Like Father, Like Son: The Story of my 1970 Dodge Dart

moparmat2000 said

Glad I could help. Oh check out the ford 8.8 swap sticky if you dont have an 8&3/4 under that dart already. If you have the mopar 8&3/4 rear then use it. They are tough as nails but hard to find nowadays. The only reason for the ford 8.8 swap is its common as dirt has a limited slip in most cases, disc brakes, good gearsets, and is inexpensive. People use em a lot when swapping out slant sux for a V8. Most slants have horrible 7.25 pegleg rears. If you have the mopar rear, disc brakes as I said from a liberty or nitro with the big bolt pattern are readily available in the junkyard.

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On this note, I have a very crudely cut up Dana 60 (hacked off each axle tube about 8" away from the housing). It has 4.10 gears in it now that someone said looked like truck gears. I'm not that knowledgeable on how to tell, but it looked there was an additional set of gear studs around the ring gear (right by my fingers in the picture). I have no clue what it'd take to turn what I have (only what's in the pictures) into a complete rear end. I also wanted lower gears in there. Mid to high 3's. Sounds like I need to start fresh though...

The motor is a 440. I have another post where I listed what was in it here: Help Gathering Info on Inherited Motor Not sure what to do with it yet, but as far as getting it moving as fast as possible I might just put it in as-is. Along this line of thinking, I figured the Dana parts I have now might save me some money as complete rear ends are pricey! The shop that built the 440 said it'll only run on race fuel though, and I wouldn't want to have to redo or have that mess up any of the fuel system as I want to eventually tone it down. The shop also said "we didn't keep that many records on it" so the information in that post is all I really have. Definitely doing the 440 swap. That's all my dad was about, haha.