Dartin for Divorce

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Picked up a 742 case with 4.10 gears and sure grip, clutch style. Guy said it was in his roadrunner and was too much gear for it. The clutch pack is supposedly brand new installed last year with about 100 miles in it. I’m assuming it was all installed properly as the guy owns a machine shop and he specializes in building mopar motors. He had a couple of nice cars in his shop and more motors than I could count.

I’ll let y’all know how it works, it’s going in the dirty purple car, hopefully it’s not to much gear. :lol::steering:

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DentalDart said:
Picked up a 742 case with 4.10 gears and sure grip, clutch style. Guy said it was in his roadrunner and was too much gear for it. The clutch pack is supposedly brand new installed last year with about 100 miles in it. I’m assuming it was all installed properly as the guy owns a machine shop and he specializes in building mopar motors. He had a couple of nice cars in his shop and more motors than I could count.

I’ll let y’all know how it works, it’s going in the dirty purple car, hopefully it’s not to much gear. :lol::steering:

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Depends on how you want to drive it, you probably won't be real happy if you want to do much highway driving, but around town you'll have a blast.
 
missing linc said:
Depends on how you want to drive it, you probably won't be real happy if you want to do much highway driving, but around town you'll have a blast.
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It doesn’t get on the highway very much, mostly just drives to the office or to the store in town now.
 
The 4.10 gear is great stop light to stop light and for short high RPM bursts. You will probably tire from the high RPM, low fuel mileage quickly. Ask me how I know.
 
Demonracer said:
The 4.10 gear is great stop light to stop light and for short high RPM bursts. You will probably tire from the high RPM, low fuel mileage quickly. Ask me how I know.
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Lol I think it will be fun for a bit, if I get tired of it I can always throw the 3.23 back in it right.

I really do need to start finding the time to work on the swinger again.
 
DentalDart said:
Lol I think it will be fun for a bit, if I get tired of it I can always throw the 3.23 back in it right.

I really do need to start finding the time to work on the swinger again.
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Be funny to shove those ice cream cones into the kids faces. lol :steering:
 
4.10 is a good gear, I have a complete sure-grip assembly to put in my Challenger, and take the 2.74 gears out.
 
Purple car hasn’t gotten much work lately… been driving it to work and dang it’s nice. I need to start working on the swinger more.

Trying to get my wife her elusive old car…. Hopefully I get to go check it out the next day or 2, someone was ahead of me in line to go look at it. If I get the chance I’ll buy it.

I’m supposed to get a tractor this weekend as well and I have to build a chicken coop for the wife.

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Long time no update on the purple *****. It’s still my kids favorite car. I’m currently swapping disc brakes to the rear and adding new brake lines to the car, I’ve always hated the brakes on this car and well it needed to be done. While I have the rear end apart I’ll add the 3rd member with 4.10 gears.

I’m also going to build an engine for it. Got a bunch of parts from a guy last year which included a stroker kit. I got new pistons and rods coming for the kit then I’ll take it to the machine shop to all be balanced. I’ll probably add a different transmission as well as TTI headers and a new exhaust.

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DentalDart said:
Long time no update on the purple *****. It’s still my kids favorite car. I’m currently swapping disc brakes to the rear and adding new brake lines to the car, I’ve always hated the brakes on this car and well it needed to be done. While I have the rear end apart I’ll add the 3rd member with 4.10 gears.

I’m also going to build an engine for it. Got a bunch of parts from a guy last year which included a stroker kit. I got new pistons and rods coming for the kit then I’ll take it to the machine shop to all be balanced. I’ll probably add a different transmission as well as TTI headers and a new exhaust.

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Funny some one would take the time to paint the lifter valley and not clean-up the casting flash.
 
moparmat2000 said:
Glad to see you back. What's with the black one? Was that an insurance auction buy?
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fishmens67 said:
That looks like the Dart a member had, I recall seeing a thread after that wreck happened
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Yea it was owned by @BrianT after it was stolen and wrecked I bought the body and his buddy bought the drivetrain from the insurance. I just steal stuff off of it as needed lol.

These brakes are dirty as heck! I’m really trying not to go steal the brand new brakes off of the swinger.
 
moparmat2000 said:
Is it fixable? Doesnt look too bad
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Probably but it would need all the body panels. Im just taking parts from it for my other 2 cars.

The brakes I’m not sure the brand, so hopefully I hook them up properly, they sit a little different on the 8.75 compared to the Dana 60. Also I can’t figure out how to get the dang emergency brake off. I’ll mess with it later, dinner time.

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340sFastback said:
different transmission? Like maybe a Tremec 6 speed? Stroker, headers, 410s, 6 spd, purple *****
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Oh man a tremec would be great, but unfortunately just another 904 that I have sitting in the shop. I keep thinking about a tkx in the swinger but I thought I read someone else’s thread in FABO that it cost upwards of 10-15k to have it installed, including the cost of the transmission
 
moparmat2000 said:
Is it fixable? Doesnt look too bad
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It was hit bad enough that I wasn't going to screw with it. I had been building that car for 17 years, and was pretty devastated when it was stolen. I was in no shape mentally to start over especially when the car would probably have been in body shop jail for a year or two. It was a win/win/win situation for all of us. I got my Duster with the insurance money, my buddy Shawn got the engine and transmission (condition unknown to this day), and Justin got the rest. Here's a couple more pics. The passenger side has damage also.

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BrianT said:
It was hit bad enough that I wasn't going to screw with it. I had been building that car for 17 years, and was pretty devastated when it was stolen. I was in no shape mentally to start over especially when the car would probably have been in body shop jail for a year or two. It was a win/win/win situation for all of us. I got my Duster with the insurance money, my buddy Shawn got the engine and transmission (condition unknown to this day), and Justin got the rest. Here's a couple more pics. The passenger side has damage also.

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Still looks fixable to me, but I'm a body guy. It's a terrible shame. Looks like it kinda got away from them, too much horsepower for the thief. Did they catch them at least?
 
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