These engines and the darts and dusters are national treasures here in Colombia. If the vw beetle is the most loved car of mexico, the dart and duster is the most loved here in Colombia. They just run forever. Cheap to repair.
@@rollinmark8952 yeah Chrysler didn't want to retire if because it was so cheap to produce and the AMC developed inline 6 was a masterpiece of strong engineering. Never understood the hype about Germán cars. Sure they last a long time (the old ones) but they had electrical issues like all European cars seemed to have. I like the old classics from Europe but id be worried about it breaking down on me on the way across the country. My dad's old Buick never left me stranded
As someone else mentioned when this thing likely went to the salvage yard they really weren't worth anything because they were still a ton of them around. Today completely different situation. Just the glass is worth something. Try finding a windshield or a side window for one of these. Parts are getting harder and harder to find. Engine stuff's no problem but if you needed a block out of a salvage yard good luck. So it gets expensive if you need to call Jasper for a reman just to get a running short block. I think it's one of the reasons why everybody LS swaps everything. Cuz there's a ton of those available in junk yards and they're cheap
Good friends with a master tech and he kept a slant six running for his mother. Main reasons; it was a reliable vehicle, would run forever with minimal care, and not so much vehicle beyond the control of his mother. My brother's first car was a Valiant 100 and it took him and I through college and kept it another five years after college.
A friend in high school had one in his dart. He changed the oil but didn't tighten the drain plug. Went on a 100 mile trip and it fell out somewhere. He drove it at least 20 miles with no oil. Put a new drain plug and oil in it and drove it for years until someone ran into it and totaled it.
I believe it, my pops had a purple 71 Buick Skylark that ran out of oil in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, we drove atleast 40 minutes with no oil, stopped at a sports bar for food and everything. Them old cars before the computers run like champions lol
I literally drove one of these for a year with a rod that had broke . It broke at the cap and came through the block under the intake manifold.. I wired it up out of way to the manifold and cut a piece of metal , and trimmed out for the rod, siliconed it to the block and pulled plug wire.... lol.... it worked !!!! Just add a little oil every once in a while cause it didn’t seal very good to block after a while and had a miss... lol
I knew a guy that blew #5&6 out the side... Fished out the pieces, covered the hole. Tweaked carb n timing n drove it for another week... First time id ever seen a Slant 4!!!🤣🤣
I had a cab co. in the 70s & 80s; I ran the '72 to '74 Dodge Dart with the Slant 6. Even "driver neglect" couldn't kill these engines! A lot of my vehicles reached 200,000 mi. before retirement. They're easy to work on for the most part.
I'm 72 and have been following your channel for quite a while, I'm an ole Mopar guy from the muscle car era. But I have to admit, this video is the one I most enjoyed from you. Thanks for the down to earth fun!! Two thumbs up . . . Rog
The old 225 leaning tower of power I knew it would start. You should get a hold of Uncle Tony he's built a few of these slant sixes and put out some pretty impressive numbers
Heck No - he leaves more power wasted then he makes, and demonstrated how little he actually knows the moment he rotated the pistons to reverse the offset of the pin. Maybe even worse then the Power Nation build. You're far better off reading Doug Dutra's articles, they'll at least get a builder close to the Slant's potential.
Worked for a Dodge dealer for quite a while. The slant 6 and the 318 were pretty tough engines. About all you had to do was adjust the valves every 6 or 7 years. All but the very last slant 6's in the pickups had solid lifters.
Only the poly 318s and the 1964-67 LA 273 had mechanical lifters. The LA 318 introduced in 1967 and the LA 273 in 1968 and 1969 had hydraulic lifters which required no adjustment.
I drove that exact motor in a 1969 Plymouth Valiant from Illinois to Alaska, 3740 miles up the AL-CAN highway!!!!!!! and it was definately not junk!!! I got almost 28 mile per gallon, and it was fast as hell, never overheated, and ran like a champ, all I did was change the oil.
@@timothydockery534 hang on to ur stuff. Put up a fence cover them up . Move them around. In P.A. U CAN BUY ANTIQUE PLATES ONE TIME. AND THAT CAN SHUT THEM UP.
I would have no problems being his neighbor. Tbh I'm happy with anyone I don't think will steal my crap...too bad its getting to be a lot to ask for now.
My brother had a Valiant 100 and we loved that beauty. 32 miles per gallon at 55 mph. Averaged 24 regularly. Lasted for 200,000 when we got it with 100,000 miles on it. NEVER left us, ALWAYS got us home. Nothing but love for the Valiant and the beautiful Slant 6!! Thanks for being a man about it. Do yourself a favor; get it running, you'll sell it, trust me. There are lots of idiots out here like me who love dependability.
If there was ever an engine that needed a simple basic throttle body fuel injection system, it was this engine. Not for any power gains, but just for perfect drivability.
@@larryfogle3697 The port fuel injected Ford 300 six had the fuel injection system that Chrysler should have given the Slant Six and kept it around longer like Ford did with the injected 300.
Well who's ego just got kicked in the arse . We had these engines in Valiant S series in Australia. . My step father left me his 1962 when he died, took 6 years to restore it. Now sits in my shed with some early G.M.Holdens.
I have a 68 dart with a slant 6 sitting out in the woods at my little farm. I’ve been wondering if she would start. Looks like someone left it there 30 years ago.
@@Ridendrty At one point my dart had been sitting for a few years and my brother asked me if he could use it. I said sure so he came over with a battery and a young neighbor kid said that car's not gonna start. We put some gas in the carb and vrooom it started right up. Wish I still had that car.
My dad bought a 68 225/904 used in 1975. It was steel blue. The front fenders were rotted behind the wheel due to Western NY salt. He used old tin duct to make patches and pop riveted them on then painted with blue touch up paint. It also had a vertical dent in the middle of the trunk lid between the taillights that all Darts seemed to acquire. It’s only reliability problem was after every new year’s when he would leave to go back to work, it wouldn’t start. The point and condenser would need replacing. So after a couple of times having to do this in the cold, he got proactive and replaced them in late October, they still went bad on New Years. Never did figure that one out. Finally the transmission dumped all its fluid. He had several more including a 70 198/3spd, a 1974 225 auto and a 1973 225/auto duster. I drove all of them but the 68 as I didn’t have my license yet.
@@odb_roc_hound4186 I bought mine used also, in 1973 I think. The people that owned it did not take care of it and there were problems with the engine. I had a 170 laying around on my dad's farm so I had the head cut 90 thousands and bumped up the compression. It was a real runner for a six. We got a Caravelle for my son in a swap for the dart. The Caravelle was a great car for him until a big tree branch fell on it. In the dart I always kept the old points and condenser, a trick I learned from my dad, so just in case of a no start I had a set of points that I knew worked in the glove compartment. My dart was also blue as was my 70 Swinger with a 340 four speed with 391 rear. That car I really miss but as my family grew the need for speed was put on the back burner and eventually sold. Have a great day.
I had a 68 with the 170 engine, but later on bought a new 74 Dodge Dart Sport with the 225. Unfortunately, it had California emissions, and ran poorly. I always regretted selling it instead of removing all the emission crap.
My first car 70 valiant scamp 2dr. Sat in a field for years before I tried to start it. One spray in the carb and i was cruzin for the next couple years. $125 was well worth it 😄
Chris, I've been a Chevy guy my whole life! In the 70's when the now rare and $$$ muscle cars were plentiful and cheap. There were Ford guys and Chevy Guys that was basically it, street racing and bragging rights. Although we all knew the 426 Hemi dominated the drag strips, thank you Don Garlits! But I got a retirement project a '68 Dodge A100 van with a 225 Slant. I gotta admit I'm warming up to this engine! It's tough as nails, easily modified for a little extra H.P. and still gets 20 mph! I look at it as easy to work on as my Briggs and Stratton mini bikes in 8th grade! Heck they're so simple, yet ingenious it's stupid. Hope to see you as you roar past me on rt 66!
My father had one of those in a 64 dodge pickup he drove it to around 300,000 miles. the only reason he stopped driving it was because the rust was so bad you could not keep the doors shut if you did get them shut.
That dirt in the engine compartment was driving me crazy. I kept thinking, "If it starts up, all that dirt is gonna get sucked in the carb." Speaking of that, maybe I would have blown compressed air in the spark plug holes in case there was sand blown in there. Before the wd40. I'd like to see the slant six tuned up and used as a driver.
OMG you’re cracking me up!!!!!! I have a 64 valiant with a slant six and I’m so happy that thing started! U kept getting more & more curious! Love it!! 😂😂😂😂😂
Had a freind that had one. with a four speed and he put a four barrel it was quik it won't beat no v-8 but it would give them a run for it's money. if they weren't taking him serious he would get them
I had a 1984 Dodge Ram pickup with a slant six and I had that truck for many years and could not kill the engine. The only issue I had was a module that was attached to the underside of the air cleaner stopped working. I was really impressed with the abuse I give it. The engine Did not drip a drop of oil.
Slant 6's are reliable as they say trust me I tested the slant 6 for reliability and they are great they fire right up in the dead of winter without a issue and they will even run with a rod hanging out the side of the block after turning north of 8 grand they are a great engine
I worked at a service station in the early 70's. A customer that used to come in had a '62 or 3 Dodge with a slant 6. It had a rod knock and burned a quart or two of oil a day. We'd give him drain oil to burn in it. He'd rev it up and fog the drive for mosquitos. He tried to kill it but the thing wouldn't die. That winter on a record -26 morning, it was one of the few cars that started. We couldn't believe it. Probably because of low compression
Chris: I know that you were just "funnin" us with this story, but I'm a hard core MOPAR guy who loves this motor. I have a 1974 Duster with a slant six and I just love driving it. I also own a 440 powered 1969 Charger, so I've got both ends of the spectrum. Both are equally fun to drive. The difference is that the Charger rumbles, and the Duster purrs. Sometimes you want to rumble, and sometimes you want to purr.
Slant-6 is my favorite engine ever made. I took the crankshaft from a Valiant with a 300,000 mile Slant-6 to a friend who is a machinist. "That's massive and it's forged! What's that from, a diesel bulldozer?" Nope, a Slant-6 1974 Valiant with 300,000 miles on it. "This crank just needs a cleaning, it's in great shape." It's an amazing engine. Chrysler originally designed them as an aluminum-block racing engine, but aluminum casting was in its infancy, so Chrysler just started pouring them in iron. They are massively stronger than a 6 cylinder car engine needs to be. And that intake breathes really well. There are two-barrel and four barrel intakes available too. Buick 3.8L (231) and Chrysler Slant-6, most are 3.7L/225, are pretty close in displacement. I always wanted to put a Buick 3.8L SFI Turbo setup, like from a Buick Grand National, onto a Slant-6. Closest I got was a Pontiac Iron Duke TBI setup, because the displacement per cylinder was the same. My Slant-6 Dodge Ram was idling about 400RPM (the computer was from a 4-cylinder car, and counting distributor pulses, so the computer thought the engine was spinning faster than it was). Oil pressure at idle was good and the original Mopar alternator was still charging, so no problem. The damned thing would pull stumps. And a car trailer. And hold 75MPH across Michigan with no problem. And get about 25 MPG with a car trailer behind it. Behold the Mighty Slant-6. A cheap mod would be to put a Carter 2-bbl intake and carburetor onto it. If your exhaust manifold is cracked, put on a header. And remember that most later Slant-6 cars, like that Duster, were geared for economy like 2.93; stick in a 4.11. A Slant-6 with those mods can easily smoke off the tires.
ive seen one run without a pan or rocker cover, no oil and being doused with a firehose. it kept running. it was being used in an infomercial for some wonder lubricant, but i think they picked a /6 to have a better chance of survival.
The firing order is right on the intake just like every mopar with it's factory intake if the carb was puking all you gotta do is tap the carb the needle valve is stuck open.
Easy to fix and would run even with worn out bearings/ rings. Might lack power at that point but would still get you home. I always carried a spare ballast and ignition module but they were cheap and you were back on the road in 5 min. It was never the motor itself that caused problems.
A friend of mine had a 1964 Dodge Polara with the G engine.( 225 slant six) it got to the point it had NO power what so ever. The best he could get was about 40 MPH floored. So he gave it to a mechanic he knew that loved the G engine as much as the guy in this video hates it. He took it apart and found the libes on the camshaft were worn down to nubs. The valves were hardly opening. With a cam like that, it was a miracle it even ran. He replaced the cam and a few other things, and it ran like new. The slant six was the timex of engines. They took a lickin and kept on tickin.
My dad and I. Used one as generator. With a converter. Ran the lights and heaters. For our garage. For 13 years. Then sold it. Guy asked how many miles. We went to the shelf and got the cluster. 57k miles. Still new. Just breaking in....lol.
I've seen the oil drained and brick on the pedal for about two gallons of gas put gas and oil back in started right up. Had a nasty tick though. Impressive.
A farmer I knew had an old combine with a slant 6 industrial engine on it. it hadn't had an oil change since 1989 and had been run every season. I changed the oil on it in 2017. the machine is falling apart with a leaking radiator now but that engine is still solid as a rock.
I towed one like this off the interstate. Lady only stopped because it got loud . hole in the block ,rod laying on the control arm.got it home and it still ran on 5 cylinders
Back in 1983 I got a 1979, I think, Plymouth Volare for cheap money. Perfect green body and a perfect cloth interior. Great road car and got very good gas mileage. I was driving back and forth between Houston and Austin and back every weekend doing about 70 mph and getting 30 mpg. For a 6 passenger car that was very good. The 3 years I had it I only had to work on it once when the motor started overheating and it wasn't an engine problem. The muffler had clogged up. My Dad had a 3 foot long screwdriver that we just punched through one end of the muffler and out the other. We were in the depths of a recession in 1986 and I was out of work, so when the A-904 auto transmission went out I had to just leave it where it stopped. It deserved better.
I drove a truck with a 225 ten miles to a repair shop and it had a busted crank in it! It would shake when starting out but ran fine after you got going. We put a crank kit in it and ran it another fifty thousand miles, sold it, and as far as I know it's still running!
Had a slant 6 225 (1977) for 18 years; I agree it was a gutless engine but bulletproof. I never touched the engine other then a tune up when it was 12 years old. One alternator, 2 starters. The body fell apart around the engine. I sold it to a farmer who put it in a truck which was used for fuel back and forth to the field. I last talked to him 10 years later and it was still going. I live in western Canada where the winters can go down to -30 to -40 and it never let me down. Sold it when I replaced it with a dodge Dakota. Engine was slow; no great for power, could not pull much but reliable and dependable. Indestructible.
Guy I met had a duster like that that was an original slant six car. Bought it from a college kid who ran it low on oil once. The kid was commuting to college with it about 20 miles a day, and he ran it out of oil and kept driving it. It threw two rods through the block and it kept on going. Finally he got concerned of the lack of power and took it to a dodge dealership and the techs were astounded the car still ran. Got another story: my uncle was a mechanic back in the day and a girl came in with a valiant that had thrown a rod. She ran low on oil in upstate New York and took the car to a service station. The service station guy put a rag in the hole in the engine, topped off the oil and she drove it from upstate New York to my uncles shop in pa (about 150 miles) with a rag in the block. They are stout engines. I’ve never owned one (I have a big block Polara) but I’ve always wanted one and I love the slant six.
Can't kill 'em Chris. Me and my friends have TRIED to kill them, and we couldn't. Ran 'em with no oil, ran 'em with 2 stroke premix, ran 'em through the woods jumpin' stumps and rocks...and we just couldn't kill 'em. No matter WHAT we did...
@@jonathanseagull.4551 One of my friends had a Dodge van with a slant six. One day he brought it to my shop to check the oil. I put five quarts in it. I said "Wait here and don't start it yet." I went to the parts store and got a filter. We changed the oil without pulling the drain plug.
Minnesota Highway patrol used some Plymouth Furys with slant six engines. They were good enough to go 112 MPH, that's all they needed. My nephew had one retired from the Highway Patrol, had 100,000 miles on it and would still go over 100 mph. I have a slant six 225 in a 1978 Dodge short box D100, it is my daily driver, only problem is the gas gauge quit working!
Chris i had and Duster with a 340 in it ! Pulled it stiuck a slant six 225 and it cost 12.00 in gas from Salt city ut to Bakersfield ca and it was a notch off and still ran like crazy ,love your videos and your good at what you do keep up the good job !
Dude, I like American v8 motors as well and currently have a 1998 Dodge RAM 5.9L v8 MAGNUM that's my daily driver here in Alaska...I do love that v8 sound thru a Flowmaster muffler! *Not to sound ugly, but I'm glad the SLANT\6 beat you* there as I've was an owner of one for almost 25 years and it still runs. Good video & proof _The Leaning Tower of Power_ is hard to keep down, unlike many American v8 engines.
They are the little engines that could... you are correct thou are slow but very reliable, used on fork lifts, motor gens, boats, small trucks, cars, pumps,and lot more.. that is what gives them charm, at first i did not care for them either, after awhile they grow on you, mine (74 Dart)became like a old friend. till wrecked oh well... take care , a lot of people would like that car.
grerat video!! i rember back in 1990 and again in 1993 i bought 2 dodge dart swingers! back then they were cheap as hell!! i think i paid $350.00 for them!! anyway they both had the slant 6 engine!! BEST ENGINE EVER!!!! i actually wish i still had them!! what a great reliable well running engine!!!! i miss thoes cars!!!
I've owned one in a Aspen and it broke a rod and windowed the block. The worse part was it left me sitting on the side of the road in Minnesota during the winter, when the temp was a toasty 0 degrees F. My dad loved them. But the last car he owned with one was a 80's diplomat. It spun a rod bearing and locked up the engine. He picked up another engine from the salvage yard and we swapped it in. It made it just over 10 miles and developed a rod knock. He was so ticked off, he hauled the car to the same yard he got the engine from and scrapped the car.
The slant 6 was a strong engine, it's big issue was that because of the slant, the oil would drain off the high side of the piston and rings even overnight, and when you started it up the high side was dry. Motors with high mileage would have a lot of wear on the high side.
My first car was a '70 Dart with a slant 6, that I paid $50 for. On the last day of my temp tag, I drained the oil and water out of it because I wanted another car. Drove it 15 miles away, jumped some railriad tracks and broke the drivee's side upper ball joint. Drove it back home with the tire sticking out at about 45%, got home, let it cool off, added water and oil and it fired right up. Sold the motor for twice what I paid for the car, bought a '73 Monaco from my nieghbor. My old motor wound up in a Dart Swinger...
This was great. Unbreakable. The fact it wasn't seized after sitting with no spark plugs should have been enough. Early '70s, a friend had a Hot Rod magazine article about modding a slant 6 to run a 4bbl. His daily driver, mid '60s Ford Econoline van, 383 Mag, 727 and SureGrip. GF needed a car. Clean '64 (?) Dart was found and he went all in with the rebuild, Offy intake and all. Ran good when it ran good :) Family had a Duster as his first car. Dad had him keep a spare ignition box at all times. They'd fail without warning. myself, '69 Charger same gear as the van. Got hit while parked in '80. I miss it all the time.
Had them for my first 3 cars and beat the crap out of them and the engines never died! In fact, my buddy took my last engine out of the last Dart and still runs it in his boat 46 years later after I had put 325,000 miles on her!
In my opinion, one of the best motors ever made. A friend of mine had one in an old Valiant. He beat the heck out of it and it never failed. Easy on the gas too!
You remind me of that fellow on demolition ranch. There's a make of handgun called high point. Cheapest on the market. He hates them. but they're actually so good that when he torture tested them they still could shoot. Even if they're strange and unglamorous they have their places.
alot of great things about those old slants, I love them. hell, I still have one that runs in my 70 Dart. It's a place holder until I build my 340. But it has a lot of things that IMO were not a good design. Oil filter location, especially on the a-bodies suck because you can't change the oil without spilling all over the idler arm which kills the bushing prematurely. also, the location of the dist suck, if you don't have an electronic ignition setup so changing/adjusting points sucks. inside the slant, was a shitty place to put those 2 things. to remedy that I relocated the oil filter and installed a GM HEI ignition setup. I also converted it to a 2bbl and installed headers. my slant runs like a dream although you're right in that it can only sound so tough without that low thump of a V8. Advantages are they are long-lasting and they can run on nearly anything. they are reliable as hell although sluggish as hell. they'll get you anywhere although they do it slowly. My first car was a slant in a 71 Dart 4dr which I blew a hole in cylinder 1 keeping her floored across the Bay Bridge one late Saturday night trying to push her over 100mph. blew her out on the I880 in Oakland , for the record, keeping her floored, she stayed at 95mph for about 10 minutes before blowing. she died with 126k miles on her. replaced that motor with a factory short block. as a kid, I learned a lot about those slants.. later sold that car. found my 2drhardtop with an engine compartment that looked like your car; completely neglected. replaced all the seals along with the other mentioned upgrades, and she runs like a dream. decided to leave it in as I was torn about what engine I wanted to eventually throw in my Dart. 360's are too "cookie cutter" for me. didn't really want to go with a 318 but that was the answer if I was going to go small block since 340 is what I really wanted but hard to come by. if I was going to go big block I was keeping my eye out for a 383. ended up stumbling across a 340 block...That was the ticket. it is rough bored thirty over so the answer seems to be to make her a 416cui stroker. The slant has kept the car roadworthy because as I was raising kids I knew the car wouldn't go back together for some time until the kids were raised. Now they are out of the house I need to get the workshop built in the backyard. my thoughts are to go with trickflow heads, aluminum intake along with EFI as living at 7000 feet and traveling down to 4500 feet on a regular basis is pretty common where I live in Colorado. not to squirrely on the cam but something that can thump. the goal is to have something fun and peppy to run on pump gas that I can bolt on to the A833OD trans I yanked out of an aspen, while keeping her as "turnkey and go" as possible. Running 3.91's in the 8.75" rear I've installed in her should be pretty fun. Those are just thoughts at this point nothing that I have run across my engine builder yet. For the record, the Slants were advertised as 8.4:1 compression although when measured were actually closer to 8:1 +/- .1...and 153624 is the other answer. Good vid bro. I have a love/hate relationship with these motors. I love them because I have been tinkering on them for years. I hate them for all the reasons you do.
Enjoyed your video. The slant six has been the little engine that could - and it did ! Move over Thomas. You've got company. Long before the Duster there was the Valiant. I guess I should refer to it as Prince Valiant.
Had two /6 , one car one truck , both windowed in the lower side of the block and both of them would still run with a window in their side. Cool video Chris.....
I own a 63 Dart GT Slant 6 225 last May drove it 2400 miles in 10 days through the Mountains down south hit Nashville then drove home 815 miles in 12 hours at 75mph had 2 flat tires and no break downs. Also I have FACTORY A/C THAT KICKS ASS. Love my SLANT 6.
I am in a mopar A-body group and one of the guys was posting pics of his 1975 dart he bought for $1000 in 1984, still runs with 375,000 miles on it. Wish I could still buy one of those cars today, other than the challengers there really are not many cars that I can’t live without
I had a slant six and the distributor bolt was loose. You could spin the distributor back and forth and it would continue to run. It also would idle at 500 rpm. It was absoulutly indestructible . They do make performance parts for that engine.
Traded a 1974 duster for a case of beer.. it had 180,000 miles on it with a blown cylinder, (not much power) I did Nothing to it! Then I put 100,000 miles on top of the 180,000 miles. .. it was my entire dorm commuter car! Beast!
As the owner of a slant six Dart with 370k miles, I am not too surprised that it started. If you had connected the carb to a source of fresh gas, it probably would have kept running just fine.
Slant six was an excellent economy motor. They were used for all kinds of applications. Many years ago we had two slants to pump water. Other than maintenance intervals. They ran 24/7. When I left that job they had basically run for three years. I don't remember any actual break downs. I was told they had been there long before I came. I figure at least 15 years. Oh yea, these were outdoor as we would move them around every so often. It was what it was intended to be. A economical motor with torque that comes on low in the rpm band. So it felt good around town. I had one in a dart with 389,000 miles on it. Junked it only cause the body was literally falling apart. The car lost two pounds every 100 miles. That motor lived on in one of the junkyards yard trucks. Though I doubt for long. We all best the hell out of the yard vehicles. They were already junked right? Well out of all that. I'm just sayin is all. ✌️
My Dad owned repair shops from 1954 to the mid 1990's. The 225 is one of his top 5 engines produced by American car makers. Under powered isn't a consideration when an engine goes 400K + that was manufactured in the 50's into the 90's when most motors wouldn't even go 100K without a top end rebuild...... Well, that would be Ford's of that era, anyway.
These engines and the darts and dusters are national treasures here in Colombia. If the vw beetle is the most loved car of mexico, the dart and duster is the most loved here in Colombia. They just run forever. Cheap to repair.
That is excellent.
I miss my 69 dart 4 door..
Yup. Yeah u rite brother! Those slants WILL run forever! Best built American engine ever.
Well, that and the straight 6 Ford 300ci Truck engine. Oh yeah, the Jeep 4 liter straight six is amazing also. But that is about it.
@@rollinmark8952 yeah Chrysler didn't want to retire if because it was so cheap to produce and the AMC developed inline 6 was a masterpiece of strong engineering. Never understood the hype about Germán cars. Sure they last a long time (the old ones) but they had electrical issues like all European cars seemed to have. I like the old classics from Europe but id be worried about it breaking down on me on the way across the country. My dad's old Buick never left me stranded
That Slant six will outlive you.
and is also more intelligent than him
😃
it's hard for me to believe somebody would actually junk a car like this
Yeah it doesn't look like it was wrecked or anything.
Back when it first went in the yard, it was still just a dime-a-dozen Duster....
How times have changed!!!
As someone else mentioned when this thing likely went to the salvage yard they really weren't worth anything because they were still a ton of them around. Today completely different situation. Just the glass is worth something. Try finding a windshield or a side window for one of these. Parts are getting harder and harder to find. Engine stuff's no problem but if you needed a block out of a salvage yard good luck. So it gets expensive if you need to call Jasper for a reman just to get a running short block.
I think it's one of the reasons why everybody LS swaps everything. Cuz there's a ton of those available in junk yards and they're cheap
Most times the springs would rust thru the trunk and the cars would rot out
50 years ago they were considered shit on wheels.
I was a ASE master tech for over 30 years and yes they are just that tough.
Good friends with a master tech and he kept a slant six running for his mother. Main reasons; it was a reliable vehicle, would run forever with minimal care, and not so much vehicle beyond the control of his mother. My brother's first car was a Valiant 100 and it took him and I through college and kept it another five years after college.
Ass master tec...
Grandpa's 64 Dart is out in the driveway right now giggling under the car cover.
Come to the slant side. It is your destiny. 😈⛽
Slant sixes are not junk, glad it started. Joke is on you..
Actually joke is on you....it was a skit
@@junkerup Well isn't the joke on you though? You said it wasn't going to start and at the end it did.
Those engine are hard to kill
@@garettperez6436 indeed we're restoring two 1972 Plymouth Dusters and one had the slant 6 still in it and we started her up after 20 years of sitting
@@garettperez6436 heck if you go to my RUclips channel I have a video of it starting up
Long live the Slant Six! I have one in a D150 and will never sell it.
I have a warlock stepside D150 that was factory ordered with slant 6... 870,000 miles later and still has180 PSI Compression.
Leaning tower of power!
@@BenjaminKehtler I'm hoping to find a D150 one day with a slant!
A friend in high school had one in his dart. He changed the oil but didn't tighten the drain plug. Went on a 100 mile trip and it fell out somewhere. He drove it at least 20 miles with no oil. Put a new drain plug and oil in it and drove it for years until someone ran into it and totaled it.
Yea, ok.
That ant shit look at what Cold War stars up
@@ronaldwilson9366 I love cold war motors
I assure you it didn’t go 20 miles with no oil in it
I believe it, my pops had a purple 71 Buick Skylark that ran out of oil in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, we drove atleast 40 minutes with no oil, stopped at a sports bar for food and everything. Them old cars before the computers run like champions lol
I literally drove one of these for a year with a rod that had broke . It broke at the cap and came through the block under the intake manifold.. I wired it up out of way to the manifold and cut a piece of metal , and trimmed out for the rod, siliconed it to the block and pulled plug wire.... lol.... it worked !!!! Just add a little oil every once in a while cause it didn’t seal very good to block after a while and had a miss... lol
I knew a guy that blew #5&6 out the side... Fished out the pieces, covered the hole. Tweaked carb n timing n drove it for another week... First time id ever seen a Slant 4!!!🤣🤣
I had a cab co. in the 70s & 80s; I ran the '72 to '74 Dodge Dart with the Slant 6. Even "driver neglect" couldn't kill these engines! A lot of my vehicles reached 200,000 mi. before retirement. They're easy to work on for the most part.
Yup they didnt make enough power to hurt themselves and the valves floated long before catastrophic engine speed could be obtained
I'm 72 and have been following your channel for quite a while, I'm an ole Mopar guy from the muscle car era. But I have to admit, this video is the one I most enjoyed from you. Thanks for the down to earth fun!! Two thumbs up . . . Rog
The old 225 leaning tower of power I knew it would start. You should get a hold of Uncle Tony he's built a few of these slant sixes and put out some pretty impressive numbers
Love uncle tony gives great slant 6 tips
they kinda are total shit tbh....they keep running but they are weak as f....
Heck No - he leaves more power wasted then he makes, and demonstrated how little he actually knows the moment he rotated the pistons to reverse the offset of the pin. Maybe even worse then the Power Nation build.
You're far better off reading Doug Dutra's articles, they'll at least get a builder close to the Slant's potential.
Ole gm blue flame straight six is a beast as well
@@brianproffitt7263 The Ford 300 inline 6 is the king of the gas inline 6's.
One of the best engines Chrysler has ever made ! My parents 1976 Dodge Aspen had a venerable Slant 6 , the engine outlasted the car lol . CHEERS >>>
Worked for a Dodge dealer for quite a while. The slant 6 and the 318 were pretty tough engines. About all you had to do was adjust the valves every 6 or 7 years. All but the very last slant 6's in the pickups had solid lifters.
Only the poly 318s and the 1964-67 LA 273 had mechanical lifters. The LA 318 introduced in 1967 and the LA 273 in 1968 and 1969 had hydraulic lifters which required no adjustment.
The leaning tower of mopars , the slant 6
Chris Firing Order On Slant Six Is On The intake Manifold
Your capitalisation of every word make you look like a total MORON.
@@johncoops6897 - Your need to point this out makes you a total child......
@@bennettdaykon1485 - So you reckon that I am stating the obvious, huh?
@@johncoops6897 yeah what are ya? Gay?
@@neilwhitmore - Sorry, no. Why do you ask, are you trying to get a date?
I owned a 1966 Dodge Dart with a slant 6. That engine would not quit!
You should get the Scotty Kilmer, RUclips Personality Disorder Award for this video.
Him and Mr. Rev Up Your Engines are smarter than the new POTUS* and most of congress.
No one cares what that hack thinks
@@Welcometofacsistube Scotties celica is the best though.
I drove that exact motor in a 1969 Plymouth Valiant from Illinois to Alaska, 3740 miles up the AL-CAN highway!!!!!!! and it was definately not junk!!! I got almost 28 mile per gallon, and it was fast as hell, never overheated, and ran like a champ, all I did was change the oil.
Back then we used to laugh at them. But they would just run...and run. The car would be completely gone from rust but the engine ran perfect.
My first car was a 1976 dodge aspen with a slant six. That was back on 1987. Was a great little engine and yes I beat the snot out of it......
That car probably rusted away, but the engine is probably still there and will be running after Armageddon!
you're that one neighbor that everyone just loves
Un less u need u car fixed or something welded or help of some kind. Then u really LOVE US.
Or the one neighbor that everyone completely hates. I'm that guy with all the old cars laying around
@@timothydockery534 hang on to ur stuff. Put up a fence cover them up . Move them around. In P.A. U CAN BUY ANTIQUE PLATES ONE TIME. AND THAT CAN SHUT THEM UP.
I would have no problems being his neighbor. Tbh I'm happy with anyone I don't think will steal my crap...too bad its getting to be a lot to ask for now.
My brother had a Valiant 100 and we loved that beauty. 32 miles per gallon at 55 mph. Averaged 24 regularly. Lasted for 200,000 when we got it with 100,000 miles on it. NEVER left us, ALWAYS got us home. Nothing but love for the Valiant and the beautiful Slant 6!! Thanks for being a man about it. Do yourself a favor; get it running, you'll sell it, trust me. There are lots of idiots out here like me who love dependability.
I had no doubt; it’s a Mopar.
They will always run. My power wagon was sitting for 20 years after a engine fire. Started turn of the key
If there was ever an engine that needed a simple basic throttle body fuel injection system, it was this engine. Not for any power gains, but just for perfect drivability.
@@scdevon who knows how long they would last with fuel injection and synthetic oil.
@@larryfogle3697 The port fuel injected Ford 300 six had the fuel injection system that Chrysler should have given the Slant Six and kept it around longer like Ford did with the injected 300.
@@larryfogle3697 I ran synthetic oil in mine for a little while until I swapped it for a V8. It will likely go back in after a rebuild and tune-up.
Had a '69 Dart with the 225 slant six. Bought it in '74, sold it in '84. Absolutely trouble-free, dependable car and engine,
My first car was a slant six 74 duster. Loved the car but it had no balls. Thank you for sharing this. Brings back memories. I'm 52 years old now
My first was a '72 with a slant-6 😎
Well who's ego just got kicked in the arse . We had these engines in Valiant S series in Australia. . My step father left me his 1962 when he died, took 6 years to restore it. Now sits in my shed with some early G.M.Holdens.
In my day those slant 6’s were tough and indestructible.
They still are they are tough and indestructible one of the longest engines made too from 1959 until 2000
@@79tazman What BS! Average in every way exalted in status by fan boys.
My only complaint about the slant six I had, was its California emissions package. It destroyed any power and mileage it should have had.
Had a 71 reliant with a 318 sold it with a cracked block and the guy who bought it drove it over 3 years that way mopar can’t beat it baby!
@@johnshilljejr3799 318’s were great also. Very durable. But those slant sixes were unreal. Throw in cooking oil and she would still run. Lol.
Most reliable car I've ever owned was a 1968 Dodge Dart with a slant six and a 904 Torqueflite.
Happy Motoring.
I have a 68 dart with a slant 6 sitting out in the woods at my little farm. I’ve been wondering if she would start. Looks like someone left it there 30 years ago.
@@Ridendrty At one point my dart had been sitting for a few years and my brother asked me if he could use it. I said sure so he came over with a battery and a young neighbor kid said that car's not gonna start. We put some gas in the carb and vrooom it started right up. Wish I still had that car.
My dad bought a 68 225/904 used in 1975. It was steel blue. The front fenders were rotted behind the wheel due to Western NY salt. He used old tin duct to make patches and pop riveted them on then painted with blue touch up paint. It also had a vertical dent in the middle of the trunk lid between the taillights that all Darts seemed to acquire. It’s only reliability problem was after every new year’s when he would leave to go back to work, it wouldn’t start. The point and condenser would need replacing. So after a couple of times having to do this in the cold, he got proactive and replaced them in late October, they still went bad on New Years. Never did figure that one out. Finally the transmission dumped all its fluid. He had several more including a 70 198/3spd, a 1974 225 auto and a 1973 225/auto duster. I drove all of them but the 68 as I didn’t have my license yet.
@@odb_roc_hound4186 I bought mine used also, in 1973 I think. The people that owned it did not take care of it and there were problems with the engine. I had a 170 laying around on my dad's farm so I had the head cut 90 thousands and bumped up the compression. It was a real runner for a six. We got a Caravelle for my son in a swap for the dart. The Caravelle was a great car for him until a big tree branch fell on it. In the dart I always kept the old points and condenser, a trick I learned from my dad, so just in case of a no start I had a set of points that I knew worked in the glove compartment. My dart was also blue as was my 70 Swinger with a 340 four speed with 391 rear. That car I really miss but as my family grew the need for speed was put on the back burner and eventually sold. Have a great day.
I had a 68 with the 170 engine, but later on bought a new 74 Dodge Dart Sport with the 225. Unfortunately, it had California emissions, and ran poorly. I always regretted selling it instead of removing all the emission crap.
Come on Chris Have a heart. I remembered you purchased a 2nd Gen Charger with a slant 6 that you were going to work on. LOL.
Al Bundy called said he wants his car back!
My first car 70 valiant scamp 2dr. Sat in a field for years before I tried to start it. One spray in the carb and i was cruzin for the next couple years. $125 was well worth it 😄
Chris, I've been a Chevy guy my whole life! In the 70's when the now rare and $$$ muscle cars were plentiful and cheap. There were Ford guys and Chevy Guys that was basically it, street racing and bragging rights. Although we all knew the 426 Hemi dominated the drag strips, thank you Don Garlits! But I got a retirement project a '68 Dodge A100 van with a 225 Slant. I gotta admit I'm warming up to this engine! It's tough as nails, easily modified for a little extra H.P. and still gets 20 mph! I look at it as easy to work on as my Briggs and Stratton mini bikes in 8th grade! Heck they're so simple, yet ingenious it's stupid. Hope to see you as you roar past me on rt 66!
My father had one of those in a 64 dodge pickup he drove it to around 300,000 miles. the only reason he stopped driving it was because the rust was so bad you could not keep the doors shut if you did get them shut.
😂😂😂
That dirt in the engine compartment was driving me crazy. I kept thinking, "If it starts up, all that dirt is gonna get sucked in the carb." Speaking of that, maybe I would have blown compressed air in the spark plug holes in case there was sand blown in there. Before the wd40.
I'd like to see the slant six tuned up and used as a driver.
OMG you’re cracking me up!!!!!! I have a 64 valiant with a slant six and I’m so happy that thing started! U kept getting more & more curious! Love it!! 😂😂😂😂😂
Had a freind that had one. with a four speed and he put a four barrel it was quik it won't beat no v-8 but it would give them a run for it's money. if they weren't taking him serious he would get them
I had a 1984 Dodge Ram pickup with a slant six and I had that truck for many years and could not kill the engine. The only issue I had was a module that was attached to the underside of the air cleaner stopped working. I was really impressed with the abuse I give it. The engine Did not drip a drop of oil.
Slant 6's are reliable as they say trust me I tested the slant 6 for reliability and they are great they fire right up in the dead of winter without a issue and they will even run with a rod hanging out the side of the block after turning north of 8 grand they are a great engine
mine doesn't 😆 I gotta crank it for a few seconds to get her to fire up.
Slant 6 - Absolute proof that old Mopars can be daily driven!
I worked at a service station in the early 70's. A customer that used to come in had a '62 or 3 Dodge with a slant 6. It had a rod knock and burned a quart or two of oil a day. We'd give him drain oil to burn in it. He'd rev it up and fog the drive for mosquitos. He tried to kill it but the thing wouldn't die. That winter on a record -26 morning, it was one of the few cars that started. We couldn't believe it. Probably because of low compression
Stuck with you long enough to watch that ol slanty give you the middle finger. That’s a fantastic little engine..
Chris: I know that you were just "funnin" us with this story, but I'm a hard core MOPAR guy who loves this motor. I have a 1974 Duster with a slant six and I just love driving it. I also own a 440 powered 1969 Charger, so I've got both ends of the spectrum. Both are equally fun to drive. The difference is that the Charger rumbles, and the Duster purrs. Sometimes you want to rumble, and sometimes you want to purr.
Slant-6 is my favorite engine ever made. I took the crankshaft from a Valiant with a 300,000 mile Slant-6 to a friend who is a machinist. "That's massive and it's forged! What's that from, a diesel bulldozer?" Nope, a Slant-6 1974 Valiant with 300,000 miles on it. "This crank just needs a cleaning, it's in great shape."
It's an amazing engine. Chrysler originally designed them as an aluminum-block racing engine, but aluminum casting was in its infancy, so Chrysler just started pouring them in iron. They are massively stronger than a 6 cylinder car engine needs to be. And that intake breathes really well. There are two-barrel and four barrel intakes available too.
Buick 3.8L (231) and Chrysler Slant-6, most are 3.7L/225, are pretty close in displacement. I always wanted to put a Buick 3.8L SFI Turbo setup, like from a Buick Grand National, onto a Slant-6. Closest I got was a Pontiac Iron Duke TBI setup, because the displacement per cylinder was the same. My Slant-6 Dodge Ram was idling about 400RPM (the computer was from a 4-cylinder car, and counting distributor pulses, so the computer thought the engine was spinning faster than it was). Oil pressure at idle was good and the original Mopar alternator was still charging, so no problem.
The damned thing would pull stumps. And a car trailer. And hold 75MPH across Michigan with no problem. And get about 25 MPG with a car trailer behind it.
Behold the Mighty Slant-6.
A cheap mod would be to put a Carter 2-bbl intake and carburetor onto it. If your exhaust manifold is cracked, put on a header. And remember that most later Slant-6 cars, like that Duster, were geared for economy like 2.93; stick in a 4.11. A Slant-6 with those mods can easily smoke off the tires.
Ah Yes that slant 6 sound ! I had a couple of them , They always sound like bucket of rocks rolling down a hill , BUT ... They always Run !
1977, my vocational auto shop teacher, told my 16 year old butt, that a slant 6 was like a fat Italian wife. You cant kill em.
Yes they are. I drive a 84 d100 4 speed slant in Saskatchewan. Starts -40c. Starts +40c. DOESNT quit.
ive seen one run without a pan or rocker cover, no oil and being doused with a firehose. it kept running. it was being used in an infomercial for some wonder lubricant, but i think they picked a /6 to have a better chance of survival.
Hey... *idea* .... Emoticon '/6', when you key it in you get a piccie of a Satellite :
The firing order is right on the intake just like every mopar with it's factory intake if the carb was puking all you gotta do is tap the carb the needle valve is stuck open.
If I lived near you, I would buy it, clean it up, rebuild the carb and drive it.
73 dust pan
Makes you wonder why it was taken to the bone yard 🤔🤔
The car probably outlived the owner.
when he threw that screw driver and changed that box from the v8 cuz it actually started , I was like wtfff , shiiit , no f......... way, PRICELESS
Easy to fix and would run even with worn out bearings/ rings. Might lack power at that point but would still get you home. I always carried a spare ballast and ignition module but they were cheap and you were back on the road in 5 min. It was never the motor itself that caused problems.
A friend of mine had a 1964 Dodge Polara with the G engine.( 225 slant six) it got to the point it had NO power what so ever. The best he could get was about 40 MPH floored. So he gave it to a mechanic he knew that loved the G engine as much as the guy in this video hates it. He took it apart and found the libes on the camshaft were worn down to nubs. The valves were hardly opening. With a cam like that, it was a miracle it even ran. He replaced the cam and a few other things, and it ran like new. The slant six was the timex of engines. They took a lickin and kept on tickin.
I am offended you called the slant a tractor engine. My dad had one on his Case combine, but I never saw one in a tractor.
We had one in a road grader.💁
My dad and I. Used one as generator. With a converter. Ran the lights and heaters. For our garage. For 13 years. Then sold it. Guy asked how many miles. We went to the shelf and got the cluster. 57k miles. Still new. Just breaking in....lol.
I know a junkyard that has one that powers their crusher
We had one in our Yale forklift.
And my Duster.
I'm pretty sure that all American in-line 6's have their origins in commercial/industrial uses.
I've seen the oil drained and brick on the pedal for about two gallons of gas put gas and oil back in started right up. Had a nasty tick though. Impressive.
A farmer I knew had an old combine with a slant 6 industrial engine on it. it hadn't had an oil change since 1989 and had been run every season. I changed the oil on it in 2017. the machine is falling apart with a leaking radiator now but that engine is still solid as a rock.
I went through the same thing with my car haven't been registered since 84. I pour oil in the cylinder to beef up the Compression. It finally ran.
Never Bet Against a Slant Six!!! I've Seen One Run on 5 cyl with a rod through the side of the block.
I towed one like this off the interstate. Lady only stopped because it got loud . hole in the block ,rod laying on the control arm.got it home and it still ran on 5 cylinders
It's alive!!! Cool looking patina call it Franky short for Frankenstein. Love those 6's come on Chris give it some love.
Back in 1983 I got a 1979, I think, Plymouth Volare for cheap money. Perfect green body and a perfect cloth interior. Great road car and got very good gas mileage. I was driving back and forth between Houston and Austin and back every weekend doing about 70 mph and getting 30 mpg. For a 6 passenger car that was very good. The 3 years I had it I only had to work on it once when the motor started overheating and it wasn't an engine problem. The muffler had clogged up. My Dad had a 3 foot long screwdriver that we just punched through one end of the muffler and out the other. We were in the depths of a recession in 1986 and I was out of work, so when the A-904 auto transmission went out I had to just leave it where it stopped. It deserved better.
I drove a truck with a 225 ten miles to a repair shop and it had a busted crank in it! It would shake when starting out but ran fine after you got going. We put a crank kit in it and ran it another fifty thousand miles, sold it, and as far as I know it's still running!
Had a slant 6 225 (1977) for 18 years; I agree it was a gutless engine but bulletproof. I never touched the engine other then a tune up when it was 12 years old. One alternator, 2 starters. The body fell apart around the engine. I sold it to a farmer who put it in a truck which was used for fuel back and forth to the field. I last talked to him 10 years later and it was still going.
I live in western Canada where the winters can go down to -30 to -40 and it never let me down. Sold it when I replaced it with a dodge Dakota. Engine was slow; no great for power, could not pull much but reliable and dependable. Indestructible.
Guy I met had a duster like that that was an original slant six car. Bought it from a college kid who ran it low on oil once. The kid was commuting to college with it about 20 miles a day, and he ran it out of oil and kept driving it. It threw two rods through the block and it kept on going. Finally he got concerned of the lack of power and took it to a dodge dealership and the techs were astounded the car still ran. Got another story: my uncle was a mechanic back in the day and a girl came in with a valiant that had thrown a rod. She ran low on oil in upstate New York and took the car to a service station. The service station guy put a rag in the hole in the engine, topped off the oil and she drove it from upstate New York to my uncles shop in pa (about 150 miles) with a rag in the block. They are stout engines. I’ve never owned one (I have a big block Polara) but I’ve always wanted one and I love the slant six.
Can't kill 'em Chris. Me and my friends have TRIED to kill them, and we couldn't. Ran 'em with no oil, ran 'em with 2 stroke premix, ran 'em through the woods jumpin' stumps and rocks...and we just couldn't kill 'em. No matter WHAT we did...
@Michael Keegan When slant sixes toss a rod, it's always number five. I don't know why.
slick 50 is kind of corrosive. wasnt that great in fair comparison tests in an infomercial. prolong delivers on it's promises a little better
I ran my dodge scamp without oil for two weeks . It finally siezed up . I gave it to a friend of mine . He put oil in it and drove it for a long time.
@@jonathanseagull.4551 One of my friends had a Dodge van with a slant six. One day he brought it to my shop to check the oil. I put five quarts in it. I said "Wait here and don't start it yet." I went to the parts store and got a filter. We changed the oil without pulling the drain plug.
@@mikefrech1123 They had exhaust manifold issues . I always carried ballast resistors in the glove box for the electrical part.
Minnesota Highway patrol used some Plymouth Furys with slant six engines. They were good enough to go 112 MPH, that's all they needed. My nephew had one retired from the Highway Patrol, had 100,000 miles on it and would still go over 100 mph. I have a slant six 225 in a 1978 Dodge short box D100, it is my daily driver, only problem is the gas gauge quit working!
Just LOVE the station wagon behind you#!!
Chris i had and Duster with a 340 in it ! Pulled it stiuck a slant six 225 and it cost 12.00 in gas from Salt city ut to Bakersfield ca and it was a notch off and still ran like crazy ,love your videos and your good at what you do keep up the good job !
Dude, I like American v8 motors as well and currently have a 1998 Dodge RAM 5.9L v8 MAGNUM that's my daily driver here in Alaska...I do love that v8 sound thru a Flowmaster muffler! *Not to sound ugly, but I'm glad the SLANT\6 beat you* there as I've was an owner of one for almost 25 years and it still runs. Good video & proof _The Leaning Tower of Power_ is hard to keep down, unlike many American v8 engines.
They are the little engines that could... you are correct thou are slow but very reliable, used on fork lifts, motor gens, boats, small trucks, cars, pumps,and lot more.. that is what gives them charm, at first i did not care for them either, after awhile they grow on you, mine (74 Dart)became like a old friend. till wrecked oh well... take care , a lot of people would like that car.
Don't let Dulcich hear this slant 6 blasphemy. 😂
grerat video!! i rember back in 1990 and again in 1993 i bought 2 dodge dart swingers! back then they were cheap as hell!! i think i paid $350.00 for them!! anyway they both had the slant 6 engine!! BEST ENGINE EVER!!!! i actually wish i still had them!! what a great reliable well running engine!!!! i miss thoes cars!!!
I've owned one in a Aspen and it broke a rod and windowed the block. The worse part was it left me sitting on the side of the road in Minnesota during the winter, when the temp was a toasty 0 degrees F.
My dad loved them. But the last car he owned with one was a 80's diplomat. It spun a rod bearing and locked up the engine. He picked up another engine from the salvage yard and we swapped it in. It made it just over 10 miles and developed a rod knock. He was so ticked off, he hauled the car to the same yard he got the engine from and scrapped the car.
I think this is probably one of my favorite videos you have done Chris, when that slant 6 started, that was the absolute greatest thing ever!
I like the heater hoses tied to the PCV valve with rope. Real old school working class daily driver stuff. These cars were made for working people.
The slant 6 was a strong engine, it's big issue was that because of the slant, the oil would drain off the high side of the piston and rings even overnight, and when you started it up the high side was dry. Motors with high mileage would have a lot of wear on the high side.
What you say is of course true, but every V8's cylinder banks are slanted as well.
My first car was a '70 Dart with a slant 6, that I paid $50 for. On the last day of my temp tag, I drained the oil and water out of it because I wanted another car. Drove it 15 miles away, jumped some railriad tracks and broke the drivee's side upper ball joint. Drove it back home with the tire sticking out at about 45%, got home, let it cool off, added water and oil and it fired right up. Sold the motor for twice what I paid for the car, bought a '73 Monaco from my nieghbor. My old motor wound up in a Dart Swinger...
ive have owned 6 off them excellent motors!!!
Build it. Had a 78 Plymouth Volarie. Sounded like that in 88. You deserve more viewers. Every bit as interesting as VGG.
I love Dusters so much. My mom had a Dart Sport when I was a kid and I guess I have always just liked that fastback body.
This was great. Unbreakable.
The fact it wasn't seized after sitting with no spark plugs should have been enough.
Early '70s, a friend had a Hot Rod magazine article about modding a slant 6 to run a 4bbl. His daily driver, mid '60s Ford Econoline van, 383 Mag, 727 and SureGrip.
GF needed a car. Clean '64 (?) Dart was found and he went all in with the rebuild, Offy intake and all. Ran good when it ran good :)
Family had a Duster as his first car. Dad had him keep a spare ignition box at all times. They'd fail without warning.
myself, '69 Charger same gear as the van. Got hit while parked in '80. I miss it all the time.
Had them for my first 3 cars and beat the crap out of them and the engines never died! In fact, my buddy took my last engine out of the last Dart and still runs it in his boat 46 years later after I had put 325,000 miles on her!
In my opinion, one of the best motors ever made. A friend of mine had one in an old Valiant. He beat the heck out of it and it never failed. Easy on the gas too!
You remind me of that fellow on demolition ranch. There's a make of handgun called high point. Cheapest on the market. He hates them. but they're actually so good that when he torture tested them they still could shoot. Even if they're strange and unglamorous they have their places.
alot of great things about those old slants, I love them. hell, I still have one that runs in my 70 Dart. It's a place holder until I build my 340. But it has a lot of things that IMO were not a good design. Oil filter location, especially on the a-bodies suck because you can't change the oil without spilling all over the idler arm which kills the bushing prematurely. also, the location of the dist suck, if you don't have an electronic ignition setup so changing/adjusting points sucks. inside the slant, was a shitty place to put those 2 things.
to remedy that I relocated the oil filter and installed a GM HEI ignition setup. I also converted it to a 2bbl and installed headers. my slant runs like a dream although you're right in that it can only sound so tough without that low thump of a V8. Advantages are they are long-lasting and they can run on nearly anything. they are reliable as hell although sluggish as hell. they'll get you anywhere although they do it slowly. My first car was a slant in a 71 Dart 4dr which I blew a hole in cylinder 1 keeping her floored across the Bay Bridge one late Saturday night trying to push her over 100mph. blew her out on the I880 in Oakland , for the record, keeping her floored, she stayed at 95mph for about 10 minutes before blowing. she died with 126k miles on her. replaced that motor with a factory short block. as a kid, I learned a lot about those slants.. later sold that car.
found my 2drhardtop with an engine compartment that looked like your car; completely neglected. replaced all the seals along with the other mentioned upgrades, and she runs like a dream. decided to leave it in as I was torn about what engine I wanted to eventually throw in my Dart. 360's are too "cookie cutter" for me. didn't really want to go with a 318 but that was the answer if I was going to go small block since 340 is what I really wanted but hard to come by. if I was going to go big block I was keeping my eye out for a 383. ended up stumbling across a 340 block...That was the ticket. it is rough bored thirty over so the answer seems to be to make her a 416cui stroker.
The slant has kept the car roadworthy because as I was raising kids I knew the car wouldn't go back together for some time until the kids were raised. Now they are out of the house I need to get the workshop built in the backyard. my thoughts are to go with trickflow heads, aluminum intake along with EFI as living at 7000 feet and traveling down to 4500 feet on a regular basis is pretty common where I live in Colorado. not to squirrely on the cam but something that can thump. the goal is to have something fun and peppy to run on pump gas that I can bolt on to the A833OD trans I yanked out of an aspen, while keeping her as "turnkey and go" as possible. Running 3.91's in the 8.75" rear I've installed in her should be pretty fun. Those are just thoughts at this point nothing that I have run across my engine builder yet.
For the record, the Slants were advertised as 8.4:1 compression although when measured were actually closer to 8:1 +/- .1...and 153624 is the other answer.
Good vid bro. I have a love/hate relationship with these motors. I love them because I have been tinkering on them for years. I hate them for all the reasons you do.
Slant 6 the engine that makes no horse power but can bend 2 pushrods and still run fine
The slant six is without a doubt the toughest, bullet proof engine ever produced by Mopar! I've had a couple myself. Yes, I'm an old man! LOL.
You cant kill a slant six have one in my d150 and she wont die lol
Enjoyed your video. The slant six has been the little engine that could - and it did ! Move over Thomas. You've got company. Long before the Duster there was the Valiant. I guess I should refer to it as Prince Valiant.
Had two /6 , one car one truck , both windowed in the lower side of the block and both of them would still run with a window in their side. Cool video Chris.....
I own a 63 Dart GT Slant 6 225 last May drove it 2400 miles in 10 days through the Mountains down south hit Nashville then drove home 815 miles in 12 hours at 75mph had 2 flat tires and no break downs. Also I have FACTORY A/C THAT KICKS ASS.
Love my SLANT 6.
Taxi engine. In a four door Satellite you can haul people around all day.
What a great video! I loved this, old tech still working and lasting
I am in a mopar A-body group and one of the guys was posting pics of his 1975 dart he bought for $1000 in 1984, still runs with 375,000 miles on it. Wish I could still buy one of those cars today, other than the challengers there really are not many cars that I can’t live without
I had a slant six and the distributor bolt was loose. You could spin the distributor back and forth and it would continue to run. It also would idle at 500 rpm. It was absoulutly indestructible .
They do make performance parts for that engine.
We love your channel, how about a joint carb rebuild video, with that vice grip guy
Love it. You need one, just one, in the fleet!!!!!!
Been watching your videos for a while now just recently subscribed thanks Chris
Traded a 1974 duster for a case of beer.. it had 180,000 miles on it with a blown cylinder, (not much power) I did Nothing to it! Then I put 100,000 miles on top of the 180,000 miles. .. it was my entire dorm commuter car! Beast!
As the owner of a slant six Dart with 370k miles, I am not too surprised that it started. If you had connected the carb to a source of fresh gas, it probably would have kept running just fine.
Slant six was an excellent economy motor. They were used for all kinds of applications. Many years ago we had two slants to pump water. Other than maintenance intervals. They ran 24/7. When I left that job they had basically run for three years. I don't remember any actual break downs. I was told they had been there long before I came. I figure at least 15 years. Oh yea, these were outdoor as we would move them around every so often. It was what it was intended to be. A economical motor with torque that comes on low in the rpm band. So it felt good around town. I had one in a dart with 389,000 miles on it. Junked it only cause the body was literally falling apart. The car lost two pounds every 100 miles. That motor lived on in one of the junkyards yard trucks. Though I doubt for long. We all best the hell out of the yard vehicles. They were already junked right? Well out of all that. I'm just sayin is all. ✌️
My Dad owned repair shops from 1954 to the mid 1990's. The 225 is one of his top 5 engines produced by American car makers. Under powered isn't a consideration when an engine goes 400K + that was manufactured in the 50's into the 90's when most motors wouldn't even go 100K without a top end rebuild...... Well, that would be Ford's of that era, anyway.
The problem with that engine, was the poor designed fuel system choaked the engine. Those engines were capable of a lot more.