1964 Plymouth Belvedere on Nascar chassis

[Bru]

If you dig this stuff then you have to subscribe to Hot Rod Magazine. They're on a roll and I recently renewed my subscription for three years. Saw this feature car in a recent issue. The chassis of this Belvedere has raced at Daytona in the 500. The builders altered the suspension to turn right and left with equal length upper control arms but most other components just needed adjustability that was already there.

Hot Rod Magazine: We spotted this Plymouth at 2012 SEMA and instantly fell in love. It was built by Ray Evernham at Ray Evernham Enterprises in Mooresville, North Carolina. It’s a 1964 Plymouth Belvedere sitting on a NASCAR Sprint Cup Car of Tomorrow that raced at the Daytona 500 in 2008. It’s powered by a Dodge 358ci NASCAR engine that ran in both Kasey Kahne and Bill Elliott’s Superspeedway cars.

The engine was detuned in order to be more streetable, as if 750hp is a streetable figure. Fuel injection for NASCAR Sprint Cup is new for the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup season, so this engine originally ran a carburetor. FAST, a division of the Comp Performance group, supplied a fuel injection system similar to that of a Holley EFI that NASCAR Sprint Cup will be running. The engine has a FAST ECU that controls injection and timing, but it does not have coil packs like that of a NASCAR Spring Cup Car, rather a traditional distributor. It still features an MSD ignition box, but only one for the now street engine, but it does have two batteries for turning over the high torque starter. COMP also helped out with a custom ground cam because this Plymouth will see more than just a Super Speedway, although, “This car is capable of 200 mph,” Ray Evernham said with a smirk.

Fuel? Yeah, it’s pump gas 93 Octane in North Carolina. The team had local engine builder Darrell Hoffman help assemble some of the engine. The 12:1 compression pistons were replaced for custom ordered flat-top pistons that are shorter than the wrist pins, resulting in roughly 11:1 compression.

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[Bob Kazamakis]

I've had a subscription for years and they for sure have stepped it up now that freiburger is back. They've had some bad ass cars.

 

[Bru]

In his most recent editorial, Freiburger said he got kicked out of a Ford Mustang reveal back in the 90s because he said it looked like a Celica That's awesome.

 

[Euro]

I just read that article a couple of weeks ago. Badass fuckin car

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

It took a dive when he left and I almost didn't renew and then it just got awesome again when he came back. I want them to do a garage spread on all his cars. He sounds like he's got a ton of them from complete junk to things like the F bomb

 

[SWORN]

I've had a subscription for years and they for sure have stepped it up now that freiburger is back. They've had some bad ass cars

+1 on that!

Also, as mentioned in another thread, the Roadkill videos are great. Those guy's sure seem to have a lot of fun!