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I replaced the water pump on the 318 in a 78 Dodge van I got cheap and I know some of the bolts need to be sealed but I don't remember sealing any of them. I don't drive it, I use it mainly for water tight rolling storage but I might need to move it around or actually haul something with it. I...

Well seeing how this thread is alive again after all these years I retired the Dart about 06 and bought my lil sisters old 95 Neon highline coupe she bought new. Has power everything but also has great feedback and isn't over assisted. We also had a slant 6 69 Dart for a while that had the...

I think I went 31/4 but it's been many years and you have to measure and all that because you can go two deep or too shallow and have issues bottoming in the trans or the shaft falling out. It was supposed to be for a 727/ 7 1/4 combo though just like yours I think and why not use used shock...

Did it 20 or more years ago to my Dart, now everything is up to 340 specs except the original 318. Yep, shock plates and the correct sized U bolts and shorten or replace the drive shaft and you should be home free. Then you can start playing with easy to swap gears and things. I started out with...

Well back in the day they were about all there was as far as good aftermarket headlights and they still work pretty well and you might be able to find a used set cheap. I'm sure there are way better setups if you want to spend the money but who still does anything for round headlights these...

If you want really nice 7" round headlights find a set of Hella euro spec ones. They used to put them in Toyota's around here in the late 70's as a option and I found a set at a garage sale years ago. they use H4 bulbs that are readily available and put out a nice pattern that has a kickup at...

My Dart has the original 318 in it and when I was running the stock BBD 2 bbl it got 12.7 in town with a 904, duals, and 2.76 gears. Now it has a performer intake, Thermoquad, 340 exhaust, 727, 8 3/4 with powerlock 3.23 gears. It gets around 11 or slightly better or worse now in town. I got 15.5...

I retired my Dart and drive a 95 Neon highline coupe my lil sister bought new. It now has 164k on it with the original engine that doesn't smoke or use a ton of oil. It gets 19 in town, 28 on the highway. It handles and stops well, is pretty zippy for a automatic and has cloth on the seats and...

I don't know how popular doing a American 69 Dart front end would be but it sure would make that thing unique over there I'd bet, or at least one of a few. Of course I'm a bit biased as I have a 69 Dart still that I got my license in and daily drove till 2006 when gas here got stupid priced and...

I ran 3 different boxes on my Dart, all of them failed by just shutting off eventually so I always left my stock box in place and have quick connects on the coil wires and things in case I have to change it out. Died on me at a light one time and I swapped the wires over and had it running...

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Sounds like the perfect plan and if you decide to run the 100 it should be all safetied up with all the mods done. There are guides online to build your own dash voltage regulators, I built a few but they were very slow to get the gauges up to proper readings and ran hot. Pretty sure we were...

I had a large stereo installed in my Dart so a big alt was nice as it kept up with the amps very well when really cranking the tunes while driving. The charging system in a Mopar is fast enough to pump out more current whenever a big bass note would hit, I could see it on my amp meter. I also...

The amp meters on the early cars are a direct feed from the charging system so everything your car is getting has to run through the amp gauge first. It can either melt down or get carboned up and not pass enough voltage to run everything. If it melts down you in the least fry the wires and...

I forgot about those, I had to run one when I had a AVS on here and the 2bbl throttle cable as they were a bit shorter I think and I couldn't get WOT either. Man, there was so much stuff that really needed to be changed just to do a simple carb swap now that I think about it. having the proper...

Cool, you'll be putting along with something like I did with my 2bbl linkage, fool it into working OK till I could find what I needed. I think the setup is still out in the garage somewhere and I always get a smile when I run across it. Hit some yards and maybe you can Frankenstein some rods or...

Yep, as long as it works right and doesn't bind up the tranny wont care what the rods look like. When I first converted my Dart to 4bbl the 2 BBL parts I had were too long and I needed a shorter rod by about a inch that I couldn't get outa the adjustment. I ended up putting a small bolt that in...

The first 727 I put in my Dart was like that, it shifted so hard it finally ate itself one day when the wave ring thing that holds one of the clutch packs cracked from me abusing it too much. I had drive in drive, drive in park, and reverse for just enough time to make it home before it spun...

here's the pics. The air cleaner you barely see came with that 350 dollar Sport Fury I bought many years ago and drove home too.

Well that makes a lot more sense then, I was thinking normal a body with a small block. I can still post the pics though as mine has a threaded rod down to the tranny hookup to give it even more adjustment that they didn't include in later cars, maybe it will give you some ideas on how to make...

That looks like a late model throttle rod setup, not the one a earlier A body should have. I have the setup out of a 340 car and I'm pretty sure it's way different with a threaded rod on both ends so you have a LOT of adjustment. Maybe you'll have to adjust it down on the tranny end to get what...

You may have gone too far the wrong way. As far as I can remember the longer the rod the higher it shifts, the shorter you go the lower in RPM and speed it shifts. There is a throttle speed rod or whatever it's called that the the carb/tranny linkage hooks to down below and that is what tell it...

The front end rubber bushings are probably dried up and shot so they need to be replaced and possibly the balljoints and the other front end wear parts. IF you have poly bushings installed they also will tend to squeak and you might need to lube them with something, or some folks will add a...

Well I think the mounting system the cop package uses is just a better way of doing it then some of the after market ones use myself anyways so the hard part was figuring out the missing frame mount and making it work on mine. The shock plates we had and installed them a few weeks before we...

I don't know if this helps but I have the factory front and rear setups in my 69. The front I scavenged out of a 4 door at the yard many years ago and the rear was out of a 75/76 Valiant police package car that a friend had found back when these were around and used on a few of his cars. He...

I used the tiny trim nails/brads and backed up all the pins into both of the circuit boards on my Dart. most of the pins were loose and the solder cracked away so unless you tweaked the connectors just right the gages on that side and lights would come and go. Since I redid all the pins almost...

My Dart had the 16 to 1 manual from the factory and I never even knew it for quite a few years. I just thought it was a bear to turn and even my 4:11 mom used to drive it back in the day. Later I met some mopar friends and somebody finally clued me in to what it was and how rare a option it is...

That exactly how I got that valiant, nobody would touch it because it was ugly and dirty and beat inside. I just asked him if it had disk brakes, then did he think it would make a trip to my house and did the brakes and important stuff work... He said it did, it started right up, the peddle was...

I bought a whole 74 valiant 4 door and drove it home for 150. Had the BB disks and drums and everything and it all worked fine. I later drove it out to friends wrecking yard and we put it up on the forklift and stripped everything we wanted and left em the title. They later sold the engine for...

I've run the Hella lamps on my 69 for years, never have done the relay conversion but it is a great idea, as is running a big bypass wire from the alt hot lead to the battery positive to take most of the load off the amp gauge and wiring without completely disabling it. I also put in the old...