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Hi
Managed to find myself one of these in need of a refrub which suits me fine, certainly better than my standard Black pod layout with no tacho.
Is there anyone in the UK that can supply replacement parts (tacho, clock etc) for this dash?
I found dash-worx in the US but hopefully someone can suggest someone more local.
Thanks

I did have a complete dash but sent it to Canada for a board member a little while ago. In all honesty I think you're better off sending it to the States for refurb, new parts, cheaper too, labour included,upgrade to a solid state volt reg,etc, shipping will be the only bugbear. Got a spare Rallye woodgrain kit and a used spare dash wiring loom if that helps. PM me if you want

If the standard dash is OK you can get a tach that fits in the hole on the far right which is either blank of fitted with the optional clock. There was a company making them so they looked stock.

OK Thanks, I did see that option of replacing the clock (doesn't work anyway) but then I found a rallye dash by pure luck so I'll go for it, they seem to be getting pretty rare these days, in the UK anyway and the standard dash is the only part of the car visually (if you know what your looking for) that lets the car down.

Adrian Thanks for the offer, but if my Mrs finds out I've bought something else so soon my head will be on the chopping block LOL but I may just be in touch, could always be an early farther days present I guess. do you have both the cluster and switch panel grain? if so 3 or 4 switch?

Sorry on another subject, do you have any performance/top speed figures for a 440 magnum with A727?


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colchester1978 wrote:Sorry on another subject, do you have any performance/top speed figures for a 440 magnum with A727?


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Top speed depends on how high you dare rev the engine (or how high it will rev), what axle gear ratio you have, what size tyres you have.

The smaller diameter the tyres and the lower the gear in the axle, the slower your top speed but the faster the 0-100mph.

Most stock configurations should give you around 120mph. I have had mine up to 140mph. Use my Excel speadsheet to input your cars details and it will tell you your speed/rpm in each gear.
http://challenger.mpoli.fi/web/AUTOMATICchart.xls

Sorry the link to my spreadsheet is broken at the moment.

Thanks Dave

Sorry if this is a stupid question, my car was originally a "73" 318 car but now is running the 440/A727, could the rear end still be that of the 318 car? or must this also of been changed to reflect the engine/trans to maybe a RT rear end?

colchester1978 wrote:Thanks Dave

Sorry if this is a stupid question, my car was originally a "73" 318 car but now is running the 440/A727, could the rear end still be that of the 318 car? or must this also of been changed to reflect the engine/trans to maybe a RT rear end?

My '72 was just the same mate, 318 and auto, it had a 440 and T/F swapped in the States before coming here, I have since fitted an A833 4 speed tho'. The axle is a fairly std 8 3/4" with 3.55 gears.
I had thought that some '73 on passenger cars with sixes or small 2bbl V8's had an even lighter duty axle, was it an 8 1/4" or something?

It probably still got the 8 3/4 axle but it will probably have "gay" 3.23:1 open gears (no limited slip). That will give you a good top end but if it still has the 318 suspension as well it might get a little scary over 100mph.

Link I posted above is now working OK. Thanks Johan.

Yes Thanks, link all good, I see what you mean about the tyre size making quite a difference!

Dave, I so need you to have a crawl round my car and let me know what I'm looking at!


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Oh well you will have to drag me over to your car at the next EuroNats.