> Overpriced Parts Wrote:
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> > Taylor King Wrote:
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> > > > > Born to be WillD Wrote:
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> > > > > you have a viper?
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> > > > Yup. Maybe even take the cake on displacement! Thats a 488 cubic
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> > inch
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> > > > engine. My dart is a 360 stroked to a 408. I also have a few nitro
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> > RC
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> >
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> > > Could you post some pictures of your dart and give a description of
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> > the
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> >
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> > > year and what was stock on it originally because I love Chrysler
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> >
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> > > Plymouth cars of that era!
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> >
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> > I can post some. Its not pretty but it's pretty fast (to me). Lol.
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> >
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> > It's a 1970 2 door Dart Swinger. Factory 225 slant 6 with a column
> shift
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> > auto. Bench seat, drum brakes, manual every thing except power
> steering.
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> > Even has a manual foot pump for the windshield washer! I daily drove
> it
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> > for a few years before tearing it apart and swapping the drivetrain.
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> >
>
> > It's gone through some changes but its currently a 360 stroked to a
> 408.
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> > Decent cam, aluminum heads, all forged bottom end. Full roller
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> > valvetrain. Holley fuel injection. Mildly built 727 automatic with a
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> > 3300 RPM stall. Bigger rear axle with 3.73 gears. Converted to power
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> > disc brakes. Swapped it to a console and floor shifter with bucket
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> > seats. Has ran a best of 11.55 at 117 MPH so far, if you're into drag
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> > racing. It's slightly faster than the viper in the 1/4. I've been
> hoping
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> > to find a decent Swinger moped to build and match my ratty Dart
> Swinger.
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> > Someday. The engine pic is when I was converting it from carburetor to
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> > EFI. So the engine was a little bare.
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> > >
>
> Yeah Mopar or no car what I used to think, shame they’re priced into
> oblivion because dumski’s that basically banned hemi’s at NASCAR just
> like today’s media cancel culture and made everybody hate Chrysler
> Plymouth cars even though they set almost almost every drag record Just
> because they wanted the more popular Chevys to win so they became very
> scarce especially after the haters owned junkyards would crushed
> complete cars in late70’s early 80’s instead of letting people buy them!
>
> The hemi engine is still the best engine to run for top fuel, if the
> crooked NASCAR didn’t for all practicality ban the hemi cars they
> would’ve had a production double overhead cam hemi by now!
>
> There are still one of the two prototypes of the dual overhead cam four
> valve per cylinder hemi engine out there in someone’s garage just
> drooling over it because only one of the two that were ordered destroyed
> got destroyed!
>
> Vipers is cool but but I love the older A body cars!
Nice, a 360 magnum and not the LA 360.
