Recent content by jippek

Got today the shims for the engine mounts, decided to use 4mm laser cut aluminium. Now the TTi headers clear the steering box.

Wow, I cannot believe it is already 2 years since the last update... It has been a bit quiet on the project, but this Duster will run some day, currently the target is next summer. I was very nice and the Santa Claus brought me a dodgeful of goods :D A lot has happened and plans have changed...

Thanks, love the wheels too. Happened to find a set of very nice 14” small bolt pattern Cragars only for 300 euros Thanks. I saw somewhere an example and thought it work as a shroud. But now that you mentioned it, I took a second look and it was open from both sides, attached only from top and...

Thanks for asking :) The project is proceeding, slowly but steadily... The driver side floor pan is now fixed as well as the small extra holes. The front floor is painted with POR15. I have put the car back on its wheels, so the frontend suspension and steering is all back together. I...

Wow, the parts came from powdercoating, something just unbelievable. The control arms are like new, holy **** :D And look at the K frame :D I started to work on the control arm bushings, first the upper. I use K7103 offset bushings. I also got the new heater core finally, but the...

Heater box proceeding, waiting for the heater core to arrive next week so I can finish it up. In the mean time I changed the axle shaft bearings to modern versions. Finally received the LH floor panel, the RH has disappeared somewhere on the way. Should start planning how to cut...

Pressure testing the heater core... had to order a new one...

Slowly but steadily progressing, let's see if this will run next summer. I have all front suspension parts and the rear end at the powder coating, hoping to get them this or the following week back. Now been working on these tiny things... Got the rebuild kit from DMT again, used the...

Thanks guys. I need to get high stall converter and have been reading about it through several forums and facebook. I was first thinking of TCI converter, but ended up reading a lot of bad feedback about it. I decided ask an offer from SMR transmissions. Pat over there custom makes the...

Almost finished with the engine, the only things missing at the moment are the waterpump and crankshaft pulleys. I got the AREngineering brackets for the Denso style alternator and it looks great. I still need to glue the water pump on its place, but I needed a couple of fresh bolts to do that...

The project proceeded again during the Christmas break. I got the engine prepared (used POR15 Metal Ready) and painted. Got my Schumacher engine mounts, seems to be perfect :) The engine was missing the oil filter base plate and fitting, seemed to be pretty rare parts...

The dash and other smaller parts are now sandblasted. The dash had been green originally and painted black later on. The worst part is this speaker net: Someone has done some hacking for the radio hole, but that will not be an issue since I am putting some new DIN sized stereos...

The instrument cluster is in pretty rough shape, got me thinking to go to custom cluster totally. And as the new wiring kit includes the switches, it might be even easier.

The tunnel ram manifold was painted orange by the PO and it did not fit into my plans, I am painting the engine turqoise. At first I tried to remove the paint with chemicals. It worked out ok to some limit, but the paint was very well attached to aluminum. I decided to try soda...

I came to that conclusion as well, especially now that I am targeting the real eighties look with the tunnel ram and raised rear end. The current angle might actually be quite close.