New MOPAR fan with a '74 Duster

tqfastfish said
welcome! very cool duster-I agree I would ditch the seats

Totally! They have to go, but I'm having a bit of a hard time locating proper seats and I think I need rails too. Looks like the rails were hacked up and bits welded together.

rumblefish360 said
Joe, welcome aboard. Is that a MoPar create motor?
Do you know much about carbs? It probably needs a tuning. Also find out about the distributors timing. These two items are a lot in perfoance and how well it runs at idle. Correct me if I'm wrong but that is a Carter/Edelbrock carb you have there?
What size is it. If you don't know, read the numbers stamped on the carbs base up front near the attaching studs and nut.

I haven't messed with a carb since I had a '65 Mustang which was like 20 years ago. That had a Carter 4 bbl that I had tuned pretty nicely.

I don't know too much about the engine. The previous owner bought it 8 years ago as-is as a project that he never found time for. Now it's MY project. He did say that he thinks it's a 360 with an overbore to a 366? Is that possible? He also said the the owners before him had the car setup for drag racing, and that's still pretty apparent with the skinnies up front and the slicks in the back. As far as the carb goes, I think this is a Holley. I haven't even had time to pull the air cleaner off of it. I'm hoping to do more work on it tomorrow.

As far as the fuel goes, the car has an electric Holley (I believe) fuel pump which is loud as hell. Then there's radiator hose being used as fuel line. That doesn't look good. That hose runs to what looks like a pressure regulator and tee's off into each of the carb bowls.

I'll take more pictures tomorrow. I also need help identifying if it's manual or power steering. It's nearly impossible to turn the wheel at a dead stop and there's no power steering pump.

My goals is to take it back to near stock with a more pro-touring touch.