318/8 Speed Swap

Hopefully he adds a follow up, but here a drive report at one point.

74 Dart 360 Sport
A follow up alright. She ran an 11.25 ET first time at strip smoking tires run lol. What else it's a noisy transmission a little bit. Shifts great and I abuse my Dart Sport every chance I can. I love the Challenger console and Charger seats with the 8 HP shifter. I mostly only use track mode, I can have Russel Drake at Sound German Automotive program the transmission as well custom tune. I plan to go that route but track mode is fine for now. I am not going to change out the 2.94 but a 3.27 rear gear might be ok but no need lol you got eight gears. Program the transmission. Don't start goofing with gears you will jack things all up this is not a 727 or 3 speed 904. Challenger runs a 3.07 if that tells you anything. I have not found a rear end yet near me in NE Oklahoma for a fair price.

I do need an Eaton True track I can smoke off my tires easily from a 40 mph rolling start. I do not have ECU torque management with my setup my understanding from Russell is he can manage how it shifts and it's all in the install. You can log the torque mapping while driving and then adjust your torque maps for gears which I probably am over due for some logging and changes. I would never ever go back to a 904/727 or a four speed. My big mutha thumper cam loves the stock 6.4 torque converter and the shift points for scat pack fit my build to a T. I set my rev limiter at 6400 RPM with Pertronix Ignitor 3 and the ZF by default shifts at 6300 so it perfect I have hit it a few times you can hear it.

Buddy has a stroked 351 Cleveland 70 Mustang punched out and stroked 393 with a 4 speed overdrive. Thunder down under heads and 550HP when ran on dino. I beat his car up everytime we launch I get him all the way down road and can pull him as well. Ran him down last time. I need brakes and other stuff car is way to fast I didn't think it would run like it does now. It's a game changer and I drive it all the time. Grocery store for wife to work often and a few all day trips for about 200 miles each and it's amazing. Try 81 mph on the highway at 2100 rpm listening to radio.

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