This is just a short video showing how I swapped a cheap $25 255lph fuel pump into my 1989 Dodge Daytona ES TBI to Turbo swap.
Parts Used:
HFP-RTN 255LPH Fuel Pump
Delphi FS0103 Fuel Pump Strainer
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-AgFcc9a_w
Just a quick video showing off something you could potentially do with your own vehicle. We were in need of an adapter to use a standard speaker on a Dodge Dakota.
Using these rings, we were able to do that!
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3706434
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gswfJystnY
This is my 1989 Dodge Daytona ES. For those who do not know, these cars are the decedents of the K car platform that Chrysler designed in the 80's. The K car platform
and it's siblings were eventually what the SRT-4 and PT GT would become.
The backstory on this car is I bought it for $600 back in 2015. It was so cheap because the previous owner basically left it to die in the parking lot of his apartment building because the transmission
was leaking and they wanted it gone. The main purpose of the car was for me to have a vehicle I could learn the basics of maintenance from and drive around as my fun little 100HP car. With the help of my
friend DJ we got the entire suspension rebuilt, new bearings all the way around, new brakes and goodies all around, and fixed minor issues on the vehicle that previous owners never got around to fixing.
Like the headlights going up and down, the cooling system, and odds and ends.
Eventually the car would become DJ's daily driver for a couple of years where he drove it everyday without much trouble.
Though it did finally have an issue that a simple few minutes couldn't fix - The head gasket straight up decided cylinders 2 and 3 should share their duties.
So I got to replacing the head gasket and while I was at it, I installed some Chrysler minivan V6 valve springs and PT Cruiser lifters in the head. All done underneath a walnut tree on a 2x8 on two saw horses
Ironically right as I was tightening the head bolts on the Daytona - My now wife calls me telling me her PT Cruiser GT is overheating and blowing coolant all over the ground.
So long story short, you fix one head gasket and another one gives out. So it became she drove it around for about 6 months or so.
Over those six months we started to realize the car was drinking or at least dumping oil out of the engine almost as fast as you could pour it in. The last trip it took was a 60 mile journey where it
started with 7qts of oil and ended with none. The engine never knocked or anything but it was definitely time to retire it. Which it sat in a yard for about two years or more.
Then comes the end of 2019 and my wife needs a car that gets really good fuel economy. Being as I already had the car and it got 34mpg easy, I figured it was time to put it back into the fleet.
But here came the complications
1. The wife and DJ some how talked me into turbo charging it.
and
2. COVID locked the world down
So between the two the project has taken a lot longer than I like to admit
Here it is today. Completely made up of hand made parts, trash, and Chinese garbage.
To give a quick run down on the whole car:
For the power train it is using the original throttle body injected crank. It has a 2.2 common block given to me from a friend in St. Louis, it was very ru
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K1121rrnOE
This footage is kinda old, I totally forgot to edit a video for 3 months, woops. So today we are taking a look at re-installing the engine and a few of the mistakes I made while building the transmission and how I got around them.
Index:
00:00 - Intro
00:24 - Dodge Neon torque converter
01:51 - Engine and trans installed
03:54 - Glugg Glugg
04:21 - Nerves
04:47 - Testing the trans
07:10 - What went wrong
11:29 - Fixing the valve body
12:53 - Testing the trans AGAIN
15:22 - Trans cooler install
16:02 - Trying all the gears with load
18:25 - Outro
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rPDv-eQ-00
Showing off what my Dodge's sound like.
2007 Dodge Charger Pursuit, 5.7L/345ci HEMI with Borla Headers and Daytona Exhaust.
1995 Dodge Dakota Sport, 5.2L/318ci MAGNUM with Mopar HP Computer.
1989 Dodge Daytona ES, 2.5L/153ci K-Engine.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGL54SariF4