Recent content by cdlbrown

Finally got some paint on it last weekend and put the tires and body parts on. Looks good runs good. :coffee2:

Good choice on the rockers. Your asking the right questions. Once you get your static compression figured out you can figure out what intake closeing point you need and select a cam. You can measure your cylinder head volume very cheaply at home with a 100cc syringe and a piece of plexi...

Did a little blocking and skimming with glazeing compound. I haven't done anything this week I've had the "crud". My fever broke this afternoon and I feel a lot better. I was surfing FABO and got excited, I went out and did a little sanding and a little bit of skimming and took a few pic's...

After a few weeks of body work and sanding a few hours at a time. Got it washed, dusted and masked. Got 1 coat of high build primer on today I was whooped and it was getting late so I cleaned up snapped some pic's and called it a day. I'll get another coat on Monday if all goes well. Then...

Thanks for the flex brake line idea. I liked the way you painted the black on the duster. I think I'll do mine like that with blk hood grill bumpers deck lid and rear panel, and go with cobalt blue on the sides and roof.

Prepped the under side of hood and trunk lid, primered and painted satin black. Modified trunk hinge supports off of a 68 valliant to bolt onto package tray, perfect fit, will use gas struts instead of torsion rods. Header wrap compleated, headers mounted, brakes compleated with firm pedal.

Remove the inner springs. It's not worth the risk.

Finally got around to plumbing the brake lines, line lock, proportioning valve, master cylinder, hooked into the front lines and to the rear wheel cylinders. The front master brake line looks close to the header tube in the Picture but it's got 1 1/4" from the line and the bottom of master to...

I blasted and painted the inside of the front fenders, hood hinges the radiator support and mounted back on the dart. Blocked the antenna, side markers, side trim and top indicater light holes on the fenders.

Looks good. I look forward to see the progress.

Well here are a few pic's of the front end all put together. I took the front all back apart so I can do some finish welding, body work and paint, I'll post some more pic's as I go along. :thumbup: sorry about the finger icon on earlier posts I thought it was a double thumbs up #-o.

Since the last post I have set the pinion angle, measured for the drive shaft and had it built, welded the spring perches in place. Took out the 741 3.55 sure grip and installed the 742 case 3.91 gears and spool. Installed the new drive shaft. I decided to do away with the worn out...

Here's a paragraph from the (Chrysler 8-3/4" Rear Axle Guide) that I found informative on this subject. It could very well be 29 spline. There are four different yokes that have been used with the 8-3/4″ axle for the ‘7260’ and ‘7290’ style universal joints. The...

Well! I fired up the engine today, did the cam break-in, now I have to put the inner valve springs in and finish up the rest of the Dart. Here are some pic's of the engine as it looked at fire up.

Did a bit more these last few days. I wired the engine and switches inside car. Put a gallon of trans fluid in and pushed the mufflers onto the collector reducers. Had to pull the plugs and change the gap, MSD instructions say to run the gap between .040 and .050 I had to change them from...