Mopar Magic

1988 Daytona Turbo II

Owned by: Melissa Turner
Work done by: Andrew Turner / Keith Turner

Most of the work has been done by Andrew with some help from his Dad, Keith. The car is a 1988 Daytona originally equipped with a 2.2 Turbo II engine with a 520 5-speed trans and rear disks. The car was bought from an auto wrecker in Cochran AB. with a blown transmission. When we looked the car over we noticed the intercooler was complete and the engine seem to run quit well although couldn't be driven. The car cost 150 dollars and also came with a new trans in the hatch (523 with shift cables). Once getting the car home we found the front struts, strut mounts and bearing's were completely gone. The real surprise came to find the drivers side CV had gone and was spinning in the hub, thus the owner had thought the trans had gone away. So we had a spare trans and just put in 2 rebuilt complete axels, this car had equal length shafts. Once again for info on FWD dodges you check out 3 of my favorite sites. Donovan's Dodge Garage, ( http://www.thedodgegarage.com/ ), Russ Knize's Mini Mopar Site ( http://minimopar.knizefamily.net/ ). Another good site is Gus Mahon's site, ( http://home.earthlink.net/~turbogus/index-old.html ) Gus passed away in a tragic motorcycle accident. A great guy that went out of his way to give out good free info for turbo Dodges!

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Looks Good	Before Paint	Side Shot	Nice Wheels
Wheels are Drag 17 X 7 with Yokohama AVS ES100 Ultra high performance summers tires. 235 45ZR17 all round. The suspension has KYB GR2's all round, the front springs were just cut to lower the car 1.5 inch's. The rear springs are Acura front springs modified to fit the back of the Daytona, and they also lower the car 1.5 inch's. Part 2 The work continues on the Daytona. Keith and Bob now are doing all the work, so hopefully things start to pick up. First job was to get the doors back together, the glass has to go in and the trim has to go on and the lock solenoids have to go in the doors. The problem we had is you can't buy new door edge (for T roof cars) pieces from Chrysler and the plastic clips were about 60% broken. So I took the trim plastic home and glued and made the clips, All the auto wrecker parts seem to brake as soon as you take the screws out! The next job was to pull the interior out and get the drivers seat in to get repaired. Then we pulled out the carpet. Dam after pulling it up, what a smell, it must have been wet a long time. This is a T roof car and we know they don't leak so they must have been left off when it rained! Once the carpet was pulled we discovered we had another problem. After taping the floor we caused some big holes. This was true for the passenger and drivers side of the car. See pics.

This wasn't what we were expecting. We did how ever now that where the emergency brake came through the floor it was bad, but we didn't think the other parts of the floor were all that bad. So we starting cutting and putting in pieces. You can't buy any floor pans for this car so the patches were just made. Our patched were one gauge thicker than the original floor. After cutting out the bad area's, we were nicely surprised at how the frame was. We used POR15 on the frame and all spots we couldn't get to once the floor pieces were welded in. First the patch's were just tacked in, then we just went around and joined the dots. Still lots of welding and painting to go!