Nice surprise

[Stretch]

I have been logging my fuel milage on every fill up on the Dart. Each repair had slightly improved the fuel economy on my daily commute with the best improvement from the wheel alignment. I knew it was toed in but 5/8"????

The 2nd biggest improvement was after the valve lash adjustment. The tune up, carb rebuild. Plugs, wires, cap and rotor helped too. As of right now I'm averaging 20.75 m.p.g. as a daily driver.

Jass and I took a 75 mile round trip today. The old girl averaged 27.5 m.p.g.

My wife has a 2011 Buick with a 3.5. That car gets 21m.p.g. daily and 29 m.p.g. on the highway.

Not much better than the 50 year old carbureted Dodge.

 

[69.5CUDA]

thats actualy really imrpessive, i wonder what it would get with a 4/od in it

any idea what the gearing is? i suspect its 293 or 279, or atleast i think those were the numbers i came across pretty often in 7's, while i averaged 20-21 in town with the 273 as well as a 318 i never once managed better than 25 on the hwy...this was all in my 67 fish which..imo is a lil more slippery in the wind so to speak ..tho i think the weights are about the same give or take 200 lbs

"if" you wanted to eek out a lil more you could run skinnier tires, ditto on lowering it, my best milages were when i could "just" get the jack to slip under the k member on 185's, tho i cant say i recomend it LOL

 

[Halifax Hops]

Have to love that!

 

[Stretch]

i wonder what it would get with a 4/od in it

That is actually in the future. I have started collecting parts for that very swap. I still need pedals and linkage and a flywheel for the 225

 

[69.5CUDA]

im sure ive got the pedals, on the flywheel...who knows as ive got a very sizeable stack of unidentifieds, hell i think ive still got a slanty bell kicking around, god knows ive got enough 4spd stuff to build a dozen of em..but nothing in one piece...at a time i had 3 slantys...i still have a 4brl intake too lol