Disassembly progress and new parts.

Thanks for checking out our channel Mr Cuda! My first car was a 1974 Cuda and now my son and I own this 1970 Barracuda that was passed down in the family. Ever since my first Mopar I have always been a Plymouth Cuda fan. From my early days I always wanted to make a resto mod type car. When the 1970 barracuda was passed down to me I was in the beginning stages of restoring the 1974 but I decided to sell the body of the car. At that time I saved a lot of the parts from the 1974 Cuda to help with this resto mod on the 1970 Barracuda. This 1970 Barracuda is a Gran Coup 318 car and sometime in the 90s the engine was swapped. It has also been well used and a road warrior that has seen its fair share of fender benders. The car has been repaired but not a perfect car. This car is a great platform for the Gen III Hemi swap and since we have so many Cuda parts to help make a transformation this will become a 1970 Cuda resto Mod. I want to document the process for myself and my son, but also share with anyone interested in these types of muscle car transformations.

We are beginning to amass quite a few parts for this project and this is a good time to show where we are and what those parts are.

1st. Up I want to show how frustrating restoration parts can be sometimes. This applies to any project. Replacement parts can be inferior and make your restoration hard to complete. This example is a simple part you wouldn’t put much thought into. The AC condensation drain hose is a hard part to find and like this example, many are not OEM quality. Remember to watch out for quality reviews.

To catch up on our progress we take a look at the engine bay and fire wall. All the progress made in removing parts and cleaning the firewall shows. The engine bay is essentially bare less the brake lines and clean except for where the brake lines run. Under the dash, we have removed the steering column, pedals and wires below the column. So the dash will come out along with the AC heater box.

Next up In this video we also show a little bit of our Dakota Digital dash. I think the fit and finish is awesome. We’ll see how the install goes and we will document that as well. The link to the dash is here:

https://www.dakotadigital.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=product/product_id=1266/category_id=679/mode=prod/prd1266.htm

Finally the steering columns. We have a little bit of a problem to solve. The 1970 steering column has a lockout tube that will no longer function with our new TKX transmission. What some people do is replace the column with something like the 1974 steering column that has a finger button to lock the steering vs the lockout tube. If you had the option would you keep the 1970 column but somehow rig it to remain functional. Or replace with the 1974 column we already have to keep the actual lock function as well but maybe not year correct. We already have many resto mods so I believe the 1974 column is the right choice. We have got a lot of good information from Cuda Cody so I will link his steering column videos here:

https://youtu.be/GfXK2cJKrJY

https://youtu.be/5GhnnUm94oA

https://youtu.be/5GhnnUm94oA

https://youtu.be/49L2sIR9OYc

That’s all for this update, we are working on more so we’ll have more updates soon.