"Hoostine" <hoostine@hotmail.com> wrote:
: heh, it just so happens that there's an 89 single cab dak body in the paper
: for sale for $400...
: now, someone ruin my dreams and tell me what won't work here. nothing a
: sawsall, cutting torch, and mig welder won't fix i hope. what am i going to
: have to do to get that 440 into the dak? it's a 4cyl right now. also, how
: hard is it going to be to find a standard tranny for that engine? i hate
: auto's.
: it's not a 97, but it'll do i guess :)
I'm not saying it won't work (anything is possible with enough money, time
and immagination) :-) but just FYI, the pre-'91 Daks have a shorter engine
bay than the '91+ Daks, so it'll be an even tighter squeeze than a
'97. Probably the best Dak for a swap of this type is a Gen II, followed by a
Gen III, and a Gen I last of all. When they created the Shelby Daks (Gen I)
they had to use an electric fan in order to shoehorn a lil' ol' 318 in there,
to say nothing of the monster 440. :-)
---Jon-
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