My cousin bought this car when i was ~16. Many good times of being hooligans were had in it. Some of the most hilarious tickets i've heard of were earned in it. He drove it for about 3-4 yrs. Then it sat.
...For ~7 years. I picked it up last summer. I traded him for a head unit, amp, subs, and installation on his Cutlass. I wasnt doing anything with those things..works for me.
Over the last couple months i got it road-ready and street legal, blah blah.
I lowered it, put pumpers on it, built a catback for it with some ancient flowmaster and a modified turbo caravan tip, replaced the cat with a glasspack, wired in a radar detector. Buncha odds and ends.
Then it started sitting again..
So after a while i decided that since i have 2 543 setups for my 3.0 van swap i should just put one of them in the dynasty so it'd be more fun to drive and more unique.
Maybe VERY unique if it is, as im guessing, the ONLY 5spd swapped Dynasty out there. Anyone know of any others?
I put the pedals in it today and trimmed a shifter boot to fit the console i picked up. The console is actually an auto-trans floor-shifter console from an 86 caravan. It's VERY similar to the 5-spd minivan shifter consoles, and for $5 it fits over the 5spd shifter pretty damn good.
As i've mentioned many times before, i just swap the pedal shafts. I have never ever had to mess with the pedal bracket itself.
The console's getting painted flat black for easiness/laziness reasons. The shifter and console are just sitting there mocked up, not bolted in yet.
The trans is a large-spline 3.77fd 543. Stock disc and PP for now, no grand power plans here. The car also has a hot-air intake, 52mm tb, and removed plenum divider that i put on it years and years ago when it wasnt mine. It ran 16.7 bone stock and 16.5 with just the 52mm tb. I guess it might run a low 16 on a good day right now. Should run 15.5 or a little under with just the 5spd swap. It'll be more fun to drive and get better gas mileage.