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Originally Posted by True Spirit

The paint will almost be like the original green but a little bit darker metallic and the golden stripes.(forest green pearl to be exact) We are running the original dodge 318 with the 727 trans for right now, wanting to get a 360.

A 360 is easily stroked to a 408.

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I've found out that it is hard to find dodge small block headers if I do they are really expensive .

I hate it when you think you are done filling in dents and then you find more . I think its an unending cycle.

I bought a 1974 dodge truck from a friend of my dads. The body was shot but the engine has been rebulit lately. We don't know if the 360 has been bored over any though,

I ordered some headers for the truck today from summit racing.Should I put some header mufflers on it or just strait tubes.

You will definitely want mufflers of some type (and preferably tail pipes). If you are running the saddle tank instead of the behind the seat tank pipe routing can be a challenge for dual exhaust......usually requiring the drivers side pipe to be crossed over to the passenger side. Here's the post on how I did mine.

Shop Truck (True Spirit) Project


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Did you use headers on your true spirit?

I didn’t use headers on my True Spirit, but I did do the exhaust on a customers 78 that I assembled years ago. It was a 360 4 speed truck with headers.



I ran the exhaust pretty much the same as mine, except we used flowmasters on it, which fit really well by turning them vertically instead of running them flat.


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Ok thanks! P.S. That is a very pretty truck.

There has been a change with the True Spirit instead of the 360 we were going to use we are going to use a 413 big block that we found in an RV with only 84,000 miles.

There is no substitute for cubic horsepower. Good luck with the 413.

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