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1963 Chevy Impala - The Baron, The Bomb, And The Boom
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| F A C T S & F I G U R E S | | Baron Braatz | | Bend, Oregon | | 1963 Chevrolet Impala | | CHASSIS | | Frame / Manufacturer | stock cruciform / General Motors | | Rearend / Ratio | Ford 9" / 3.73:1 | | Rear suspension | Hotchkis Performance (Santa Fe Springs, CA) control arms, Panhard rod & springs | | Front suspension | Hotchkis Performance control arms, spindles & springs | | Brakes | Wilwood Engineering (Camarillo, CA) discs, cross-drilled rotors, four-piston calipers | | Master cylinder | Stainless Steel Brakes Corporation (SSBC; Clarence, NY) billet aluminum w/ proportioning valve | | Front wheel make, size | Billet Specialties (LaGrange, IL) soft-lip Vintec, 18x7 | | Rear wheel make, size | Billet Specialties soft-lip Vintec, 20x10 | | Tire make, size | Toyo Proxes, 235/40ZR-17 (front); 275/40ZR-20 (rear) | | ENGINE | | Make | Chevrolet | | Displacement | 383ci | | Assembly | owner | | Crankshaft | 3.75" cast steel, 350-style main journals | | Rods | Chevrolet 5.7 | | Pistons | forged, .030" overbore | | Camshaft | Edelbrock (Torrance, CA) Performer | | Water pump | Edelbrock polished aluminum | | Cooling fan | Flex-a-lite (Fife, WA) electric 16" | | Radiator | aluminum | | Heads | Edelbrock Performer | | Manifold / Induction | Edelbrock Performer / Edelbrock 1405 (600-cfm), Holley Performance Products (Bowling Green, KY) PowerCharger air filter | | Ignition / Wires | MSD (El Paso, TX) / Taylor Vertex (Grandview, MO) Spiro-Pro | | Headers | Doug's Headers (Riverside, CA) | | Exhaust / Mufflers | 3" steel / Flowmaster (Santa Rosa, CA) Super 40 | | Other engine facts | March Performance (Naples, FL) accessory drives | | TRANSMISSION | | Make | GM 700-R4 | | Converter | TCI Performance (Ashland, MS) | | Shifter | B&M Racing & Performance Products (Chatsworth, CA) Megashifter | | BODY | | Body style / Material | Impala / steel | | Body manufacturer | Fisher Body Works | | Body mods | shaved door handles, trim & emblems | | Paint type / Color | unknown polyurethane / matte-finish trim black & red metalflake base; gloss clear flames & top | | Bumpers | stock, trim-black paint | | INTERIOR | | Head unit | Alpine CDA-9851 AM/FM/CD/MP3 | | Amplifiers | Rockford-Fosgate 25th Anniversary (Punch 150 for subwoofers; two Punch 45s for midrange/tweeters) | | Drivers | three Rockford-Fosgate Punch P3 12" subwoofers, six 6" midrange drivers (four in dash, two in rear package tray), four 1" soft-dome tweeters (in dash) | | Audio fabrication | installation, including door/kick panel plates & fiberglass-faced subwoofer enclosure fabrication, by Ronnie Hurt, Sounds on Wheels (Bend, OR) | | Steering wheel | Billet Specialties Hopster half-wrap w/ large, plain horn button | | Steering column | ididit inc. (Tecumseh, MI) retrofit tilt, chrome | | Upholstery material / Color | custom top-stitched pleat vinyl / red, black piping |
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