"Joseph A. Orsini" <Joeman@gbonline.com> wrote:
: Hey guys,
: I might be buying a pretty nice '69 440 powered New Yorker.
: It would probably be a driver and kept up, BUT if anything
: should happen to it and it is broken beyond repair will a
: 440 physically fit in a 2wd non ac '99 Dak without major
: mods? Is there any way to get the FI setup to work with a
: big block?
Not the factory EFI setup, but you can definitely use an
aftermarket EFI system. The 440 in my '70 Barracuda is
fuel injected. The next time I fuel inject a vehicle, I
am going to give the MegaSquirt system a try, that seems
like the most economical route to take.
(http://www.bgsoflex.com/megasquirt.html)
: If I take the Dak off the computer how much will
: that screw up the rest of the truck?
I don't recall off the top of my head what the transmission
situtation would be in '99. It might be controlled by the
computer, in which case you'd need to swap out the trans also.
(Then again, maybe that's something that you would do anyway,
given the extra power of the big block.) If you were to do
this swap, I think you could probably expect to gut the dash
and build your own gauge panel, 'cause almost none of the
gauges, indicator lights, etc. will work without the computer.
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