My Dart Swinger Project!
Hey guys I wanted to start a thread of my build just a place to post pictures and discuss what I'm doing and where im at I think it will be cool to document my progress. Feel free to share advice or suggestions and pics of your build as well I'm gonna start with a short back story of the car and how it got to where it is today. I bought the car a 1975 dodge dart swinger slant 6 in 2000 when I was 15 I fixed it up some..new tires leaf springs shocks radiator breaks stuff like that. When I turned 16 it was road worthy I got my license and drove it for 3years in 2004 I made a huge rookie mistake. The valve cover was leaking (Slant 6) so I decided to replace it being young and dumb and not knowing what I was doing I set my torque wrench to 40 ft lbs instead of in lbs thus breaking off a bolt in the block. Once again being young and not knowing what i was doing instead of easy outing it out and fixing it I left it broke. Then over the next several weeks I had s severe oil leak eventually causing a spun bearing and locking the engine up. I still kick myself for that. Well then I bought a 360 to put in the dart and in the process of building it I bought another 318 that was running and slapped on the 360 heads and put it in the dart. Shortly after I purchased a 1972 barracuda and pulled the 318 and put it in the barracuda with the plans to put the 360 in the dart by this time is was around summer of 2005. Then life happened I was 20 yrs old I got married had a baby new job new house new car etc the projects got put on the back burner in 2009 I sold the barracuda and the dart just sat until now! I pulled it out of its lonely hole and decided now is the time! My son is 12 he is interested in cars and is wanting to help so the timing couldn't get any better. I will post some pics and update my progress as i go. I think this thread will be alot of fun please join me!!
Hey guys I wanted to start a thread of my build just a place to post pictures and discuss what I'm doing and where im at I think it will be cool to document my progress. Feel free to share advice or suggestions and pics of your build as well I'm gonna start with a short back story of the car and how it got to where it is today. I bought the car a 1975 dodge dart swinger slant 6 in 2000 when I was 15 I fixed it up some..new tires leaf springs shocks radiator breaks stuff like that. When I turned 16 it was road worthy I got my license and drove it for 3years in 2004 I made a huge rookie mistake. The valve cover was leaking (Slant 6) so I decided to replace it being young and dumb and not knowing what I was doing I set my torque wrench to 40 ft lbs instead of in lbs thus breaking off a bolt in the block. Once again being young and not knowing what i was doing instead of easy outing it out and fixing it I left it broke. Then over the next several weeks I had s severe oil leak eventually causing a spun bearing and locking the engine up. I still kick myself for that. Well then I bought a 360 to put in the dart and in the process of building it I bought another 318 that was running and slapped on the 360 heads and put it in the dart. Shortly after I purchased a 1972 barracuda and pulled the 318 and put it in the barracuda with the plans to put the 360 in the dart by this time is was around summer of 2005. Then life happened I was 20 yrs old I got married had a baby new job new house new car etc the projects got put on the back burner in 2009 I sold the barracuda and the dart just sat until now! I pulled it out of its lonely hole and decided now is the time! My son is 12 he is interested in cars and is wanting to help so the timing couldn't get any better. I will post some pics and update my progress as i go. I think this thread will be alot of fun please join me!!
