You are a gluten for punishment! No mini starter

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Nah, not on this one. On some of my cars, I want semi-originality or period correctness in place of all-out performance or weight savings. This starter "looks proper". It's no mini for sure. I have the same big honkin' Chrysler Gear reduction starter on the '69 Dart too. even though you cannot see it at all - It makes me happy to know that it is there.

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4/21/24:

I have about 14 hours in the front header pipes / down pipes etc. that connect the headers to the merge collector behind the cross member.
I got both the front and rear header collector pipes down to the suspension level and past the bell housing. The stuff I am making now will be much better than the previous owner's muffler shop garbage with aluminized pipe. poor fitting, leaking boogered MIG welds and clangy pipes that did not allow for a clutch linkage adjustment.

This chassis has to be the most difficult to complete this sort of custom down pipe fabrication on. With the 3 speed column to transmission rods, clutch linkage torque shaft, and giant power steering box, all in close proximity. I did this job on my 64 Dart before. I had slightly more room on that car, and I wanted this iteration to be better, so it is slower going.

I started with some of these:


For the front pipe I left the header collector reducer alone and began burning pipe right onto it.
The front pipe 90°'s down toward the frame rail, then bends again just above the torsion bar.



Here is what that pipe looks like semi completed:


When the gaps are right, the hot glue gun runs like butter:



For the rear pipe that was not possible, no way that long ~5" of stainless reducer would clear what is going on under the car.
So a little slicing and dicing to the stainless works part was needed:
I ended up with about ~ 1" of header reducer. Maybe not Ideal, but required for the packaging of this car - It aint' no E Body or Truck!




Little by little..



A lot of work was required to get to this point.
I realized that Here, I needed to order some more 45° Mandel bends to complete the job. So they are ordered.


Just another 2-3 feet to get from that monstrosity of front pipes, pie cuts, and bends to here:


But that will be the easy part (probably)!

These pipes sure look goofy because I have yet to figure out where to cut and at what angle, and if I need some more pie cuts it there too.





See you next time!

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Ahem... YES SIR!

First Fire Just for you Dan! I am not sure if that is the starter sound you want, as it is a parts store rebuild on there, sounds like an '80's starter to me.. But it's MoPar nonetheless. No nippondenso here that I can tell.

Enjoy!

Greg

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Nice vid. Engine sounds healthy! That starter is the large-frame 1.8-horsepower item first used on the 440 in '74. Factory-installed at random on everything from 225s on up through the '70s and until the end of the Chrysler-built starter ('87 was the last year for it). The extra size of that starter is aggravating your starter swap difficulty on that car; might want to put on a small-frame starter…which would also bring back that "like it's supposed to" cranking sound.

The large-frame starter is a reman № 3258. The small-frame reman is a № 3257. The correct starter fell out of the reman cattledogs long ago; it was a № 3250.

(Wanna see/hear me nerd out about Chrysler OSGR starters? Wanna see it again?)

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I think The proper starter is in my Yellow / beige ugly '62.. I will have to get you a quick video of that one gor you to confirm. There is one I pulled off the '62 170 powered parts car that I turned into the ValianTrailer.
I never heard that one run/ start. I just put it on my shelf 'o starters for when I am older I guess?

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