Nice build up, but that satellite was pristine! I wouldn't have done anything other than a few motor mods and just drove it! Kind of a shame it was all original!
Back in the day my buddy bought that model but optioned it out like a fast Roadrunner for insurance cost reasons... All the hot car magazines have articles/videos online on cheaply building that 318 to 400+ HP !!!
One of My grandma's had a 67 Cougar Eliminator and my other grandma had a 74 Malibu sitting on Crager's with big meats in the back when I was growing up in the late 70's- mid 80's. Just because your a grandma doesn't mean you have to drive a boring car. That being said this was probally her son or grandsons car that he put a little money into after grandma died.
I drove a 73 satellite Sebring plus in high school. Mine came with a big block 400. I replaced that with a 383 out of a GTX, rebuilt it, bored 40 over, port matched the runners, put a B&M kit auto transmission. It was fast and on the highway got 25 MPG. A nice running car.
I had one these. 1973 Plymouth Satellite Sebring Plus. It had a 400 4bbl. 727 Torque Flight 3sp. and 3:23:1 rear. I did a few mods and it moved out pretty good until the fire. It would've survived if the fire dept. hadn't used 1000 gallons of water. You'd be very hard pressed to find these anymore and if you do, most want 12 to 20 grand for it, the ones worth having anyway. I've been shopping.
Stacey, I don't know if you've just been inside your shop too long, but street racing is still really popular. Don't get me wrong! Love the show! And thank you for posting full episodes here.
jakeg83 The other option was to not install a hemi but maybe another Mopar crate engine that’s what I would do they’re great. Hemi’s are Great engines however the only thing you were going to have an issue with a hemi is it’s going to be basically sipping gas through a straw. he just said 750 hp I believe that’s a little too much for my taste 400 hp is where I would like to be.
If I got that car I couldn't stand to do anything to it. Its so perfect stock. Well as a teen I mighta tore it apart cause I messed up my stock 74 Corolla.....but this..a little old lady took care of it since new. Id leave it alone but thats me. Im nostalgic.
That car was already nowhere near stock or original. They didn't come stock with a Holley Carb, Chrome Valve Covers, Aluminium heads and Intake, and dual Flowmaters exhaust.... The color of the block was wrong too, Every 318 ever built from the factory was Corporate (Chrysler) Blue, it probally had a cam and been bored before also, that engine was nowhere near stock or original, I wouldn't have done everything he did to it because it was already a great car. I would have just thrown some chrome wheels on it and lowered it a little and called it good.
That's how hotrodding was born...if it wasn't for people doing that there would be a shit ton of pristine cars that wouldn't be worth anything because they never got rare. Lol.
I had a '73 Satellite in the early 80's. It was 3 on the tree, 318 V-8, even though it was originally the cheapest in the price/ model line, it wasn't a bad car. The more deluxe models though, I thought looked really nice.
WHAT A SHAME HIS SHOW IS NO LONGER ON REGULAR CABLE TV. I LOVED GETTING UP ON SUNDAY MORNING,,ME AND MY CAT EATING BREAKFAST IN THE RECLINER,,WATCHING HIS SHOW. I SWEAR MY CAT LOVED HIM TOO. NOW NOVEMBER 2019,,I WISH HE WOULD HAVE ANOTHER SERIES? SUCH A COOL,,LAIDBACK GUY. AND SOME OF HIS PROJECTS WERE THRU THE ROOF CRAZY,,RIDICIOUSLY AWESOME!! THAT 1967 7.0 COUGAR-XR7 WITH A 526 INCH JON KAASE 429,,ID LOVE THAT SITTING IN MY GARAGE!! REALLY DO MISS YOUR BUDDY :( :( :( !!
It must be nice to have unlimited fund$ to do builds like this...the average guy can only dream of doing this...Uncle Tony's Garage is much more realistic and everybody can relate to him...you guys live in a dream world.
The LSs really helped the sleeper projects. Ive never seen a motor that in 4 or 500 horse mode can idle smooth and quiet as a honda civic. Like the older zo6s with exhaust cut outs. It purrs along untill you stomp it and then it sounds like a nascar.
Ditto for 505HP LS7's... Jeremy Clarkson Top Gear video showed it could idle off the line in 5th gear and go on to 200 MPH still in 5th!!! He claimed to always hate Corvettes, typical British jealousy, but bought one of those! All the hot car magazines have articles/videos online on cheaply building that 318 to street 400+ HP !!! .
Good ole Ron the Mullet man (not really a mullet, but he loves Mopar muscle cars) Jenkins from Magnum Force. The guy really knows his stuff. I remember seeing him on so many different build shows over the years including Barry White's Speed Shop, Gas Monkey Garage, and a couple others that I can't remember the name off the top of my head. Dude is a legend in the Mopar world.
If anybody thinks doing a Plymouth Satellite up right is not worth it doesn't know Mopar, plus anything with a little fitting, from a Roadrunner and a GTX will fit it is the perfect way to get a classic muscle car on a budget. Thanks man for proving this Mr David. -Small story my grandfathers where big friends my mom's dad a Mopar or no car guy and my dad's Dad was a gm guy but they both where great at fixing cars. My dad own a Pontiac Trans Am at the time. One day he was sitting in the driveway of the old homested and he hear a car built about out of it's tail pipes and thought "I'm the only one around here that has a car with that type of horsepower" little did he know his dad had bought a part as a favor for my other grandpa. my mom was 13 at the time and my dad 16 for referance, this 69' Plymouth Roadrunner barreled in to the driveway and my mom gets out the drivers seat and my dad said to himself I'm gonna marry that woman and about 5 years later he did and here I am. My parents fell in love because of there parents knowing each other and there mutual love of cars. But my dad's Dad didn't like it when my dad became a Mopar guy he got rid of the trans am for a 68 GTX.
I guess granny wanted some chrome valve covers on her 318. That car was way nice. I woulda modded that 318, put some 17" torqthrusts on it, lowered it a bit and called it a day.
I wouldn;t even have even nodded the 318. I would have just thrown some wheels on it and lowered it a little bit and called it a day, that car was a VERY nice daily driver/weekend car that you could still take to Cruise-ins and local car shows.
A great aunt of mine had a green and beige Sebring Plus like this. Would love to have one again. I don’t want it fast, just better at it’s mileage. The 318 stays.
Those '70's engines got no MPG... All the hot car magazines have articles/videos online on cheaply building that 318 to 400+ HP !!! And prolly double MPG...
@@Toten_651 That thing was nowhere near stock.... They didn't come stock with Chrome Valve Covers, Aluminium heads and intake and dual Flowmaster exhaust and the block of the 318 was corporate Blue not Hemi Orange, that car was already messed with and probally had a cam in it. It was nowhere near stock.
Ayup Only mods were internal to engine (bore out, cam, etc), diff rear end gears, and putting a 4bbl carb on (since these type cars usually had 2bbl.), lightly beef up suspension, & maybe add nitrous That way, if the competition demanded to see under the hood, to try catching hustlers, they were less likely to be suspicious
@@iwaswithyourmom9410 well shit for brains. I never said the point of building a sleeper was to cheat the insurance company. Seems to me insurance companies try to screw us by charging extra for the vehicle being high performance. Why do you think in the muscle car era auto manufactures purposely underrated the horsepower??????. So your telling me if you found a 71 Nova that came stock with a 250 inline 6 then swapped it out with an LT 1 when you insured it you would willing be like "hey I ripped out the stock six popper a dropped in a pavement scorcher". If you're stupid enough to tell them that you might as well hand them a jar of Vaseline then drop you drawers and bend over and grab your ankles
@@bilbobaggins4710 they're suits not mechanics. You really think they could tell a difference between a 2.2 liter 4 banger and a 572 big block just by looking at it???? Even if you kept the stock engine an milled the head and decked the block and put some high performance goodies in the engine. How are they gonna know DIPSHIT!!!!!!!!
This is dope af, just remembered this show, i was willing to buy the seasons on Vudu or something but now I see he has full episodes on here now. Website is nice and tidy as well
@@danielmcgilliss697 yeah but not for anything other than the late 60's Chargers, Road Runners, GTX's or Challengers and the newer Trucks, and Challengers. We have been waiting for them to make one for the A and F bodies, which they just started to do.
+Garlin Miller I'm right down the road from you...Germantown. when the cops in Germantown started patrolling the roads we used to race on, we all went to middletown. I worked at middletown airport for a few years, used to use the taxiways for a little racing....truly good times!
"Sleeper"?????????? ... I'd expect a "Satellite" to likely be FAST !!! ... And I loved the style of the early ones: photos7.motorcar.com/used-1965-plymouth-belvedere_satellite--5973-18200503-6-1024.jpg .
Chrome valve covers, dual exhaust with Flowmasters, looks like Accel wires, aftermarket fan...clean, but I don't think it was stereotypical "Little old lady" owned
One of My grandma's had a 67 Cougar Eliminator and my other grandma had a 74 Malibu sitting on Crager's with big meats in the back when I was growing up in the late 70's- mid 80's. Just because your a grandma doesn't mean you have to drive a boring car.
That thing wasn't anywhere near original or stock..... First the color is wrong, 318's were never painted anything but Corporate (Chrysler) Blue not Hemi Orange. They also didn't come with a Holley Carb, Chrome Valve Covers, Aluminium Heads and Intake and Dual Flowmaster Exhaust, and more than likely had a cam, lifters and been bored and had performance rods and pistons in it.
Instead of knitting, she puts an anodized alternator pulley and flex fan on her car. I was also wondering why he didn't paint the engine compartment along with the underside. I mean, he raises the new cross member up and you can see the difference.
Also maybe she was in her mid 60s when she built it? Can't believe y'all have never seen somebody in their mid 60s work on or pay for their car to be worked on like this.
Man I would of kept that car like it was it looked like it just drove off the dealer lot that thing is mint and even though not many like the 73/74 Satellite style I'm like it. My parents use to have one back in the day it was blue on blue with those same hubcaps but is was lifted in the rear a bit to make it have a nice stance.
No it didn;t.... It come off the show room floor with a Holley Carb, Chrome Valve Covers, aluminium Heads and Intake and it was the wrong color, the 318 was never Hemi Orange, they were all Corporate (Chrysler) Blue. It might be the original blck but someone has already modded it.
By '73 the Duster had the crap emissions 360 that got 9 MPG city/11 MPG hiway... no HP... they were like that until Magnum version in '94 doubled the MPG...
"The FIRST thing we need to do is wave GOODBYE to"- ...the idea that anyone needs to do ANYTHING to this car. Build a car that's not in such pristine condition instead of ruining a car that's perfect and original to start with.
only that thing wasn't anything CLOSE to Original..... They didn't come stock with Chrome Valve Covers, Aluminium Heads and Intake, Dual Flowmaster Exhaust and it probally had a cam in it and had been bored. that thing was nowhere NEAR original or stock.
I'm restoring two 1974 trucks. An F350 Super Duty and an International 200. The odd detail about both of these trucks is that they have been operated for a small government in the capacity of road/highway maintenance. [the Ford was a road maintenance truck for the City of Norwalk, CA and the International was a road maintenance truck for Adair County, MO] Both have beefed up suspensions, extra heavy frames, extra strong bed frames, overload springs and enhanced engine cooling packages for towing trailers with road repair equipment around. (~_^)-b Both have really badly damaged [dented, rusted, busted glass, nightmare electrical problems etc] cabs. /( -_-)\ The reason I got them so cheaply is because they were either illegal [Ford windshield is totally spider-webbed from a crash and can't legally be driven without a new windshield] or miserable to drive [the heaters don't work in either truck and the international leaks so horribly that it will give you a bath if you drive it in the rain]. I found another cab for the Ford, still looking for one for the International, but I might go in and braze some steel in the holes instead.
I just bought an 1980 Ford Truck for my grandson's first car in 4 years that used to be a Highway Patrol Search and Rescue vehicle and it has all the heady duty frame and suspension too. It's a 4wd but were selling all that and making it a 2wd street truck. The 4wd drive train alone will make the money back to build it because they are highly sought after. I've already been offered 15k for the drive train.
so dosent adding all that "SOFTER" undercoating make all the bolt -on areas wear to a loose state...then need re tightened ? just asking Stacey i always loved your shows but that was a question i needed to ask
Yeah, not everyone can buy those things...then buys a Hemi LOL! In honesty, this is the video I've been looking for as I want to turn my 73 Roadrunner into a Hellcat. Sadly, don't have the money to do such a thing just yet.
Why does Stacy feel he has to make up stories about the cars he brings into the shop? I've noticed in many episodes that things just don't add up. What Grandma had chrome valve covers, a Holley and dual flowmasters?
ProPerformanceNutrition.com my mom loved to drive hot rods. Well into her 50’s she loved suckering people into racing her New Yorker. It would smoke most stock mustangs and camaro’s.
Well mine did..... My mom's mom had a 67 Cougar Eliminator and my dad's mom had a 74 Malibu sitting on Crager's with big meats in the back when I was growing up in the Late 70's-mid 80's and yes... they drove them to church. Just because your a grandma doesn't mean you have to drive a boring car.
Stacey is the real deal. None of the usual inflated numbers, attempts to make a car seem faster than it is. What you see is what you get. Amazing skills.
I am with you, just binged watch parts 1 thru 3. This was recorded over 6 yrs ago, what the heck happened to parts 4 and beyond. I was Agee anger in the 70’s and this series brought back many great memories. Common Stacy get your act together.
Yes very reliable but not a real good engine to make HP with because to get any compression out of them you need to have custom made pistons for it or deck the heads & block quite a bit so your better off with a 340 or 360 or a 408 SB stroker if you want a small block car . If not a small block then a 440 or stroked 400 to a 451 . The Hemi is a good one as well but it's much more expensive & they can be kind of finicky on the street compared to a 440 ! My choice if I had the money would have been the modern Hemi called the Heliphant that makes 1,000 HP stock with over 900 ft lbs of torque that comes with the computer opened up so it can be tuned with a ordinary laptop for even more power lol . It uses the factory superstock block heads & internals so it can take a serious beating plus it comes with a factory warranty but it's not cheap either lol.
You don't think he actually does any of the work. Army of grunts do the work off camera except for the staged shots of Stacey "getting his hands dirty".
That suspension dude with the rainbow hair and the flexed triceps wouldn't be allowed to enter my garage. I actually thought at first he was wearing one of those joke mullet caps with the fake hair. Sadly, I was wrong.
A 440 with a reasonable build or a modern 392 would be the real world engine to install. This show never finishes a build and 90% is commercials which is super annoying. I don’t watch this show anymore.
yep, gotta pay the bills and get free parts from somewhere. But I do agree it's gotten out of hand. there was literally 11 minutes of him working on the car and 13 minutes of advertising for different tools, not even the "what are you working on" segment is as long as it used to be, it used to be 3-4 minutes, now it's not even a minute and a half.
You need to build another one, not a Satelite but another car from the Mid-Late 70's and make it a budget bill that people can take to a local cruise-in/car show and not sink a ton of money into. They are the HOT build out here in the Southwest/West because they are the "$500 Nova" of our generation. They are still running and on the road and you can get them all day long for 2-3k and spend another 5k or so building them into a reliable daily driver/cruise-in/ weekend car. Not everyone has 25-50k to sink into a car but you show them they have a nice COOL car for 8-10 with no engine swaps, no $1000 wheels, just a on the cheap Restomod by rebuilding the original drive train, all new body mounts and bushings and painted frame and suspension, with updated wheels and interior.
Thanks for the suggestion! Those cars can be tough to find in most of the rest of the country. Many turned into stock cars in the south or rusted away up north.
matt hunter he never said cheap...he said start with a cheap and unassuming car. There's an old adage in the car world that goes something like this: you can have it cheap, fast, reliable but you can only pick two from that list.
OOOOOOOHHH!!! the purists are present&accounted for(yea -old Mopar dealer tech here), It is not really cool to disrupt an original unit but to save time/money/hassle/being sold to some chump &ending up in mexico as a cartel toy/swap some upgrade stuff and keep some other orig units running w/the sold off parts and yea....the orig high perf units are waaaaaaaay over valued collecting dust in old rich guys houses......as a former 90''s Mopar tech this unit build has my blessing.
Everyone is complaining about cutting up an original and can see the point to a degree, but it's just a 318 car and isn't worth much. I saw a 74 RR recently that was an untouched original with 318, and were asking 17K. It was on consignment, so you could get one cheaper if it was for sale by owner. Although too many of us, money isn't the point and is part of Americana
budget build my ass.....lets rip up a nice original car and put a 12.000 dollar motor in it.......could had just hopped up the 318 and changed the pipes...rear end...shift kit the trans.....if youu dont have a shop..every tool in the world...sponsors throwing parts at you.......this car is a 30.000 build......thanks for ripping up a survivor BTW.....
That Hemi alone probably cost close to 30,000 lol Ray Barton isn't cheap but builds some of fastest Hemis around . Can't do a whole lot with the 318 because the pistons sit low in the block so custom pistons & a lot of block decking required to get decent compression out of them so you would be better off with a 340 360 SB or a 408 SB stroker . Or any of the 383 400 413 440 BB that can be stroked as well to make as much HP as the Hemi but cheaper & not so finiky on the street like most are !
Personally, I would've cleaned it up, detailed it and driven it on nice weather weekends. On the other hand, if I wanted to make a "sleeper" out of it, I would've gone with a Blueprint Engines 408 from Summit (or others) rather than pretty much destroying what used to be a very nice Sebring.
hi i have a 1993 dodge Dakota with the 318 motor it's fule injection witch is better for horsepower power fuel injection or carburetor I'm trying to figure out was to get a few more horsepower power i no the 318 never came with a lot of horsepower
I had a Dodge Coronet Custom once, was not a speed demon, would have made a great muscle car though, if I could have gotten my hands on a good big block. ~( 'w')/
hi lm a recent convert great site just wondering when the next series of the interceptor are coming l"ve got as far as the interior is there any more ???
The one issue is the car was not prepped for the chassis saver properly, it may still bite okay, that is a decent product... However I noticed you coated the box liner directly over the chassis saver without sanding the chassis saver... Unfortunately that does not work & all that box liner will peel off very quickly.
Nice build up, but that satellite was pristine! I wouldn't have done anything other than a few motor mods and just drove it! Kind of a shame it was all original!
I agree, I think the same as you. Too beautifully original to mess up. These cars are are becoming hard to find in this shape.
Yeah, I agree it was darn near pristine. Muscle car or not, that's hard to find in ANY car of that vintage.
💯 agree
It's just a car.
Back in the day my buddy bought that model but optioned it out like a fast Roadrunner for insurance cost reasons...
All the hot car magazines have articles/videos online on cheaply building that 318 to 400+ HP !!!
The Sebring was owned by a little old lady. Right. And she installed Flowmaster mufflers, chrome valve covers, and a Holley carb.
My grandma used to drag race
I was thinking the same thing... And I'm positive I wasn't as "cheap" as he was alluding to.
Granny loves the rumble from those flowmasters!
Hey, I put high perf parts on my Dad’s early 70’s Mopars all the time. Cheaper than OEM, too.
And this HACK just saws off a perfectly good exhaust system ....
hmmmm ..... granny 's Satellite had chrome valve covers, aluminum intake with a Holley 4 barrel and duel exhaust ..... Atta Girl !
Yeah when they dropped that 2nd pipe I knew something was wrong
@@tommyreid2317..... exactly .....
Don't forget the FlowMaster mufflers !...what crap this show is !
That granny was 35-40yo when she bought the car. You thought that she has always been 90yo?
One of My grandma's had a 67 Cougar Eliminator and my other grandma had a 74 Malibu sitting on Crager's with big meats in the back when I was growing up in the late 70's- mid 80's. Just because your a grandma doesn't mean you have to drive a boring car. That being said this was probally her son or grandsons car that he put a little money into after grandma died.
Thanks for finally posting full episodes... awesome!!!!
Yet this episode is a complete abortion.
I drove a 73 satellite Sebring plus in high school. Mine came with a big block 400. I replaced that with a 383 out of a GTX, rebuilt it, bored 40 over, port matched the runners, put a B&M kit auto transmission. It was fast and on the highway got 25 MPG. A nice running car.
I had one these. 1973 Plymouth Satellite Sebring Plus. It had a 400 4bbl. 727 Torque Flight 3sp. and 3:23:1 rear. I did a few mods and it moved out pretty good until the fire. It would've survived if the fire dept. hadn't used 1000 gallons of water. You'd be very hard pressed to find these anymore and if you do, most want 12 to 20 grand for it, the ones worth having anyway. I've been shopping.
Stacey, I don't know if you've just been inside your shop too long, but street racing is still really popular.
Don't get me wrong! Love the show! And thank you for posting full episodes here.
I wish they kept the 318 and showed how to beef it up.
jakeg83 The other option was to not install a hemi but maybe another Mopar crate engine that’s what I would do they’re great. Hemi’s are Great engines however the only thing you were going to have an issue with a hemi is it’s going to be basically sipping gas through a straw. he just said 750 hp I believe that’s a little too much for my taste 400 hp is where I would like to be.
@@andyoutlaww7494 - Yeah, all the hot car magazines have articles/videos online on cheaply building that 318 to street 400+ HP !!!
Check out Uncle Tony's Garage channel on the bottle rocket-4 door Coronet (they bought for 300 dollars) with 318 honed into a dragster. It's awesome..
If I got that car I couldn't stand to do anything to it. Its so perfect stock. Well as a teen I mighta tore it apart cause I messed up my stock 74 Corolla.....but this..a little old lady took care of it since new. Id leave it alone but thats me. Im nostalgic.
That car was already nowhere near stock or original. They didn't come stock with a Holley Carb, Chrome Valve Covers, Aluminium heads and Intake, and dual Flowmaters exhaust.... The color of the block was wrong too, Every 318 ever built from the factory was Corporate (Chrysler) Blue, it probally had a cam and been bored before also, that engine was nowhere near stock or original, I wouldn't have done everything he did to it because it was already a great car. I would have just thrown some chrome wheels on it and lowered it a little and called it good.
Awesome part's thank you guys MoParOr NoCar
So you get a mint original Mopar, take it apart and cut it up just cause it wasn't a roadrunner? Just cause "nobody's gonna care"?
Did it affect you personally?
Well it's not my ride. But hey, they aren't making any more. So if enough people do; then by extension yes.
Come on, dude. It's an ugly beige car.
Hell we did it back when i was a kid...
That's how hotrodding was born...if it wasn't for people doing that there would be a shit ton of pristine cars that wouldn't be worth anything because they never got rare. Lol.
I had a '73 Satellite in the early 80's. It was 3 on the tree, 318 V-8, even though it was originally the cheapest in the price/ model line, it wasn't a bad car. The more deluxe models though, I thought looked really nice.
318 was a great engine, it was like the Chevrolet 327
WHAT A SHAME HIS SHOW IS NO LONGER ON REGULAR CABLE TV. I LOVED GETTING UP ON SUNDAY MORNING,,ME AND MY CAT EATING BREAKFAST IN THE RECLINER,,WATCHING HIS SHOW. I SWEAR MY CAT LOVED HIM TOO. NOW NOVEMBER 2019,,I WISH HE WOULD HAVE ANOTHER SERIES? SUCH A COOL,,LAIDBACK GUY. AND SOME OF HIS PROJECTS WERE THRU THE ROOF CRAZY,,RIDICIOUSLY AWESOME!! THAT 1967 7.0 COUGAR-XR7 WITH A 526 INCH JON KAASE 429,,ID LOVE THAT SITTING IN MY GARAGE!! REALLY DO MISS YOUR BUDDY :( :( :( !!
I so miss when trucks was on tv it literally was the best thing if the week on Sunday mornings
It must be nice to have unlimited fund$ to do builds like this...the average guy can only dream of doing this...Uncle Tony's Garage is much more realistic and everybody can relate to him...you guys live in a dream world.
Yep, and Uncle Tony would school them all.
The LSs really helped the sleeper projects. Ive never seen a motor that in 4 or 500 horse mode can idle smooth and quiet as a honda civic. Like the older zo6s with exhaust cut outs. It purrs along untill you stomp it and then it sounds like a nascar.
Ditto for 505HP LS7's... Jeremy Clarkson Top Gear video showed it could idle off the line in 5th gear and go on to 200 MPH still in 5th!!! He claimed to always hate Corvettes, typical British jealousy, but bought one of those!
All the hot car magazines have articles/videos online on cheaply building that 318 to street 400+ HP !!!
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Good ole Ron the Mullet man (not really a mullet, but he loves Mopar muscle cars) Jenkins from Magnum Force. The guy really knows his stuff. I remember seeing him on so many different build shows over the years including Barry White's Speed Shop, Gas Monkey Garage, and a couple others that I can't remember the name off the top of my head. Dude is a legend in the Mopar world.
Five minutes of real work and twenty minutes of shameless plugs.
Plus you should have just left that poor car alone.
@The devil Made me do it sure thing palsy
Thank goodness someone is turning that turd of a car into a tarmac ripping beast, God bless America.
It was a garage queen. Dont see a problem with someone modding it to be driven and driven hard. I do have a problem with all the plugs too though
@@chrisvela5462 just leave the poor thing alone.
If anybody thinks doing a Plymouth Satellite up right is not worth it doesn't know Mopar, plus anything with a little fitting, from a Roadrunner and a GTX will fit it is the perfect way to get a classic muscle car on a budget. Thanks man for proving this Mr David. -Small story my grandfathers where big friends my mom's dad a Mopar or no car guy and my dad's Dad was a gm guy but they both where great at fixing cars. My dad own a Pontiac Trans Am at the time. One day he was sitting in the driveway of the old homested and he hear a car built about out of it's tail pipes and thought "I'm the only one around here that has a car with that type of horsepower" little did he know his dad had bought a part as a favor for my other grandpa. my mom was 13 at the time and my dad 16 for referance, this 69' Plymouth Roadrunner barreled in to the driveway and my mom gets out the drivers seat and my dad said to himself I'm gonna marry that woman and about 5 years later he did and here I am. My parents fell in love because of there parents knowing each other and there mutual love of cars. But my dad's Dad didn't like it when my dad became a Mopar guy he got rid of the trans am for a 68 GTX.
I guess granny wanted some chrome valve covers on her 318. That car was way nice. I woulda modded that 318, put some 17" torqthrusts on it, lowered it a bit and called it a day.
I wouldn;t even have even nodded the 318. I would have just thrown some wheels on it and lowered it a little bit and called it a day, that car was a VERY nice daily driver/weekend car that you could still take to Cruise-ins and local car shows.
Keep it the way it is.
A great aunt of mine had a green and beige Sebring Plus like this. Would love to have one again. I don’t want it fast, just better at it’s mileage. The 318 stays.
Those '70's engines got no MPG... All the hot car magazines have articles/videos online on cheaply building that 318 to 400+ HP !!! And prolly double MPG...
but its mint..why not leave it alone?
Shaun Smith It's not mint..
Stock sucks pud muffin!!
I know this video hurts I couldn’t finish it
Because he's a DICK !
@@Toten_651 That thing was nowhere near stock.... They didn't come stock with Chrome Valve Covers, Aluminium heads and intake and dual Flowmaster exhaust and the block of the 318 was corporate Blue not Hemi Orange, that car was already messed with and probally had a cam in it. It was nowhere near stock.
Wow! I didn't know Dee Snider had a suspension company! LOL.
Me french fries
Another reason for sleepers was the bootleggers, you wanted to be fast but not obvious.
To me a true sleeper looks 100% unmodified, no 20" wheels or setting super low.
Ayup
Only mods were internal to engine (bore out, cam, etc), diff rear end gears, and putting a 4bbl carb on (since these type cars usually had 2bbl.), lightly beef up suspension, & maybe add nitrous
That way, if the competition demanded to see under the hood, to try catching hustlers, they were less likely to be suspicious
Great add on with the Blazing Saddles only you Stacey.
another advantage to building a sleeper is the car will have the factory VIN therefore the Insurance company won't know it's a performance vehicle
I'm not rude. Im also not trying to cheat my insurance
@@iwaswithyourmom9410 well shit for brains. I never said the point of building a sleeper was to cheat the insurance company. Seems to me insurance companies try to screw us by charging extra for the vehicle being high performance. Why do you think in the muscle car era auto manufactures purposely underrated the horsepower??????. So your telling me if you found a 71 Nova that came stock with a 250 inline 6 then swapped it out with an LT 1 when you insured it you would willing be like "hey I ripped out the stock six popper a dropped in a pavement scorcher". If you're stupid enough to tell them that you might as well hand them a jar of Vaseline then drop you drawers and bend over and grab your ankles
@@justinmyslive4108 ok until you crash it.. the insurance adjuster is gonna see you modded it and didn't tell them and not cover you!!!!!DIPSHIT
@@bilbobaggins4710 they're suits not mechanics. You really think they could tell a difference between a 2.2 liter 4 banger and a 572 big block just by looking at it???? Even if you kept the stock engine an milled the head and decked the block and put some high performance goodies in the engine. How are they gonna know DIPSHIT!!!!!!!!
Great point!
This is dope af, just remembered this show, i was willing to buy the seasons on Vudu or something but now I see he has full episodes on here now. Website is nice and tidy as well
Awesome MOPAR'S
Holy crap I owned that exact car except mine had avocado paisley bucket seats. It handled very well.
Good show
I had a 71 sebring sattelite plus that had everything the roadrunner and gtx but a 318.It was green with bad ass pinstripes down the sides.
No, the 318 was never painted any 318 anything but Corporate (Chrysler) Blue from the factory. If yours was green someone painted it.
is Stacey even on TV anymore I miss watching him I remember when trucks first came out
I had a 72 Plymouth Satellite that only had a 318 V8 but ran and handled great.
Cool but most folks don't have 10 grand for trick suspension just laying around.
Exactly or I would have it under the flawless Grandpaw 64 Valiant hardtop I got a month ago.
Fun how he says that mopar fans been waiting for that suspension. O'Reily Motorsports has been selling the AlterK the last 15 years
or 30k for an engine.
or 20k at bare minimum for that new Hemi.
@@danielmcgilliss697 yeah but not for anything other than the late 60's Chargers, Road Runners, GTX's or Challengers and the newer Trucks, and Challengers. We have been waiting for them to make one for the A and F bodies, which they just started to do.
stacey love the show. watch it on my home computer from middletown,ohio.
+Garlin Miller I'm right down the road from you...Germantown. when the cops in Germantown started patrolling the roads we used to race on, we all went to middletown. I worked at middletown airport for a few years, used to use the taxiways for a little racing....truly good times!
The little old lady literally died watching this
Grew up in a 73 satellite sebring plus just like this till 77 then dad bought a Cordoba lol.
Not everyone can afford a Camaro or cuda. Then buys a hemi Lol
"Sleeper"?????????? ... I'd expect a "Satellite" to likely be FAST !!! ... And I loved the style of the early ones:
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and a newer Hemi no less, I bet he paid 20k for that engine......
Chrome valve covers, dual exhaust with Flowmasters, looks like Accel wires, aftermarket fan...clean, but I don't think it was stereotypical "Little old lady" owned
One of My grandma's had a 67 Cougar Eliminator and my other grandma had a 74 Malibu sitting on Crager's with big meats in the back when I was growing up in the late 70's- mid 80's. Just because your a grandma doesn't mean you have to drive a boring car.
What a shame. That's exactly what I look for. Totally original. Another mop are ruined.
That thing wasn't anywhere near original or stock..... First the color is wrong, 318's were never painted anything but Corporate (Chrysler) Blue not Hemi Orange. They also didn't come with a Holley Carb, Chrome Valve Covers, Aluminium Heads and Intake and Dual Flowmaster Exhaust, and more than likely had a cam, lifters and been bored and had performance rods and pistons in it.
I hate to say it but, I don't know any grannies who put chrome valve covers and four barrel holly on their rides.???
Instead of knitting, she puts an anodized alternator pulley and flex fan on her car. I was also wondering why he didn't paint the engine compartment along with the underside. I mean, he raises the new cross member up and you can see the difference.
Don't forget the flowmasters
I agree
Also maybe she was in her mid 60s when she built it?
Can't believe y'all have never seen somebody in their mid 60s work on or pay for their car to be worked on like this.
I WOULD HAVE KEPT IT AS STANDARD LOOKS WISE I LIKE THE 454 CHEVY NOVAS OF 1970 PLAIN BUT REAL FAST A GREAT SLEEPER CAR FROM THE FACTORY
Man I would of kept that car like it was it looked like it just drove off the dealer lot that thing is mint and even though not many like the 73/74 Satellite style I'm like it. My parents use to have one back in the day it was blue on blue with those same hubcaps but is was lifted in the rear a bit to make it have a nice stance.
No it didn;t.... It come off the show room floor with a Holley Carb, Chrome Valve Covers, aluminium Heads and Intake and it was the wrong color, the 318 was never Hemi Orange, they were all Corporate (Chrysler) Blue. It might be the original blck but someone has already modded it.
My great uncle actually had a 73 Satellite Sebring with a 318/auto. It was a nice car but I would've bought a 340 Duster in 73
By '73 the Duster had the crap emissions 360 that got 9 MPG city/11 MPG hiway... no HP... they were like that until Magnum version in '94 doubled the MPG...
Great job Stacey
My, granny had good tastes in mufflers, intake manifolds and Holley carbs!
Farmtruck has a 1972 Chevy C10 Sleeper Dragster and dubbed it Farmtruck because he found it in a catalog and oh, don't underestimate the farmtruck
I guess bad hair is the name of this episode? lol...
Is that in a book somewhere I can find? Along with the definition of Sarcasm. lol!
Stacy david is the man.
"The FIRST thing we need to do is wave GOODBYE to"-
...the idea that anyone needs to do ANYTHING to this car.
Build a car that's not in such pristine condition instead of ruining a car that's perfect and original to start with.
only that thing wasn't anything CLOSE to Original..... They didn't come stock with Chrome Valve Covers, Aluminium Heads and Intake, Dual Flowmaster Exhaust and it probally had a cam in it and had been bored. that thing was nowhere NEAR original or stock.
I'm restoring two 1974 trucks. An F350 Super Duty and an International 200.
The odd detail about both of these trucks is that they have been operated for a small government in the capacity of road/highway maintenance. [the Ford was a road maintenance truck for the City of Norwalk, CA and the International was a road maintenance truck for Adair County, MO]
Both have beefed up suspensions, extra heavy frames, extra strong bed frames, overload springs and enhanced engine cooling packages for towing trailers with road repair equipment around. (~_^)-b
Both have really badly damaged [dented, rusted, busted glass, nightmare electrical problems etc] cabs. /( -_-)\
The reason I got them so cheaply is because they were either illegal [Ford windshield is totally spider-webbed from a crash and can't legally be driven without a new windshield] or miserable to drive [the heaters don't work in either truck and the international leaks so horribly that it will give you a bath if you drive it in the rain].
I found another cab for the Ford, still looking for one for the International, but I might go in and braze some steel in the holes instead.
I just bought an 1980 Ford Truck for my grandson's first car in 4 years that used to be a Highway Patrol Search and Rescue vehicle and it has all the heady duty frame and suspension too. It's a 4wd but were selling all that and making it a 2wd street truck. The 4wd drive train alone will make the money back to build it because they are highly sought after. I've already been offered 15k for the drive train.
steele motor mounts and subframe connectors is all you need dor that motor
so dosent adding all that "SOFTER" undercoating make all the bolt -on areas wear to a loose state...then need re tightened ?
just asking Stacey i always loved your shows but that was a question i needed to ask
There’s a Charlie Sheen movie “the boys next door” there’s a 73 satellite on there. Always loved it
Heads up, you don't get to see the end result of the swap; only 3 episodes uploaded with no finale...wtf dude
I wonder if Ron Jenkins took his hat off if the hair would be attached to it lol. A hat wig. Sure looks like it would.
cool i love the wigs
Yeah, not everyone can buy those things...then buys a Hemi LOL!
In honesty, this is the video I've been looking for as I want to turn my 73 Roadrunner into a Hellcat. Sadly, don't have the money to do such a thing just yet.
I’ve thought this was supposed to be a budget build but I see hundreds of dollars.
stacy doesn't do budget builds ,nice projects ,nice work , but defiantly not budget ,
maybe in 1946????....the motor alone is 12.000
@@larrydriemel6242 Stacy has that bag of chips to work with. His budget is different from mine.
He should have done this to a parts car that wasn't in good shape. He just ruined a mint Satellite that was really well preserved.
And all the hot car magazines have articles/videos online on cheaply building that 318 to streetable 400+ HP !!!
Why does Stacy feel he has to make up stories about the cars he brings into the shop? I've noticed in many episodes that things just don't add up. What Grandma had chrome valve covers, a Holley and dual flowmasters?
ProPerformanceNutrition.com my mom loved to drive hot rods. Well into her 50’s she loved suckering people into racing her New Yorker. It would smoke most stock mustangs and camaro’s.
Well mine did..... My mom's mom had a 67 Cougar Eliminator and my dad's mom had a 74 Malibu sitting on Crager's with big meats in the back when I was growing up in the Late 70's-mid 80's and yes... they drove them to church. Just because your a grandma doesn't mean you have to drive a boring car.
Stacey is the real deal. None of the usual inflated numbers, attempts to make a car seem faster than it is. What you see is what you get. Amazing skills.
from the movie Ted: " Flash is here, and Johnny, his hair is parted down the middle"
Still waiting for an update on this one
I am with you, just binged watch parts 1 thru 3. This was recorded over 6 yrs ago, what the heck happened to parts 4 and beyond. I was Agee anger in the 70’s and this series brought back many great memories. Common Stacy get your act together.
@zephmont I couldn't imagine that but if so I'd love to know why
I've been watching these since I was like 7! I am 15 now.
and now your 17, big deal
is the 318 a good motor
Yes very reliable but not a real good engine to make HP with because to get any compression out of them you need to have custom made pistons for it or deck the heads & block quite a bit so your better off with a 340 or 360 or a 408 SB stroker if you want a small block car . If not a small block then a 440 or stroked 400 to a 451 . The Hemi is a good one as well but it's much more expensive & they can be kind of finicky on the street compared to a 440 ! My choice if I had the money would have been the modern Hemi called the Heliphant that makes 1,000 HP stock with over 900 ft lbs of torque that comes with the computer opened up so it can be tuned with a ordinary laptop for even more power lol . It uses the factory superstock block heads & internals so it can take a serious beating plus it comes with a factory warranty but it's not cheap either lol.
The welds on the cross-member
Some scenes from Two lane black-top 👍
So with all the money you dumped into this thing you could've just bought the Cuda or Camaro you couldn't afford in the first place.
Right? that engine alone was 20k........
Have a sebring plus green on green, white top with 400 2bbl.😉
I have a 73 satelite sebring plus. It is green with green bucket seats and had a 400 2 barrel. Post some pictures!
Hey looks cooler than the new ones
He always says "we unbolted" and "we removed" but he's the only one on the show?
Must Have a Mouse in His Pocket
You don't think he actually does any of the work. Army of grunts do the work off camera except for the staged shots of Stacey "getting his hands dirty".
@@numbnutz9398 Probably true. So maybe he should say "they" or "them"???
I've been looking for a Satty like that for years, and I'm stunned to see you destroy it. Sad.
That suspension dude with the rainbow hair and the flexed triceps wouldn't be allowed to enter my garage. I actually thought at first he was wearing one of those joke mullet caps with the fake hair. Sadly, I was wrong.
@@scottw403 he's a dico head
Pretty sure he'd kick your ass
The 90 year old lady kept that beauty perfect working A/C amazing, good job i love it just the way grandma left it.
A 440 with a reasonable build or a modern 392 would be the real world engine to install. This show never finishes a build and 90% is commercials which is super annoying. I don’t watch this show anymore.
You can get a quality replacement (fill in the blank) from our friends at (fill in the blank). I didn't even watch the video to know.....
yep, gotta pay the bills and get free parts from somewhere. But I do agree it's gotten out of hand. there was literally 11 minutes of him working on the car and 13 minutes of advertising for different tools, not even the "what are you working on" segment is as long as it used to be, it used to be 3-4 minutes, now it's not even a minute and a half.
I just wanted to see more of that Cougar :(
You need to build another one, not a Satelite but another car from the Mid-Late 70's and make it a budget bill that people can take to a local cruise-in/car show and not sink a ton of money into. They are the HOT build out here in the Southwest/West because they are the "$500 Nova" of our generation. They are still running and on the road and you can get them all day long for 2-3k and spend another 5k or so building them into a reliable daily driver/cruise-in/ weekend car. Not everyone has 25-50k to sink into a car but you show them they have a nice COOL car for 8-10 with no engine swaps, no $1000 wheels, just a on the cheap Restomod by rebuilding the original drive train, all new body mounts and bushings and painted frame and suspension, with updated wheels and interior.
Thanks for the suggestion! Those cars can be tough to find in most of the rest of the country. Many turned into stock cars in the south or rusted away up north.
@@OfficialStaceyDavid Not here in the Southwest and West, they are all over the pace out here and still on the road.
Yeah, how much is that front end!?!
So by changing EVERYTHING you saved thousands?
The savings comes in the price of the car. Not the mods.
$25.00 for the "Gearz Project Planning Book" (I looked it up online) WTF!!! For a stupid notebook that cost 79¢ at Walmart w/o the fancy pics.
Right? or better yet a 3 ring binder with everything typed out on a computer and printed off.
Soo.. Granny liked Flowmaster Mufflers and Chrome Valve Covers?
Omg they under coated the whole car! All that beautiful original metal covered up. Just so they could advertise more crap
I had a 73 satellite in High School the thing was a rocket no one could beet me.
If you're building a true sleeper wouldn't want it to still be at stock height ??
cheap project until the $22,000 Hemi!
+matt hunter and all the aftermarket tubular suspention. yet again with the empty statements lol
matt hunter he never said cheap...he said start with a cheap and unassuming car. There's an old adage in the car world that goes something like this: you can have it cheap, fast, reliable but you can only pick two from that list.
Uh huh. all the hot car magazines have articles/videos online on cheaply building that 318 to street 400+ HP !!!
OOOOOOOHHH!!! the purists are present&accounted for(yea -old Mopar dealer tech here), It is not really cool to disrupt an original unit but to save time/money/hassle/being sold to some chump &ending up in mexico as a cartel toy/swap some upgrade stuff and keep some other orig units running w/the sold off parts and yea....the orig high perf units are waaaaaaaay over valued collecting dust in old rich guys houses......as a former 90''s Mopar tech this unit build has my blessing.
That car was perfect before you started your project it's hard to watch this because it was perfect but I think stacey David is awesome
Everyone is complaining about cutting up an original and can see the point to a degree, but it's just a 318 car and isn't worth much. I saw a 74 RR recently that was an untouched original with 318, and were asking 17K. It was on consignment, so you could get one cheaper if it was for sale by owner. Although too many of us, money isn't the point and is part of Americana
budget build my ass.....lets rip up a nice original car and put a 12.000 dollar motor in it.......could had just hopped up the 318 and changed the pipes...rear end...shift kit the trans.....if youu dont have a shop..every tool in the world...sponsors throwing parts at you.......this car is a 30.000 build......thanks for ripping up a survivor BTW.....
That Hemi alone probably cost close to 30,000 lol Ray Barton isn't cheap but builds some of fastest Hemis around . Can't do a whole lot with the 318 because the pistons sit low in the block so custom pistons & a lot of block decking required to get decent compression out of them so you would be better off with a 340 360 SB or a 408 SB stroker . Or any of the 383 400 413 440 BB that can be stroked as well to make as much HP as the Hemi but cheaper & not so finiky on the street like most are !
Personally, I would've cleaned it up, detailed it and driven it on nice weather weekends. On the other hand, if I wanted to make a "sleeper" out of it, I would've gone with a Blueprint Engines 408 from Summit (or others) rather than pretty much destroying what used to be a very nice Sebring.
Surprised they didn't use any Locktite when assembling the new front end.
hi i have a 1993 dodge Dakota with the 318 motor it's fule injection witch is better for horsepower power fuel injection or carburetor I'm trying to figure out was to get a few more horsepower power i no the 318 never came with a lot of horsepower
I had a Dodge Coronet Custom once, was not a speed demon, would have made a great muscle car though, if I could have gotten my hands on a good big block. ~( 'w')/
hi lm a recent convert great site just wondering when the next series of the interceptor are coming l"ve got as far as the interior is there any more ???
The one issue is the car was not prepped for the chassis saver properly, it may still bite okay, that is a decent product... However I noticed you coated the box liner directly over the chassis saver without sanding the chassis saver... Unfortunately that does not work & all that box liner will peel off very quickly.
They need to get a NUV.
At 7:00 "That's a FUCKING good muffler". True fans will know what I'm saying.
Matthew Bubblesism
So what was the total cost of Everything if say i had to purchase it all myself?