1970 Dodge Superbee By Tylar Gilman

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My name is Tylar Gilman and I am from Scottsbluff, Nebraska. I acquired this car when I was 15 years old because my father had one when he went to college. My family has owned a Dodge dealership since 1931 so parts connections and collections we of great help. We had so much new old stock for it that I used almost every bit of it, including a Weiand Super Stock Tunnel Ram 6-pak manifold. It took me 2 1/2 years to restore it to the condition it is in now. I have put a fuel cell in it this summer as well as a 4 Bbl carburetor to see if the car can run a little more consistant. The block is out of a 73 newyorker bored .030" with Keith Black Hyperutectic Silvolite Blower type pistons to yield a compression ratio of 11:1. The heads are a set of "915" castings off of the shelf new with 1.88 exhaust valves and 2.08 intake valves. The heads were cleaned up and pocket ported and gasket matched. It has a steel crank in it with polished factory 440-4Bbl rods fully balanced, MP oil pump, and a deep sump(9 quart) oil pan with hemi pick up tube. I have Hooker headers to dispose of the exhaust and a straight 3" exhaust all the way out the back. The tranny is a fully race built unit with the following: deep aluminum pan, full manual valve body, Hibster 4200 stall converter, polished and lightened drums with 1/4" holes in the sides for excess relief and cooling of the clutches, kevlar bands and Raybestos red race clutches. I use the factory driveshaft hooked to an 8 3/4 with 4.56:1 gears and a posi. Inside is a completely all black stock interior, hurst shifter, full autometer instrumentation, and of all things a factory radio that lights up and everything else but has no speakers hooked to it. To me the sound of the car is all the music I need. The car has run a best of 12.64 at 106 mph at Douglas International Raceway in Douglas Wyoming. I have never won a carshow but have won 1 class championship and 6 other miscelaneous 2nd and 3rd place finishes. College put a small damper on racing for the past 2 years so it doesn't see the track much more than 4 or 5 times a season.

Tylar Gilman

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1970 Dodge Superbee By Tylar Gilman

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