Welcome
@Quickshifter, I'm local, I-17 and Thunderbird area. There are a lot of darts in our area as you have seen, but not many AZ guys on the forum. I'm not a facebook person, they say the group there is a bit bigger and more active, I would not know. There are a number of groups around town, PHXAMM and MoparAZ. They are not Dart specific and I have never attended a gathering so I don't have any idea how many Darts there might be.
I'm looking forward to photos of your Dart....post when you can. I'm not of a mind to do much other than appearance "mods" if you can call them that. I have a K&N drop in filter, it needs to be cleaned but you can have it if you want to it.