Recent content by bizjetmech

Yes, please do so. Also, if you happen to have parts cars handy....need the little plastic bulb holder for the license plate on Dusters/Dart Sports. Mine broke when I removed it to rechrome the bumper. There are NOS available, but I'd rather not spend $40-60 for a new one. Piece broke when...

Need the window seals for the door glass for a 73 Dart Sport or Duster. These are the moulded ones that just pop into the channels mounted under the drip rails. Some vendors say they have "correct" ones, but never seem to have decent pictures. Previous posts from this forum lead me to believe...

Had to get a new engine for my 2015 Challenger R/T (found out it makes a better car than a submarine, but I digress..........). Engine had 6500 miles on it at the time of incident. It doesn't appear like this engine was even broken in yet, because the new engine (from Mopar Parts division) is...

The card for the cam I have shows you the degrees @.050 when the intake valve lifts OFF THE VALVE SEAT. With a 1.5 to 1 rocker, .050 at the valve seat is .0334 AT THE LIFTER. It makes a difference. When using the .0334 lift number while reading straight off the lifter, the open/close events...

Was in a salvage yard almost 20 years ago, and ran across a St Regis/Fury that had FOUR fender tags (along with a cherry Duster roof panel that they cut off for me for $50, but I digress......) From the outside, it looked like your grandma's "Go to Church" car.......but looking at the...

Re previous thread "Tired of looking at cam specs". After reading some of the commentary, decided to keep the old cam, look at the cam installation. Spent a day and a half, couldn't figure out why my installation would never match the cam card......was all over the damn place, no matter how...

Heads = original heads to the original motor, zero time since gone thru, new guides, 2.02 intakes, 340 springs.

Have been thinking about how to find a vacuum leak, if it still runs like crap. (The way this motor swap has gone from the get-go, there is no doubt in my mind that it will.....) I have a big vacuum pump for servicing a/c. Has anyone ever: 1) Pulled the rocker shafts, so all of the...

No power brakes......just PCV, distributor vacuum. Degreed in with degree wheel.

Comments/more info. Original Lunati Cam was degreed in......once with the keyway at "0", and later two degrees advanced. Didn't make much difference. It acts like it has a giant vacuum leak. Plan was to remove intake and check for leaks, then change cam to something closer to stock if...

The saga continues........ To recap........ Car = 73 Dart Sport street car, 340, A/T, 3.23, stock TF except for Turbo Action 11 inch street type converter. Engine = 340 +.030, Ross pistons, CR = approx 9.6 to 1, stock heads with 2.02 intakes, 340 springs/dampers, stock rods, stock...

More details, if anyone finds them pertinent.... 73 block, cast crank replaced with forged crank, stock rods, Ross pistons, assembly balanced, compression works out to 9.6-1. Stock heads had 2.02 intakes installed when three-angle valve job/guide replacement done. Goal: Look stock, run a lot...

After a year plus of being sidetracked due to work, finally getting back to the giant Charlie-Foxtrot. Engine in question = 1973 340 + .030, Auto Tranny, 9.5 compression, stock heads with 2.02 intake valves As I can't get this POS to run right (Run right = AT ALL) with the current...

Verified that TDC on the balancer matched TDC on the #1 cylinder when I assembled the short block. Plugs look like it may be running a little rich at idle. Car runs too bad to do a WOT check.

Asked about this last year, got the electrical issues fixed, got busy, project went on the back burner. Car: Dart Sport, 1973...original 340 had cracked block Located replacement 340, forged crank, stock rods, Ross pistons, calculated CR 9.6/1 or thereabouts...heads from the original 1973...