Just stumbled upon this, amazing work you and Larry have done! That's one of he coolest 318's I've ever seen.
T for 2
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superchargeddrt
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Thanks,
It's been slow going (we started before Christmas but we are getting close. I think we might be able to fire it up next Saturday. We typically only work on it one day a week. After this we will be going back to work on my Dart. Already have the Fitech EFI but I am adding timing control. Hey nice color on your Dart by the way. Any full pictures?
superchargeddrt
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Well for those of you watching this thread we are hopefully going.to fire up the T for 2 318 this Saturday. We will keep you informed and I will definitely get video.
Just with junk piled on it. This is what I'm going for, except with Weld Pro Stars:
superchargeddrt
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Very Nice! Got an early 70's vibe going on there. I took the Cragers off of mine about 5 years ago. Had them on my car from 1985 to 2012. I changed to these Summit wheels when I converted to BBP. Wanted American Racing torque thrust wheels but these were $100 cheaper.
superchargeddrt
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Okay so it's been a couple of weeks since the last update. We are having trouble getting this thing started. Larry bought a generic Billet distributor that didn't have the timing locked out but he welded the plates together and we then installed it. It seemed like the distributor bolt was stripped and we were having trouble bolting it down. This is what caused us to not be able to get it started last week. We figured that we would address it on this past Saturday. When cranking the engine it didn't want to start and there was no spark. The distributor looked like it was walking around and so we pulled the distributor. We examined the length of the shaft and to our surprise the shaft was too long so we cut the shaft and reinstalled it. Ee were then able to get it running but it was all over the place on the timing. After a period of playing with this distributor I decided to try my tsp distributor that I got from Johnny pace. We couldn't even get it to try to start with this distributor and I'm not sure why. So after playing with it for quite some time we put his distributor back in as this was the only one we actually were able to get it to start with. After playing around with it for quite some time I decided two try reversing the coil wires from distributor. Bingo it started and was running fine for about 5 minutes with about 10 degrees of advance and it matched with the controller said. We will all excited and happy that this thing was finally running when it just shut off and wouldn't restart. We checked it with the timing light and there's no spark we disconnect the coil wire and we're able to get it to arc to ground. We reinstalled the coil wire and nothing. We removed the distributor and turned the shaft and we got a nice strong spark from the MSD. We put the distributor back in and again, no spark. No matter what we do with timing it seems like the spark is intermittently there and then not. We tried 2 different distributors and we are at our wits end.with this! We are going to call Fitech tomorrow. Just wanted to update.
P.S. If you have any suggestions we're listening.
P.S. If you have any suggestions we're listening.
superchargeddrt
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T for 2 update.
Well Larry and I have been busy Ironing out the fault codes with his Fitech. We had to shield his pickup wire and reroute other Fitech and MSD wiring but now it runs just fine. I will post pictures and idling video soon. We just installed the hood and grill yesterday. I the meantime you can check out my RPM noise solved thread with the video of my car idling wit timing control. I promise more pics and videos soon. Here's the link to the video of my Dart.
Fitech EFI Rpm Noise Solved
Well Larry and I have been busy Ironing out the fault codes with his Fitech. We had to shield his pickup wire and reroute other Fitech and MSD wiring but now it runs just fine. I will post pictures and idling video soon. We just installed the hood and grill yesterday. I the meantime you can check out my RPM noise solved thread with the video of my car idling wit timing control. I promise more pics and videos soon. Here's the link to the video of my Dart.
Fitech EFI Rpm Noise Solved
I am going to pick your and Larry's brain, later this summer, I just bought a set of turbo headers off ebay for a small block.
Thinking about building a twin turbo small block for that old cuda I bought.
Thinking about building a twin turbo small block for that old cuda I bought.
superchargeddrt
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Absolutely, happy to help in any way I can
67mellowyellow
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So do you have a video of the truck running Now? Has it been to the dyno yet? Wondering what kind of power this will make
Thinking of pulling the 440 out of my dart and doing a 360 twin turbo set up
67mellowyellow
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superchargeddrt
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We have a video of it running but no Dyno tests. Actually we are now building a big block stroker for this. It will be Fitech injected and the same twin turbos but it will either have a tunnel ram intake manifold or ......a CROSS RAM! He already has both. The thing about the cross ram is that the wiring between the throttle bodies will have to be extended. I will see if I can find the video of the 318 startup. Not sure of the horsepower but I will tell you that at 5 lb of boost, it will break the tires lose no problem. We are keeping the Boost down because this is a stock bottom end
67mellowyellow
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Yes I am just curious how much it put out for hp. I'm Thinking about using the T3 turbos from an eBay kit. It looks like everything is there mostly, will probably need to adjust piping and stuff but other than that it even comes with the battery relocation kit. Seems like a nice little kit. Wondering if anyone has used this kit before?
67mellowyellow
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I am not looking for 1000hp but looking to run about 750-800 ish. If the kit is correct probly runs about 10-12 lbs to make what I'm looking for
67mellowyellow
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Would like to run it something like this. Single efi though. I think this pic was on this site actually that I found.
Shipping looks high on that kit.
67mellowyellow
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I'm in Canada
Matts440
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That was from Maddart when he built that car which I bought from him, he used hedmen block headers and built the pipe to the turbo flange. If you go to page 9 I believe on this section and look for the build thread you can see how he did it, my motor is being built srill so I can't really take pictures to show you how he did it. **Twin Turbo 67 Dart Project**
But there are a lot of threads here for single turbo builds just go through them.
67mellowyellow
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Cool thanks for the info
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