1973 Plymouth Duster repair and rebuild
Ok, so more on the background of the car. The prior owner bought it 10yrs ago and has fought getting it running since. It has a number matching slant six with a 904 auto transmission. He had thrown all kinds of money, including a new fuel tank. But left it under a tree for all this time beside a house. Worst yet uncovered, as you can kind of tell in the picture of it coming home on the tow truck.
It looks like he tried to replace the original single barrel with a new one. Then bought a Super Six 2 barrel manifold with the correct 2 barrel carb, only it appears most of what was purchased was cheap off amazon (coming from china). And the carburetor was no different. We can confirm the Alternator is confirmed to not be cheap.
So the first thing I did is follow the HEI conversion and gave the car a stand alone ignition system. Removing the factory wiring from the equation. In a following post, I have a question on this. I bought a 4 pin Pertronix HEI 3 control module with multi-spark and rev limiter, along with a late 90s GM suv/truck with v8 external controller/coil/bracket package and wired them together and straight to the distributor. Gave it 12v and ground, cranked the engine and it started right up with a bit of fuel down the carb. Cranked it a couple more times with a bit of fuel, and then it sustained itself.
This absolutely a great modification, and flexible for use with any magnetic trigger ignition system. Multi-spark with rev limiter factory set at 5500rpm.
Ok, so more on the background of the car. The prior owner bought it 10yrs ago and has fought getting it running since. It has a number matching slant six with a 904 auto transmission. He had thrown all kinds of money, including a new fuel tank. But left it under a tree for all this time beside a house. Worst yet uncovered, as you can kind of tell in the picture of it coming home on the tow truck.
It looks like he tried to replace the original single barrel with a new one. Then bought a Super Six 2 barrel manifold with the correct 2 barrel carb, only it appears most of what was purchased was cheap off amazon (coming from china). And the carburetor was no different. We can confirm the Alternator is confirmed to not be cheap.
So the first thing I did is follow the HEI conversion and gave the car a stand alone ignition system. Removing the factory wiring from the equation. In a following post, I have a question on this. I bought a 4 pin Pertronix HEI 3 control module with multi-spark and rev limiter, along with a late 90s GM suv/truck with v8 external controller/coil/bracket package and wired them together and straight to the distributor. Gave it 12v and ground, cranked the engine and it started right up with a bit of fuel down the carb. Cranked it a couple more times with a bit of fuel, and then it sustained itself.
This absolutely a great modification, and flexible for use with any magnetic trigger ignition system. Multi-spark with rev limiter factory set at 5500rpm.