Recent content by 19DART66

QuickTime use to make the right depth bells for the small block Mopars for the Ford and Chevy input lengths for the Tremec trans. but not any more. I do not think they ever made them for the Gen III Hemis but not sure. For reference the small block Chevy bell for the TKX is 6.29" deep, and...

Which TKX trans did you purchase? If you purchased the the Ford version, it has a 7.21" input shaft length. The GM one has a 6.71" input shaft length. this is the only two transmissions they make, no Mopar lengths. 833 trans have a 8.5" input shaft length, with a 7.3 bellhousing depth both...

in your first post you mentioned that you put in a dual diaphragm clutch in the car. Did you mean a dual disk diaphragm clutch? If so check the departure on the second clutch disk(closes to the trans). On sum of these dual disk clutches the disk will hang on the input shaft and keep spinning...

Another wheel tire combo I tried on my Dart were the rear wheels and tires off my 2012 Challenger R/T Classic with the 20x8 inch wide Cragar SS looking wheels with 275/40/20 tires. Those wheels have 5.5 inches of backspacing and the tire are 10.5 inches of section width. Other than I thought the...

Like I said in my other post, a 7 inch wheel with 4.5 inch backspacing(mine were Weld wheels) with a stock A body axle with stock drum brakes. Makes all the difference between a 255/60/15 tire fitting, without rubbing and rubbing on the outside wheel well and lip. I ran those same 255 tires...

My honest opinion is no, I think they will rub on bumps, dips and turns on the outside edge of the wheel opening. I installed the Dr. Diff leaf spring inboard kit (which move the springs in a 1/2 inch and i have Caltrac one inch lowering springs) a few years back and mounted my 9/28/15 M/T...

You need a 7 inch rim with a 4 1/4" (factory bs. on rally and police wheels) or a 4 1/2" backspacing wheel to fit a 255/60/15 tire. The 4 1/2" bs. wheel will give maximum clearance against rubbing with stock to lowered suspension early A bodies with weight in the trunk or 3 to 4 people. I have...

A buddy of mine went through a similar problem with the 11 inch drum brakes on his GTX. What he found was the same as some others have said, new drums out of round but with a twist. He also found that the new shoes were only touching at the very top of the front shoe and very bottom of the back...

Pittsburgh, Didn't we all run that junk back in the 70's when we didn't know any better, and we broke a lot of parts too. Just like torque converters have come a long way since then, so has clutch technology. I haven't broken a part in my 4spd street Dart in at least 10 years and probably longer...

I am guessing it's been a very long time since you have raced a clutch car. The days of flooring it and dropping the clutch with a 3600 lbs pressure plate are long gone unless you really like destroying driveline parts. It's all about clutch management now.

Not with a stick car with 235 drag radials. He is dropping the clutch at 2500, bogging the engine down and driving out to a 2.0 60 foot. He needs to come out higher and manage the clutch slip with a bias ply slick and get it down to at least a 1.70 60 foot and the car should run in the 12's...

First off is you need to be launching the car at a higher rpm, at least 5000 and ride the clutch out far enough so as to not let the rpm's drop more then a 1000 rpm's. If you have the close ratio 4 spd, then you have a 2.47 first gear coupled with a 3.55 rear gear give you a 8.76 starting...

You don't want one of those Ansen bells, a buddy of mine had one on his 66 Hemi Coronet and I swear it out weighed the 18 spline 833 that was behind it.

Oh ya, and I ran those weakened fragile bushed W2 rockers for 8 years, shifting at 7500 with 670 lbs spring pressure over the nose and thousands of street miles with 4.89 gears. Must have been real lucky, because not one of them broke. They held up better then the Comp roller lifters link bar...

It has been quite a few years since I ran W2 heads, so the memory has faded since then. But as far as I can remember from having both a set of bushed and non bushed rockers, there were no differences between them other then the bushing. The part of the rockers the shaft went through were a lot...