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I'm getting out of the drag racing scene for right now and have recently picked up interest in building and fooling around with mud machines! I picked up a 2001 dodge 1500 that has a major lift and currently on 44's. although i know from common knowledge im gonna wanna swap the axles out to more heavy duty capable axles. The current motor is a weak 318. thats gonna need to be replaced anyways. which brings me to my tech question! how much trouble would it be to put a older carb'd engine into this truck?? I APPRECIATE ANY AND ALL FEEDBACK!! thanks.
I'm getting out of the drag racing scene for right now and have recently picked up interest in building and fooling around with mud machines! I picked up a 2001 dodge 1500 that has a major lift and currently on 44's. although i know from common knowledge im gonna wanna swap the axles out to more heavy duty capable axles. The current motor is a weak 318. thats gonna need to be replaced anyways. which brings me to my tech question! how much trouble would it be to put a older carb'd engine into this truck?? I APPRECIATE ANY AND ALL FEEDBACK!! thanks.
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I had been toying with this idea myself. Only problem I could see is the issues with the dash. Without the computer I don't think the speedometer will work, nor will volts/oil/temperature. If it's just a mud truck I can't see how any of that would matter though. You can get aftermarket gauges that would fix pretty much all of those problems, even the speedometer if you wanted to. What I've been thinking about is putting a built 440 CID Six Pack in my truck, but I haven't looked into clearance issues/etc yet since I haven't had a chance to get the measurements from the engine bay yet.
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I had been toying with this idea myself. Only problem I could see is the issues with the dash. Without the computer I don't think the speedometer will work, nor will volts/oil/temperature. If it's just a mud truck I can't see how any of that would matter though. You can get aftermarket gauges that would fix pretty much all of those problems, even the speedometer if you wanted to. What I've been thinking about is putting a built 440 CID Six Pack in my truck, but I haven't looked into clearance issues/etc yet since I haven't had a chance to get the measurements from the engine bay yet.
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yes you would definatly need to change trans, no computer would not allow the electrnic torq contoller for the converter to work that trans depends on a LOT of signals reading corect. long story short u can smoke ur converter and trans jus becuse an improper o2 sensor reading. but 426/726 n 44 would be 1 B.A. S.O.B! deff need 2500 axles tho.lol that 9.25 and front 44 would be like toothpicks!