Several factors are in play here:
1. My wife cannot drive a stick shift. She would feel better if she could drive the Dart if it was needed.
2. The T-5 is beginning to make noise.
3. My knees are getting creaky.
4. I'm looking for another long range project.

I see this happening now and have questions. I scrolled through the threads for the past two years and did not see answers to most of them.

1. What stock applications does the 200-r4 fit?
2. How do we fit the TQ to the crank? Is there an adapter for this?
3. Does the tranny mount line up with the Mopar cross member?
4. Will this tranny fit the Mopar tunnel? I made mine bigger for the T-5.
5. How is lock up handled?
6. Will the starter motor be in the same pace, using the available adapter?

If I decide this can work, my T-5 stuff will all be available. Maybe a trade is advantageous to someone.

Thanks.

Sam

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Found this thread after search with advice from Lou. Wilcap was the missing word from my search. Without it tons of threads showed up. Too many to read through. I was swimming in words.

http://slantsix.org/forum/viewtopic.php ... 4&start=15

This does answer most of my questions. Thanks Lou.

Sam

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Sam, it's nice to see that you listed everything in reverse order of importance....

- Erik

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Lots of early Valiants and Barracudas have crossed my path.
Also a handful of other toys for variety now and then.

Sam: My wife just barely tolerates riding in my Dart, and has no desire or intent to ever drive it, even if it were the only car still running in the fleet. I don't know if this is a blessing or some kind of Voodoo hex... LOL

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67' Dart GT Convertible; the old Chrysler Corp.
82' LeBaron Convertible; the new Chrysler Corp
07' 300 C AWD; Now by Fiat, the old new Chrysler LLC

Hee hee! I recall a time, decades ago, when a 66 Barracuda was just a used car with a big window. An amateur 10-footer paint job presented well enough to impress the motorheads, but to a certain ex-girlfriend/fiancee, it was still just an old clunker. At an evening weekly seminar 1/2 mile from the house, to which we usually walked, one night I came home from work late so met her there. At the end, I offered her a ride back to our apartment.

She chose to walk.

I sold the car partly due to rust, and partly due to her. It's funny only in hindsight.

- Erik

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Lots of early Valiants and Barracudas have crossed my path.
Also a handful of other toys for variety now and then.

I feel quite lucky that my wife supports all my hobbies. She is a big fan of the Dart.

Sam

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Hmmm. My wife just tolerates my automatic transmissions. She'd like to see the lot of them tossed for a clutch and stick shift.

I'm just tired of dealing with clutches. They're bad enough in an automatic transmission without compounding the matter with a manual.

CJ

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Part of Tyrde-Browne Racing

Sam: Lucky guy.

Mrs. Wjajr tolerates my car mental illness that I have suffered from birth knowing it is better than me drinking and chasing skirts or other anti-social male behavior as seen from the distaff point of view. Additionally, the ability to avoid most repair shop labor charges helps tips the scales in my favor. By the way she can’t figure out why there are two large boxes of new car brochures going back to a 1970 Pinto (I know, the sixties had just ended, what can I say) piled in the basement, or why I moved six years of six titles of car magazines when we relocated.


I have a friend twenty years my junior with bigger stacks of car magazines going back twenty years collated by title and date his basement two houses down the street who recently purchased his childhood dream car, a 1984 911, hung some Porsche stuff up in the garage, and installed new tool cabinets over the bench in ready for the car’s return from a tragic electrical fire. His wife followed us out to their garage shaking her confused little head and making faces as to why anyone would bother over a stupid car….

Another old car widow has been made.

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67' Dart GT Convertible; the old Chrysler Corp.
82' LeBaron Convertible; the new Chrysler Corp
07' 300 C AWD; Now by Fiat, the old new Chrysler LLC