Looks good!

Thanks all. I'm excited for what it's going to turn to within the next couple of months. It should be a sweet car! It was either trade-in my daily driver and get a Scat-Pack or leave the daily alone and build a Dart that will probably be faster than the Scat-Pack.

I love my Scat Pack! Is it like driving my 70 charger? No, but there's something about driving a 4speed manual steering car. The charger makes me feel 16 again, the Scat Pack makes me feel my age.

Just my opinion but I like the fact you have to drive an old car. Turning an old car into a modern driver takes away the fun of an ill handling car.

I sat in an SRT8 a couple weeks ago at the dealership. That took some convincing at the Dealer and as much as I'd like to have one, I'd only get one if it's a Scat-Pack or higher trim package. That would have cost quite a bit of money and I would be getting about 5-7 less mpg mostly driving it in traffic. I wouldn't have been able to stretch its legs much.

So, my compromise... Throw the money I would have bought a Challenger for into the Dart and have a side racecar.

Average gas mileage is 19.7 with my Scat Pack, my 13 R/T average was 21.

Good luck with the Dart!

My average with the Scion is about 24-25 mpg's 80% driving in traffic. Thank you good sir!

That's why my wife drives a Honda S2000 and my daily is a Cummins. They have to be cheap to run and then I can run the 472 and 528 on the weekends.

Sheldon

You have a lucky wife to be driving an S2000 everyday. I've driven my coworker's a couple times on the street and it's a fun car. Too bad they're relatively expensive to get into, are usually highly modified and abused, and I don't fit too well in them.

So, if you guys haven't figured it out yet, my Dart's at Hotchkis Sport Suspension. We ordered some seats and a cage. The seats arrived and I've been told they look fantastic (only seats I could find in my size). I also found the missing door trim for my Dart in a junkyard in Oregon. I paid quite a bit for it, but now the set is complete. O, and apparently the engine I purchased is supposed to be dropped off this week.

WOW! Those wheels look like they were born for that car. That looks great! I assume you listed the front wheel/tire specs earlier in the thread. I'll have to look for them. How close is the tire to the top of the inner fender? The front end looks really low...in a good way.

I'm not sure I did actually. They're 18x9" all the way around but the front offset is +32mm and the rear is +22mm with a 5mm spacer (becomes +17mm). Rear is super tight and was slightly rubbing the outter lip on one side. The fronts seemed to have plenty of room to the top of the inner fender, the problem was it was slightly rubbing the front bottom corner due to the height of the tire.

It's looking good, man. Keep going!

Went to go visit Hotchkis to drop off my missing door trim piece and took some pictures while I was there. I also sat in my new seats and God they are comfortable and beautiful!

Also, another Mopart member's car was there. JF_Mopart's Satellite.

Good company, can't wait to hear how it drives when done!

Stopped by the car today. They made seat brackets to mount my seats to the original tracks so now I have full forward/back and tilt adjustments. They also got the roll hoop mocked up in place. I'm really liking where this is going.

Also, they made some modifications to the roll hoop mounting points. Instead of welding the sheet metal to the ground like the Jegs kit provided. The builder decided to box up the mounting points. He's going to integrate the mount to the subframe connectors so that if I ever do roll over, the loads don't go straight through the sheet metal floor. This car will also be getting a swing-out/removable bar as it's a 6-point cage.

Sweet! I've been waiting for some updates!! I like the way this is going.

One thing I really like is the location of the roll hoop (looks-wise). The builder is a little slow, but he really takes his time to do it really well, and right. That's 100% ok in my book as I'm in no rush and I can save more money in case something goes wrong, or right, in the future.

Well, I talked to the shop today. They said they just sent out the cage to be powdercoated. They'd like to try to get the engine mocked up in the engine bay next week too... O, and there's a whole pallet filled with transmission goodies.