Willwood Makes Systems for Almost Any American Car

Willwood makes systems for almost any American car, even my Imperial. They did a custom set-up for me and it just makes the car really drive smoothly because that thing weighs around 5500 pounds something like that and after three or four hard breaks oh my god you got nothing whereas now it stops on a dime every single time so here we go all right you ready go for a ride let's do it i'll show you those cutouts.

Pressing this button was quite the performance car at the dawn of the muscle car age almost before the dawn of the official muscle car age there was a singing group called Jan and Dean had a song about the little old lady from Pasadena and one of the lines was in a rickety old garage with a brand new shiny red super stock Dodge and that's what this would be a super stock Dodge so that image was burned in my mind as a 14-year-old and there's just so much torque it just pulls so hard.

See back in the 60s when you bought performance it also meant you bought no warranty or limited warranty if they find out you raced the car your warranty was null and void as I said a million times in '66 you bought the Hemi it came with a 90-day warranty three months that was it you're on your own and of course Performance was a trade-off. You know nowadays well certainly with a Tesla you get full performance without any work on your part at all but you know when you get a Hellcat or any of those kind of cars you can drive them just like regular cars they don't overheat uh they don't ping you know just no problems you know all that has been worked out but back in the day when you bought a super stock Dodge like this especially a max wedge with 13 and a half compression they would tell you do not drive on the street because it would the plugs would load up and then you wouldn't get it started it was just but they were fast speed was a lot of hard work on your part when you did the empty car speed was a lot of work and you paid for it if you wanted speed back in the day you couldn't get an air conditioner because the the pulleys couldn't take the speed they couldn't take the power the alternator couldn't take the revs I mean there's just all kinds of reasons why when you grew up in a little town in New England these cars are never in your town. They're always two towns over there was a guy who was a construction worker or maybe a plumber or something they'd made some money and they would buy something like this it would be their whole life you know they'd race it on weekends and they'd get the pretty girl because they had the fastest car you know all that kind of nonsense hilarious no power steering no power brake at least now it has brakes but again it's that thing I don't know if this really is cool or it's the fact that it was cool when I was a kid so consequently it's still cool to me see I still think it's pretty cool. It just looks mean you know black wall tires dog dish hubcaps as long as you're not trying to parallel park this thing it's it's actually pretty good.

I like this big goofy steering wheel 64. Chrysler was doing pretty good they had the Imperial they had the Chrysler Turbine car they're winning races times were good this tack on the floor really makes me laugh I like the steering wheel is oval it's not round it just kind of goes like this I love these big American pieces of iron you know engines are fine just put some brakes on them and maybe a little bit of shocks and you got a beast. My 66 uh Ford seven leader I love that thing with the 427 Roush in it ah that was two years later than this this just has a raw edge that I find attractive just like that friend you had in high school you know he wasn't particularly good looking but if you're in some place where there was trouble and he got in a fight he would take care of it for you you know if we were down south is what they would call a rum runner you know you put a big tank in it you fill it with uh moonshine go tear through the hills of North Carolina cops on your tail these electric cutouts are great you just got what set them off no no officer that was another car I could see my car is very quiet now when you're out of range well I hope you enjoyed this piece of my childhood this thing's a lot of fun if you've had any experience with these let me know in the comment section I'd love to hear from you right now I got to go fill it up with gas again oh man see you guys next week do uh

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enas long as you're not trying to parallel park this thing it's it's actually pretty good when i was a kid this was stock car racing welcome to that episode of jaylon's garage the car featuring today 1964 dodge polaris street wedge 426 with the four speed this is not a hemi it's a 426 wedge engine this is the one that came before the hemi you know it's funny whenever they talk about the muscle car era they all start in 1964 with the gto and they go to about 1970. those are sort of the premium years but there was a lot happening before 1964. the ram charger certainly from dodge this is a really fast car the aston martin the db5 was the performance car of the early 60s that would go zero up to a hundred slam on the brakes and stop i think in a 27 seconds something like that 26 point something it's a little bit bigger than the gto and the mid-sized cars but it has more than enough horsepower to make up for it i used to read about these all the time when i was a kid this one has a four speed i never saw one with a four speed where i lived in massachusetts everybody got the automatic or they get the dodge player with the 383 that was pretty much the big standard motor then there was a 318 a few other ones but i always thought it was a great looking car this is original paint except for the roof when i got it the roof was silver it was jacked up had american mags on it here's a picture of it i'm only a third owner of this car and i think this was only driven a quarter mile at a time the guy was a pretty ardent racer who had this i even like the period decals or transfers i wouldn't call them on here there's an old first one from the 60s notice the full bathing suit of course and genuine mopar parts and it's just this is what performance cars look like when i was a kid the big giant wide tires we see now were not available but this was considered a big tire i brought it down to standard height we put will wood disc brakes all the way around to make it stop i'm not trying to do a proper restoration on it i just want to make it a fun street car it's got a 323 rear end in it which uh it's not a high performance rear end but it's great from the freeway and cruising you know you put a 411 or 390 or something in it and the engine's just screaming at 60 miles an hour and there's no reason for that so this is nice someone also put these side marker lights on these are from chrysler products later in the 60s but other than that it's pretty pretty stock these have a real cool set of factory headers i'll show you those in just a minute i'll show them to you right now pull the hood pins always love hood pins these are the factory cast iron headers as you can see notice the way they go down up and down over which is kind of cool msd ignition obviously not stock optimal battery not stock we like those will wood disc brakes now the standard the normal when i got this had a single mask with cylinder not a dual master cylinder and uh you know those are pretty dangerous and it was a little bit lower and you always ran the risk of the header boiling of the uh the the brake fluid so we moved this wood brake master up about another inch and a half just to get it out of direct heat we put electric cut outs in it which make it sound pretty good stainless steel exhaust we did new shocks all the way around we just wanted to make it a nice road worthy carson coffee street car alternator went out the other day so we put another one on just easier to replace it trying to fix an alternator it's got the offenhauser manifold on there with that this is an edelbrock also normally when you see these on the on the max wedge race cars they had the duals and they were staggered two four barrels and they used to say uh it was not streetable it's not and they really weren't they were just out and out race cars 13 and a half to one compression ratio it's funny when you read the road tests about these cars you know i went and i got one of my old i love all those book of road tests for every conceivable year and it picked up 64 dodge polar and they have one of these it was a convertible with a four-speed with the 426 street wedge and it said in the article it said now don't let the fact that this has electric windows and a little chrome switch to put the top down let you think it's some effeminate vehicle it isn't this is a man's car i mean stuff you would you couldn't get away with today it just it just it just made me laugh i just i just thought that was funny and you know it's still impressive you've got all kinds of torque as i said it's based on the 413 uh it's taken out to 426 and then later the 426 hemi came out in 66. well actually come out in 64 for racing but uh the first street version i think was 66 or even late 65 possibly and that the max wedge was kind of relegated out the best so there's always sort of a mystique about these but i always thought they were just a great sounding engine great looking engine and it never gets mentioned with the gto and uh you know the barracudas and the mustangs and all that probably because there's a little bit bigger car i guess this is what we used to call a full-size automobile there were bigger ones the chrysler new york and the imperial of course but it's not that heavy it's probably 3 400 pounds don't forget you have absolutely no safety equipment of any kind except the seat belts that's about it but i'm running the stock radiator it runs cool it runs fine yeah let me shut this again what else can we show you this is my favorite year for dodge i didn't like the 63s i didn't like the 65s that was back in the day when uh they came out with a new design every single year i don't really do that much anymore now the dodge challenger you know it's pretty much the same they just keep refining it which i think is the smart thing to do uh you've got four seats obviously buckets in the front the tachometer is hilariously in the on the end of the transmission tunnel so when you're driving you have to go like this how many rpm and you kind of crash into stuff so you just sort of shift by ear because if you're looking at that attack while you're trying to drive it's a little crazy it had a big hearse tee shifter on it and i went on ebay and found the original 1964 white shift ball on there looks like a cue ball which i really like i like the dog dish hubcaps with just uh well what was considered big tires back in the day oh it's like this pagoda roof that they did this year it kind of looks like you know the 280 sl mercedes the pagoda top that comes off i think that's kind of a nice look because the 63 was just sort of awkward and this one is a polaris so it had some of the options outside mirror and bucket seats and console and trim package they did a lot of racing with these uh max wedge cars so they even went so far as aluminum front end and all kinds of stuff but they're all stripped out inside no sound dead this is just a nice road car this would be the equivalent i think of a hellcat today you know basically a big comfortable car that's fast it goes when you put your foot in it and it really does and i like the design it sort of looks like the chrysler turbine car the guy who designed the turbine guy he came from ford and this has some of those elements to it what else can i tell you about it let's see well everybody had gone to well this does have duals but it looks like a big single with a sort of driving light here you know when you grew up in a small town there's always that guy in his late 30s early 40s he was divorced you know with this cigarettes fitted this is usually what they have and i was hanging around the gas station looking for a race you know and this is the kind of stuff they would race i remember doing that when i was a kid going with guys to uh out on 125 route 125 to race you know and the state police barracks are right there which didn't make a lot of sense yeah but hey when you're young you're stupid yeah and of course you got a full-size trunk oh look at this and it's a real truck look how big look how big that trunk is hilarious and that's a full-size spare with a jack i mean you could you could take six sets of golf clubs in this thing it's still got the original jack instructions in there i mean this car was well maintained it was raced but as you see that's all original chrome original paint except for the roof we painted the roof that's the only part we did but come on let's take it next door i'll put it up on the lift and i'll show you the stainless steel exhaust and electric cutouts which are completely juvenile but very cool okay we've got the polar up on our sterile coney lifts let's start at the back obviously you see the new gas tank you know for the price of it get why bother just get a new one and run about 300 bucks that'll save you a lot of money in the long run all stainless steel exhaust system here uh the priority had these air shocks on we kept those kept those on there they work fine glass packs here stainless steel is the only way to go especially on these things now these are kind of cool these are electric cutouts see electric motor right here get those from summit racing and you press the button that opens the exhaust right there and then close it right up again you know in the old days we call them lake pipes and you have to take a wrench and unbolt them and take the plate off and the cops came you can't get the plate on fast enough as you can see bernard and jimmy did a nice crossover here on the pipes give it a nice sound other than that she's pretty much all stock there's our will wood disc brakes in the front and in the back as well uh there's the exhaust system there you see where the header connects new shocks in the front and that's pretty much it and uh let's take for a ride see we got this in the back you know you can't go wrong you know drum brakes are nice but boy the speed this thing is capable of you know it's well worth the investment and will would willwood makes systems for almost certainly any american car even my imperial they did a custom set setup for me there and it just makes the car really drive over because that thing weighs i don't know 5500 pounds something like that and after three or four hard breaks oh my god you got nothing whereas now it stops on a dime every single time so here we go all right you ready go for a ride let's do it i'll show you those cutouts press this button this was quite the performance car at the dawn of the muscle car age almost before the dawn of the official muscle car age there was a singing group called jan and dean had a song about the little old lady from pasadena and one of the lines was in a rickety old garage with a brand new shiny red super super stock dodge and that's what this would be a super stock dodge so that image was burned in my mind as a 14 year old and there's just so much torque it just pulls so hard see back in the 60s when you bought performance it also meant you bought no warranty or limited warranty if they find out you raced the car your warranty was null and void as i said a million times in 66 you bought the hemi it came with a 90-day warranty three months that was it you're on your own and of course performance was a trade-off you know nowadays well certainly with a tesla you get full performance without any work on your part at all but you know when you get a hellcat or any of those kind of cars you can drive them just like regular cars they don't overheat uh they don't ping you know just no problems you know all that has been worked out but back in the day when you bought a super stock dodge like this especially a max wedge with 13 and a half compression they would tell you do not drive on the street because it would the plugs would load up and then you wouldn't get it started it was just but they were fast speed was a lot of hard work on your part when you did the empty car speed was a lot of work and you paid for it if you wanted speed back in the day you couldn't get an air conditioner because the the pulleys couldn't take the speed they couldn't take the power the alternator couldn't take the revs i mean there's just all kinds of reasons why when you grew up in a little town in new england these cars are never in your town they're always two towns over there was a guy who was a construction worker or maybe a plumber or something they'd made some money and they would buy something like this it would be their whole life you know they'd race it on weekends and they'd get the pretty girl because they had the fastest car you know all that kind of nonsense hilarious no power steering no power brake at least now it has brakes but again it's that thing i don't know if this really is cool or it's the fact that it was cool when i was a kid so consequently it's still cool to me see i still think it's pretty cool it just looks mean you know black wall tires dog dish hubcaps as long as you're not trying to parallel park this thing it's it's actually pretty good i like this big goofy steering wheel 64. chrysler was doing pretty good they had the imperial they had the chrysler turbine car they're winning races times were good this tack on the floor really makes me laugh i like the steering wheel is oval it's not round it just kind of goes like this i love these big american pieces of iron you know engines are fine just put some brakes on them and maybe a little bit of shocks and you got a beast my 66 uh ford seven leader i love that thing with the 427 roush in it ah that was two years later than this this just has a raw edge that i find attractive just like that friend you had in high school you know he wasn't particularly good looking but if you're in some place where there was trouble and he got in a fight he would take care of it for you you know if we were down south is what they would call a rum runner you know you put a big tank in it you fill it with uh moonshine go tear through the hills of north carolina cops on your tail these electric cutouts are great you just got what set them off no no officer that was another car i could see my car is very quiet now when you're out of range well i hope you enjoyed this piece of my childhood this thing's a lot of fun if you've had any experience with these let me know in the comment section i'd love to hear from you right now i got to go fill it up with gas again oh man see you guys next week do uhas long as you're not trying to parallel park this thing it's it's actually pretty good when i was a kid this was stock car racing welcome to that episode of jaylon's garage the car featuring today 1964 dodge polaris street wedge 426 with the four speed this is not a hemi it's a 426 wedge engine this is the one that came before the hemi you know it's funny whenever they talk about the muscle car era they all start in 1964 with the gto and they go to about 1970. those are sort of the premium years but there was a lot happening before 1964. the ram charger certainly from dodge this is a really fast car the aston martin the db5 was the performance car of the early 60s that would go zero up to a hundred slam on the brakes and stop i think in a 27 seconds something like that 26 point something it's a little bit bigger than the gto and the mid-sized cars but it has more than enough horsepower to make up for it i used to read about these all the time when i was a kid this one has a four speed i never saw one with a four speed where i lived in massachusetts everybody got the automatic or they get the dodge player with the 383 that was pretty much the big standard motor then there was a 318 a few other ones but i always thought it was a great looking car this is original paint except for the roof when i got it the roof was silver it was jacked up had american mags on it here's a picture of it i'm only a third owner of this car and i think this was only driven a quarter mile at a time the guy was a pretty ardent racer who had this i even like the period decals or transfers i wouldn't call them on here there's an old first one from the 60s notice the full bathing suit of course and genuine mopar parts and it's just this is what performance cars look like when i was a kid the big giant wide tires we see now were not available but this was considered a big tire i brought it down to standard height we put will wood disc brakes all the way around to make it stop i'm not trying to do a proper restoration on it i just want to make it a fun street car it's got a 323 rear end in it which uh it's not a high performance rear end but it's great from the freeway and cruising you know you put a 411 or 390 or something in it and the engine's just screaming at 60 miles an hour and there's no reason for that so this is nice someone also put these side marker lights on these are from chrysler products later in the 60s but other than that it's pretty pretty stock these have a real cool set of factory headers i'll show you those in just a minute i'll show them to you right now pull the hood pins always love hood pins these are the factory cast iron headers as you can see notice the way they go down up and down over which is kind of cool msd ignition obviously not stock optimal battery not stock we like those will wood disc brakes now the standard the normal when i got this had a single mask with cylinder not a dual master cylinder and uh you know those are pretty dangerous and it was a little bit lower and you always ran the risk of the header boiling of the uh the the brake fluid so we moved this wood brake master up about another inch and a half just to get it out of direct heat we put electric cut outs in it which make it sound pretty good stainless steel exhaust we did new shocks all the way around we just wanted to make it a nice road worthy carson coffee street car alternator went out the other day so we put another one on just easier to replace it trying to fix an alternator it's got the offenhauser manifold on there with that this is an edelbrock also normally when you see these on the on the max wedge race cars they had the duals and they were staggered two four barrels and they used to say uh it was not streetable it's not and they really weren't they were just out and out race cars 13 and a half to one compression ratio it's funny when you read the road tests about these cars you know i went and i got one of my old i love all those book of road tests for every conceivable year and it picked up 64 dodge polar and they have one of these it was a convertible with a four-speed with the 426 street wedge and it said in the article it said now don't let the fact that this has electric windows and a little chrome switch to put the top down let you think it's some effeminate vehicle it isn't this is a man's car i mean stuff you would you couldn't get away with today it just it just it just made me laugh i just i just thought that was funny and you know it's still impressive you've got all kinds of torque as i said it's based on the 413 uh it's taken out to 426 and then later the 426 hemi came out in 66. well actually come out in 64 for racing but uh the first street version i think was 66 or even late 65 possibly and that the max wedge was kind of relegated out the best so there's always sort of a mystique about these but i always thought they were just a great sounding engine great looking engine and it never gets mentioned with the gto and uh you know the barracudas and the mustangs and all that probably because there's a little bit bigger car i guess this is what we used to call a full-size automobile there were bigger ones the chrysler new york and the imperial of course but it's not that heavy it's probably 3 400 pounds don't forget you have absolutely no safety equipment of any kind except the seat belts that's about it but i'm running the stock radiator it runs cool it runs fine yeah let me shut this again what else can we show you this is my favorite year for dodge i didn't like the 63s i didn't like the 65s that was back in the day when uh they came out with a new design every single year i don't really do that much anymore now the dodge challenger you know it's pretty much the same they just keep refining it which i think is the smart thing to do uh you've got four seats obviously buckets in the front the tachometer is hilariously in the on the end of the transmission tunnel so when you're driving you have to go like this how many rpm and you kind of crash into stuff so you just sort of shift by ear because if you're looking at that attack while you're trying to drive it's a little crazy it had a big hearse tee shifter on it and i went on ebay and found the original 1964 white shift ball on there looks like a cue ball which i really like i like the dog dish hubcaps with just uh well what was considered big tires back in the day oh it's like this pagoda roof that they did this year it kind of looks like you know the 280 sl mercedes the pagoda top that comes off i think that's kind of a nice look because the 63 was just sort of awkward and this one is a polaris so it had some of the options outside mirror and bucket seats and console and trim package they did a lot of racing with these uh max wedge cars so they even went so far as aluminum front end and all kinds of stuff but they're all stripped out inside no sound dead this is just a nice road car this would be the equivalent i think of a hellcat today you know basically a big comfortable car that's fast it goes when you put your foot in it and it really does and i like the design it sort of looks like the chrysler turbine car the guy who designed the turbine guy he came from ford and this has some of those elements to it what else can i tell you about it let's see well everybody had gone to well this does have duals but it looks like a big single with a sort of driving light here you know when you grew up in a small town there's always that guy in his late 30s early 40s he was divorced you know with this cigarettes fitted this is usually what they have and i was hanging around the gas station looking for a race you know and this is the kind of stuff they would race i remember doing that when i was a kid going with guys to uh out on 125 route 125 to race you know and the state police barracks are right there which didn't make a lot of sense yeah but hey when you're young you're stupid yeah and of course you got a full-size trunk oh look at this and it's a real truck look how big look how big that trunk is hilarious and that's a full-size spare with a jack i mean you could you could take six sets of golf clubs in this thing it's still got the original jack instructions in there i mean this car was well maintained it was raced but as you see that's all original chrome original paint except for the roof we painted the roof that's the only part we did but come on let's take it next door i'll put it up on the lift and i'll show you the stainless steel exhaust and electric cutouts which are completely juvenile but very cool okay we've got the polar up on our sterile coney lifts let's start at the back obviously you see the new gas tank you know for the price of it get why bother just get a new one and run about 300 bucks that'll save you a lot of money in the long run all stainless steel exhaust system here uh the priority had these air shocks on we kept those kept those on there they work fine glass packs here stainless steel is the only way to go especially on these things now these are kind of cool these are electric cutouts see electric motor right here get those from summit racing and you press the button that opens the exhaust right there and then close it right up again you know in the old days we call them lake pipes and you have to take a wrench and unbolt them and take the plate off and the cops came you can't get the plate on fast enough as you can see bernard and jimmy did a nice crossover here on the pipes give it a nice sound other than that she's pretty much all stock there's our will wood disc brakes in the front and in the back as well uh there's the exhaust system there you see where the header connects new shocks in the front and that's pretty much it and uh let's take for a ride see we got this in the back you know you can't go wrong you know drum brakes are nice but boy the speed this thing is capable of you know it's well worth the investment and will would willwood makes systems for almost certainly any american car even my imperial they did a custom set setup for me there and it just makes the car really drive over because that thing weighs i don't know 5500 pounds something like that and after three or four hard breaks oh my god you got nothing whereas now it stops on a dime every single time so here we go all right you ready go for a ride let's do it i'll show you those cutouts press this button this was quite the performance car at the dawn of the muscle car age almost before the dawn of the official muscle car age there was a singing group called jan and dean had a song about the little old lady from pasadena and one of the lines was in a rickety old garage with a brand new shiny red super super stock dodge and that's what this would be a super stock dodge so that image was burned in my mind as a 14 year old and there's just so much torque it just pulls so hard see back in the 60s when you bought performance it also meant you bought no warranty or limited warranty if they find out you raced the car your warranty was null and void as i said a million times in 66 you bought the hemi it came with a 90-day warranty three months that was it you're on your own and of course performance was a trade-off you know nowadays well certainly with a tesla you get full performance without any work on your part at all but you know when you get a hellcat or any of those kind of cars you can drive them just like regular cars they don't overheat uh they don't ping you know just no problems you know all that has been worked out but back in the day when you bought a super stock dodge like this especially a max wedge with 13 and a half compression they would tell you do not drive on the street because it would the plugs would load up and then you wouldn't get it started it was just but they were fast speed was a lot of hard work on your part when you did the empty car speed was a lot of work and you paid for it if you wanted speed back in the day you couldn't get an air conditioner because the the pulleys couldn't take the speed they couldn't take the power the alternator couldn't take the revs i mean there's just all kinds of reasons why when you grew up in a little town in new england these cars are never in your town they're always two towns over there was a guy who was a construction worker or maybe a plumber or something they'd made some money and they would buy something like this it would be their whole life you know they'd race it on weekends and they'd get the pretty girl because they had the fastest car you know all that kind of nonsense hilarious no power steering no power brake at least now it has brakes but again it's that thing i don't know if this really is cool or it's the fact that it was cool when i was a kid so consequently it's still cool to me see i still think it's pretty cool it just looks mean you know black wall tires dog dish hubcaps as long as you're not trying to parallel park this thing it's it's actually pretty good i like this big goofy steering wheel 64. chrysler was doing pretty good they had the imperial they had the chrysler turbine car they're winning races times were good this tack on the floor really makes me laugh i like the steering wheel is oval it's not round it just kind of goes like this i love these big american pieces of iron you know engines are fine just put some brakes on them and maybe a little bit of shocks and you got a beast my 66 uh ford seven leader i love that thing with the 427 roush in it ah that was two years later than this this just has a raw edge that i find attractive just like that friend you had in high school you know he wasn't particularly good looking but if you're in some place where there was trouble and he got in a fight he would take care of it for you you know if we were down south is what they would call a rum runner you know you put a big tank in it you fill it with uh moonshine go tear through the hills of north carolina cops on your tail these electric cutouts are great you just got what set them off no no officer that was another car i could see my car is very quiet now when you're out of range well i hope you enjoyed this piece of my childhood this thing's a lot of fun if you've had any experience with these let me know in the comment section i'd love to hear from you right now i got to go fill it up with gas again oh man see you guys next week do uh\n"