Project: '75 Dart Sport
Bring my stock 1975 Dart Sport into the modern age, with performance, reliability and handling upgrades to ensure it can proudly wear the mopar name for another 25+ years!
| Last Update | Item | Description | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2002 | Rear End | 1,200.00 | |||
| 1 | March 2002 | Auburn 3.55 | Upgrade the stock 2.94 ratio open rear 8-1/4 to Auburn SureGrip 3.55 in the same 8-1/4 rear. Parts from Randy's Ring and Pinion(~800), assembly by The Gear Center in Red Deer(~300). | Completed. Installed Kicks Ass! | 1,200.00 |
| December 2002 | Transmission | 6,028.90 | |||
| 1 | December 2002 | TF - 904 | The stock transmission needs serious upgrades to handle the power I'm after. Pat Storey of SMR trans will build me one that is bullet proof and reliable for my car. Includes low gear set, full reverse manual valve body, ~3500 flash stall converter, lines and 22,000GVW cooler. This is gonna be FUN! | In Transport Arrives Dec 9, 2002 |
2,270.10 |
| 2 | December 2002 | GearVendor OverDrive |
After much debate and research, I've decided I'll go with a GearVendor OD with a 904 trans built for my application. Pat Storey got me a good deal on the units, including all the transport, duty and miscelaneous costs. And he will install it to the trans. | In Transport Arrives Dec 9, 2002 |
3,758.80 |
| 3 | December 2002 | Shifter | Need good shifter for the reverse manual valve body. Want something that can be made to look stock and not wreck my car doing so. B&M Quick Silver rachet shifter chose for looks and functionality. In hand inspection reveals that it should work. Most of the decorations will be tossed since they are cheap, plastic and I'm after stock appearance anyways. | In Hands Not installed |
220.00 |
| 4 | December 2002 | Driveshaft | The change to the new transmission with the GV will need a different driveshaft length. I'm going to take this oportunity to go to something stronger and lighter (aluminum). Probably have it built by Pat's Driveline in Red Deer. Cost should be between 250 and 500, but I've not yet phoned around. | Not started | 400.00 |
| December 2002 | EFI Controller: 3 board, 2 case, modular design | 500.00 | |||
| 1 | June 2002 | EFI Micro boards | Finished the schematics in January of 2002, printed the first set of boards in February. HAd to re-print the MPU board and have been writing software and dev tools since that time. Unfortunatley have been out of the country since July and the whole project has stalled as a result. | In Hands Developing software | 500.00 |
| December 2002 | EFI Conversion | ?,???.00 | |||
| 1 | June 2002 | Manifold Conversion | With no useful manifolds for the early small block mopars, I had to have an existing manifold ocnverted to EFI duty. I chose an Edelbrock Air-Gap manifold because of the excellend Carbeureted performance, low RPM torque advantage, and the Air-Gap advance will will keep intake temps down and allow me some EFI plumbing and wiring flexibility. Sent that straight from Mancini($360) over to SDSEFI and had them mount the bosses and build the fuel rails($800). Looks good but i have concerns about the length of the bosses and the spray pattern of the injectors. We'll see. | In Hands Not installed | 1,300.00 |
| 2 | June 2002 | Junk Yard Wiring sensors ThrottleBody & Injectors |
Initially planning to build a cheap test system, I bought a junk yeard 96Jeep wiring including 8 injectors, the 2bbl throttle body, and all the injectors i could scrape off the manifold. | In Hands Not installed | 400.00 |
| 3 | June 2002 | Junk Yard Fuel Pump |
For now I've bought a cheap used 88 ford van EFI fuel pump just to get thing tested and working initially. | In Hands Not installed | 50.00 |
| 4 | June 2002 | Fuel & Plumbing |
All those little parts and hoses, including the fuel regulator and filters. | In Hands Not installed | 1,000.00 |
| 5 | June 2002 | Ignition | Crane HI-6R CD Ignition and a MSD pro billet distributor. May want to change over to a digital distributor once the actual controller is working 100%. This will make timing from the micro much simpler since claculating and dwelling a coil with no resistance is both difficult and potentially dangerously unreliable. This way i can time accurately without worrying about dwell etc. In the future, I'm thinking about making the coil driver myself or going direct ignition with the box I've built for that. | In Hands Not installed | 600.00 |
| December 2002 | Engine: Small Block 408 | ?,???.00 | |||
| 1 | December 2002 | Engine Building | Everythign has been leading up to building a hot little engie for this car. Unfortunately everythign has to be done before this can be dropped in. Hence nothing has been done for the engine side of things at this time. My plans are to build a 500-550(hp & tq) smallblock. 4" crank, Eagly H-beams, Diamond Dished Pistons (10.25 comp), Engle (or UltraDyne) 245in/250ex cam on 110 LSA, TTI stepped headers, TTI 3" exhaust and Dynomax Ultraflows. Edelbrock AirGap EFI manifold, Indy-Edelbrock RPM heads, Crane ignition timed by my EFI controller and the MSD distributor. | In Hands Not installed | 8,000.00 |
| December 2002 | Suspension | ?,???.00 | |||
| 1 | December 2002 | Torsion Bars | Upgraded to 1.040 torsions bars @ 250lb/in spring rate, compared to the stock 125lb torsions. Still looking for GOOD shocks to complement them. | Completed. Installed Need better shocks | 200.00 |
| 2 | December 2002 | PST Polygraphite Front/rear kit | Want to upgrade the handling and tighten up the front end and responsivness. | Not Started | 500.00 |
| 3 | December 2002 | PST Front/Rear sway bars. | Want to upgrade the handling and make this thing corner with zero body roll. | Not Started | 300.00 |