The Mopar Bee-Hive

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Scatpack's Dodge Super Bee Hive

You have entered the beehive, devoted to the history and preservation of the 68-71 Dodge Super Bee specifically, with some highlights of other fine Mopar products and links to other pages of interest.

This is the plate for my Super Bee. Might not seem that great, BUT the province of Quebec does not issue vanity plates. This is a sequential number that I happened to stumble upon when I was getting the tags for my Bee. The woman in front of me had just received the number 390 BED. I asked the saintly DMV worker if she could find the plate # 440 BEE. She went into the new stacks in the back and came out with my "unavailable" custom vanity plate. I guess I should have bought a lottery ticket that day as well, because this was one of the luckiest days of my life for sure (outside of finding my wife).

This is a picture of my pride and joy, 1970 440 six pack 4 speed Super Bee. EV2 Hemi-Orange exterior with a white interior. The black stripe is a dealer installed option done for the original owner Barry Buse, who at the time was one of the team owners of the Cincinatti Bengals football team. I am the 7th owner of this car. It still has less than 40,000 miles (bought with 27,000 on the odometer). You could say it is a survivor, but it is DRIVEN everywhere during the summer months. It has undergone several engine modifications during the past year.

My Bee was featured in the July '99 issue of Mopar Collector's Guide, p.44

Here is a shot of the engine on the dyno:

My mods netted 453 HP @ 5400 with 503 ft/lbs of torque @ 4000. Some of the mods are as follows:

- 452 heads prepared by Hensley Racing (2.14 intake/1.81 exhaust valves)

- ROSS 10.1:1 lightweight pistons with shotpeened 440 stock rods with full floating pins

- now internally balanced stock crank

- intake and carbs are stock, cam is a Mopar Performance .484 Hydraulic with Crane 1.5 roller rockers. (rockers were not installed on dyno pull)

Track times are to follow shortly (once spring arrives). I am installing a complete MSD ignition system from the Pro-Billet distributor, to the 6AL Box to the Super Conductor wires. The headers will also be installed come spring time. The Bee's clutch has been upgraded to a McLeod Dual-Disc clutch (ULTIMATE CLUTCH, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED) and enclosed in a Lakewood bellhousing.

Alot has happened since these initial mods were done I have switched to a set of EDELBROCK aluminum heads, EDELBROCK aluminum 6-pack intake, my TTI headers are finally installed in the Bee and I have a custom ground mechanical Comp cam as the bumpstick now.

The cam specs are .558 lift Int. & Ex. and 260 duration @ .050

The engine idles now @ 1100 rpm, and sounds NIIIIICE!!! It has yet to be on the track, but it feels and performs like an 11 second car (last year before all the new mods it ran 13.7 @ 113 mph with a 2.50 60 foot. Yeah it bogged off the line but still ran better than 110 in the 1/4 mile. This for sure tells us that the car is in the 11's, but I have much more power now. Estimates are in the 550 hp range with all it's current goodies.

I would like to now take the time to thank some of the people who made this project possible, first and foremost, my dad, the guy who got me hooked on Mopars, and who kept me in them after some weak times when I owned a 5.0 Mustang, Ken at Hensley racing, for all the excellent recommendations and parts that went into my Bee, a HUGE thanks to Sam and all the guys at TTI, these are the FRONTRUNERS when it comes to your Mopar exhaust needs!

Dwayne Porter of Porter Racing Heads has been extreemly helpful as well helping my Bee become what I have strived to have for a long time, a true TIRE FRYER!

Remember the good old days of leaded fuel, here's what tailpipes SHOULD look like (taken after a day of racing with C-12 race gas):

Some Super Bee history:

The Super Bee was first introduced in during the 1968 model year in response to brother Plymouth's EXTREEMLY successful Road Runner. It was based on the Coronet (until 1971 when it was based on the Charger platform) which had a little longer wheelbase, thus giving the Bee a little more comfortable ride, not Imperial like, but less rigid that the Road Runner. The Super Bee was a relatively short lived model, available from 68-71 only. In 68-69 the base Super Bees came with a 383 4 bbl as a standard engine option, with the only other option being the legendary 426 Hemi. With the target market at the younger buyers Super Bees with Hemis were a bit of a rarity due to the "expensive" $720 upgrade. The 69 model year had a restyled grille and tail lights but continued with the same engine options. The something magical happened in 1969. In the midst of what would be probably the pinnacle year in muscle car history Dodge and Plymouth decided it was time to introduce THE street machine for the muscle era, the 69 1/2 "lift-off" hood Super Bee and Road Runner. These were no frills die-hard street pounders with one purpose in life, to dominate the street wars. There were VERY simple cars with no "fancy" (read heavy) add ons. To dominate the street wars ma-Mopar needed an engine that most everyone could afford and that would be a "low" maintenece ground pounder. Their answer...the 440 Six Pack/6 BBL. These engines were factory rated at 390 HP with 490 ft/lbs of torque. The HP was a little down from the Hemi's rating, but the torque was right there. Having hydraulic lifters in the 440 gave it the "low-maintenece" stature and rarely needed any tuning, just Sunoco 260 and a heavy right foot. These cars could only be ordered with a 4.10 rear gear which also showed what their intnetions were.

1970 saw the six pack continue in the Super Bee, but OH-BOY did the outside ever change. With it's "twin-horizontal" Edsel grille styling it quickly adopted the love it, or hate it attitude. The critics hated it, I love it. The Bee continued with it's engine options, but the big difference was in what you intended to do with your Bee. All 4 gear cars came with the Dana 60 rear like the 69 1/2 model, but you had 2 options... Trak Pak 3.54 rear, or Super Trak Pak 4.10's. For the guys who liked to cruise their bee EVERYWHERe with an occaisonal street war, the 3.54's were the best choice (what my 70 Bee has). The 4.10 was offered to the take no prisoners street warriors who wanted to dominate every stop light in town, or near by towns.

1971 was the end of the Super Bee. It still carried over all the options from the 70 model year, but in a totally different package. Now it was based on the Charger platform as the Coronet became a big bodied car. The "coke bottle" shape again made it a unique looking package that handled as well it performed and sealed the legendary prowess of

ma- 's famed and now classic model: