Howdy fella's,
I'm new to the board, let me start by introducing my self!, the names Shawn, I'm 19 and the Dart is my second card and second project, first car was a 68 Cougar 302, my first project was a 72 Chevy V8 Vega, I'll post up some pics for yall fella's to see if ya want to look at the other side of the auto realm:-D
Any ways, I bought the 74 about a year and a half ago and ran into a fair amount of problems at this point the car has no engine in it, I blew the front main seal on it and figured hell, I might as well just rebuild the engine! it had 342k miles on it so it was time any how. I pulled the engine and found more and more wrong with every step, the crank was bad, the cylinders need bored, the water cannals in the timing chain cover were rotted completely away, timing chain was stretched beyond belief, and the carb was bad. A friend of mine gave me a complete engine in pieces that was already 0.030 over so I took that to the shop and had em push it out to 0.060, deck the block, recon the heads completely-(3 angle valve job, double hand lapped, magnafluxed and the original seat/guides were drilled out and hardened guides and seats were installed), recon the rods and press on the new Pistons So far I have all new parts even a brand new Mopar high performance crank. I'm puting in a stage 1 cam, also got a Weiand 8007 high rise dual plane intake and a Holley 1850-3 600CFM single pumper carb. the car should run great when done and I am also gonna build a set of 2.02 heads as Summit racing sells castings for 2.02 318 heads I will build roller heads out of em with Crane aluminum rockers and stainles steel valves.
Heres a few pics of the car, I will also post pics of the engine, this thread will have a fair amount of pics in it, I hope thats OK with the mods here, if not just tell me I will pull the pics down.
I'm new to the board, let me start by introducing my self!, the names Shawn, I'm 19 and the Dart is my second card and second project, first car was a 68 Cougar 302, my first project was a 72 Chevy V8 Vega, I'll post up some pics for yall fella's to see if ya want to look at the other side of the auto realm:-D
Any ways, I bought the 74 about a year and a half ago and ran into a fair amount of problems at this point the car has no engine in it, I blew the front main seal on it and figured hell, I might as well just rebuild the engine! it had 342k miles on it so it was time any how. I pulled the engine and found more and more wrong with every step, the crank was bad, the cylinders need bored, the water cannals in the timing chain cover were rotted completely away, timing chain was stretched beyond belief, and the carb was bad. A friend of mine gave me a complete engine in pieces that was already 0.030 over so I took that to the shop and had em push it out to 0.060, deck the block, recon the heads completely-(3 angle valve job, double hand lapped, magnafluxed and the original seat/guides were drilled out and hardened guides and seats were installed), recon the rods and press on the new Pistons So far I have all new parts even a brand new Mopar high performance crank. I'm puting in a stage 1 cam, also got a Weiand 8007 high rise dual plane intake and a Holley 1850-3 600CFM single pumper carb. the car should run great when done and I am also gonna build a set of 2.02 heads as Summit racing sells castings for 2.02 318 heads I will build roller heads out of em with Crane aluminum rockers and stainles steel valves.
Heres a few pics of the car, I will also post pics of the engine, this thread will have a fair amount of pics in it, I hope thats OK with the mods here, if not just tell me I will pull the pics down.
