1970 Plymouth GTX 472 HEMI resto. (The ultimate Resto!)

[ShortThrow50]

This is one of my dads cars. I think I may have posted a few pics in another thread months ago but since I just went up and picked the engine at Ray Bartons on Friday, i figured I would post up results and some of the resto pics. Some of you may or may not know who Ray Barton is but he is a big time HEMI guy and his son does all the drag racing now. His shop was INSANE. We had this engine built intially by a local reputable engine builder but my dad supplied all the new parts from mopar. About 17k in parts. We brought it up to Barton to have it dynoed and the engine almost came apart at idle. Ray had alot to say about "whoever" built the engine. Alot more money later, Barton rebuild the whole engine and dyoned it. They were very surprised that this engine made what it did for only being stroked to 472. It made 591 hp (@6000 rpm) and 539 torque (@5400). He said it should be over 600 with a good exhaust setup. This car is gonna be one hell of a street car. Ill ad more during the process. Its starting to move pretty fast now.

heres a picture of one of ray bartons cars

 

[Slw01Cobra]

Nice numbers and by the looks that car is gonna be sweeeeet! Keep us updated!

 

[Quicktime_GT]

dude thats awesome

 

[Gallows]

Nice power plant:rockon: What is the time frame to have the car completed?

 

[Azure Mach1]

Does it make any power in the lower RPM range?
A dyno sheet that starts at 5000 RPM is a little scary for a street car.
I have a 69 GTX 440 that I just started the resto on. It's not near as far along as your dads car.
Keep up the good work and lets keep these old cars living!

 

[lxtasy93]

God I love FK5 burnt orange ! NICE GTX !

 

[supercarkiller]

that is gonna be sweet, keep us posted.

 

[stangnutlx]

what a gorgous color

 

[98kingcobra]

great project... but just wanted to know any one else stop and look past the motor at the poster in back ground???

 

[ShortThrow50]

it should hopefully be close to being done this summer. Its been under the knife for the past year and half. I dont know the lower rpm numbers. I Could probably email the guy and ask for a printout fof the whole range. Also, those numbers were with 93 octane. Those guys are used to building race hemi's so i guess they are used to giving customers the higher rpm printouts. Yeah, thats my favorite poster in my garage. I love breasts with oil all over them

 

[P49Y-CY]

nice pics thanks for sharing

yeah ray barton has been one of the premier hemi engine builders for many years! i think he relocated from canada to pa quite a while ago