Ok guys i know this comes up on here alot but i have never found a answer on the outcome. i have a 01 Ram 1500 with 318 nv3500 manual tranny. motor is going bad and looking and swapping in a 360 and keeping the manual tranny. I know i will need the 360 flywheel for the balancing but has anyone on here done this? i am wondering if i will have to swap ecms or if mine will work? thanks for any help!

 

your pcm will work. just get in contact with sean from hemifever, and get an sct tuner with tunes for a 360 instead of a 318, and you will be set!

 

I seem to remember there being something about the trans. that needs to be swapped so it can be compatible with the external balancing of the 360, I just don't remember what.

 

^ No. The converter handled 5.9 balancing until '96, but with manuals it has always been on the flywheel.

 

I thought all the 360's were externally balanced by the torque converter and flexplate? If 97+ and up are not then i have been wasting my time waiting no a new torque converter to finish my swap...

 

360 is externally balanced by the flex plate, converter is neutral balance.

Just went from an external balance 360 to an internal balance, had to use a flex plate from 318, and a neutral balance harmonic balancer, the converter stayed the same.

 

Unless that boat anchor is free, why would you want a 360? Much worse gas mileage with very little power gain. Even Chrysler listed the towing on a 360 as just barely more than the 318. It's a big, fat, thirsty pig of an engine.

 

p.s. It is the only V8 Chrysler has ever made that I can't stand. Even the 273 had a shiite-load of power before it blew up. Though that engine was far before any of you youngsters time probably.

 

ok so my 94 had a 360 in it and i swapped it out to a 318 from a 01'. I left the 360 torque converter in there and was told afterwards that the 360 torque converter had weights in it for balancing the 360, so i would need to pull the tranny back out and swap the torque converter. It has been sitting there waiting on meto buy a 318 torque converter. So I dont need to worry about the torque converter?

 

To clear this up.


All 360's are externally balanced from the factory. Magnum 360's had balancing weights on the converter through 1995. Then in 1996 they moved the balancing weight to the flex plate/harmonic balancer. All 360's with manuals are balanced by the flywheel (obviously) and harmonic balancer.