72 duster Build progress

[Dusterdude72]

Well, as some of you may know....I have been getting back to work on my duster and building the engine for it and I have been buying parts off of many of you and I figured I should post up a bit of info and some pictures for everyone to see where its at and I will post more info and pictures as the build goes on.

engine info....

318 LA block
2536030
built on 7/27/1966

and was originally in a 66 dodge coronet.

323 chrysler V8 bored .030 over
mild cam
dished pistons
long tube headers
edelbrock performer rpm high rise intake
edelbrock 600 cfm 4 barrel
Misc. goodies here and there
mostly a Mild build (nothing to huge on power but far enough from stock to make the camaro and mustang owners around town know theres a new name in town ...MOPAR )

This engine is going in my 1972 plymouth duster and has a 904 auto tranny and I am planning on putting a stall converter in it.
It has an 8 3/4 posi rear end with 4.10 gearing, wide 15" rallys out back with a tall tire with skinny 14" rallys up front.

All brand new black interior (waiting to be installed after I finish up the engine)
All new plum crazy purple paint (waiting to paint until after engine and interior are done) and I will then put a satin black 340 stripe down the sides with a satin black hood aswell as the dual scoops.

picked the duster up last summer for $500 and I did alot to it and then winter came and progress slowed.....once spring was around the corner i started buying parts and getting back at it.

I will post up some old pictures and give a bit of a description of what is going on in some of the pictures aswell.

Hope everyone likes the thread!:cheers:

 

[Dusterdude72]

Ill try to do the pictures in order from when I got the car and as progress has been made since last summer

 

[Dusterdude72]

When I first picked the duster up

Very straight mopar

My boy had to give daddy the approval on the new "toy" lol

Back seat

Door and all the beauty it has to offer even after 38 years

Dash,gauges,steering wheel

Split bucket back with center arm rest front bench seat

 

[Dusterdude72]

Ripped the front end off to clean and prep all the nooks and crannys

Undercoated the places I have heard are known to get rusty (luckily mine were perfect)...preventive maintenance lol

Gutted the interior

Back of the gutted interior

Another view of the gutted interior

 

[Dusterdude72]

Wire wheeled,patch a couple minor pin holes,primed the hole thing and than sealed it with many coats of black enamel

More floor pictures

Nice and shiny and new

Front end back on and body work started

There was about an inch and a half of bondo on this quarter with a pool of water underneath but I caught it before it rusted out and I popped the dents out of the quarter and the door

More body work

Even MORE body work

Some bondo work that I need to finish and I made a quick patch panel for the lower rear quarter and then I need to do another thin layer of bondo on most of the quarter and start smoothing it all out

Pretty much the same on this side

Picture of the front ( i know the holes in the hood are to big, owner before me matched the holes to the scoops

 

[Dusterdude72]

New plum crazy purple paint

Couldn't resist spraying a test spot

New carpet kit from year one

 

[Dusterdude72]

Forgot to take before pictures of the engine when it was assembled when i bought it before I started ripping it apart

30 over pistons and all the pistons are at the same height because the crank was not in when the picture was taken (not some fancy new in sync piston rotation technology) LOL

There she is sittin pretty in hemi orange

 

[Dusterdude72]

I still have alot of other new parts and parts I acquired from fabo members that I will be taking pictures of an posting eventually and I will keep everyone updated on progress.

If any of you happen to have duster parts,318 parts or accessories or mopar/duster goodies in general please send me a pm and let me know what you have!.

Thanks everyone!

 

[avarageerod]

I was going to ask about the pistons. LOL. looks real good. at this rate its not going to take you very long.

 

[Dusterdude72]

I was going to ask about the pistons. LOL. looks real good. at this rate its not going to take you very long.

O knew everyone would look at the pistons and think "what the?" lol so I figured i would point it out first.

Thanks, its getting there!

 

[oneway71]

Lookin good!

 

[Dusterdude72]

Thanks, where abouts in michigan are you if ya don't mine me asking...judging by your zip it looks like ionia area? not to far from one another than.....im in lower michigan near jackson

 

[alsdemon]

love the work bench they call that the hood hu. looks nice won,t be long now

 

[Dusterdude72]

love the work bench they call that the hood hu. looks nice won,t be long now

Haha yeah that's the work bench lol. I'm saving the body work that's left until after the engine and interior are done so a bit of dirt ain't go to hurt it.... I'll clean it Up some time soon lol.
Thanks

 

[Dusterdude72]

More pictures tomorrow probably.....been working on the engine all day

 

[Dusterdude72]

bump for the night

 

[mopardude318]

very nice car you have there! Oh, and thank you for running a 318! I LOVE 318's!!!!!!

 

[Dusterdude72]

very nice car you have there! Oh, and thank you for running a 318! I LOVE 318's!!!!!!

HAHA no problem....there nothing wrong with a 318....there a reliable peppy v8 and can me made to have very respectable numbers.

Just going to be a mild build...I want to be able to drive it around town still and on pump gas lol

 

[Dusterdude72]

I refurbished my gauges over the winter and never took pictures until tonight so i figured I would let everyone check out what i did and see what everyones opinions on it would be???

It was woodgrain but it was the only piece of wood grain in the hole car and it looked out of place and I didnt like it and I am blacking out all the interior (stealth interior) lol I left the woodgrain texture though ( i think it looks kind of neat).

I re oranged the needles,I wet sanded and buffed the clear gauge face sheiled, I cleaned up the gauge face tins....I sanded the hole thing down and I painted it satin black and I then re did the lettering for lights and wipers in silver paint and the raised edge around the individual gauge pods.

It has been sitting on a shelf in the garage over the winter and has got kind of dusty but it will clean up like new again.

I may put a silver pinstripe in the gap that borders the outside of the gauge cluster...not sure yet.

 

[Dusterdude72]

Ok guys....been working on my engine for the past couple of days and I painted my edelbrock intake up....I like taking time and putting in extra effort into little details on some things.....the extra WOW factor when people look at what you did and notice the little stuff Let me know what ya think?

 

[Dusterdude72]

Got my crank kit and gasket set in today!!!! EXCITED.....decided i would jump on the ball and got it done....had to make a couple runs to get assembly lube and a few other things but other than that the install went smoothly.

check it out!!!

Got here all lubed up and begging for my shaft HAHAHAHAHA

Brand spankin new

 

[mopardude318]

Hey man. The dash looks great. I really like the orange lettering on the manifold! Nice little touch to make it different.

 

[GotaDuster]

I like the woodgrain painted black on that gauge cluster it looks good :-D

 

[mopardude318]

Engine is looking great!

 

[Dusterdude72]

Thanks guys glad its not just me thinking it looks good lol