360ci engine camshaft break-in
This weekend plans were made to break-in the 360ci engine. The pistons and rings had already been run before in this engine, so it was mainly the camshaft, lifters and new valvetrain parts that needed [more … ]
360ci Engine Teststand progress
Made some progress on the engine stand I’m building to break-in the 360ci engine. A removable battery-tray has been added and a simple ‘click-on’ cooling fan. Currently there’s only some wiring left to do, along [more … ]
NGK GR4IX iridium sparkplugs
Swapped over to NGK GR4IX Iridium sparkplugs today in my daily workhorse (’73 Dodge Dart). Was using Accel 416 sparkplugs before. Sparkplug gap before and after was a little different; Before with Accel 416 plugs: [more … ]
Dodge Dart DynoDay video
I’ve put together all the videos I had made during the DynoDay and turned into a 17min. video, showing all the runs dyno-charts and performance-output of the car.
Dodge Dart DynoDay #3
This years 28th of August was ‘DynoDay’ for the ’73 Dodge Dart again. This marked the 3rd visit to the ‘Ludwig Performance’ chassisdyno. After a bunch of changes since last year’s dyno-runs I was curious [more … ]
1973 Dodge Dart – Strutrod bushing repair
Found out today there was something wrong with the front suspension. The car wandered slightly to right when braking, and highspeed braking result in a heavy vibration. Suspecting something wrong with the strutrod bushing, I [more … ]
1973 Dodge Dart – Suspension Movement Videoclip
Here’s a videoclip of my ’73 Dodge Dart showing the movements of the front suspension during a short drive around the garage. Nice view of the workings of the suspension system which consists of 1″ [more … ]
1973 Dodge Dart – Ride height / stance
Took some pics today of the Dart’s ride height and stance. The spray can is 2.5″ in diameter so the ride height is roughly 3″.
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 … ]
V10 model engine running on MegaSquirt v3
1/3rd scale model V10 engine 125cc. Powered by MegaSquirt MS3 fuel injection with full sequential ignition using COPs. 3 stage dry sump oil system. The buildthread of this engine can be found here; ModelEngineMaker.com
Three Dodges compared in a windtunnel
Nice article about testing the airflow in a windtunnel of a ’69 Dodge Charger, a ’69 Dodge Charger Daytona and a 2015 Dodge Hellcat. Source: www.autofocus.ca
Spotted Online: ’68 Dodge Dart StreetMachine
Just spotted a very nicely built and clean looking ’68 Dodge Dart streetmachine, owned by Garry Brown, who lives in Australia. Awesome looking car! Read more about this Dodge Dart on www.streetmachine.com.au
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 … ]