1974 Dart Swinger
Yesterday when I went to the salvage yard, I found a 1978 Dodge 4X4 (Swamp Stomper) that had been pretty well gutted but I saw an Accel Super Stock coil on top of the motor and went and got my tools and pulled it off and brought it home to put on Jeffrey's car. We wanted to buy one anyways so instead of paying $35 for a new one, I paid $7.50 from the yard. I waxed it up and repainted the old bracket before re-installing it on Jeffreys motor.
We also replaced every vacuum hose on the motor, which equalled about 12 feet total of varied hose sizes. We also picked up a new distributor cap and rotor. The Accel wires we picked up today and installed. We crossed our fingers and Jeffrey fired up the car. Talk about a huge difference! The car runs much smoother at idle and sounds better as well. The side benefit being it looks much better as well.
Amazing what some elbow grease, paint, all new hoses and a little dress up does for the engine bay! . We're on the look out for some chrome valve covers which should be the final goodies for the engine. Next weekend we will replace the fuel line hose and the fuel filter will be replaced with a chrome filter and the battery ground cable will be replaced as well. Eventually a chrome master brake cover will be added but that will be once we tackle all the brake system stuff.
Yesterday when I went to the salvage yard, I found a 1978 Dodge 4X4 (Swamp Stomper) that had been pretty well gutted but I saw an Accel Super Stock coil on top of the motor and went and got my tools and pulled it off and brought it home to put on Jeffrey's car. We wanted to buy one anyways so instead of paying $35 for a new one, I paid $7.50 from the yard. I waxed it up and repainted the old bracket before re-installing it on Jeffreys motor.
We also replaced every vacuum hose on the motor, which equalled about 12 feet total of varied hose sizes. We also picked up a new distributor cap and rotor. The Accel wires we picked up today and installed. We crossed our fingers and Jeffrey fired up the car. Talk about a huge difference! The car runs much smoother at idle and sounds better as well. The side benefit being it looks much better as well.
Amazing what some elbow grease, paint, all new hoses and a little dress up does for the engine bay! . We're on the look out for some chrome valve covers which should be the final goodies for the engine. Next weekend we will replace the fuel line hose and the fuel filter will be replaced with a chrome filter and the battery ground cable will be replaced as well. Eventually a chrome master brake cover will be added but that will be once we tackle all the brake system stuff.