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5.2 vs 5.9 internal questions

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Old 10-12-2016 | 01:07 PM
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I've always been one to follow the old rule, "There's no replacement for displacement".

My Dakota has a 5.9L out of a 94 ram, and somebody is telling me that i should have gone with a 5.2L instead. He is telling me that the 5.2 has forged internals and the 5.9 has cast internals. Is he right?

I assumed he was talking out of his ***, because i know they're all based off the same design. But now i'm starting to wonder if he's actually right. I tried searching all around, but i didn't make it very far.
 
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Old 10-12-2016 | 07:06 PM
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So far as I know, from the factory, the truck V-8's had all cast internals. Not that it really matters, as the bottom end on these engines were basically indestructible anyway. It's the heads that really suck.
 
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Old 10-14-2016 | 10:56 AM
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So far as I know, from the factory, the truck V-8's had all cast internals. Not that it really matters, as the bottom end on these engines were basically indestructible anyway. It's the heads that really suck.
That's what i figured. haha.
 
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Old 10-17-2016 | 11:47 AM
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There is one interesting difference regarding the manufacturing of 5.2/5.9 internals. The 5.2 is internally balanced. The is 5.9 externally balanced.
 
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Old 10-17-2016 | 01:58 PM
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Some of the earlier pre-1970 318 (5.2) motors had steel cranks in them - primarily motors destined for trucks.
 



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