{"id":37220,"date":"2020-04-23T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=37220"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:23:00","slug":"1967-big-block-dodge-dart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/owners-clubs\/2020\/04\/1967-big-block-dodge-dart.html","title":{"rendered":"1967 Big Block Dodge Dart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A\nlot of people believe that Big Block Darts weren\u2019t around \u2018till \u201968. Jim\nMarrone, Mopar\u00ae<\/sub> enthusiast and co-founder of the Brat Pack Car Club in\nTampa, Florida, believes otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Largely\nbecause there\u2019s one sitting in his garage, albeit disassembled at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally, his ’67 Dart was 1 of 228 factory big blocks, rebuilt with a 383 11:1 aluminum cylinder head motor and a 727 automatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Assembled and painted <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We\nsay \u201cwas\u201d because this particular Dodge Dart has so many mods on it, it\u2019s\nlikely now 1:1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\nsaid a lot of the mods I made couldn\u2019t be done, because the car was only tooled\nfor one year \u2026 so the parts are not always interchangeable,\u201d says Marrone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But\nwhere there\u2019s a will, there\u2019s a way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marrone\nhas already moved the rear end back to accommodate larger wheels, put in a\nKeisler long-throw Pistol Grip 5-speed, A\/C, and anti-sway bars\nfront and rear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut, even after installing the A\/C, it\u2019s still Florida, and the original engine just ran too darn hot.\u201d says Marrone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Marrone set out to look for a cooler running, yet torque-packed engine. Kind of a challenge since big blocks designed for an A-body can be hard to find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back from the engine builder in bare metal <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately\nfor Marrone, the search was not too difficult. His friend, Randy Bolig, who just happens to be the former editor of Mopar Muscle<\/i>, was taking a 440 straight out of\na \u201973 Road Runner. And the guys worked out a trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another\nfriend had all of the internal pieces of a 440 six-pack motor, which he bought\nright up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m trying to build the strongest motor I can and only do it once,” says Marrone. “And I want to be able to drive it anywhere I want, no matter what the climate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when it gets to that point, we\u2019ll highlight it right here. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you working on a project? Send us the details<\/a> and you could be featured here on DodgeGarage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The factory 383 11:1 aluminum cylinder head<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lot of people believe that Big Block Darts weren\u2019t around \u2018till \u201968. Jim Marrone, Mopar\u00ae enthusiast and co-founder of the Brat Pack Car Club in Tampa, Florida, believes otherwise. Largely because there\u2019s one sitting in his garage, albeit disassembled at the moment. Originally, his ’67 Dart was 1 of 228 factory big blocks, rebuilt with a 383 11:1 aluminum cylinder head motor and a 727 automatic. We say \u201cwas\u201d because this particular Dodge Dart has so many mods on it, it\u2019s likely now 1:1. \u201cThey said a lot of the mods I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":37236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2624],"tags":[2948,2011],"class_list":["post-37220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-owners-clubs","tag-dodge-classics","tag-hemi-engine"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bigblockdartfeature.png","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37220"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37338,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37220\/revisions\/37338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}