anyone ever looked into the drivetrain behind these mysterious monsters? they say it was a 2.2 with over 400 horse. just curious as to whether anyone has ever tried recreating it and doing a mid engine rwd? seems like this car could have been a total hit within our community but they decided to kill it before production. the car was featured in the movie "Wraith" with charlie sheen before the cocaine, honestly i couldnt tell the difference haha.
Allpar did an interview with me, about restoring the movie car from The Wraith. Then they learned that we were in touch with Bob Ackerman, who designed the M4S, so they went through us to interview him. I was going to link those but perhaps i should hold back. I've got a ton of photos though. If anyone is interested, i'll post them.
Actually, the photo in the first post is one of ours that Allpar used for our interview.
I'd be happy to. Many of the photos (of the actual M4S) i have are from Bob himself, and one of the head engineers on the project. I'll have to get permission from them about which ones to use, then i'll draft up some basics on the car. It will probably be a few days before i hear from either of them, so we'll allow some time.
I also have a ton of photos from the Wraith prop restoration, which are mine. I can do a separate run down with those, but the previously mentioned links kind of cover that.
The M4S was my dream car when I first got into 2.2's back in the mid 80's. I have the original Hot Rod Magazine book from 1985 that details all the developement work done on the FWD Dodges up to that time. There is a whole article in there with several pictures of the Cosworth head 2.2 used in it. I still enjoy reading that book and drooling....
They mentioned the M4S in the engine article, but they didn't have any pictures of it at the time. They did have pictures of the original Charger 2.2 pace car, the styling exercise from the following year, and the prototype Daytona used in 83-84 that managed to run 174 mph.
I wish i DID own it. I merely helped with restoration and act as a spokesperson for the project. I've spent a lot of time with the car over the last few years. Everything short of driving it myself.
The M4S was my dream car when I first got into 2.2's back in the mid 80's. I have the original Hot Rod Magazine book from 1985 that details all the developement work done on the FWD Dodges up to that time. There is a whole article in there with several pictures of the Cosworth head 2.2 used in it. I still enjoy reading that book and drooling....
They mentioned the M4S in the engine article, but they didn't have any pictures of it at the time. They did have pictures of the original Charger 2.2 pace car, the styling exercise from the following year, and the prototype Daytona used in 83-84 that managed to run 174 mph.
With that said, i got permission to use some of the photos given to me by Bob Ackerman and Steve Maki. If Turbo Dodge wants to follow up with something, let me know.
I wish i DID own it. I merely helped with restoration and act as a spokesperson for the project. I've spent a lot of time with the car over the last few years. Everything short of driving it myself.
Does anyone know what the Camshaft Journal clearance specs should be? I have a noisy camshaft and I was wondering what the proper journal clearance spec should be.
I have the actual journal spec from the maintenance manual, but it doesn't spec clearance.
From the 1987 Service Manual, 34.939...
Yes, I am aware there is another thread pertaining to this but lets start fresh and see where it leads.
Who owns a "stock" VNT that is running and lets see some pics.
(89 CSX, 90 Daytona/Lebaron/Shadow)
I will start.
Bought her new in 12/89.
She has lived outside for 27 + years.
She has been...
i just picked up a 90 blue cs vnt daytona from a good friend of mine. He has four of them (well three now) two red, one white and the blue one (which is now mine). under the impression that there is 21 total 90 cs daytona vnts does anyone know color break down of how many of each color? and how...
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O well, not much there relevant to us anyway.
