Slim's 73 440 Duster
A couple of people have told me that I should start a restoration thread for my car. Im not very good at remembering to document stuff, or taking pictures but I will include what I have. Even though this is not really a full restoration by me, I have changed [FONT="](and continue to change) [/FONT] a lot of stuff on the car since I bought it. I hope you find this mildly interesting.
Here is a picture of my car before the restoration began. It was just your basic 73 /6 Duster. Now it has a low compression 76 440, 727 with a 3000 stall and manual valve body, and an 8 ¾ with a 3.91 sure grip.
When I bought the car the suspension under it was fabricated to make it sit as low as they could get it. It looked very cool sitting still, but the car was undriveable at almost any speed. The front torsion bars were lowered as much as they could get away with, and the rear had a homemade ladder bar setup with coilovers mounted in the factory shock locations.
Here is what it looked like sitting on my trailer the day I brought it home.
The day after I brought it home I washed it, and raised up the front and rear as much as the rear coilovers would allow, which wasnt much. Even though the car was not dragging on the smallest little bump anymore, it still was not driveable. The rear suspension had no travel in it what so ever and it clunked badly while driving. Here it is after I raised it up some.
Here is a picture of the engine and compartment the way it was when I bought it. It is going through major changes as I type this, but more on that later.
More to come soon.
Slim.
Just as I was getting ready to hit the SUBMIT button, I realized that today is exaclty one year from when I brought the car home. Time fly's.
A couple of people have told me that I should start a restoration thread for my car. Im not very good at remembering to document stuff, or taking pictures but I will include what I have. Even though this is not really a full restoration by me, I have changed [FONT="](and continue to change) [/FONT] a lot of stuff on the car since I bought it. I hope you find this mildly interesting.
Here is a picture of my car before the restoration began. It was just your basic 73 /6 Duster. Now it has a low compression 76 440, 727 with a 3000 stall and manual valve body, and an 8 ¾ with a 3.91 sure grip.
When I bought the car the suspension under it was fabricated to make it sit as low as they could get it. It looked very cool sitting still, but the car was undriveable at almost any speed. The front torsion bars were lowered as much as they could get away with, and the rear had a homemade ladder bar setup with coilovers mounted in the factory shock locations.
Here is what it looked like sitting on my trailer the day I brought it home.
The day after I brought it home I washed it, and raised up the front and rear as much as the rear coilovers would allow, which wasnt much. Even though the car was not dragging on the smallest little bump anymore, it still was not driveable. The rear suspension had no travel in it what so ever and it clunked badly while driving. Here it is after I raised it up some.
Here is a picture of the engine and compartment the way it was when I bought it. It is going through major changes as I type this, but more on that later.
More to come soon.
Slim.
Just as I was getting ready to hit the SUBMIT button, I realized that today is exaclty one year from when I brought the car home. Time fly's.