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Somehow, I'm the guy that has stumbled through this hobby sometimes not doing things the way that I am supposed to be doing. I've never checked or compensated for installed height with valve springs. I've never experienced valve float or kissed a valve with a piston. I've never checked or...

I spent my life as a Carpenter but have been a car guy even longer. Quite awhile ago I learned that you really limit yourself if you have to rely on others for welding things. Old cars with crash damage or rust will need repair. You can get on the list and wait your turn or find a way to do it...

Hello, This car is a 1972 Plymouth Duster: Years ago, I swapped in 1979 360 from a van, later I swapped in a reproduction 340 cam from Mopar Performance. It has a Weiand 4 barrel intake and I had a Holley 600 4 barrel on it for most of the time I've had the car. Today I changed to an...

I'm thinking about replacing the battery in my car with one of these lightweight Lithium batteries. First off, these are SAFER than the lithium batteries of the past! The models that I am looking at are constructed with Lithium titanate, a component far more stable and safe than any other...

I like to do everything that I can here instead of relying on outside vendors or shops. I saw these: https://www.flowmastermufflers.com/products/exhaust/builder_components/direct_fit_pipe_kits/parts/15826 Does anyone here have any experience with these? I'm looking to swap the exhaust in my...

The one that I use is a Hewlett Packard and about 4 years old. Restarts don't seem to help, clearing cookies doesn't either. The wife thinks that laptops wear out and need periodic replacement and since she works for a software corporation, I would tend to believe that. Being a car guy though, I...

I’ve had this issue before with these old cars. From inside the car, I turn the key and the starter spins over slow. When I take a screwdriver to the relay… It cranks over as fast as you’d expect. The battery is fully charged…. The car is a 72 Duster… It isn’t anything wild. It was a...

A month ago, I tore down this engine: This is a 1990 roller cam 360. It was rebuilt about 10-12 years ago with some Hughes parts and some stock parts. 9 of the head bolts on each side were ARP with one stock bolt. All of them had washers on them, even the stock bolt. I should also state that...

I have fuzzy memories about this subject... There have been guys that post about this or speak of it but I don't recall how it is calculated. Lets say that you know a published deck height of an engine, the stroke, the rod length and piston compression height. What is the formula to get an...

Hello, I did do a search on this but saw nothing. As I understand it, the 360s are all externally balanced just like the 5.9 Magnum. I’m having trouble finding the amount of balance that each engine has. I thought that they had a different amount of balance to them. I have a 5.9 Magnum...

I'm helping a friend and while tearing down his MP 360/380, I can't find a casting date anywhere on the block. The B/RB and LA blocks had it on the RH/Passenger side but this one does not have anything resembling a date on it.

Lets say you have two camshafts with identical specs except the lift. Same duration, same intake centerline, same lobe separation but one has say .480 lift and the other has .520. What does the additional lift do for performance? A quickie Google search has evolved (or DEvolved) into...

Many of you have dealt with this sort of thing.... You have a car that needs an engine rebuild or swap so you start thinking of what to do. The options may be all over the place and hard to choose. For me, I have these two cars to work with: The black car looks terrible but is as fun as you...

Forgive me, I actually did do a search on this but found nothing....which surprised be a bit. Regardless, I'm curious about what intake manifolds are available that fit a Dodge 5.9 Magnum engine. I'm looking for a basic dual plane mid rise single 4 barrel design. I remember this one...

These cars don't show up in junkyards that often..... It clearly isn't my car. I will NOT pull any parts from this car. I am only posting it to alert other members that it is in the Fresno CALIFORNIA Pick-N-Pull yard NOW and ready for you!

Here we go.... This is not purely hypothetical. Years ago I had a 318 in a Duster that was a S-L-U-G ! I tried all sorts of things to improve it but it was still slow. I pulled the timing cover to find that the cam sprocket and crank sprocket did not line up at the 6:00 firing position. With the...

I'm in need of a couple of wiper motors, the two speed type. Who makes a decent reproduction?

I know that reproductions are available for spool mount V8 motor mounts but I'm having trouble finding them with urethane instead of rubber. I know that you can squirt windshield sealant in the voids of the rubber insulators to reduce the risk of a blowout. I also know that urethane inserts are...

I am fixing up this car.... I'd like to keep the outside looking as close to stock as possible. That means a steel wheel with a hubcap, full wheel cover or a styled steel wheel. I'd like to use the Road wheel that some people call the Magnum 500 if I can find a set in decent shape. I don't...

I have a few cars here that need door locks. A couple have ignition keys but no door locks. I know that I can buy lock sets but I am wondering if there is another way. With the variable quality of aftermarket reproduction stuff, I wonder what can be done to "re-key" a lock cylinder. Can a...

Isn't it great when you get a new/old car for a project and it turns out better than you expected? About 12-18 months ago, I started thinking that it might be nice to look into buying a 4 door classic to play around with. I thought about a Fifth Avenue or some other Mopar from the 70s. I...

Hello. Forgive the simple questions that follow. I only ask because I am just not familiar with what interchanges between these two engine series. A friend has a Mopar Performance crate 360 in a Dart and is looking to build a long stroke 408. He may even change the heads to the Trick Flow Magnum...

A month ago my 13 year old nephew said he wants a classic car and wants my help to build it. I have a 71 Duster up the hill that I had planned on fixing up but this thing with the kid is something more important. I’ve always wanted to have a kid to guide, to mentor. He was all excited about the...

Hello, I’m going through some stuff I have here and some of the stuff was given to me awhile ago. I don’t remember the exact application for a few things and was hoping you’d help clear it up. First are these pushrods. I have several used LA hydraulic flat tappet pushrods picked from different...

Hey there. A couple months back, I bought this: It is a 1990 360 from a van. It has a car oil pan and a few goodies already in place including the valve covers, Air Gap intake and this: As you can see, water went through it, maybe due to a bad head gasket or cracked heads. My question here...

This design with the power input and output mounted to a more positive terminal…. It sure seemed like a better design than the one that followed.

I have been asked to build a car for my nephew. We are using a Duster, either a 71 or a 74, it has yet to be determined. I have one of each and both will require about the same amount of work to the body. Normally, I default to a 360 for the A bodies that I have built to sell because in stock...

Hello again. I have two of these simple brackets. They are from a parts stash and I have no use for them. I just don’t want to throw them out. $5 each plus shipping which in itself would probably cost another $5.00 for a padded envelope from the USPS. PayPal is preferred. I usually ship the...

I have a pair of the original 273 V8 alternator brackets pulled from a junkyard years ago. They are basic painted steel and in restorable condition. These fit the engines with the cast iron water pump. $10 each set plus shipping from Northern California. PayPal Accepted. Thank you.

WE all know CHEAP people. Some of us are those people. Sometimes they are really smart and just not being wasteful but sometimes their penny pinching ways are annoying. Me? I can be cheap sometimes. It sometimes is motivated by money but other times I like a challenge to do more with less. This...