360 engine update
Got a few things done on the 360 engine build; – Modified and mounted a windage tray from a later model smallblock. – Fabbed a baffle inside the new oilpan to prevent oil-slosh on hard [more … ]
1973 Dodge Dart
Building a fresh 360ci engine
The 16 new valves have been backcut to remove their ‘ski-jump’-ridge, which hinders flow, and all were polished to a shine. Now the heads were mostly done, I could focus my attention on prepping the [more … ]
Building a fresh 360ci engine for efficiency & power
Last year I bought a smallblock Mopar 360ci engineblock and started working on rebuilding it for my daily ’73 Dart, in favor of the current 318. The plan is to build an efficient running engine [more … ]
Mopar 360ci engine
What has the world come to…?! A smallblock on BigBlockMopar.com?! Am I getting soft in the head? Well, as I recently had decided the 5.7L Hemi engine-project was too big of a project to technically [more … ]
Dodge Dart Rustrepair
The time has come to face the serious situation at hand and something I had posponed for a long time already… Rust, rust and some more rusted metal! I knew the rust had to fixed [more … ]
QA1 Adjustable Rear Shocks
The Dart got treated to a pair of adjustable shocks from QA1. I found these shocks on a German Moparforum for a more than fair price and couldn’t pass up on them. The QA1’s replaced [more … ]
Replacement torsion bars from Just-Suspension
After the recent torsionbar failure, my local Mopar-speedshop; “Six-Pack Speedshop” contacted the supplier of the torsion bars, Just-Suspension. Just-Suspension decided the failure of the torsion bar was a metallurgy failure and decided to ship out [more … ]
Broken torsionbar
Today’s commute to work started off with a loud bang. The driversside torsionbar had snapped near the front. Driving around with a snapped torsionbar makes one value a proper working suspension a bit more 🙂
Hotchkis Adjustable shocks
After the successful rear Bilstein shock upgrade on the ’73 Dart, I decided I had to upgrade the KYB shocks on the front as well. Decided to purchase a pair of adjustable front shocks from [more … ]
’73 Dart Rustrepair
The rust-issues on the daily Dart are becoming slighly ‘worrying’. Reason for me to start of repairs in the form of a simple patchpanel, formed from a flat piece of sheetmetal. Ofcourse I should have [more … ]
Bilstein RCD shocks for the Dart
Today I installed a pair of Bilstein RCD shocks on the rear of my Dart. Partnumber: 55-R092. The previous shocks were a pair of Monroe Sensatrac Loadleveler shocks. The ride quality after installing the Bilstein [more … ]
CB Performance BlackBox Programmable Ignition
Purchased a BlackBox Programmable Ignition system from CB Performance the other day. With this system you can program and custom tailor the entire timing curve on your ignition. I also comes with a vacuum connector [more … ]
Steeringbox mountpad reinforcement
The steeringbox mounting pad and brackets on a Mopar K-member leave a lot to be desired when it comes to rigidity. After some assessments I decided to weld a simple curved plate from the mountpad [more … ]
A518 TransGo reprogramming kit
Some time ago I acquired an A518 Overdrive-transmission with stall convertor Lockup-function. Before replacing this transmission inplace of the current A518 in the Dart, I decided to install a TransGo TFOD-HD2 Reprogramming Kit to improve [more … ]
Comparing colors…
Compared the orange color of my Dodge Dart against that of an original Plymouth Superbird today in front of SixPack Speedshop in Wateringen, The Netherlands. Looks like somewhat of a match, except for some gloss [more … ]