Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project

Bill, I know what you mean. I moved to Washington state a few years ago to live in Bremerton because I thought it would be cheaper and I had friends in the Navy there who would be able to help me relocate and such.

It lasted of all of a year and a half. I was making good money for that area (like $18/hr) and was able to rent out a 5 bedroom house with a backyard that touched the water, a 2 car garage, and a private driveway with a wrap-around near the garage. I could fit about 30 cars in the wrap-around and it was in a wooded area with the nearest neighbors about 1,000 feet away. It was a great "party house." As such there were lots of parties there. Eventually my friends moved in to the extra rooms and alleviated me of a lot of the rent, and they were gone for 4 months at a time, so they really just needed a place to put stuff. Then I realized that in Washington, in winter, at this place, you paid an oil guy about $500 to fill the oil heater downstairs. If you did not have a functioning heater, then you were out of luck. $500 of oil lasted about 3 months, and if there was none - it was cold... so cold. Then it rained - every day. You'd get used to the rain. That was not a big deal, you just never washed your car because it was a waste of time. The issue was that water would get inside no matter what. Mold would grow everywhere no matter how hard you tried.

Then after a while my job did this thing where I was working for 2 months, and not getting paid the entire time. I kept writing letters to the CEO and asking for my money and never got it. I hadn't paid rent in 2 months and called the landlord, who was completely understanding. He said - don't worry about it. Give yourself 2 months to hopefully find another job, and if you can't pay me in 2 months, then just use that time to move in with family or something and don't worry about the money - we're square.

So I made a fire sale of all my stuff, called my brother and he came and got me and my girlfriend at the time, and drove whatever stuff I could fit in a pickup back to California.



But back to the car- I decided I'm going to take the new dizzy out, since it is introducing a new system that I am not familliar with, and take the advance/ retard pod off of it, then open up my magnetic conversion dizzy with the control unit already built in, and add the pod to that, and wrap something around the governor throws to close them up a bit. I know someone measured their throw opening with a caliper somewhere so I'm trying to find that to get an idea of what it is. I could also weld it I guess. That way I just plug that distributor back in, use the stock ignition, and we can see if this fires with minimal headache. In theory if the motor ran before, and it is getting fuel, air, and spark, it should run again. I just can't verify the spark till I do this.