duey_roc
Well-Known Member
Whats up FABO! So to start ive had this car for almost a year now. I love her to death, but its difficult to do a complete resto like I want to when shes my daily driver as well :banghead: So heres a little info on the car and what ive done so far. This is a Hang Ten edition of the Dart Sport. It has a mechanical working sunroof and fold down rear seats. All numbers are matching. Original 318, 727, 8.25 in the car.
Mechanical: As soon as I got the car I wanted to work on the engine. The weak excelerator intake manifold had to go so I found an LD4B that I put on with the holley 600. Powermaster alternator, new rod bearings, cam, lifters, and pushrods were put in. Also has Hedman shorty headers down to a 2.5 exhaust out. X pipe and flowmaster 40s as well.
Electrical: PITA! I must say I hate the previous owner. The existing wiring harness is so chopped up I have no idea how the car is running. It has wires connecting to the fusible link, bypassing the bulkhead connectors, and going up the steering column. Anything else you can think of that's crazy he did. Anyways, the entire wiring system is out of the car. I got a donor wiring harness from a 73 Duster that's working great so far. Under the dash is done, tomorrow is under the hood and in the rear.
Interior: Interior is pretty bad too. The sunroof itself is not rusty, but the PO never cleaned out the drain pipes therefore causing a clog which in turn makes it leak. The dumb *** screwed strips of metal all the way around straight into the roof, bolting the sunroof down. The entire roof directly around the sunroof hole is rusted. No clue about body and welding but thatll come later. He also got rid of the original buckets and center console and stuck a random dart bench seat in instead! :banghead::banghead: Dash board was painted spray paint black along with white supremacy bolts on the dash. "CRAZY FAST CRACKER" was also painted where the black blotch is in the quarter panel. Basically, the car needs help and im doing the best I can.
Mechanical: As soon as I got the car I wanted to work on the engine. The weak excelerator intake manifold had to go so I found an LD4B that I put on with the holley 600. Powermaster alternator, new rod bearings, cam, lifters, and pushrods were put in. Also has Hedman shorty headers down to a 2.5 exhaust out. X pipe and flowmaster 40s as well.
Electrical: PITA! I must say I hate the previous owner. The existing wiring harness is so chopped up I have no idea how the car is running. It has wires connecting to the fusible link, bypassing the bulkhead connectors, and going up the steering column. Anything else you can think of that's crazy he did. Anyways, the entire wiring system is out of the car. I got a donor wiring harness from a 73 Duster that's working great so far. Under the dash is done, tomorrow is under the hood and in the rear.
Interior: Interior is pretty bad too. The sunroof itself is not rusty, but the PO never cleaned out the drain pipes therefore causing a clog which in turn makes it leak. The dumb *** screwed strips of metal all the way around straight into the roof, bolting the sunroof down. The entire roof directly around the sunroof hole is rusted. No clue about body and welding but thatll come later. He also got rid of the original buckets and center console and stuck a random dart bench seat in instead! :banghead::banghead: Dash board was painted spray paint black along with white supremacy bolts on the dash. "CRAZY FAST CRACKER" was also painted where the black blotch is in the quarter panel. Basically, the car needs help and im doing the best I can.
I was very proud. The next day, I got my radiator and fan in, and played a little bit with the wiring under the dash. That's about half of the unnecessary crap that he had under there
