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Does anyone offer a vinyl or rubber mat for a 70 two door dart? I dont really want carpet as this is a beater/driver. I parted a wrecked 4dr valiant once that had a rubber mat and I've had multiple d trucks with a mat.

My kid wanted me to take him the the Avenged Sevenfold show for his 18th birthday. So here we are. I love A7X but we just sat through the opener Sullivan King. Well,he was loud. Really went to eleven. He reminds me of what my friends and I used to say about some guys trying to fit in with...

I love plumbers. I really do. I firmly believe their profession has saved more death and suffering than antibiotics. You guys and your hot showers make life worth living. But do you have to destroy floor joists on every installation. I mean this one is spanning 22 feet with rough cut 2x8's...

Here is how I started my day. Luckily I had fire extinguishers in about 5-10 minutes. The little ones they sell at Walmart or the parts store were woefully insufficient though. It took three and a few random bottles of water that were laying in the truck to get it out. This is the only...

It took a while but I put together a stock bottom end magnum 5.9 with some Chinese eq heads and a reground cam for my 79 d200. I need torque for pulling my boat. I'm not drag racing. Oregon cam recommended #1429 210/214 @ .050”, 260/264 adv, .506”/.506” lift, 111 sep., 900/5200 This thing is...

I remember when I was in tech school in the early 90's this was considered kind of the hot ticket for the dirt track stuff I was working on as they were limited to factory cylinder heads. I'm guessing it isn't cost effective when aftermarket cylinder heads are available. Is this just another...

Has anyone else been struggling with fuel pump pushrod wearing out? My dad has had three fail in two years on two different big blocks. The car only gets puttered to shows on weekends. Super low miles. Two of them were from comp he can't remember the third but it was from the parts store. Do...

I'm trying to help an old hot rodder that lives close to me. He pulled the 225 from a d150 that has an overdrive a833 and swap in a 360. He sourced an aluminum bell for the la bolt pattern but it won't accept the 11 inch flywheels he is finding for the 360. He also has a 318 flywheel that...

I have a 79 arrow pickup 2wd. Rotors are a tiny solid brake rotor. calipers and pads are tiny. The truck currently has a gm 4.3 in it but I intend to magnum v8 swap it. I really would like to find a bigger front brake set up with a ventilated rotor. I want regular off the shelf parts not...

Im putting together a magnum 5.9 with a reground cam and china EQ heads. Just a daily driver. I'm ready for push rods. 6.95 length will work. Will these be ok? Trick Flow Specialties TFS-21406950 Trick Flow® Chromoly Pushrods | Summit Racing

I've gotten back into going to car cruises/shows the last few years because my kid was getting old enough to drive and I figured if I could get him interested in cars instead of video games it would be a positive. But damn these are miserable experiences(at least in my area). It is always the...

I think I've been watching too much Bar Rescue. I went into the kitchen and started yelling at my wife about how messy it was. When I woke up I had a concussion and a cast iron skillet was cracked.

Im putting a magnum 5.9 back together and ijust realized the links for the roller lifters are numbered. But the numbers don't make any sense. Does it matter where these go?

Finally getting around to working on the 5.9 magnum for my 79 pickup. Engine had high mileage but ran great before I pulled it. I was surprised to find a thing orange slime in a cylinder and find the cylinder head pitted in that cylinder. im kind of guessing it was coolant in the cylinder and...

I like to think I'm pretty familiar with LA 360's and magnum 5.9 performance having put hundreds of thousands of miles on both and daily driving a 5.9 pickup. But as my dart gets closer to driveable I've taken a few rips with it in front of the garage for fun. I noticed that this junkyard 5.9...

Full disclosure. I grew up in a family shop that had been building race cars and hot rods since the model A up hrough racing on the beach at daytona and drag cars in the 70's and hot tords in the 80's. It was old school (outdated) by the time I came along I was exposed to a lot of things people...

I need some tail light lenses for a 70 dart. Would like unbroken but don't need to be perfect.

Had a little fun on Thanksgiving.

It is my favorite channel. I watch it religiously. The truck he is building from a sedan now is awesome.

Many times I have seen people make derogatory comments about people,some members here,who do youtube. I dont get it. Why all the hate? I figure most of you grew up running to the mailbox to get the latest issue of your favorite car magazines. As a guy who failed at trying to get into...

I'm only trying to make a fifty footer but I couldn't handle all the bug spots clear to the primer in my rustoleum paint job. I wasn't very happy with the golf ball texture either. So I sanded the big spots woth 400 then 600 and the entire side with 600. I sprayed a few thin coats on the bug...

Im working on setting up a low buck hobby shop. Im interested in what I can use for resurfacing cylinder heads. I think I recall a blanchard grinder was sort fo standard when I was a kid. I've never used one and don't remember seeing one. Could a surface grinder do the job? Something like...

I seem to recall when I was a kid the NAPA store in town resurfaced cylinder heads by setting them on a black and decker belt sander with some sort of jig. Or am I losing my mind?

Long story short I have to get a 5.9 together in a hurry. I have the hughes drop in valve spring kit and a reground cam. I kind of figure I will need pushrods. Will I need to cut down the tops of the valve guides? Am I forgetting something. This will be a weekend refresh,bearings,timing...

Tonight I thinned some rustoleum semi gloss black and tried spraying from a couple different guns. The 2.0 top suction feed gun left a crappy ,heavy finish with my minimal skill. Then I tried an old ampro hvlp. It was much nicer but still not quite there. I'm hesitant to run rustoleum through...

Long story short my old man bought a bunch of junk b an rb engines. One of them had an aluminum bell on it. When he pulled it off he realized it didnt have a spot for a clutch fork and there was a torque converter inside of it. I know there were a handful of autos before the torqueflite but...

I built the lower rear quarter sections for my 70 and I installed them by flangeing the quarter and gluing with panel bond. I held the patch tight white a bunch of sheet metal screws. Now how do i fill the holes? Can I mig weld them shut ? DO I need to use more panel bond,maybe using a piece...

So since I ruined the pistons in my 5.9 build I thought maybe I could get s small compression bump without spending much money. I stumbled onto the h405 cp. It lists a compression height of 1.637 in. Everything I found on the dished magnum piston shows 1.612. The magnum pistons were .045 down...

I filled an old chest freezer with 200 bucks worth of purple power and stuck a 1500 watt water heater element in it. Now this is out in the outdoors so I figured no way this will even get hot. I threw in my rods and pistons and figured I would put the block and cylinder heads in today or...