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Little more disassembly done tonight after work, this car is actually coming apart pretty drama free compared to most of the junk I've had before! Just need to get the dash stripped or just take it out whole and go from there and get around to pulling the top parts, decklid, and what remains of...

Car keeps losing parts! Trying to tear it down and send it to Redi-Strip here in indy to see if there's anything left after we remove the rust, filler, paint, and other nonsense that's wound up in this car over the years. Noticed that the lower core support is pulled out and in...

Bought it from a local racer/friend at the Indy show, there were several housings there but the one I picked up was one of the better deals, it's had the perches inboarded for a spring relocation which I was going to attempt anyways to get some more rubber under the 'vert.

Thanks guys! Car got off of the trailer Sunday after the Indy show (I live about 6 miles from the fairgrounds, 2.5 miles from Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and maybe 1.75 miles from IRP.... er... Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis now) Once my uncle got his 67 GTX and 87 Ram out of the garage it...

Just picked this up weekend before the Indy Heads swap meet, 1967 Dart 'vert, factory 273 2bbl car column auto, copper on white car, overall it's fairly solid for being in the midwest it's whole life but it's still due for some panel replacement. Pictures are from the previous owner...

Here's some progress for those following my build! A few weeks ago my boss was kind enough to give me a carb rebuild kit (somebody ordered it and then ended up getting rid of the vehicle) which got me motivated enough to pick up a reman master cylinder to get my brakes working again! So after...

Well guys, I've done a little work here and there on the Dart Sport, which I've nicknamed "Fireball" though I have yet to come up with a female name for it like I want :tongue1:. After putting my intake and exhaust manifolds back on it ran, but not for long, after investigation the carb turned...

Well, slow progress lately, I'm headed to the junkyard tomorrow to pick up a new manifold for the slant and look into a manual transmission setup. In the mean time I've picked up some bearings and seals, prepping for a full front brake job and I've sorta-started on the interior starting with...

It's not too hard as long as you have a soldering iron, some heat shrink, and a Dakota starter harness!

MORE PROGRESS!!! Well after some wiring fun I got my Denso starter all wired up! The starter itself bolted in directly, while the wiring is mostly Dakota-sourced but with the Dart's connectors at the starter solenoid, which I also replaced. I hate to be excited about such a little thing but...

Well, I figured out why the car caught fire!!! Of course I already knew the intake/exhaust gasket was bad, but I got to see just how bad today. It turns out is was 1/3 missing, hence my little fire. After calling around all day Sunday to local parts stores I heard "you need that for what?!?"...

well, cleaned it up and tried giving it a tune up, but the plugs from my extra engine won't fit the current one (one has tubes for plugs in the head, the one in the sport doesn't have tubes) I guess it's back to wrenching tomorrow if I don't have any work going on! How we started today...

it didn't really backfire, I'm not sure if it was due to running an open manifold but the sure problem is the intake gasket needs replaced

been playing with it all day, turns out that my "no power" issue was that neither the column or cluster were hooked up, and then under the hood, my lack of cranking was a bad body ground (well, missing). So now I have the dome light working and I've cranked it with a remote starter, I did get it...

Thanks guys, I'm getting started already Emilio, though the first roadbump came pretty quick, after hooking up a fresh battery I found out that the car gets no power... to anything... this was after heaving and ho-ing the car around the driveway (which by the way, is a nice sandy deal with ruts...

Well, after a nice long wait I finally brought home my new toy today! Thanks again to Dan for everything in helping me get a hold of this car! Anyways, here she is! As she sits now, it's a /6, console auto car, manual steering, manual disk brake, 7-1/4 car that was originally B5 on black (as...

I was riding home from Indy this afternoon after putting a new carb on the truck and was thinking about how most of the cars on here have their own colorful history and story, so I'll give you guys some insight to this truck's life. Born in September 1987 (same month of my birthday, and...

welp, after taking a look at how much a diesel swap will cost me :sad6: I decided that the turbo 3.9 build will go on! so I did some window shopping on Summit and Hughes Engines websites and came up with a build plan -bore block .030 or .040" over - Sealed Power SpeedPro forged aluminum pistons...

Awww it's a long ways off, I have a feeling that it's going to end up with a lightly (ultra budget) reworked fuel injected 3.9L in it for a while

well guys, the turbo 3.9 build has sorta went to it's grave and died on us, I think that in the long run that swapping in a 4BT Cummins diesel engine into the little Dak, as it'd end up with slightly less horsepower than the turbo 3.9 but would more than likely have double the torque and much...

Hey, I thought about shipping you those inner fender patches but how would you feel about waiting until MMW and I can bring you some exhaust stuff (a whole summit racing 2.5" hot rod kit only missing two straight pipes) and primer you can have, it's stuff I'll never end up using and I know you'd...

LOL! The graphics on my Dakota have held up better than the paint over the years, I guess everything worked out for you in the end though with the Shelby Dak though! After seeing a presentation given by a student in my Motorsports class yesterday I think I am going to set up the truck to be...

Thanks guys, I'm still working on my "trifecta" I have the blue 88 Mopar Express, a red 87 Indy dak, now I need a white 89, if the sport I'm taking apart wasn't in such awful shape I'd restore it too. More pics! These were taken after the first time I gave the dak a bath, here's what I...

Messed around a little today on the Dakota, I started pulling the engine out of the "Red-headed-stepchild" donor Dakota (a 1989 Sport), and I'll be buying a turbo this week. The turbo is a Holset HX35 that I'm getting from a member on turbododge, I will more than likely end up with a custom...

He thinks he came out on top, which for his situation he did. He wanted fuel economy and I wanted a rare Dakota, we both one respectively.

For those of you who don't know already, I have a slight Dakota fetish. In Spring 2012 I traded my 1994 Plymouth Acclaim for this 1987 Dakota. It's an Indy 500 truck which included a package of a dash plaque, graphics, light bar with off road lights and fog/driving lights. This truck is #250 or...

well guys, the truck went to the Mopar Nats and got 2nd place in young guns modified! I have some stuff I'd still like to do to her: Blue power bucket seats from a 80's LeBaron Center console to match/fill space 8 3/4 Swap A500 needs rebuilt after being hurt a little by too many neutral...

going to pull this out of the grave again, the truck was all set and ready for the 2011 Nat's and the Thursday night the week before Nats week it ate a cam, which we swapped a new one in within a 36 hour window to get it running that Thursday morning, which it ate the new cam during break in...

no guys, I run the Mopar Express and Indianapolis 500 Dakota registries, came close to picking up a Shelby and a convertible this summer though.

makes me want to work on my dart!