6/04/03--ok, heres the skinny on the car and its first time at the track
74 dart swinger
98000 mi on the 225 slant 6
1bbl motor is all stock
flomaster two chamber muff
14" open element air cleaner
have not done a tuneup, adjust valves or check and adjusted timing yet.
found best times to be when i raised the torque converter stall speed to max rpms on the line---the times reflect this
20.501@65.78
20.400@66.22
20.152@66.84
20.294@65.52(first round)
20.064@67.86
20.084@67.69

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74 swinger slant 6, the slowest, most fun car i have ever owned.

06/26/03 finally stopped raining enough to get to the track. went to bump the timing up but it was already done by the previous owner, as well as the plugs. sooooo, i modified the 1 bbl carb. i took out the supports for the booster and smoothed that and the parting line in the casting out as well as removed all that choke crap on the carb--i dont drive it in the winter. i also found that i did not have to drill the jet out as it takes a standard holley performance jet. ended up so far 11 sizes up from stock to a #72 jet. much better. so, what did all this materialize to?

19.530@69.50
19.424@69.99
19.201@67.45--first round, hard on the brakes at the end
19.236@70.33

the first 2 runs were within 45 minutes of each other, then the sun started going down and the 90+ temps and 90+ humidity went away too-- as plainly seen in the times a sit got quite a bit faster.

--chad

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74 swinger slant 6, the slowest, most fun car i have ever owned.

well ive been to the track twice more and the best i can get out of this bone stock 74 is 19.10. man, i was really hoping for an 18 before i put the header and 2 bbl on. it might have gone a 19.0- something at best but i was into eliminations and had to hit the brakes on the big end. i will post my times later. this thing was starting to be a great bracket car though as it always ran 19.10-19.20. not bad at all and it did it in varying wheather conditions too. just thought id update, been real busy and not have been on in a while.

--chad

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74 swinger slant 6, the slowest, most fun car i have ever owned.

ok, back in the saddle for another year. updates on the car and the first time out. our track, as most, have installed LED bulbs in the christmas tree, and i for one have to say i like it. still have to get used to it but not that far off from my old reaction times.
changes to the car:
this is what i have changed since the last time.
synthetic rear end fluid---still the 2.76 one wheel peel though
JR (aka mopar performance) header
aluninum super six intake
bbd carb, upped the stock jets from 89 to 94, metering rods stock
k&N filter in stock housing.

now i purposly left the stock 1 7/8" exhaust pipes on to see what exactly the induction system and header would do. i will be upgradeing the exhaust to full 2 1/4" soon.

first 3 time trials were as follows
18.997@72.04
18.833@72.29
18.819@72.51

not bad, a little disappointing to me, but its a solid .400 quicker and 2-3 mph faster. thats a pretty good gain from last year, but i have $270.00 invested to get there. now to the interesting part

first round was an easy race, i dialed a 18.90 and went
18.916@65.55 hard on the brakes to keep from breaking out.

second round was tougher as i was up against a multi time winner of street night
i kept my 18.90 dial, but i ended up going
18.662@69.71 again, hard on the brakes.

WTF!? .66 on a .90 dial and the car didnt go quiker than a .81 before that!?
man, i wsh i ran it flat out now to see what it would have really run. judgeing the slip, i think a low 18.50 or high 18.40 is what it would have run, but i'll never know. sooooo, the final result so far is i have gone from a best of
19.10 to 18.66---a difference of .44 from previous best, and
20.50 to 18.66--- a difference of 1.84 from the beginning times

and keep in mind, that this car still has a stock long block with over 100,000 on the clock now. on to next week as i signed upfor the points this year. till next time.......................

--chad

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74 swinger slant 6, the slowest, most fun car i have ever owned.

update--got the car to to its best yet, 18.44. still have to put a bigger pipe between the header and muffler (still stock 1 7/8" ) track conditions were optimal which is how i attribute this time. still 100,000 + mile motor, still 2.76 gears, still all stock (nothing removed to lighten it except the spare tire) only mods are header and super six setup. more to come!!

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74 swinger slant 6, the slowest, most fun car i have ever owned.

Do you go up to lebanon valley?

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