Chris Castor

[Deceus]

Hi my name is Chris Castor. I'm not a student at JMU but I joined anyways. I'm a software developer but that's not important and boring. I'm driving a completely stock 2011 Challenger R/T so obviously I went through my mid-life crisis a little earlier than most. I'm also building a 1973 Dodge Dart Sport although there isn't much 1973 left on it. It has a 318 with the only stock parts being the block and crank. A 904 built by John Cope with a manual valve body so it won't be a complete drag to have an auto again hopefully. I went with a Ford 8.8 rear end because the swap was easy as hell and much cheaper than anything I found. I also don't like passing up opportunities to piss off thousands of purists when i have the chance.

I have just about everything needed to put it back together after working on it for 3 years, I just need the time and help to get it together. Once it's running I want to race the shit out of it. Drifting, drag, autocross I want to do it all so that's mostly why I joined. Here's some pics:

Daily driver:


Current state of the build:


Some before/afters:






















inb4 LOLdodge

[davej]

Welcome Chris! Fun looking project, any chance you can button it up in a couple of weeks?
<!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://www.mmsports.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11761">viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11761</a><!-- l -->

[Deceus]

Welcome Chris! Fun looking project, any chance you can button it up in a couple of weeks?
<!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://www.mmsports.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11761">viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11761</a><!-- l -->

Won't be making that deadline for sure but I was thinking of bringing the Challenger out for that.

[ViPER1313]

Paging Jeff. Welcome to the forums and yay more muscle cars!

[EclipseTurbno93]

Welcome! That Dart looks like a fun project, I know a few people on here would be down to help (or just get in the way and heckle) so just shout out when you want it I'm a fan of the Challenger as well. Definitely has its flaws but it's so cool I don't care

[ViPER1313]

Might be worth the read - <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://www.mmsports.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9201">viewtopic.php?t=9201</a><!-- l -->

[Senor_Taylor]

Welcome to the forum! I can't wait to follow your build thread! Great talking to you at Cars and Coffee!

Sent from my SM-G900R4 using Tapatalk

[Deceus]

Welcome! That Dart looks like a fun project, I know a few people on here would be down to help (or just get in the way and heckle) so just shout out when you want it I'm a fan of the Challenger as well. Definitely has its flaws but it's so cool I don't care

Well the car is 3 hours away in Newport News so i doubt anyone is willing to go that far just to heckle lol. It's most just me and the old man but it's getting harder to motivate him these days. Definitely going to check out that Challenger thread and start my own build thread. Bending and flaring brake lines this weekend so it should be a fun one ...

[ScottyB]

nice stable! welcome, we need more old school cool stuff here.