NV3500 in my 74 Duster?

Shwinger,

My car is only in the dismantling stage, there are so many sheet metal issues I need to deal with first. I have lots of time to figure out what I'm going to do with a transmission.

This car is a project that my sons and I work on together, they are 14 and 16. In today's world, its great to see them crawling on over and under that old car, taking it apart piece by piece, and sitting around with them talking about putting it back together and one day next summer, driving down to the local cruise night.

The car is a factory 318/904/8 1/4 car. When we adopted her, the motor was stripped of the carb and intake, and the starter opening in the trans was all split and pealed away.

Initially, the plan was to drop a motor in her and make her move and stop, but after seeing the condition of the 904, and seeing that under the carpet there is actually no floor pan left to speak of, we decided to scrap the motor and trans and strip her down to the uni-body.

Someone pulled the cluster out of the car and there were two non folding bucket seats bolted in there.........So the whole interior is coming out full dash and all.

So, we started to think, since we need to start at the bottom and rebuild and replace everything, why not put a manual trans in the car? That's what we wanted anyway. She will never be a daily driver, and now I'm convincing myself that she wont see many miles on the interstate so why get so crazy about high RPMs when in 4th gear? Where the heck am I going to drive her long distance to on the highway anyhow? So we think the 833 is the trans for our Duster.

I bought a super nice super clean rebuilt 318 that was in a car another member bought that was close to being fully restored, and they put a big block in that car so this motor became available. It sounds like to me the guy who built his mighty 318 has read the book " how to hotrod Mopar small blocks " a time or two. It's stock bottom with 318 heads with 1.88/1.6 valves .480 cam and a 600 CFM Holley on a Performer. And we got it for a song.....

So that's where me and my boys are coming from......