'05 300 question..

Anyone know if the '05 300 has a Frame underneath, or a unibody? Thanks

 

Jesus. You're not serious, are you?

 

Unibody. Chrysler/Dodge doesn't have a body-on-frame car in their lineup.
Pickup trucks are body-on-frame.

--Geoff

 

The '04 was a unibody, but the new navigation system needs the inertial
stabilization of a separate frame to keep the GPS receiver aligned so
they are installing a frame underneath for '05. They are also upgrading
to titanium muffler bearings and longer-stroke Johnson rods.

HTH

 

Jeeze, are you stupid or something? That's completely wrong. The reason
they're putting in a frame for '05 is so the framistan minulators will
last the life of the car instead of having to be re-honed every 50K miles.

 

And in your line of work, Dan, you should appreciate the fact that the
added frame also serves as a much larger reservoir for the headlamp
chromatic correction fluid. The 05 will run 80,000 miles on a fill-up of
headlamp fluid versus only 25,000 miles for the previous generation 300M.

 

So then the answer is yes, it has a frame? the sales guy at the
dealership said it has a frame, unlike the previous 300m .

 

This is the funniest post in the thread ... by far!

Matt

 

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| Matt
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Yes it is!!! May be ever!

 

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Minor nit here; the framistan minulators are supposed to be
lapped and then burnished, not honed. Long term testing has
revealed that the saturn rings will not properly seat inside the
framistan minulators if they are honed only.

 

Ohgeeze, here we go again. You must be one of these guys who spends his
life with his nose in fancy-pants books. Only in the perfect, sanitary
world of the service manual does anyone lap and burnish framistan
minulators. I doubt if you can even get the lapping compound any more,
except from Chrysler (P/N 8675309e9). One dope at the local dealership
thought he'd be clever and use regular valve lapping compound. I don't
have to describe the results.

Just hone them and be done with it. It works fine.

 

I am glad to hear that titanium muffler bearings have finally been approved for
use. I have found that the quality of chrome muffler bearings has really
deteriorated in recent years. Do you know if they will be interchangeable with
muffler bearings on other, older models or will they only be 300 specific?

 

Actually, all one needs to do is add Lubegard purple to plain old
Clover brand lapping compound, it works *exactly* like Chrysler
P/N 8675309e9 framistan minulator lapping compound and actually
extends the life of not just the saturn rings, but the moons and
the planetarys also. At least that is what is documented by an
independent testing facility which unfortunately is too top
secret to mention by name.

 

The chrome muffler bearing went to hell because of EPA mandated
cut-backs in the use of Nickel, millions of children are/were
suffering from heavy metal poisoning from the traces of nickel
being deposited along the roadways.
Being a basically inert* biologically friendly material, the
titanium muffler bearing are 1005 compatible any place where the
old environmentally unfriendly chrome muffler bearings were used.

* Inert except in cases where the titanium might become exposed
to ploptic acid. Exposure of titanium to ploptic acid creates
noxious clouds of ploptic oxide gas.

 

I'll let the wise-guys continue their alternate thread on this topic.

Practically all Chrysler cars went from body-on-frame to unit-body
construction in 1960. The 1966 Imperial was probably the last
body-on-frame car from Chrysler.

The dealer is telling you that the '05 300 has a frame probably as a
way to enhance or embellish the 4WD option.

Although, it might really have a frame - might account for it's 4000+
lbs in weight.

 

It may have a cradle or what some manufacturers call a subframe to hold the
engine. Not sure if it does but it might. Many cars do these days.

 

Really. I thought all the sarcasm was stupid, but now, suddenly, it's the
best thread of the week!

 

Amsoil synthetic ATF works well also. In the same way that it senses
which ATF it's supposed to act like in a given application, it also
senses in this application that it is supposed to perform like valve
grinding compound, and does a respectable job of it, and in about half
the time.

Bill Putney
(to reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with "x")

 

Sarcasm? I didn't notice any sarcasm - just complete and up-to-date information
for those who need it!