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My fugly as sin Dodge Dakota nets an average of 33mpg on the highways, 31 (mixed/town), 27 if I’m towing and have the fuel maxed out. Which isn’t bad for a heavy truck with a Fulltime AWD Conversion. Problem is, the Turbo Diesel likes to eat parts. Her latest snack, a Spool motor mount and...

One of my friends got me a Vertigate for my Blown 426 Duster-Twister project! This thing is going to look beautiful sticking up through the center of a ‘68 Barracuda Center Console (with matching ‘68 Barracuda Rallye Cluster), that are currently in the Twister. One of my coworkers picked up...

Can you guys figure out what's going on with my Dakota? I got some video of the strange noise.... For a 5.2L Magnum truck, something doesn't seem quite right...

About 4 years ago, I sold my '74 Scamp to one of my younger cousins for $200. He wanted a Mopar to fix up for his first car and I had the Scamp sitting around, at the time I thought "Eh, I can live without it, it's not as cool as a Duster or Fastback Cuda." When I sold it to him, it was missing...

After I finish the Bronco that I'm restoring for a friend (should be out of here next week, just have some assembly to finish up with the trim and interior), I'm going to be restarting my '74 Twister project. She's a "Street" car, with a Blown R3 426 Stroker and an A833 18 Spline and a Spooled...

I know most like to skip right past the 273 and 318 and move straight to 360's, 408's, etc. Here's something to show that the little ones are capable too. Here's a little 273, with a whole lot of vehicle around it. She sits in a highly modified '84 Dodge D50 4x4. The truck in...

Got a little video of the nasty little thing out for a leisurely cruise. https://youtu.be/nW_Y9BylydA About halfway through the video she started running a little rough (hard to tell in the video, but I noticed it immediately). When I parked the car, I discovered that one of the Wire...

..... Put my blower and related goodies on the '73 340 Duster. Holy mother of god, it's an absolute blast to drive. People must not see a Blown 340 Duster very often, because every single person I passed on my way to my dad's house stared, pointed, waved or gave a thumbs up.

Well after digging for quite a while and moving a truck load of crap, I found my '83 Scamp GT. Right where I left it.....8 years ago. The little 2.2L Turbo II AWD project cruck. Still runs, which was impressive considering how long it sat. Slapped a battery in it, poured some...

Have any of you built a dolley to move a car around the shop? Looking for some suggestions. My 74 needs to be mobile for the various stages of the resto-mod (and for when I roll it into the paint booth) I figured I could install a trailer hitch onto the back of my Suzuki Quadzilla and use...

Yeah, I just had a brainfart on the way home in my D50. It wouldn't shift out of 2nd Gear and the lil 273 was screaming along at 5000 - 5500rpm (which, with glasspacks and 2.25" Duals, sounds pretty wicked). The entire trip home, I kept thinking "Damn it! This transmission is still pretty...

16' 4", does that sound correct? I tried measuring my '73 (solo) and that's the rough measurement I got. Anybody have an exact/precise length of a '73 Duster from bumper to bumper? My attached garage (was downsized/divided into 2 sections a few years ago and then filled with junk) measures...

Yep, didn't want my Jeep anymore, a 1990 Grand Wagoneer. So a friend of mine offered me a trade. $650 worth of 340 & A-Body Parts and a freshly hot tanked (With new forged pistons) 1969 340 Short Block, disassembled/hasn't been put together yet. All in all I got the following for my Heep that...

This 1984 Dodge Power-Ram 50 was my first truck (before that it was my dad's first brand new truck) and I ran that truck for years. No matter what I did to it, I couldn't kill it. I swapped a 5-Speed in shortly after I got it, and constantly side-stepped the clutch at WOT through all the gears...

My current Daily Driver (pictures and video are a couple weeks old, taken when I was working on the car) Since my '74 Duster won't be finished this year, I figured I'd drive a '73 340 Duster instead. It's my dad's car, but he gave me the keys to it in 2008. Only took me 4 years to get around...

:D My new hood scoop arrived today, so I just had to set it on to make sure the hood fit properly :cheers:

Didn't have a spare '71 Duster Front Bumper laying around to convert the front end of my '74 to a '71. However, I did have a spare '71 Demon bumper laying in the trunk of my '71 Demon :D It'll probably knock a good 40 pounds or better off the front of my car, and it matches the Duster...

I was bored last night, so I decided to convert the front end of my '74 over to a '71 :cheers: unfortunately, the Hood & Passenger Fender were in less than spectacular condition. Both had 10 different layers of paint on them :wack: Yeaaah, even a 40 Grit Disc fought hard to remove it. And...

My '74 Scamp might be up for sale, could use the cash to fund parts for my other projects... or maybe buy another A-body, who knows. I was never really particularly fond of the Swinger/Scamp body style, but I bought it anyway. Needs some work on the interior (field mice...

Yep, Got really bored and wanted something to do, So what did I do? Pulled my truck (1984 Dodge D50) in the garage, yanked out the 2.6L 4 cylinder & 5-Speed. Originally a Mitsubishi 2.6L Gas engine, that had been swapped to a 2.5L Intercooled Turbo Diesel, and then another 2.6L took...