1963 Max Wedge Replica
Tom W. recently traded
his '69 GTX towards this '63 Plymouth Savoy 426 Max Wedge replica. Tom
brought the car to us to have a battery drain fixed, fix the fuel
gauge, and to do a Super Tune to get the car to idle correctly. The car
is a blast to drive now. It runs great and is a hand full on the street
while pushing the buttons to shift it.
The high compression
496" 440 with SR Heads and roller cam motor was rebuilt by Muscle
Motors and features a crossram intake with two 750 Edelbrocks. .
Car's got a 4.10 geared
8 3/4, 4,500 converter, and a pushbutton transmission. Shift as hard as
you want, just don't break your finger!!! It's run a best of 11.31 @
119MPH with the electric exhaust cutouts open. Capped up it's been
11.45 @ 117MPH. The car runs OK, but I feel this combo should be in the
10.50 to 10.70 range. I've been working on Tom to try and get him to
sell this motor and let us build him a new one from scratch, but he's
happy with the performance and the car already runs quicker than the
roll bar rule anyway (you're supposed to have a roll bar if you go
quicker than 11.49 at an IHRA track).
This Savoy features
black and red interior
with a Monster tach. We also installed a CRT reverse pattern manual
vavle body with low band apply.
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