Dodge Dart 1967 – Street Outlaws DOMINATOR

Dominator’s 1967 Dodge Dart built its Street Outlaws reputation on a nitrous-fed Hemi, but owner Joe Woods eventually tore that combination out for something far more extreme. The car’s current heart is a 632 cubic-inch big-block Chevrolet paired with twin 88mm turbochargers, a serious departure from its Mopar roots. Here’s why a Dart built for nitrous ended up running a turbocharged Chevy engine instead.

Dominator has gone from a nitrous powered setup to a big block chevy 632ci twin 88mm turbo powered setup he will be running this year!

Street Outlaws fans know the show as a proving ground where old iron gets pushed to genuinely dangerous limits, and few cars on the roster illustrate that better than Dominator’s 1967 Dodge Dart. For years this car ran a nitrous-fed Hemi, the kind of combination that built its reputation on the streets long before television cameras showed up. Then its owner, racer Joe Woods, tore that setup out entirely for something built around raw boost instead of a nitrous bottle, a complete philosophical shift for a car that made its name the old-fashioned way. Why would a die-hard Mopar racer walk away from the combination that built his reputation in the first place?

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From Nitrous Hemi to Twin-Turbo Big Block

Nitrous had powered Dominator’s Dart for years, delivering the kind of instant, on-demand power boost that built the car’s reputation on the street long before television cameras ever showed up to film it. But big-power turbo builds have increasingly taken over the Street Outlaws grid in recent seasons, largely because they deliver consistent, repeatable power pass after pass without the all-or-nothing hit, and inherent risk, of cracking a nitrous bottle at the wrong moment. Woods’ new combination centers on a 632-cubic-inch big-block built by Troy Scott Race Engines, paired with a pair of 88mm Turbonetics turbochargers, a setup capable of dramatically more horsepower than the nitrous Hemi it replaced, and far more consistent from run to run.

A Chevy Heart in a Mopar Body

Swapping a big-block Chevrolet into a Dodge Dart is the kind of decision that would raise eyebrows in almost any garage outside of grudge racing, where brand loyalty tends to run deep and a Mopar body with a Chevy heart can feel like a genuine betrayal. But on the street-racing scene, results tend to matter more than badge pride, and the combination transformed Dominator from a nitrous-era holdover into one of the more formidable turbocharged builds running in Street Outlaws. It is proof that a 1967 Dart built for a completely different era of racing can still hang with purpose-built race cars more than fifty years after it left the factory.

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