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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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