
Dodge Dart exterior maintenance
I opted to wrap the sides of the Dart with vinylwrap. But in order to do this ‘neatly’, the sheetmetal had to be straightened a bit and any bumps and dips smoothed out. One thing [more … ]
I opted to wrap the sides of the Dart with vinylwrap. But in order to do this ‘neatly’, the sheetmetal had to be straightened a bit and any bumps and dips smoothed out. One thing [more … ]
Out with the 318, hello 360 engine! After a slow build and tedious installation into the small engine bay of the Dodge Dart, the 360ci engine has finally found its way into the car. Had [more … ]
Recently I decided to have a look at improving the lighting on the ’73 Dodge Dart. Starting out slowly with the turnsignal lights, I purchased some LED lightbulbs to test with. I got myself some [more … ]
Made a small video of the Mopar 360ci engine with 11.3:1 compression ratio while playing with the throttle a bit. (As always, videos sound way better with headphones or a good speaker set.)
Some 3-4 years ago I replaced the worn out stock timing chainset in the Dodge Dart’s 318 engine for a new set. After the timing set replacement I immediately felt an improved low rpm torque [more … ]
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 … ]
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.
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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″.
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.
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
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
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 … ]
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