Hello all,
As the title says I just bought a 1975 Dart Swinger. This car was bought as a project car. I have a question about the engine. Me and my dad can not figure out what the pipe is that is circled in the picture


Any help would be greatly appreciated

Hot air for the intake.

Should be a hose running from it to a similiar pipe on the air cleaner

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Ed
64 Valiant 225 / 904 / 42:1 manual steering / 9" drum brakes

Yep! to take a look at how it is hooked up, click on the red link below my name. Double click on the picture and it will go into full screen slide show mode.

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Aggressive Ted

http://cid-32f1e50ddb40a03c.photos.live ... %20Swinger


74 Swinger, 9.5 comp 254/.435 lift cam, 904, ram air, electric fans, 2.5" HP2 & FM70 ex, 1920 Holley#56jet, 2.76 8 3/4 Sure-Grip, 26" tires, 25+MPG

Thanks for the quick response. Here is another picture of the engine. As you can see it needs some love. I am going to start work on it in the next couple of weeks i will let you know how it goes. It should be interesting because i have never worked on a car before. But i have worked on old Harleys.
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Looks like you are also missing a hose from your PCV (that little nipple just behind your oil filler cap on the valve cover). Does the A/C not work? The belt is gone. You came to the right place for good, and as you noticed, timely information.

Good luck with the project,
Jerry

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There's a difference between ignorance and stupidity.
Ignorance is not knowing any better.
Stupidity is knowing, yet doing it anyway.

What you got is awesome weber carb.

Weld weber opening hole cut from spare weber air cleaner to a suitable air cleaner with heated air flapper.

Time to find out what kind of weber you got here.

Cheers, Wizard

Not sure on the A/C the guy i bought the car from said it was not hooked up when he got it in 2000 and he never hooked it up. I would say probably not I will try and pull the air cleaner off of the carb and get a good picture of it and try and figure out what make of carb it is. I have another question about the engine. I bought the car and it starts and runs(does not idle well). I drove it about 30 miles to get it to my house from where i bought it and the transmission shifted fine and the people following me said it was not blowing smoke of any kind.

My question is with about 140K miles on the engine should I pull it and rebuild it or do you guys think it will be ok to run like it is and focus on the carb,exhaust, and body.

And if I do decide to pull the engine do you think around $700 - $800 is a reasonable budget for a stock maybe a little more than stock rebuild

The stamping on Weber is at base (where nuts holds carb onto manifold) on that side where electric choke thermostat is.

And another pic of the weber without air cleaner. Weber jets can be had for more fine-tuning.

Cheers, Wizard

Your question should you rebuild?At 140k if your oil pressure and compression is good,no.If you want to hop it up, maybe then.Just my opinion.Definitely get pics of carb and post them.

Thanks for the responses. This weekend I will get an after market oil pressure gauge and compression gauge to check the oil and compression. And I will try and get a picture of the carb tonight depends on when I get out of work

John

Sorry for the quality of the pictures. It was getting dark and the camera was having issues focusing.

So i guess it is a 2 bbl carb

Clean off and locate this stamping I outlined:



I bet this is 32/36 DFEV. Rebuild kit under 27 and jets, and other weber parts available from, contact them either email or phone to get parts. There are plenty of info on getting the part numbers and locating certain size of jets from other websites, I know this is geniune weber reseller. The other weber reseller is not 100% geniune weber (sourced copy of webers slightly different ways not the real deal. That why I try to support good businesses.

http://www.carbsonly.com/

Looks like car had been driven for long time with this weber and looks smart conversion. Um, you'll have to document the modifications linkage carefully so you can get it back correctly and improve the modifcations so it functions correctly especially that kickdown linkage. Looks like intake is probably 1 barrel with homemade adapter, you will see much better gains if you use a 2 barrel intake without adapter.

My caravan 1987 with 2.2L 4 cylinder I swapped in weber 32/36 DFEV carb in place of Holley junk 5220 carb solved many problems.

Cheers, Wizard