Duster Front end back to a Dart

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QMopar

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I have a 74 Dart Sport on which someone installed a 75 Duster front clip. I want to go back to a 73-74 Dart front end.

I know I'll need fenders, header piece and a hood. Do I also need to change the radiator support? Will the bumper work? Anything else I'm overlooking?

Thanks,

~Q
 
If you have to change The fenders and Hood etc, why keep it 73-74?
Drop it back to 70-72 and get that Demon look.
 
I hear you but 73-74 stuff is way more affordable - at least from what I've found.
 
You will need EVERYTHING from the front of the doors and cowl forward that unbolts.
That includes the fenders, the hood, bumper and brackets, grille and headlight doors, filler between the bumper and the grille, hood latch and release mechanism, and the filler between the hood and the grille also known as ''the beak''.
Basically, the whole front clip as it is known as.
Preferably, it would be from a '73 or '74 Dart or Dart Sport, 2 or 4 door, but a '75 or '76 would work if you get everything.
The big difference is the grille and how it mounts.
 
Make sure you don't buy a later year shock absorber bracket bumper. Bumper & bracket combo would be best. They do not interchange. Standard Duster brackets are different from Dart Sport also.
 
AJ/FormS said:
They say that the 1969 Barracuda hood is the same hood used on beak-cars. I do not know if that is true.
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Yes, it's true. But I heard you have to use the hinges from the body the hood came from because attachment points to the hood are different between the Barracuda and Dart Sports.

This also means that you can put a Dart Lite hood on a '69 Barracuda (with correct hinges), but you also need the lighter hood springs. The standard hood springs will try to bend the lighter hood in the middle. But you'll save around 12-15 lbs off the nose because the underside of the Dart Lite hood is aluminum. (Like a Feather Duster. Both were part of a 1976-only 6 cyl. fuel economy option package.)
 
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