426 Dart Swinger Takes On 440 Satellite - Nick Drops The Hammer 

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Thanks Johnny! You da man.

@@NicksGarage Nick ,got your ears on? This here's donnie baker , i swear to god i am! My friend has a 1972 Pontiac Firebird that he swapped out the 400 Pontiac V8 and GM 400 Turbo Transmission and replaced with a Chrysler 440 and a 747 Chrysler 3 three speed automatic transmission ...and Nick the only mod was refabricating the transmission crossmember and that's it. The stock motor mounts on the 440 engine block set down in place on the front clip of the Firebird it's like they planned it that way. And of course we're low-budget little credit low class better than no class so he found a set of headers from something and modified one of the header tubes so I cleared the steering box ...now all we need is one of those big Firebird hood decal with the roadrunners head on it. Build it and we will come Nick ..oh yeah he used a Ford 9-inch rear end too but of course that's pretty much a trivial thing. And back in the 70s there was a shaker hood scoop air cleaner fastened to the carburetor on Pontiac Firebird Trans Am.. that was pretty much the same area and size you found on the Dodge Challenger of 1971 with a 440 6-pack and here in Indianapolis Indiana we have a place called Indy heads that specialize in Mopar and brand new 440 six pack intake , three holly two barrel progressive for restoring Mopar Muscle Cars , and possibly sell for around two grand. So what are you waiting for Nick you and the boys need to build yourselves a flagship to represent your shop of things you can do and another thing if you don't already know like around here are a lot of abandoned motorhomes that were equipped with Chrysler 440 and the heavy-duty 747 transmission with deep transmission pans of 12 or 15 quarts and a lower low gear with a high stall torque converter and that's how my friend came by his 440 with an automatic that was abandoned RV and all of them will have less than a hundred thousand miles on them was maybe ten trips across the USA and that's about it ...my friend's got his down right now restoring the body with a frame-off restoration the engine's down right now with the heads off for inspection and there is no ring wear at the top of the cylinder walls at all...what excites me about a project like this my first job after I got out of Automotive trade school I hired on to a Cadillac Buick and Pontiac dealership in 1970 right at the time when the horsepower muscle cars were at their finest hour ..and the very first car i done a repair on was rebuilding a Muncie 4-speed in a brand new Buick 455 Grand Sport that was a graduation present to one of the local high school kids from his parents. our Cadillac technician took me in under his wing who had a assigned me this new 455 and had the car ready to go next morning and then ask me if I got her all checked out I said yeah..and the old caddy wrench said you forgot to do one more thing..whats that i said ..he say ,li want you to take her out for about a half an hour and hammer it through the gears and see if you can break it !. Seems little rich kids like to blame the caddy wrench to their parents when said punks were not skilled with a clutch and 4 speed gtg cya

@@donniebaker5984 FYI it wasn't a roadrunner on the hood, as that is Plymouth theme. It was a screaming chicken, and very fitting for the gutless late 70s POS. The 440 & torqueflite will be a huge improvement, and sounds like a very interesting build

@@donniebaker5984 A 727 tranny not a 747 Chrysler....

Automotive Guru thanks! Somehow, we keep getting them done!

Same here! From PR!

Same here from Seminole Florida

Automotive Guru and from Alabama

I tried leading panels, form of art, an no, there is no pictures of my failed atempt LOL

Back in 80s we used 1% lead mix I think. Old Leeds factory in Kansas City MO BOP plant

No doubt. Now a days it's hard to find someone who does lead work on auto body another lost art.

That car is amazing!!! The 354 Hemi is the perfect engine for it!!!

I had a 1978 Pontiac Trans Am with a 6.6 liter 400 engine. It only made 190hp! I now own a Mustang V-6 with 300hp. The Mustang would drive circles around that V-8.

A Stanton1966 I was fortunate and mine had a Z block in it and made 220😂

So, who was doing more in 1980? The EPA had everything neutered.

First car? Nice start. 👍

Always wanted a dart with a 440. May just do it soon as retirement looms. I have heard the darts don’t handle well with a big block but I’m sure nowadays there are fixes .

70-72 looked the same,only real change was the 72 side marker lights..1973 was ruined,goofy front fascia and bumpers..

@@01trsmar 73 had the same rear bumpers as 71-72.

my first car is a 70 swinger. put a 400 and a 4 speed in it.

@Racer D>> When I tale my britches off I got horn just like that New Yorker... No wonder all the broads still wanna blow my big Chrysler horn huh...

screw the garage, ill park the wife there and that new yorker in the bed room, ill sleep under it and fall asleep counting hemi's jumping a fence

Thanks, T!

Thanks for watching.

Joe. Good for you Joe. We need more people like you.

Understandable.

jeramiaha stiverson Low life miserable people.

Classy ride. Thanks for the memory.

Right on, Roberto!

Add Roberto to the TEAM!

That’s Rudy the min-pin.

speed. Thanks for watching our channel.

Erick. Tight emissions in California even back then.

Nick Panaritis You are correct as usual sir. California also had the N97 noise reduction package as well for the 440/6 and Hemi with 4 speed. Long resonators with turn down exhaust.

Especially when you watch these videos with some quality speakers going!!

@@revolutionday1 i hear ya ! my stereo is loud and clear with lots of bass ! lol

@@anteropaulino5151 When he fired-up that Dart, my dog started freaking out, thinking that there was a car IN the house! X-D

@@revolutionday1 lol, it had a nasty rumble !!!!

crank. True, getting better every week.

go for it

Robert. We do all the time.

Michael. Thank you for your kind comment Michael.

Right on.

Exactly. First true muscle car

In 1958, a Chrysler 300-D set a land speed record at Bonneville at 156.387 mph What happened between now and then?

@@DeliciousDeBlair Well, long story short, two corporate takeovers, the lack of vision and a shrinking pool of people that can afford the cars. After Daimler took over Chrysler, the true flavor of Mopar was taken away, and FCA did another hit on the brand. Mopar was always synonymous with innovation and risk taking, but also poor quality control when it came to certain things ( can you say corrosion control....I knew you could ) and poor marketing. But despite that, Mopar was usually first to something, especially in setting records.

@@hoost3056 One of the other legendary problems besides rust [an inherent plague of all unitized vehicles not made out of something like stainless steel] is a notoriously short lifespan of the steering linkages. I have replaced the steering linkages from side to side on 13 MOPARS in my life and I was not even a shop owner back then.

Thanks for watching in the Southern Hemisphere. 👍

Nice way to get to class on time.

Right on!

905. Thank you 905.