My Odd Choices

From: Michael Maskalans (dml@tepidcola.com)
Date: Wed Oct 27 2004 - 21:31:44 EDT


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:57:31 -0400 (EDT), Jason Bleazard <dml@bleazard.net> wrote:

>> '98 Dakota SLT CC, 318/46RE/231, D44/Sterling 10.25, 4.10s, 35s on Humvee
>> rims
>> '84 RamCharger Royale SE, 360/727/208, stock, 3.21s, 32s
>
> It occurs to me that most people who owned one fairly new IFS truck, plus
> one older SFA truck, probably would have picked the opposite when deciding
> which one should be the daily driver and which should be the off-road
> monster. I realize you had extenuating circumstances with your axle swap,
> but it still amuses me that someone with a RamCharger sitting around would
> have gone to the trouble of building up a Dakota.
>
> I guess the RamCharger would have been too easy :-).
>

well the RC needs a pair of axles to be anything worthwhile anyway... so it would have just been a *simpler* axle swap ;-)

Also, the 250HP 115,000 mile EFI motor beats the hell out of the ill-tuned carburated 100HP 200,000 mile motor :^P

Lastly, I was counting to myself on the way home - I could think of 6 SAS Dakotas off the top of my head - and being one of like a dozen rigs is just cool.

-- 
Mike Maskalans             <http://mike.tepidcola.com/dodge/>
'98 Dakota SLT CC, 318/46RE/231, D44/Sterling 10.25, 4.10s, 35s on Humvee rims
'84 RamCharger Royale SE, 360/727/208, stock, 3.21s, 32s



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