1963 Dodge Dart !!! Wahoo!

Handling? Cornering? WTH is everybody talking about? I thought we going as fast as we can for 1/4 mile.

 

Or on this forum, as slow as you can over boulders.

 

I want to drive over boulders as slow as possible one week and drive 160mph into a corner the next week…..

 

I've been still gutting the darned thing~ I still have the rear windows to get out and some pesky things like the headliner hardware. I'd say by next week, I may be able to get it to the blasters.

I'll be upgrading my rotisserie, making wider, beefier, ~ don't know what they're called, then some braces. Just ordered some better casters, mine just decided to start coming apart for some reason.



The blasters should be able to get under that alright?

 

Moving kind of slow, but fabbed up my new lower bar with new casters. I still have "struts" to install?, but ran out of time~ kids coming in for the weekend

see the one wheel came apart, was getting kind of old I guess.


The new bar is of course wider, but 11 gauge, much stronger for this Dart and other projects in the future.


Maybe next week I'll get something done to the Dart

 

This popped up~ the giver away person is on vacation mode?

https://www.facebook.com/marketplac...wse_serp:e5f0d00c-c42c-4fea-b71c-3f58709a4cb3

 

take the hired help / kids
with you
that won't last long

 

Why would someone advertise it, then go on vacation, If it's a 318 I'd probably pass, but a 360

 

While being miserable from a chest congestion and some female problems, I wandered out to the shop, and looked down the thermostat of the old engine for some reason~ I do believe that thermostat is in backwards, right?

 

Just out of curiosity, what is your usage plan. I've seen suggestions ranging from "best handling" to "shoehorn the biggest engine in there". Might be fun to give suggestions that run within your build vision.

Aversion to other engines/drivetrains? Or are you trying to keep it Mopar?

Probably why the car landed in the wrecking yard.

 

"It can't be the thermostat... I just put a new one in."

 

Looks backards to me.

 

Funny you should ask about “other” engines, there’s a 360 /727 trans a few miles away, but I started thinking out of the box, thinking. I did install a Miata engine in my triumph tr6 and love it and looks super. So what else might work?
I’ve been battling bronchitis, really messing with me



QUOTE="jeepdaddy2000, post: 1786497, member: 1853"]Just out of curiosity, what is your usage plan. I've seen suggestions ranging from "best handling" to "shoehorn the biggest engine in there". Might be fun to give suggestions that run within your build vision.

Aversion to other engines/drivetrains? Or are you trying to keep it Mopar?


Probably why the car landed in the wrecking yard.
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my '72 Triumph TR6 with a '99 Miata engine/transmission.

 

my '72 Triumph TR6 with a '99 Miata engine/transmission.
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More pics of that TR6 Miata thing please.

 

Firs off (and I've probably said this already) your work is simply incredible. I wish I had the patience and eye you have to do a bang up resto.
That being said......

Again some parameters would help.
A couple of ideas that aren't Ford or Chevy.

392 hemi.

Buick 3.8 turbo

Maybe squeeze a little more juice out of the stock lemon
Or you could really wow them.......

 

A BMW S54B32 from a 2000-2006 M3 would be fun.

3.0L inline six that makes 333hp and has manual transmissions that will bolt to it. It's even slanted like the original six:

 

But, the OEM Slant-Six was/is a famously great power plant - why abandon it?

 

Because while it's one of the most reliable commuter engines ever made it's under powered and boring to drive? I think the intent of this car is fun.