74 Duster 440 first build

[steven775]

This is my first restoration ever and I have been learning as I go! I cant wait to have her back on the road. Little bit about myself, I'm 27 years old active duty Marine Corps stationed presently at MCAS New River in Jacksonville, NC. I work on the V-22 Osprey as an Airframer. I also have my Federal Firearms License to sell Firearms on the side to make extra cash.

Here is what I got:
74 Duster originally a 318
previous owner did a 360 swap
LA Style 360 (gots to go)
8.25 rear
727 Transmission

Traded a fellow Marine moving to Cali two guns for my first Mopar

 

[steven775]

Sold for 440 parts

 

[steven775]

Found A complete 440 bored .040
Also found a brand new set of 440 source stealth heads, 1.5 roller rockers and rods for an awesome deal.
Splurged on the nice valve covers!!!

 

[steven775]

Had them Bore out to .060 over and deck and everything else.

 

[steven775]

10.5:1 Compression ratio
KB Pistons
Stock forged crank
#187 a body BB oil pan
440 Source Stealth Aluminum Heads
440 Source roller rockers and push rods
440 Source aluminum water pump and housing
MP valve covers
Comp Cam Extreme Energy 21-223-4
Comp Cam lifters and timing set

 

[steven775]

Motor done now onto the body!

 

[steven775]

LOTSSSSSS of sanding

 

[steven775]

just keep truckin

 

[4spdragtop]

Great deal on the Duster, nice work too!!

 

[steven775]

Getting there

 

[steven775]

TCI 2400-2600 Stall
TCI rebuild Kit
440 Source Flex plate
ARP Hardware

 

[steven775]

Inner fender wells done
Firewall done

 

[steven775]

Great deal on the Duster, nice work too!!

Thank You!!!

 

[baracus]

Nice work! Knocking it out. Should be a beast!

 

[SwingerLSX75]

Damn your doing some work that's for sure. Im active duty Navy up here in great lakes but originally from Fayetteville, NC. Keep up the work man. Looking forward to seeing how this comes out.

 

[132068Dodge]

Banging that sucker out . Just fired up my 440 with the same head and valve train combo today. Sounds great with the Howard's cam too. I just hope you disassembled and went through those heads really well! I won't burden you with the details but if you check out my thread you would be shocked at what came out of my heads when I cleaned them up. Valve guides were not sized right, no lube when assembled at factory, the list goes on. Just looking out for you brother. Any ideas on the color yet?

 

[steven775]

Banging that sucker out . Just fired up my 440 with the same head and valve train combo today. Sounds great with the Howard's cam too. I just hope you disassembled and went through those heads really well! I won't burden you with the details but if you check out my thread you would be shocked at what came out of my heads when I cleaned them up. Valve guides were not sized right, no lube when assembled at factory, the list goes on. Just looking out for you brother. Any ideas on the color yet?

I really do appreciate you lookin out! I had the machine shop completely disassemble the heads and they put in much better valve guides and double checked everything. I cant wait to fire up this motor!!! its been completely built and sitting in my garage for about 3 months now. I decided right after I built the motor to take on all the body work first and re paint it before putting the motor in. It was so tempting to put it in but Im glad I went this route instead! I am torn between these two colors.

Sassy Grass Green

OR....

Pepper Grey Effect with the Hyper Black Chrome Bumpers

 

[steven775]

Fresh in today!

Performance Distibutors Livewires 10mm
Painless Performance 14 Circuit Harness

 

[4spdragtop]

Pepper gray for sure! Chk out hemidenny build thread of his duster.

 

[66340SEDAN]

Great progress!

 

[darndart]

Coming along nicely!

 

[HemiDenny]

nice job....I like your attack!

 

[132068Dodge]

The sassy grass green is a real striking combo. Definitely more expensive than the grey and black partially due to nearly a grand in re-chroming the bumpers and cost of actual color. Both are really nice!

 

[HemiDenny]

I started looking at the pictures and missed the text...

Please allow me to thank you for your service Marine. We are proud of you guys.

 

[steven775]

The sassy grass green is a real striking combo. Definitely more expensive than the grey and black partially due to nearly a grand in re-chroming the bumpers and cost of actual color. Both are really nice!

Yes definitely, Ive been leaning more towards the pepper grey due to the cost of re croming the bumpers. I will probably be going with the grey! There both real nice and Id be happy with either choice.