Recent content by DouglasMB

alot of good info there... I am filing it all away for now and when we start I will take pics and post them!

yes rings too... I forgot to put that on the list. a lot of great info there thank you so much. Can anyone recomend a good book... that will break the engin down and give us good step by step info? for a 225? Thank you.

I got this car for my son and it has the stock tires and rims on it with the caps... he said it was ok but he would really like something different. We are rebuilding or freashening up the motor and replacing alot of break lines and such so money is getting tighter and tighter. Can anyone help...

fireFighter thanks for starting this thread I will be following, I do not know much about any of this at all and my son is wanting to up grade some of the stuff on his car. This stuff helps me alot.

ok I talked to my brother last night and he corrected me, I do not need a complete rebuild but just to freasen it up. the list of stuff he told me I needed was: rod and main bearings gasket kit I need at least one push rod so I will probably just get a set springs now this is what he...

and my budget is limited... we are not making a drag car or even at this point a High proformance car. just somthing that runs really well. We are looking at some point maybe a different intake with a 4 brl carb and headers with a different exhaust set up. But this is going to be a slow on going...

First I guess I should say i know little to nothing about this stuff... I may know some but to keep me out of trouble I claim complete and utter ignorance. I will never claim to know anything more that I am absolutly sure of. With that said... My brother noticed alot of chatter comming from...

now I plan on having a little help but for the most part I am buying a book and my son and I are going to go step by step and try and do this in a weekend. We are going to take a ton a pics... for 2 reasons... 1) so when we go to put it all back together we know where things were and what it...

I bought my son a car and we got it running, one of the rods keeps slipping, my borther said it was something about a valve sticking... we are going to rebuild the whole thing just be cause we do not know what is in there and there is a lot a build up. This is my first time doing anything like...

How do you know when to much rust is to much? my 67 2 door valiant has alot of rust underneath, the frame rails? are really rusted, and the doors look like they are starting to sepperate. How do you know as a Newbie what's to much? my brother says that he can fix anything, but I have never...

nope... but my son turns 16 in a few weeks... and his first car is going to be ther 1965 dart that I got for him. So he will be driving an A body to school

I am really new to all this... can the trim I have be re-worked and repaired? and what type of shop would i look at getting that done? I'll post more pics as we go and get the cars going... my son being 16 really wants a radio in his car but this one sis not come with one. So i aksed him...

Rear glass? and what shape are the doors in? could i get pics of the whole car? I may be interested in picking up the whole thing

Looking for the crome piece that wraps around the headlights and runs under the grill... someone said it was called candy cane molding or something like that? this is for a 1965 dart... I know it is a shot in the dark but you can see how beat up ours is, and on the passengerside its now broken...

yeah he always does things biger faster harder... I want to keep it as stock as I can. My valiant when I got it already had a 318 in, the first thing they wanted me to do was put a big block in it lol I asked them why... they said cause it's a dodge you have to have a hemi... lol ummm no. I will...