78D200

What size exhaust did the shop run for you? What muffler(s) were installed?

johnthegoalie

i had the exhaust built at a race shop that does a power tune, fabricates the exhaust to the motor and dynos everything. i have the dual headers which are combined into a single 3" system with a flowmaster style muffler. it is loud and mean, at idle with the cam lope and most driving situations it is hard to tell it is a six.

78D200

Did you ever have any head work done to it?

I'm thinking about doing 2.5" exhaust with a Flowmaster Delta 50 Series.

johnthegoalie

yeah, the head has been milled, and ported with larger valves.

that set-up should work fine for you, before all the engine work on mine, i ran true 2" duals...

78D200

I've got 102 to 85 PSI for compression in the motor. I'm going to see how it runs this year and next winter I may pull the head and have it rebuilt. I didn't know if you had yours ported and polished.

What size valves did you have installed? What cam did you install?

I was looking at this one -http://store.summitracing.com/partde...4&autoview=sku

johnthegoalie

i dont have the sizes right now, when i had the car done the mopar performance /6 valves were uber expensive, the machine shop guy, one of the best mopar guys around, machined and adapted the head to accept sb chevy valves.

the cam is a mopar performance purple shaft - if i remember correctly it was the third one up from the most mild. my camshaft advice is always find one that you think is a little too much and get the next one

i have to find all my paperwork and specs, it was at my parents house and dont think it made it with me when i moved out

67 GTX

when ya gonna start it again?

johnthegoalie

hopefully in the fall. figuring everything i want to do and get the appropriate funds - if i start it i want to go non-stop - also dont like wrenching in the 120+ summers. engine is coming out, getting cleaned, painted and noisy gear drive timing set is going in. i want to revisit all the little things i neglected when it was a daily driver and i needed it everyday.

67 GTX

are you gonna replace the distributor gear for safety?

deadkelly

that's awesome for a slant six ..

deadkelly

how did you go with ya gear drive or ya gilmer belt drive ?

chlngr1970

How did you get the seats mounted? I have a pair of Neon seats that I am going to put in my 68 Dart when I get the floor pan replaced. I also have a pair of Cirrus seats for my Duster. I test fitted the Cirrus seats a couple weekends ago, and found the front mount points are wrong for the floor pan, and the passenger seat is a different width from the drivers seat. If you can post pix of the seats mounting points, I would greatly appreciate it.

j

johnthegoalie

haven't made much progress on the car as far as the belt drive. found a guy in california that will custom make a kit with a v-belt groove so i can keep the ac.

cheated and half-assed it a little on the seats. on the front mounts i heated the tabs until they were cherry red and bent it 90 degrees. to level it, i shimmed the four corners and used grade 8 bolts.

67 GTX

can i see a pic of the engine?

johnthegoalie

still hot to do any serious work - i'll be washing it this weekend, i'll remember some engine pics...

67 GTX

great
thanks

johnthegoalie

after some going back and forth, finally decided on a color for the dart.
amc big bad blue

67 GTX

are you going to add a strip on the car?

johnthegoalie

no top stripe, thinking a bumblebee stripe around the back

67 GTX

yaaaaaaaaaa

johnthegoalie

still in the 100's here - waiting until it gets below 80 to start any work. every major job i've done to the car has been done in the summer heat, time to break the cycle...

67 GTX

don't forget an engine pic

johnthegoalie

here is the engine - pretty embarrassed of this pic, it's really dirty

67 GTX

looks great though

Red Devil

nice. I almost bought a demon with a slant 6 but my chevy loving father said no
good luck with your car, that color will look sweet on it