Americanstandard
Active Member
So, I am at a major point in my project where the next few decisions will impact how soon I finish and how much this will cost me
Up to this point, I have a running '78 440, 727, drive shaft, and 8.75 rear. I have a 4 door 70s dart with it's 225 slant, 904 tranny rebuilt in 92, drive shaft, and a dana 60 with beefed up rear leaf springs. And I have a 72 440 waiting for a wild rebuild.
I plan on gutting the 225 slant six with transmission out by this weekend. Spend time prepping the dart, ordering headers and mounts from Schumacher's engine swap page, notching the k member, and figuring out how to convert to a floor shifter as opposed to the factory column shifter. Get the oil pan I need. Basically prep the dart.
Next, I will figure out if the holley carb needs to be rebuilt or just fine tuned. I will need to inspect my running 78 to see what else I need to keep it running. It idled very high. The coolant system is bad. Had very little condensation in the oil, but I think it's because it's been sitting. It starts up with no problems, but a few things needs to be addressed in a tune up.
After that is done, I will swap the running 440 engine and 727 tranny into the dart. I don't know how the transmission mount will work, and which one to use. I don't know what I'll do about the floor shifter, but I have seen some nice bench seats with floor shifters. Order a chromoly drive shaft, upgrade the front discs, swap my suspension with some coil overs I have laying around.
I think this will cost me approximately 3000. The break down will be ~50 to rebuild or tune the carb, ~50 for an oil change, add some coolant I have laying around, ~100-300 for a new high flow water pump, 800 for the Schumacher kit, 100 for oil pan, 15 for a cheap cutting tool (broke the cheap one I had), chromoly drive shaft around 400-700, and front disc brake conversion with new brake lines for maybe 800.
Do you think I have missed something somewhere, or am I on a good track?
After this point, I will begin on researching for a wild 440 to build up my 72 into the engine I want. I think I'm forgetting the valve body on the transmission too as well as gear vendors..
Up to this point, I have a running '78 440, 727, drive shaft, and 8.75 rear. I have a 4 door 70s dart with it's 225 slant, 904 tranny rebuilt in 92, drive shaft, and a dana 60 with beefed up rear leaf springs. And I have a 72 440 waiting for a wild rebuild.
I plan on gutting the 225 slant six with transmission out by this weekend. Spend time prepping the dart, ordering headers and mounts from Schumacher's engine swap page, notching the k member, and figuring out how to convert to a floor shifter as opposed to the factory column shifter. Get the oil pan I need. Basically prep the dart.
Next, I will figure out if the holley carb needs to be rebuilt or just fine tuned. I will need to inspect my running 78 to see what else I need to keep it running. It idled very high. The coolant system is bad. Had very little condensation in the oil, but I think it's because it's been sitting. It starts up with no problems, but a few things needs to be addressed in a tune up.
After that is done, I will swap the running 440 engine and 727 tranny into the dart. I don't know how the transmission mount will work, and which one to use. I don't know what I'll do about the floor shifter, but I have seen some nice bench seats with floor shifters. Order a chromoly drive shaft, upgrade the front discs, swap my suspension with some coil overs I have laying around.
I think this will cost me approximately 3000. The break down will be ~50 to rebuild or tune the carb, ~50 for an oil change, add some coolant I have laying around, ~100-300 for a new high flow water pump, 800 for the Schumacher kit, 100 for oil pan, 15 for a cheap cutting tool (broke the cheap one I had), chromoly drive shaft around 400-700, and front disc brake conversion with new brake lines for maybe 800.
Do you think I have missed something somewhere, or am I on a good track?
After this point, I will begin on researching for a wild 440 to build up my 72 into the engine I want. I think I'm forgetting the valve body on the transmission too as well as gear vendors..
