1969 Dart Street/Strip (Re)Build

None whatsoever bud. I'm really getting screwed over by Wilwood right now. They've had the brakes plenty long enough to figure out what's going on with them and now they aren't returning phone calls. I can't do anything with the car until I get those brakes back. I'm sorely disappointed with their service right now, both in communication and return time. We're remodeling part of our house and I ended up taking last week off work to get it all done. I needed my table saw from the loft and guess where the loft is? Right above where my car is parked which I cannot move. I had to set my step ladder next to the car just inches away, slide the table saw off the end of the loft, right over the roof of the car one handed while trying not to fall off the ladder and dropping the whole saw on the roof of the car. So damned irritating not being able to even roll the car out of the way for small things like that which is a high risk of damaging the car. Right now the car is sitting there, pan isn't installed, no headers, no carb, no steering, no brakes, etc. Had it not been for the remodel, I'd have at least had time to get the rear disks swapped. Just need to pull the proportioning valve and reconnect or make a couple new brake lines. Should be straight forward.

Almost done with the laundry list of 200-4R parts though. Last things I need are a flexible dipstick, new pan, and slip yoke. I just ordered a JW Performance lightweight flex plate and crank adapter yesterday as well as an FTI single disk billet lockup converter. It's their SRL series (9.5") and I had them stall it around 4500 rpm. He really wanted to put in a 3600 rpm stall and I wasn't too keen on that. I think my 60' would suffer jumping down to 3600 from a 5500 stall, plus I can lock it up whenever I want at 50-60% throttle and keep RPM's down if needed for city cruising. Compared to what I drive now, it will be fine. It's a sort of one-off converter that needs about a 6.5" spacing (stock is 6.00" I think for a normal 200-4R). They're making it 6.25" and sending spacers to get the height correct. I was going to have Dynamic build this converter but Sean said he'd get back to me on a price and never did. I called him several weeks later and he was "busy with another customer" and he said he'd call me back about it. He never called me back so Dynamic has now lost my business. See ya.

I don't see me even being able to make the Power Tour now since the brakes have held me up so long. With just over a month to go, a full trans swap seems glim to pull off.