Dave Trevisan looked at his 1969 Dodge Charger and thought, I actually want to put some miles on this thing. Good idea, with its Viper V-10 engine swap and twin turbos.
so that he too could join them and engage in some quarter-mile action—and then it hit him while standing in the staging lane. He recalls thinking,"I don't know if I want to do this. It's a ton of money I'll have tied up to only take out a few times during the year. I can make it a street car, and I can meet them at the track, and I'll put more miles on it one way than they will put on their cars in a lifetime.
In the pipeline was also an upgrade to another mill, with a 440 or Hemi at the top of the wish list. As a result of his trackside epiphany, the desire to do something different prompted him to look at other options."I wanted something not so common," he states."The look and peculiar sound of the V-10 got me thinking, plus I had never owned one.
The next step in the project was the addition of the twin-turbo assembly. As with the installation of the engine, this also became a winter project that he spent a fair amount of time mapping out. He notes,"The planning was the hard part. I must have moved those things around for a month until I decided exactly where I was going to put them." Once the turbo placement was resolved, the custom headers and all the plumbing were created and mated to the 67mm Precision turbos.
The primary focus from outset was developing what was under the car's skin. All the years in storage have aged the exterior, giving it a very distinctive patina. As you can probably guess, that is still the metallic light maroon enamel that Mark laid down in the late 1970s, however, as part of the build Dave fully painted and detailed the underside of the car. He clarifies,"I'm not getting any younger.
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