How many CURRENT owners of real '74 360 Duster 4 speed cars on here?
Not sure I could get enough out of my car to make the down payment. O:)
It pretty rough, in primer on most of the car and bare metal on the hood and decklid where it has worn off. This picture is from a couple of weeks ago at the local Mopar show. First time on the road in a couple of years.
But buying a Scat Pack means I can drive it as soon as it shows up (pretty sure I'd have to order one), rather than after years of building something. Sure I can drive the Duster while I work on it, but a Challenger would mean I am instantly at the performance I desire. But if it ends up costing the same to get a similar performance in the Duster, then the tagline will read "If you can't beat 'em, too bad". :banghead:
I don't for a second dream I will ever get my Duster up to the same level of luxury, but if I can reasonably close the gap in performance for a price I can afford, then I will try.
The A855 is definitely the hot ticket, just not sure I will ever have the cash to buy one outright. But it solves the huge issue I have with cutting the floor out of this car. Right now I could almost put the R154 I already own in the car for very little cash, if I could stomach hacking the car up some.
I still have the numbers matching motor in my car, but I upgraded to Hughes roller lifters and a 2000 5.9 roller cam along with some MP R/T heads, so I am really only a few steps from being able to run the OEM Magnum SMPI on the car. Kind of planning to get the EFI on it, then swap to MegaSquirt and DIS, followed by a bigger cam and a modified Beer Barrel intake. But not the traditional "shorten the runner's an inch" modified intake. I am thinking I will cut the center of the runners out (at the top of the intake, where the runners turn to go back down towards the heads), remove the unused runners length, welding a new floor below the runners and build a front mount TB inlet. If that doesn't work, I will look for the 4BBL TB intake Mopar used to sell or maybe mount a screw type blower on an Indy Mod-Man intake (there is a guy marketing a kit for this). But a modified BB intake is (should be??) cheap, and if it doesn't work I shouldn't be out much. I suspect that in the end, my underdefined goals will require me to pull the motor for a freshening and better pistons with more compression, and maybe another cylinder head upgrade. But I have no intention of building an R block race motor to compete, only to "evolve" what I have in the hopes I can catch up a little.
Not sure I could get enough out of my car to make the down payment. O:)
It pretty rough, in primer on most of the car and bare metal on the hood and decklid where it has worn off. This picture is from a couple of weeks ago at the local Mopar show. First time on the road in a couple of years.
But buying a Scat Pack means I can drive it as soon as it shows up (pretty sure I'd have to order one), rather than after years of building something. Sure I can drive the Duster while I work on it, but a Challenger would mean I am instantly at the performance I desire. But if it ends up costing the same to get a similar performance in the Duster, then the tagline will read "If you can't beat 'em, too bad". :banghead:
I don't for a second dream I will ever get my Duster up to the same level of luxury, but if I can reasonably close the gap in performance for a price I can afford, then I will try.
The A855 is definitely the hot ticket, just not sure I will ever have the cash to buy one outright. But it solves the huge issue I have with cutting the floor out of this car. Right now I could almost put the R154 I already own in the car for very little cash, if I could stomach hacking the car up some.
I still have the numbers matching motor in my car, but I upgraded to Hughes roller lifters and a 2000 5.9 roller cam along with some MP R/T heads, so I am really only a few steps from being able to run the OEM Magnum SMPI on the car. Kind of planning to get the EFI on it, then swap to MegaSquirt and DIS, followed by a bigger cam and a modified Beer Barrel intake. But not the traditional "shorten the runner's an inch" modified intake. I am thinking I will cut the center of the runners out (at the top of the intake, where the runners turn to go back down towards the heads), remove the unused runners length, welding a new floor below the runners and build a front mount TB inlet. If that doesn't work, I will look for the 4BBL TB intake Mopar used to sell or maybe mount a screw type blower on an Indy Mod-Man intake (there is a guy marketing a kit for this). But a modified BB intake is (should be??) cheap, and if it doesn't work I shouldn't be out much. I suspect that in the end, my underdefined goals will require me to pull the motor for a freshening and better pistons with more compression, and maybe another cylinder head upgrade. But I have no intention of building an R block race motor to compete, only to "evolve" what I have in the hopes I can catch up a little.
