Back when i was 17 i got my hands on a pristine 1993 3.3L/604 Dodge Dynasty with 64,195 miles on it. I loved the hell out of it and put 30k hard miles on it in the first year, which involved a lot of street racing and a fair amount of autocross. As years went by i began buying more and more different vehicles (a lot of k-cars, ive owned most types) and modding them out, with the odd result that i never got a lot of the stuff i wanted to do to my dynasty done even though i liked it more than many of the other cars i spent my time on. It always ran and was drivable with no real issues and working AC and i would DD it for a few months here and there, but ultimately it picked up more damage than upgrades along the way and by several years ago it was only a pale shadow of its former condition and had unintentionally gone down to beater status. But, i never did get rid of it or give up on my ideas for what to do with it, so when i came across a near-clone of it sitting behind the shop of a former employer, i worked it into a trade deal (i traded my 78 Volvo 242 for this new dynasty, an 85 CRX HF, and a modded 98 Eclipse GS) and decided to swap all the good stuff from the old car to the new car and start over. Save on fuel and get a gas card. Learn these deals in Publix Ad.
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Here's a pic of the old 3.3 car, the new 3.3 car, and a 3.0 dynasty i had at the time that i swapped a 5spd into (world's only 5spd dynasty, one good clutch short of a high 14 car and sold to a member of this forum, http://www.turbo-mopar.com/forums/sh...ht=543+dynasty ).
This new dynasty, a 1990 3.3L, was a little lower optioned and not in as good of shape as my 1993 had originally been, it was a damn sight better than the 93 was now, and it was the same color inside and out (beige and beige!!), which i really liked. It had a running 3.3 and a non-moving transmission (the shop said it was bad, i never verified beyond that it wouldnt move). Shortly after, i bought a 94 Grand caravan with a 3.8/604 for ~$300 and used it as a moving van for a couple weeks before taking it apart and scrapping the body (although parts from it ended up on at least 3 vehicles in my group of local fwd dodge buddies). Slowly, over the course of december to march, i swapped the 3.8/604 into the 1990 car at work before bringing it home and swapping the rest of the stuff from the old car.
I had a lot of suspension and brake stuff from the old car i wanted to put on the new car.
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I got all that stuff swapped. The 1990 car now has:
11" front vented discs on 91-up front spindles
11" rear vented discs, modified to fit Dynasty axle (which has a different 4-hole pattern)
Welded/boxed rear axle
Reinforced/boxed track bar
89 Stamped arm k-frame
1 1/4" front swaybar
67 Caprice coupe rear springs
Koni rear shocks
Fast-ratio steering rack from 89 daytona
2g neon front struts with factory NSRT4 springs
That got me the drop i wanted, which was one of my favorite things about the old car. I got the front of the new car a smidge lower in the front by going from srt4 struts to regular 2g neon struts and leaving out the spring isolators.
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The back, i went from cut+spacered moog progressive cargo coils to cut 67 Caprice rear springs to get a higher spring rate. The cargo coils were too soft in the progressive part of the spring.
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Left is the uncut Caprice spring, center is the stock Dynasty spring, and right is the cut+spacered cargo coils that came out of the old car. The caprice springs ended up being SLIGHTLY shorter than those cargo coils. I did not reuse the spacers and in fact in my caution i left the back a LITTLE higher than i actually wanted it. Im going to do my sub+amps install in the trunk before adjusting the rear ride height any further.
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I had to roll all four fender lips and modify all 4 fender lip trims to be able to fit the 245/40r17s on 17x8 +35s at this ride height.
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I rented a fender roller from a local guy to do the fenders. It's a good thing i have fender trim to cover up the fender lips because they are pretty obviously tweaked without the trim on them.
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Here's how the car looks from the front. The front ride height is perfect for me. I do plan to modify some of the bracing under the front bumper cover to make it resemble the old car, which had more of a curved look to the bottom of the bumper cover that ended up looking pretty cool. I may replace that factory air dam with a wider/lower one as well.
I also swapped over the stereo from the old car which consisted of a jvc mp3 headunit that i forget the model of, 5 1/4" MB Quart coax in the front doors, and MB Quart 6.5" components in the back (made mdf plates to mount 6.5s in 6x9 holes, and mounted tweeters above rear seatbelts on c-pillar trim). I also have 2 12" 4ohm Infinity Kappa Perfects that i need to build a new spare tire well box for, a 75x4 rms Eclipse amp for the speakers, and a Total Mobile Audio bridgable 2ch for the subs that i forget the specs of. Ill get some pics of the tweeters, sub+amps install and all that sometime soon. The rest of the speakers and head unit are nothing to look at.
I also have the 3" exhaust system from the old car to install on the new one, but i want to re-do the downpipe and exhaust tip so i'll be taking that to an exhaust shop. It's a 3" mandrel bent system from FWDP that came off a VNT shadow and was modded to fit the dynasty, with a 3" high flow cat and 3" straight-through dynomax or magnaflow muffler. Ill edit that when i remember which one it is.
I also put the hitch from the old car onto the new one. The old one was an ACCOMPLISHED tow vehicle, culminating with taking 3 people, my Dodge Aries, and all of our race-related gear from Texas to Florida and back for the GRM $2009 Challenge. The whole shebang weighed about 8000lbs and it got 17mpg doing it. Today i inaugurated my hitch's second life by using the new dynasty to tow the old dynasty to the scrappers.
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