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 … ]
Just a short little fun videoteaser I slapped together about my ’73 Dodge Dart and its upcoming 360ci engine-swap.
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 🙂
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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