News
February 28, 2010
Catch Can Update: Lots of chatter on the web about the necessity of a Catch Can. Here's what mine captured in 3,000 miles. I think the results speak for themselves.
February 27, 2010
The Challenger is one year old today. To celebrate I went for a nice long drive to one of my favorite eating locals in a small middle Tennessee town. The weather was nice and the soothing rumble of the Hemi V8 on a Saturday afternoon was great therapy. I ticked over 5,000 miles on that drive today and have enjoyed every minute spent in the car.
January 24, 2010
Back before Christmas I ordered a Hurst short throw 6 speed shifter for the Challenger. Today, I finally installed it.
November 27, 2009
Our local Mopar Club was asked to represent at the Nashville International Auto Show. I decided to take the Challenger down and put it on display and it was well received by the attendees.
November 13, 2009
I've never understood why Dodge put the Ram's Head on the Challenger. It just doesn't fit the personality of the vehicle. Today, I replaced the Ram's Head on the nose of the car with something more fitting. I did a quick video to show how to remove the stock emblem and install the new one as well.
October 18, 2009
I entered the Challenger in the Octoberfest car show today in middle TN, and I'm happy to report it won 1st place in the modified class.
October 4, 2009
I finally visited the fella we met at the cruise-in over the summer. He's got quite a setup, and collection, of Mopar muscle cars.
September 27, 2009
I entered the Challenger in a local car show and it one first place in its class.
September 14, 2009
The Challenger attracts a lot of attention, sometimes from local law enforcement. I needed to even the odds so I installed some counter measures.
September 2, 2009
My friend "Zippy" just took delivery of is 2010 ZR1 Corvette. Man, one of these days.......
August 24, 2009
I've posted the Eibach Installation Video up. You can view it HERE.
August 19, 2009
It's been a busy couple of weeks for the Challenger. I've made some pretty big changes to the car, the first of which was an Eibach Pro Kit suspension. I did the install in my garage on a very hot 95 degree day with 50% humidity. It would have been A LOT more fun in cooler weather.
Next, I installed new tires and wheels. I went with Boss 338 Gray in a 20x8.5 for the front and 20x10 for the rear. I used Nitto Invo tires to finish the package. I'm thrilled with how it turned out.
July 17-18, 2009
We visit a couple of Cruise-ins on the weekends and met a very interesting fellow with some RARE vehicles.
July 8, 2009
The Eibach Pro Kit showed up today. Now I just need to wait for the wheels and I can change the stance of this bad boy.
July 3, 2009
After weeks of hot and humid weather, I finally got a break and was able to finish up the detailing series with Part 3: Interior Cleaning and Protecting.
June 24, 2009
Installed the Billet Technologies Catch Can to keep that gunk outta my intake.
June 19, 2009
Today I installed and tested the functional hood scoops. The results were very surprising.
June 13, 2009
The rally stripes and window tint are installed.
June 3, 2009
I had the Challenger weighed to see what the actual number of my car was.
June 1, 2009
I've been pretty busy the past couple of weeks. I've ordered some rally stripes, have a window tint appointment, and painted my brake calipers.
May 13, 2009
Part two of the detailing series is now posted which covers polishing and waxing.
May 11, 2009
I finally got some decent weather and was able to complete the video segments for the Magnaflow Cat-Back exhaust article. Lots of video and information on this one. The exhaust sounds awesome, but fitting the driver's side tail pipe was a bit of an issue. There are dyno results for this modification in the article as well.
May 7, 2009
The Mopar Cold Air Intake article is complete, along with an installation video and dyno resultes. Check it out.
May 6, 2009
I spent yesterday morning at The Performance Garage in Smyrna, TN for some dyno testing of the Mopar CAI and Magnaflow 16515 exhaust. The exhaust sounds great and now the car sounds like it looks. I've got some analysis to do on the dyno runs as well as some video editing before the article will be published. I should have it completed next week so stay tuned.
