Hawk HPS brake pad upgrade
Recently I decided to upgrade to a set of Hawk HPS brake pads, in favor for the old metalic pads I still had on the Dart, I had found on another car. After the swap [more … ]
Updates
Dodge Dart Dynoday
Somewhere in May this year I put my Dart on the dyno at Ludwig Performance to get a baseline comparison-number from it’s current poweroutput. I didn’t expect much of it because in ’73, these puny [more … ]
Borgeson PowerSteering-box
Mainly in order to create room under the hood of the ’73 Dart for the 5.7Hemi, and partly because a ‘new’ steeringpart is always better than a 40 year old one, I decided to purchase [more … ]
73 Dart dash-upgrade
A few of the gauges on the original dash of the Dart weren’t operational anymore, and frankly I didn’t like the squarish speedometer unit. So I decided to create a custom dash. I never liked [more … ]
Upgrading alternator-charging with a Ford 3G-alternator
I’ve been annoyed for some time now by the fact that the average ’60/70’s Mopar alternator stops charging when engine rpm’s drop below 650rpm orso. Since the engine in the ’73 Dart runs on LPG, [more … ]
’73 Dart – Subframe connectors
Yesterday I decided it was time for the front of the car, to meet the rear of the car, and persuade them to do the same movements together when driving. So, I cobbled up a [more … ]
A518 overdrive transmission installation
Lately I was finally ‘mentally’ ready to start with the transmission-swap in my ’73 Dart. I went from a 904 to an A518 transmission. The A518 is a ‘bigblock’-transmission with a smallblock bellhousing and overdrive. [more … ]
Dart Discbrake upgrade
The existing brakes on the ’73 Dart are doing their job fairly well, but the parts were getting old and worn. And when at one time I noticed a slight pull on the steeringwheel, because [more … ]
Hellwig Swaybar
The Dart came without a swaybar at the time I bought it, and it had a nasty tendency to suddenly oversteer while cornering. Especially on wet roads, the car would just ‘dive-in’ and the rear [more … ]
Oil pump polishing
To aid flow and free up some pressure lost due to internal friction I polished and camfered the inside of a pumphousing. The block passages also have been cleaned and camfered.
8-3/4″ rear axle narrowing
I’ve recently started making a beefier, 8-3/4″ replacement rearaxle for my ’73 Dodge Dart. The car’s current rearaxle is a flimsy 7-1/4″ version, with huge backlash on the gears, worn out drums AND only a [more … ]
’73 Dart Console and shifter
I’ve been working on installing a console and shifter in the Dart. Since I had no brackets at all for this I made them myself. Took a great deal of the day to just get [more … ]
Rear axle narrowing
Since the ’73 Dart came with a flimsy 7-1/4″ rear axle with only 4″ boltcircle axles, I decided to upgrade to an 8-3/4″ rear axle in case I ever decide to some upgrades in the [more … ]
Daily Dart progress – Alignment
One of the first things on the list after the Dart was streetlegal was getting it aligned. I had set out to try doing the alignment myself with a homemade tool and an app for [more … ]
Daily Dart progress
Here’s a photo of the ’73 Dart with the vinyltop mounted and the car pretty much ready for daily duty.