1973 Dodge Dart – Wheel Camber
Was out in the garage the other day and noticed the obvious wheel camber on the ’73 Dart at a considerable steering wheel angle. Just wanted to share the photo’s. The wheel-alignment specs of the [more … ]
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MegaSquirt ECU in the Dart
During the last couple of weeks I’ve been tuning the ignition advance table on the MegaSquirt ECU. Everytime I make some changes to the spark advance map, I save it as a backup, so I [more … ]
MegaSquirt MS3x ECU install in the Dart
Last week I was able to install and hook up my MegaSquirt-3 Extra ECU in the Dart, which I had been benchtesting recently. The ignition system consists of a stock (Chrysler LeanBurn) distributor, a HEI [more … ]
MegaSquirt benchtesting on the Dart
Below is a small compilation of some videoclips with my ’73 Dart being controlled by the MegaSquirt ECU for the first time. The stock distributor (w/mechanical advance) was still installed on the engine, so the [more … ]
Megasquirt Mopar distributor benchtesting
Did some more benchtesting with the MegaSquirt 3 and now a locked out Mopar distributor for a ‘trigger-only setup’. The distributor got mounted on the lathe and wired up to the MS3. Surprisingly enough the [more … ]
360 engine and engine-teststand
The 360 engine I’m building for the Dodge Dart, along with the engine-teststand to break-in the engine, are coming along nicely.
New Exhaustsystem – Dougs Headers, X-pipe and Borla Pro-XS mufflers
For the planned 360-engine I decided to upgrade the exhaustsystem on the Dodge Dart. Through the local partsdealer Parts-n-Stuff I ordered a set of Dougs Headers, SummitRacing X-pipe kit and a pair of Flowmaster tailpipes [more … ]
Dodge Dart Engine teaser
Just a short little fun videoteaser I slapped together about my ’73 Dodge Dart and its upcoming 360ci engine-swap.
Dodge Dart Dyno-session, revisited
3 years ago I put my car on the dyno at Ludwig Performance to get a horsepower and torque number from the setup at that time. (Stock 2-bbl carb and intake, convertor and 300A mixer). [more … ]
Crank trigger sensor testing
For testing the crank sensor on my 360ci engine build, I mounted the pulley-assembly on the lathe and spin-tested it, while checking its signal through the MegaSquirt ECU and a laptop; Here’s a little videoclip [more … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]