hundred thousand miles lol...
Thanks Chris for letting us have an inside look to the mayhem that goes on in your shop. I’ve been a Mopar guy since the 70’s, still have my first car a 71 Satellite Sebring Plus that’s getting a rebuild to give to my daughter. Back in the day I ran a 71 Duster that I cut up and ran at the local asphalt track for a couple years. This episode brought back a ton of memories, thanks Chris!
This is greatness. I am reliving all of these trials and tribulations with this engine install. A couple years ago I built a 69 Barracuda for a friend. (I am a GM guy at heart and this was my first Mopar build.) I fought and fought putting that small block LA engine in the car with headers. In the end after I hammered the crap out of a nice, new set of headers I found that I needed to set the ride height (torsion bar adjustment, raise the car up a lot) in order for things to fit as they was designed. Watching this episode I could see that the torsion bars were not even installed into the car. Let alone proper ride height was set to ease header installation and steering adjustments. Doing that first would have made the installation much more better. Love this build.
I think @DavidFribuger got his fingers in this relationship, and from following roadkill and the other programs from Friburger i think and hope chris get really good deals, and it's well earned from all the good content from Mike,David and of course you Chris :) 👍👍👍👍keep your style don't grow up, it's a trap 🤘🤘
Whats amazing is that you had like $1.25 into that engine, which is exactly what I would have done. As well as it held together for a serious thrashing! I can’t believe how well that thing held up! Very, very impressive!
Those solid, unedited drone shots (Wiley's work, I assume?) show just how much is getting cut from Roadkill that shouldn't. Every now and then, we need to embrace the long take and let the audience take in such jaw-dropping beautiful shots. It's moments like these that make Roadkill vehicles legendary.
My auto shop teacher showed us a video about backyard mechanics. It was called "Primitive Pete " 😅 That was in the 60s! We also called them "Hammer Jockeys " Now after all these years it makes sense. 😅
We would have been disappointed if you didn't have the hood signature on it and a Sure Grip would have been really cool. Looking forward to see what you are going to do with it.
Chris, tell us about the hitch on Smurf - and if you know of anyone sitting on a hitch for a '68/9 Plymouth B-body. I've got a Satellite-turned-Belvedere that needs one so I can haul more ill-advised junk home.
Roller lifters on a flat tappet cam will actually make it significantly smaller (duration)... also it's a cast core vs. steel, so the rollers will tear up the cam pretty quickly and also as soon as the flat tappet cam crown wears down the cam is gonna walk around like crazy. But as you said it's a bottle rocket motor, light it off, have fun and watch it pop :P
Magnum engines bolted off the center of the block instead of bolting off the front of the block like the LA blocks they kept the LA bosses for the mounts on the magnums but magnums use different engine mounts then the LA engines did
360 is the only mopar small block that is externally balanced the rest are all internally so you don't have to worry about balanced weights on the flywheel or flexplate
If it wasn't March 30th, I'd swear this was an April Fools joke. Crap hackery at it's finest! Also, you didn't mention how roller lifters on a flat tappet lobe loses a bunch of duration.
At the speed it looks like your driving i don't know how you know where all the turns are. If you had one color cones say on the right and another color on the left it would be much easier to know. I feel like I would be missing turns a lot. For a bunch of parts never meant to be in that engine it sounded good. You could easily build a car similar to the Cuda and dominate that race.
This accident happened pretty far back in the pack, and the first two trucks to hit him were even 0.5-1 second behind, and then the last two had to be 3-5 seconds after the that,so maybe 6 or 7 seconds behind the mid to rear mid section of the pack? What kind of spread out racing is that? It would appear to me that the guys who hit him late were in a different race altogether, maybe a different class? How far back can you be to hit THAT LATE?
The fastest Dodge I’ve ever had Ohio state police 1983 diplomat 💪360 police interceptor 8 3/4 373 gears 727 trans with lock up torque converter 👀one bad ass ugly car dam was it fun 🤩 I beat the hell out of it for $130 buckaroos 💯💪👍
Heads up everyone......spring rates do not change with spacers, retainers and so on. Physics dictakes it can't be changed except when you buy a different spring rate. No amount of being cheap changes anything, unfortunately. I discovered that the first engine I worked on when I was 13......and it drove me crazy until I figured it out. Side note, I'm still crazy....
@junkerup Absolutely not.....there are three main physical dimensions that can affect the spring rate of a coil spring: coil wire diameter, coil spring mean diameter, and number of active coils. the gradient of the force versus deflection curve. An extension or compression spring's rate is expressed in units of force divided by distance. Now what this means is you can compress a spring to a predetermoned height and calculate its ratio or spring rate.....but pushing down harder to compress it further doesn't change Hooke's Law, where the force on a spring is equal to the spring constant multiplied by the displacement from the equilibrium point of the spring..
Ok so I really enjoyed this video however given it appears from the in car shots that you are revving the Duster to 10,000 + rpm I can only assume this is due to the fact you installed the roller lifters on the flat tappet cam and that its a 318 Magnum engine I just cannot ascertain any other reason why the engine could live at those RPM's repeatedly LOL Steve Dulcich must be very proud of his donated 318.
Shimming those valve springs is going to net you a fragged engine when one of those springs cracks, drops a valve, and it's game over. Sure, you have nothing in it. You're gonna have just plain nothing before long.
I’m so disappointed in myself I didn’t make it happen and get down there for the event. Totally my fault next year no matter what I will be there with my slow ass car And I will have the time of my life
Breaking a 7 1/4 inch rear end is like taking a glass and dropping it onto a hard surface it's not hard to break I broke a 7 1/4 rear with a wore out 318. the gears are real weak in those rear ends
This is by far my favorite UA-cam subscription.
You are a smart dude really man I don't know if you know how smart.Im 63 and grew up in the muscle car times,really where you would have been right at home!.I could tell you stories for sure! Love the direction you taking showing normal everyday working guys there is hope for them to have a hotrod with a little work! A big fan you have made me! 150 ,00,200,500,000 cars normal guys could never own ,you give normal working guys hope,
You know what's the coolest thing about your channel? You have the knowledge to do all of the modifications to the motor, transmission, suspension headers, and the gumption to do it! That's is why I like your channel! Can't wait to see more! PEACE ✌️
Thanks man
@Junkerup #chris birdsong your more than welcome bro!
YOU ….
Always make such interesting stuff ….. AWESOME 👏 😊🧐🇬🇧🥇🇬🇧🥇
Thanks
This channel deserves way more subscribers. I would rather watch this any day than watch a couple of actors bolt together thousands of dollars in parts that neither I or any of my friends could ever afford.
That engine build was straight out of some mad max apocalyptic world.
Out of all the vid's I have watched with you,This is my fave, You took time out and did a I don't give a f... show that made me smile, I remember times when money was short,Parts scarce back in the 1970's when I had a do or die situation, It happened but it took some mix and match to make it happen, Thanks for the memories.
Thanks man
I can 100% see why you and Dulcich are friends! You, my friend, can roadkill with the best of em
Ah the ole leg work the jack get the trans into place trick.
Good stuff, thanks for the ride.
Happy Motoring.
Brother roadkill owes you. Everyone am i wrong . Roadkill owes birdsong. G
Keep doing it your way, Fun to watch!!! Stay safe a friend in Pennsylvania Robin Jo
Chris, Umm, your new house has more room to work, but I miss your old outdoor shop already! Oh well, I'll get over it.Great to meet you at the MATS! Steve with the real mullet. I will get my Mopar pics together to email you soon. By the way...great work on da Duster!
The keyword in this video is cobbled. Absolutely one of your best informative videos. Way to go Cat Daddy!
It's taken me all day to watch this, but it was brilliant. Keep them coming Chris.
I'm amazed with how many engines you've put together with what you have layn around that most usually works lol..I'm learning quite a bit when it comes to the back yard builds that's pretty much how I had to do it but I always put new parts in em to make sure I'd be rolling good for at least a hundred thousand miles lol...
Always fun to see your creations
Chris ya done good on this one, I like .everybody having fun bare minimal expance (Glenn) in Kentucky
Good video bro. Looking forward to some thrashin!
Hot dawn Birdsong if I didn't know better I'd think we were related, thanks for sharing the fun.
Central California watching
I was starting to get Mopar withdrawal syndrome not seeing junkerup videos for so long
What!? A video from Birdsong? Lol Awesome. Just made my night
Thanks Chris for letting us have an inside look to the mayhem that goes on in your shop. I’ve been a Mopar guy since the 70’s, still have my first car a 71 Satellite Sebring Plus that’s getting a rebuild to give to my daughter. Back in the day I ran a 71 Duster that I cut up and ran at the local asphalt track for a couple years. This episode brought back a ton of memories, thanks Chris!
Chris, I laughed all the way to the end.
Great video thank you 🦅🇺🇸💪😁👍
Good to see you back, Dude you have some Loyal ( Subs) that " Dig your Content" and would like to see more! Dean( Soul)
This is greatness. I am reliving all of these trials and tribulations with this engine install. A couple years ago I built a 69 Barracuda for a friend. (I am a GM guy at heart and this was my first Mopar build.) I fought and fought putting that small block LA engine in the car with headers. In the end after I hammered the crap out of a nice, new set of headers I found that I needed to set the ride height (torsion bar adjustment, raise the car up a lot) in order for things to fit as they was designed. Watching this episode I could see that the torsion bars were not even installed into the car. Let alone proper ride height was set to ease header installation and steering adjustments. Doing that first would have made the installation much more better. Love this build.
Chris is that dude that is so cool, but he doesn't know he's cool, which makes him even more cool.
Rizz Factor
That drone footage was so cool!
that 318 cheapy build actually sounded pretty good.. testament to the LA engines.
Great job guys 👍👍
Enjoyed the ride and the Pizza looked amazing. Thanks
We had fun too
This motor this cool car
Crazy fun video!👍🏁
Thanks
Miss you bigly here, post more. With your driving, am I surprised you bested all the street class, nope !
Great thrashing, buy the way you don't need a hat, you need a haircut, hope too see more from you sooner than later.
The way your putting together that duster you better get some zip ties from frybuger love your Channel Chris big fan
Thanks
Your giving a 318 all the respect it deserves. Just don't let free burger's touch it.🤣🤣🤣
Excellent video as usual
I think @DavidFribuger got his fingers in this relationship, and from following roadkill and the other programs from Friburger i think and hope chris get really good deals, and it's well earned from all the good content from Mike,David and of course you Chris :) 👍👍👍👍keep your style don't grow up, it's a trap 🤘🤘
Whats amazing is that you had like $1.25 into that engine, which is exactly what I would have done. As well as it held together for a serious thrashing! I can’t believe how well that thing held up! Very, very impressive!
Great vid!
Seems that 340/360s had a slightly different mount on one side from the 318
Those solid, unedited drone shots (Wiley's work, I assume?) show just how much is getting cut from Roadkill that shouldn't. Every now and then, we need to embrace the long take and let the audience take in such jaw-dropping beautiful shots. It's moments like these that make Roadkill vehicles legendary.
Man I want a duster just like that lol. It really is a pice of art.
To drive that duster anywhere near that cuda time is all you ! Well done Chris
It was a good battle
My auto shop teacher showed us a video about backyard mechanics. It was called "Primitive Pete " 😅 That was in the 60s! We also called them "Hammer Jockeys " Now after all these years it makes sense. 😅
Great to see you
This was interesting and entertaining.
Chris man,we know why the Duster was faster than Mustang's, Hellcats and Camaro 's ,it had a real wheel man thrashing it around!!!!!
I’m a drag racer but damn that auto cross looks fun!!! Great video!!!
It is
With a bit more tire, and alot more motor, you would of smoked em all. Man, you are FAST!
This car does look like a low buck build and I love it.
Thanks
Awesome video 👏👏👏👏👏👏
We would have been disappointed if you didn't have the hood signature on it and a Sure Grip would have been really cool. Looking forward to see what you are going to do with it.
Chris is a real Santa Claus. His videos only come around once a year.
Lol
Awesome!!
yes, once had that 318/360 motor mount prob myself...
..." I drive my junk "... Yes you do Chris.
Learn the rules, adjust the rules, make the rules, break the rules.
👍
✌
Time to start a go fund me for a shop at the new place. Looks like you have the room
Chris, tell us about the hitch on Smurf - and if you know of anyone sitting on a hitch for a '68/9 Plymouth B-body. I've got a Satellite-turned-Belvedere that needs one so I can haul more ill-advised junk home.
Nice to hear from you, hate to bring it up when are you going to get back on tha 67 chevelle we know you are not a chevy guy just a wondering?
And Chris thank you for the video I enjoyed it but one thing that generally is missing is the push bumper in the front
Roller lifters on a flat tappet cam will actually make it significantly smaller (duration)... also it's a cast core vs. steel, so the rollers will tear up the cam pretty quickly and also as soon as the flat tappet cam crown wears down the cam is gonna walk around like crazy. But as you said it's a bottle rocket motor, light it off, have fun and watch it pop :P
Yeah it takes away some LCa too
Magnum engines bolted off the center of the block instead of bolting off the front of the block like the LA blocks they kept the LA bosses for the mounts on the magnums but magnums use different engine mounts then the LA engines did
360 is the only mopar small block that is externally balanced the rest are all internally so you don't have to worry about balanced weights on the flywheel or flexplate
If it wasn't March 30th, I'd swear this was an April Fools joke. Crap hackery at it's finest! Also, you didn't mention how roller lifters on a flat tappet lobe loses a bunch of duration.
At the speed it looks like your driving i don't know how you know where all the turns are. If you had one color cones say on the right and another color on the left it would be much easier to know. I feel like I would be missing turns a lot.
For a bunch of parts never meant to be in that engine it sounded good.
You could easily build a car similar to the Cuda and dominate that race.
38:02 😂😂
Yes the blocks are different, 318 to 360
Thanks
Losing by .10 to that car is actually a win.
Roadkill .........pay up.
This accident happened pretty far back in the pack, and the first two trucks to hit him were even 0.5-1 second behind, and then the last two had to be 3-5 seconds after the that,so maybe 6 or 7 seconds behind the mid to rear mid section of the pack? What kind of spread out racing is that? It would appear to me that the guys who hit him late were in a different race altogether, maybe a different class? How far back can you be to hit THAT LATE?
"Tubular K-frame crap",... is about right! Delete the swap to coil overs and get the weight back lower in the chassis.
Bingo
We know that you were going to get smoked by the Roadkill deals. We understand how it goes the D is a decent person.
Thanks to Chris Birdsong my want to run a jalopy in the autoX at MATS is at an all time high.
Bring it foo
i wanna see you play with 75-79 b-bodies, cordoba/charger/magnum/300. remove the lean burn and isoclamps and see what they can do?
The fastest Dodge I’ve ever had Ohio state police 1983 diplomat 💪360 police interceptor 8 3/4 373 gears 727 trans with lock up torque converter 👀one bad ass ugly car dam was it fun 🤩 I beat the hell out of it for $130 buckaroos 💯💪👍
19:26 Gee Gee 🙀
9:53 that’s literally where I’m at right now
It's a good thing for you that they don't teeat the General Lee like the Elenore mustangs, they've probably scrapped at least fifty of them
Wow you need a tach that reads higher lol👍
These weeks and shims are young to increase valve float due to their mass. This will limit your red line.
Heads up everyone......spring rates do not change with spacers, retainers and so on. Physics dictakes it can't be changed except when you buy a different spring rate. No amount of being cheap changes anything, unfortunately. I discovered that the first engine I worked on when I was 13......and it drove me crazy until I figured it out. Side note, I'm still crazy....
Shimming does in fact add spring rate
@junkerup Absolutely not.....there are three main physical dimensions that can affect the spring rate of a coil spring: coil wire diameter, coil spring mean diameter, and number of active coils. the gradient of the force versus deflection curve. An extension or compression spring's rate is expressed in units of force divided by distance. Now what this means is you can compress a spring to a predetermoned height and calculate its ratio or spring rate.....but pushing down harder to compress it further doesn't change Hooke's Law, where the force on a spring is equal to the spring constant multiplied by the displacement from the equilibrium point of the spring..
SD broke the front suspension in the 1st episode
That's how I jack EM up!!
It looks like you had fun even with a sh%t motor
Who needs a thigh master? No need. I use a floor jack.
What's up derrick?
You need to put junkerup on your car
Forgive me for asking when did you move into a new location?
January
Carwash employee: FML
Lol
Ok so I really enjoyed this video however given it appears from the in car shots that you are revving the Duster to 10,000 + rpm I can only assume this is due to the fact you installed the roller lifters on the flat tappet cam and that its a 318 Magnum engine I just cannot ascertain any other reason why the engine could live at those RPM's repeatedly LOL Steve Dulcich must be very proud of his donated 318.
Its just inaccurate tach
Shimming those valve springs is going to net you a fragged engine when one of those springs cracks, drops a valve, and it's game over. Sure, you have nothing in it. You're gonna have just plain nothing before long.
Find it. Driver’s side seat cover so it can be proud.
that junkyard musta been pretty stupid it says right on the side of the block what any mopar engine is!
Took an indy headed BB to beat the beater 5.2 ruster? :P
Lol
I’m so disappointed in myself I didn’t make it happen and get down there for the event. Totally my fault next year no matter what I will be there with my slow ass car And I will have the time of my life
Breaking a 7 1/4 inch rear end is like taking a glass and dropping it onto a hard surface it's not hard to break I broke a 7 1/4 rear with a wore out 318. the gears are real weak in those rear ends