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Isn't this still too low?

How bad could it be? Depending on how many Dusters get trashed in production, pretty damn bad.

It seems like the consensus is going the other way. You would stick with the acceleration oriented gears?

Holy crap. Thanks for putting together all of this analysis. It's going to take me a bit to wrap my head around this but I'm getting your drift. I never considered anything as low as 2.94s but you got me thinking! Yeah. It came with a dyno sheet. I will try to get a picture up this...

What did you pick? Why? Are you happy? Do you wish that you picked something different? About four years back, after saving up a wad of cash, I had the chance to pick out my "dream" rear axle assembly. My vision for my car was to make it as fun as possible on curvy back roads, probably...

I have often thought about this. With a blank slate, what would I build from scratch? I'd stick with a Demon/Duster body with a 1969 Dart nose treatment. Then, I wouldn't feel bad going with a full cage, a Tremec 6 speed and a later (600+hp) Viper V10. I'd also go with an independent rear...

I dig the mudflaps. They're a period-correct mod. :D

LOL... well said. Honestly, I get it. The "beak" would not have been my first choice but back when I was 17 years old in the mid 1990s, I almost passed out when I found this Dart. The thought "ugly" never crossed my mind! In the years since, it has grown on me and I quite like it. Is it a...

Your car is looking great! The chin spoiler was offered by Direct Connection. I bought it from someone on the forum 7 years or so back. They are pretty hard to come by, unfortunately. Someday, I think I want to try my hand at making a fiberglass mold and make some copies of that thing. My...

You could be right about the width of the Abodies being a disadvantage compared to the wider Ebodies. Regardless, Trans Am was the most popular form of racing in the US between 1966 and 1972 (?) and regardless, I suspect that Chrysler wanted to use that platform to sell the upscale products...

The seats are "Cobra Classic RS Forty" ordered through HMS Motorsports. They work approximately as well as I had hoped. Very sports car-like. The side bolstering is VASTLY better than a stock style seat and they hold you in well but not at true race car levels. I haven't tried the Procar Elite...

First, I know better (as do most of you) that driving an actual race car on the street would be fun for about three minutes, then the sweltering heat, unrelenting noise and vibration, the punishing ride and handling, and the generally terrible drivability would make this seem like a very bad...

Not disagreeing with your point here at all but just playing devil's advocate (which I do often and he rewards me handsomely for it), the bumblebee stripe was straight up a DODGE thing. Sure, it looks fine aesthetically since it fits the sheet metal but it seems to be catering to people who just...

Despite being a few model years apart, outr cars seem to have been optioned identically (aside from the California emissions stuff). IIRC, unless something changed between '70 and '73, yours will still coded with an "L"/"low price class" VIN. I think your "medium" descriptor does make sense...

Who cares? I think you quoted someone who does. :) I put up the thread to talk about a car that seemed interesting and well done and just about every aspect of that is subject to opinion. Now that we have established that, I think the bumblebee stripe looks great on this Scamp but I can...

This one caught my eye this morning. Does anyone know this car or the owner? I have no prior knowledge of Pure Vision but they did a super nice job (in my subjective opinion) on setting up this Scamp. It's a stroker small block, 727 trans, 8.75" rear end...and they RETAINED the torsion bar...

Just reviving an old thread to add a new data point to the "lack of people skills." This guy is still around, still driving his Duster. I honestly do admire that he drives the thing regularly and it's still a car that would turn my head if I didn't know about the festering puss-filled boil of...

If Plum Crazy is a metallic purple paint, is Plumb Crazy a lead grey color? It's a periodic table joke. I guess. :D

Utah, as far as I know, applies plenty of salt to the roads (in the parts of the state that get snow). How have you dealt with that? Under normal usage here in New England, the bodies on these cars were showing obvious signs of rust after 4-5 seasons of winter driving. As a kid, my family...

I would be perfectly happy daily driving a 318 Abody in completely stock form. The ONLY updates that I believe are necessary would be upgraded LED tail lights (with the proper style emitters), and modern rubber. That said, I wouldn't do it for several depressing reasons. First, they're...

Thanks for posting all of this up! That's a lot of cash but there's no mystery as to where it went. It cracks me up to think that I spent $700 on my Dart Sport back in the 1990s and it came with a perfectly fine transmission which (after some modifications) is holding up very well to a...

Thanks for sharing all of the pics and info on your manual transmission journey! Would you mind sharing what your shop charged for the job? I would totally understand if you didn't. I'm in a similar situation regarding access to a lift/limits of my skills, fears about botching the job. I...

You guys are killing me! All I have is motivation and very little mechanical skill. I took a couple of shop classes in high school but goofed off for most of them. Learning opportunities are limited...None of my friends know anything about working on cars. My father and uncle are good...

I agree and disagree with this point. The most popular news sources are definitely driven by the fear/anger model...look at the scared shitless preppers in this thread! But this doesn't mean that we should just throw our hands up in the air and let someone else tell us who to vote for or how we...

If your therapist is wasting your time with his or her opinions (and you didn’t ask for them), find a new one. First, what the hell is wrong with a 318? Secondly, some of us have significantly more potent machinery in our garages. Update your stereotypes. :D That’s one solution but it’s not...

This is exactly why I want a kit. I've applied simple stripes on two different cars now and they came out perfect but I was lucky to have precisely cut/measured kits to work with. Having to deal with a tricky angle would jeopardize the whole project. Having the stripes actually painted on...

These are very simple graphics that should be a snap to re-create in vinyl…still, I don’t see this available out there as a kit. My dad’s car did not come with this option but he has always liked them. The idea occurred to me that these stripes might make a good Christmas gift. I think he...

That makes sense with the fuel cell. A quick Google search came up with this quote supposedly from the NHRA rule book: "Any battery MUST BE mounted in a SEALED NHRA APPROVED battery box IF the car does not have a SEALED FIREWALL from the driver compartment to the trunk" So the sealed battery...