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Went with EFI, the Holley Avenger 550-200 kit, which has been excellent. Put 11,000 flawless miles (except for two Pertronix ignition failures) on that torquey slant-6. But my son recently pulled the entire drivetrain in favor of a 273 V8 project he’s doing for his engineering degree program...

I also went with Duplicolor Engine Paint, but couldn't locally find that Chrysler Red. Instead, I ended up going with their 'Chevrolet Red/Orange' color. I suppose that's a little blasphemous to use a Chevy color, but it turned out looking really well, so no big regrets. The paint on the...

Asking $110. I work in the Everett, WA area, if that helps logistics.

Intake and exhaust manifold for the 225 slant six. We ended up deciding to go with aftermarket intake and exhaust on my son's 1969 Dart. So these originals from the motor are up for sale. Asking $125. No cracks anywhere. Left them mated together as we wirebrushed, degreased, and painted them...

My 1969 Dodge Dart got disc brakes installed that made me need to get different bolt-pattern wheels. These are the stock ones I had to remove, which worked fine with the stock drum brake setup. Five wheels all with mounted/balanced tires (the full-size spare tire from the trunk is included)...

The stock anchor point does not cut across your neck. The section of belt that drops down from the ceiling towards your shoulder has a sleeve that guides the belt downward before allowing it to come forward towards your neck/shoulder, so it ends up being comfortable. True for both me (5 ft...

This summer we'll install air-conditioning into this car, as well as do some nit stuff like EFI tuning tricks, and adding some firewall acoustic insulation. Maybe even modify the exhaust, as the way the local shop made the custom Y-collector just seems like an inefficient-flow design. But for...

Back from Paint: Time for Stainless Steel Trim Installation The "Custom" trim level of the Dart sports a good amount of side moulding. Including the roof rail, windshield, trunk, and hood, there are 25 pieces of stainless-steel trim that have to go back on the car, along with the door handles...

Door Jambs and Trunk So it can be a cost-saving to go ahead and paint the door jambs and trunk interior yourself. Since the goal was to keep the costs relatively low, it made sense to give that a try. But let me tell you: it's not a simple thing to do right. The effort to prep and mask off...

Electrical Charging System Woes The day before the car was ready for its maiden voyage up to my son's college hometown, the voltmeter started showing less than 12.8 volts. Normally it was about 15 volts. We still had the old alternator and old voltage regulator on the car, so who knows how old...

Paint After calling a few body shops around town, I visited one that was recommended and really liked what I saw coming out of their booth. The price quote was one of the more reasonable ones, and the cost difference between dropping it off that day and having them complete the remaining body...

Body Work Doing automotive body work is a kind of an art form - it takes a certain finesse and skill-set to pull it off. Very humbling to attempt on one's own. Lotta sanding is involved for us rookies. The project budget dictated that the dozen or so minor dings and dents needed to be fixed...

A904 Transmission sticky governor Stalling the Motor The car had one quirk that was pretty annoying. Sometimes, at least once per trip,, when decelerating quickly from a stop, it seemed like the transmission would refuse to downshift from 2nd-to-1st gear. Maybe it was the torque converter...

Here's the motor in my son's '69 Dart. Finally getting some miles put on the car, and it's running real nice. The EFI wiring could use some attention to routing more cleanly; it looks a bit spaghetti-ed under the hood once you hook everything up.

Thanks for the feedback! Interesting theory about the tach signal being applicable for an 8-cyl motor. The ratio of 6/8 is about the same as 2.10/2.76 ! Plausible theory that my tach is indeed “off” for this particular car. I should call the Holley tech support line and get...

I can vouch that the tachometer is perfectly good. In fact, it's part of the Holley Avenger EFI system that the car has, read off of the hand-held computer, so it's gotta be a very robust signal from which to meter the fuel injection (it runs great!). Plus, my ear is calibrated well enough -...

Okay, this is weird. I finally drove my son’s project car (’69 Dart, slant 6, A904, 7.25 rear) on the freeway for the first time, and the engine RPMs were waaaay lower than what we’d expected. If I calculate the 2.76:1 axle ratio and 1.00:1 3rd gear ratio and 25.7” overall tire diameter...

The cam timing is +4deg advanced. The rest of the specs are: 254 / 266 Advertised Duration, 110 deg LSA 0.435" / 0.435" Theoretical Lift 210 / 218 Duration at 0.050" Tappet Rise I do recall the head gasket appearing like it was pretty much all-steel, so I bet that I have one of the thinner...

Mine is a 225, and to be honest I didn't measure the thickness of the cylinder head gasket upon reassembly. I'd have to go look it up in the paperwork. I do recall that the pistons were still below the block deck, at TDC. This high-compression motor has the Holley Avenger EFI kit, which gives...

Woah - I wonder now after reading this thread if my newly-built /6 has too much compression. I decked the block 0.050", and the heads 0.030", aiming for about 9.5:1 compression. Pistons are +0.030", too. All six cylinders are within 3.5% of each other, with an average of 194 psi. Wet. Throttle...

All the seat belts and associated hardware are from WescoPerformance. I like their stuff, and they even offer classic-style buckle options. http://wescoperformance.stores.yahoo.net/resebe.html

Wheels. Now I know why there’s a dedicated forum just for them. We ended up getting the polished versions of the wheels we waited on back-order for 9 weeks for (which had grey-painted centers). At first we thought the polished ones would be a bit too fancy for a 4-door sedan, but now...

The lackluster 9” drums on all four corners gave us the original notion to upgrade to power brakes. All new cars have it, so it must be ‘better’, right? But the more advice I read, it seemed that a 2800 pound A-body with an excellent brake system needs no power boosting. And given how a...

Upon test driving the car before purchase: “Think it’ll need new suspension?” “Nah, it seems fine. Maybe new shocks.” “Okay.” So of course new KYB shocks were installed on all four corners, but along the way we went ahead and installed new rear leaf springs and new torsion bars...

The front windshield was fogged and bespeckled a bit from its age, so I wasn't too bummed out when it cracked upon removal. Oh, and good luck finding a 4-dr sedan windshield (finally via eBay). The windshield frame had some of the only rust damage to the car, which was painstakingly repaired...

Interior Complete Sometimes it’s word-of-mouth that serves as the best advertising. After hearing our struggles with non-existent off-the-shelf upholstery options, and sticker-shock from local top-shelf custom shops, a neighbor (who owns a 1966 Dart Custom sedan) recommended a guy in north...

I should include some information on what our homework led to for building this particular motor. The motor has been a fun build; we took a comprehensive look at the car's gearing (A904 + 7 1/4 rear with 2.76:1) and daily-driver status to build it up as a low/mid-RPM torquer motor that...

This is a revised repost of a thread I started in the Fuel and Air Systems sub-forum, but for the sake of this project page's completeness, I'm including some of it here ___________________________________________ Retrofitting EFI into a slant6-powered '69 Dart has been mostly fun, but also...

I looked in to an 8.25" rear end with the BBP, but learned it would mean I'd need my driveshaft shortened. Plus, I'm actually content with the 2.76:1 ratio in the current 7.25" differential; this car is going to see a fair share of highway miles, and I'd prefer the 2400 RPM cruise over the...

I was hell-bent on acquiring 16” wheels for the 1969 Dart Custom I’ve been helping my son restore. In my humble opinion, sixteens are the best size : unlike 14s and 15s, the tire selection is enormous, and really, seventeens (or bigger) on a classic sedan would just look…kinda dorky. Two-door...