Mopars @ La Baraque
Today was one of the last meetings of the year. This Mopar-only meeting was held at Party-center La Baraque near the town ‘Zevenhuizen’.
Cars
Cruisin’ in the ’65 convertible
Just two pictures of the ’65 Chrysler 300 convertible at the Saturday Night Cruise-meet in The Hague and the other after a day of cruising around.
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 … ]
’57 Chrysler trip to Belgium
Took a nice trip to Belgium today with my ’57 Chrysler to pick up a left rearfender repairpanel for my ’73 Dodge Dart. The weather was nice so it was a perfect day for the [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 … ]
’57 Chrysler front swaybar
Re-installed a factory style front swaybar on the ’57 Chrysler today. Although the car did not lean excessively in corners without it, the addition of the anti-swaybar still helped noticably with keeping the car more [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 … ]
New engine for the ’65 Chrysler 300 convertible
Last month I bought a 400ci engine to use in the ’65 300 convertible. I wanted the get the car running again for the upcomming two-yearly checkup and to enjoy a few trips with the [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 … ]