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I'll give it a shot. My name is Khalid and I'm originally from State College, Pennsylvania. As a kid I was always interested in mechanical things; my grandpa would let me work on and use his lawnmower when I was only seven, and I loved getting my hands on anything under the hood of a car. When I was 15 I had just started discovering Mopars and met a guy entirely out of coincidence who owned an awesome 1965 Coronet Super-Stock lookalike with an ample 440. My grandpa and I gave him a visit at his home where he had probably five Mopars (one of which is a totally restored '67 Coronet R/T 440) and three newer cars. He gave me a ride in that Coronet and I was hooked. I knew that my first car would have to be a Mopar.
In September of 2007 my father and I were looking for a good first car for me. After much searching I found the car displayed in my signature, a 1970 Duster with a stock 318/904 drivetrain. Having no previous experience with Mopars, I didn't have enough intuition to notice the haphazardly leaky Carter BBD, slackened timing chain, and receded valves that robbed the engine of power. The original timing chain finally bit the bullet one day pulling out of school and that was the beginning of the road to turning my Duster into something resembling a muscle Mopar. I spent over 7 months getting an engine stand, pulling the engine, gathering parts, rebuilding the engine, and finally dropping it back in with the parts listed in my sig. Even though the engine visibly burns oil and doesn't get better than 16 miles per gallon this Duster has been my daily transportation to and from UCCS 25 miles away since the beginning of the semester in mid-August. In that time I had a brake hose and radiator hose go bad, and not much else (not including things that I farted around with...LOL).
In the future I want to at least first do a complete rebuild of the 318 along with an A-999 trans and beefier sure-grip rear end. My ultimate plans, however, are for a nasty g-Machine-type 408 (~525 HP)-powered road race car with a 5-speed, heavily beefed suspension, and heavily lightened (pun intended). Think something between a Formula S and the "Green Brick" Valiant but with a semi-fastback roof and a nice interior (and hopefully painted either Turbine Bronze or a pretty purple/blue).
Here's the old gal when I first got her:
And here is how it looked the last time it wasn't covered in slush and ice...
I'll give it a shot. My name is Khalid and I'm originally from State College, Pennsylvania. As a kid I was always interested in mechanical things; my grandpa would let me work on and use his lawnmower when I was only seven, and I loved getting my hands on anything under the hood of a car. When I was 15 I had just started discovering Mopars and met a guy entirely out of coincidence who owned an awesome 1965 Coronet Super-Stock lookalike with an ample 440. My grandpa and I gave him a visit at his home where he had probably five Mopars (one of which is a totally restored '67 Coronet R/T 440) and three newer cars. He gave me a ride in that Coronet and I was hooked. I knew that my first car would have to be a Mopar.
In September of 2007 my father and I were looking for a good first car for me. After much searching I found the car displayed in my signature, a 1970 Duster with a stock 318/904 drivetrain. Having no previous experience with Mopars, I didn't have enough intuition to notice the haphazardly leaky Carter BBD, slackened timing chain, and receded valves that robbed the engine of power. The original timing chain finally bit the bullet one day pulling out of school and that was the beginning of the road to turning my Duster into something resembling a muscle Mopar. I spent over 7 months getting an engine stand, pulling the engine, gathering parts, rebuilding the engine, and finally dropping it back in with the parts listed in my sig. Even though the engine visibly burns oil and doesn't get better than 16 miles per gallon this Duster has been my daily transportation to and from UCCS 25 miles away since the beginning of the semester in mid-August. In that time I had a brake hose and radiator hose go bad, and not much else (not including things that I farted around with...LOL).
In the future I want to at least first do a complete rebuild of the 318 along with an A-999 trans and beefier sure-grip rear end. My ultimate plans, however, are for a nasty g-Machine-type 408 (~525 HP)-powered road race car with a 5-speed, heavily beefed suspension, and heavily lightened (pun intended). Think something between a Formula S and the "Green Brick" Valiant but with a semi-fastback roof and a nice interior (and hopefully painted either Turbine Bronze or a pretty purple/blue).
Here's the old gal when I first got her:
And here is how it looked the last time it wasn't covered in slush and ice...
