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$5000.00 bottom line, well worth it

1974 plymouth valiant scamp original 318 2bbl removed interior and carpet , floors good, had brand new windshield installed, reassembled and drive car, bought alot of parts that go with car icluding a .060 over 318, 904 trans., all a/c parts, lenses, etc... love the car, just too much going on...

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send them when i go back, no problem

hi all, fininshing interior now, then on to motor and trans/front end/brakes, etc... found a bone yard close to me in the nj pine barrens with a gentelman that has an affinity for mopars, he has an area of them, dusters, darts, chargers, one superbee w/ hood, mssing inserts. already...

hey all, got the interior gutted, floors are good, cleaned them up and the trunk and painted all, when taking out the split front bench seat, the plastic housings for the buttons to fold the split bench seats both broke, year one is no help, ill make them myself out of fiberglass, if i have to...

yeah im concerned, gonna do egine, trans,rear, front end etc.. as the money very slowly comes in, i hope its just shocks and an adjustment of the torsion bars, scary comment on the rusted out crossmember, hope thats not whats there, once were done the motorcycles, the garage space is gonna be...

hi all, been driving the 1974 scamp around before the teardown, when i exit the roadway into a lot, the car nosedives and bottoms out in the front, havent had it up on a lift yet to check it out, if my torsion bars are good, but have bad shocks, would this cause this, or vice versa ?!? new to...

i have complete faith now that a gnarly 318 is an attainable goal, and a very fun end result, thanks, ill post pics as things go along

this has me very motivated http://www.popularhotrodding.com/enginemasters/articles/mopar/0667em_mopar_318_engine/index.html let me know what you think, it sounds like a great build to me, love to have a 318 pushing like that !!!! thanks to everyones input, this is a fun project

thanks, gonna give it a go w/ the 318, wish i had a 340, why the torque issues w/ 318 ?!? 302 fords are nasty, 318 has more c.i.d. ?!? is it just that 318 was the BASE model v-8 that it gets the connotation of oh, its just a 318 ?!? dont know much about mopar, is the crank stroke too short on...

looking for a street machine, the 12 or 11 sec. was a notion i got from my mopar buddy , he has like 13 cars, told me to build up the 318 for street, then plumb it for a 50 to 100 n.o.s. shot for the track times, he said the 318's he used to run could handle small n.o.s. shots all day long at...

thanks rumblefish, im looking to build something that could run 12's, maybe.... 11's at the quarter, every blue moon i could get to the track, yet still run on pump gas and be o.k. to take the wife and daughter out tooling around. from my homework, i have an 8 1/4 rear, not the best from...

finally the weather is breaking, bought a buildable 318 w/ 904 mated to it, gonna pull out the #'s matching units out of the car and store. ive read alot about build ups on the 318, seems decking the block to zero deck height is the most gain to get h.p. i dont want a pure strip engine...

dont you mean slant six ?!? thats what they used, they used them in our seventies yale forklifts, great engine, just never heard those called a straight six