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 … ]
5.7 Hemi oilpan modifications
The 5.7 Hemi’s original steel (truck) oilpan had to be modified in order to fit between the Dart’s K-member and steering-centerlink. I decided to cut up a bigblock Mopar oilpan and use the pan-rail of [more … ]
’59 Dodge Big Tire-fitment
Tried some big tire-fitments on the ’59 Dodge today. I’ve got 2 pairs of tires I like to see ‘fitting’ under the car if possible. One pair are a set of 325/50 tires and the [more … ]
5.7 Hemi progress
The heads of the 5.7 Hemi were milled about 0.020″ for some added compression ratio. An important thing is the actual finish of the milled heads. Multilayer Headgaskets require a smoother finish than regular composite [more … ]
1973 Dodge Dart 1″ torsion bar upgrade
Today, after a fierce few hours long battle with the driverssside torsion bar, I was able to remove my Dart’s 0.87″ bars in favor for a set of 1″ torsion bars from Just Suspension. The [more … ]
Leafspring improvement
Because of the 2 propane tanks in the trunk of the Dart, the car tends to pretty much bottom out on the higher than usual speedbumps. To solve that problem I added an extra leaf [more … ]
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 … ]
Wheel upgrade on the Dart
Recently bought a set of Showwheels Thrashstars through www.RookieParts.nl. I wanted a little lighter wheels and some better handling tires under the car, so I opted for these wheels as they where available in the [more … ]
Calendar photoshoots
Earlier this year I had a couple of calendar photoshoots with some of the cars. The shoots were for The Cruise Brothers carclub and a local animal shelter.
1965 Chrysler 300 convertible at the SaturdayNightCruise
Pic of me and a friend cruisin’ in the ’65 Chrysler 300 convertible at our local july 2013 SaturdayNightCruise. This was the car’s last ride with the 383ci engine under the hood. Currently it has [more … ]
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 … ]
Blower pulley spacer machining
Needed to make a pulley for the alternator and powersteering belt to run on on the blowermotor project. I had a nice chunk of aluminium laying around so I went to work on the lathe [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 … ]