I have a 97 ram 1500 sport 4x4. I have been thinking about swapping in a rebuilt 440 I have with trans and pulling the struggling 360 and auto out of it. I know it requires a spring change as well as motor mounts and trans crossmember. Has anyone done this or seen it done?

 

I would do it if I were you. It's been done before, but I don't think it was well documented. What trans do you have with it?

 

Stroke your 360 to a 408, less weight, way less money and the same performance. I beat up on old school 440s all day long with my 408.

You would have to ditch everything to go with 440, PCM, EFI, wiring, transmission....Suspension etc etc....

 

If you try doing a search you will find tons of threads about people asking "What does it take? And can you help me?"

First off if you have to ask then you shouldn't be trying it yourself.
Second is that as adobedude said you'd be way way better off if you rebuilt your 360 or stroked it to a 408. What is the expected HP of your 440 you have?

IMHO taking a EFI vehicle and making it a carb vehicle is just plain foolish.

 

Wrong....My Dakota 408 sucked on EFI, tuned by 2 different tuners with SCT, I gave up. Now it's deadly consistent with a carb, and runs better too. Granted this is a strip only build, but don't say going to carb is foolish, someone that did might just put you the trailer.

Now for my poke along Ram...Who cares? If it runs, I'm good.

 

You have a strip only build. I don't think anybody would argue that a carb makes perfect sense in that application.

 

Well as an avid off-roader I will take EFI any day over a carb. Now granted if the EFI isn't working right a carb might be easier. But after running carbs for many years I'll take EFI.

You and all the other people who have had issues trying to get their 408 running right with the EFI on our trucks. I won't know on my Jeep until next spring. I have to decide if I want to go with Sean or Ryan for the tuning.

 

@ Wildman Ryan

I'll go carb thank you.

 

my 1982 RAM 250 came with a 318. when i put a 360 in it looked like it had holes for a big block in the frame. my 360 with a 68 340 4 speed cam i walked all over a stock ford power stroke.

 

I'm with ya there, man. It sucks when your engine is flooded in a precarious spot on a wickedly steep slope, and sucks in an entirely different way when you've got to mash the gas pedal to the floor to make up for the liquid fuel pouring into the intake manifold from the overflow tubes. Give me injection for off-roading, or I'm taking my backpack instead!