Swapping a LS1 into a 99 Dakota R/T
I talked my buddy into doing this after his dakota with bolt ons barely beat my saturn from a dig and lost to it from a roll lol. We just started on it tonight. had the motor/trans out in 2.5 hours. He can weld anything and make whatever he needs to fit the LS1 in his truck He's also putting the truck on a diet. The curb weight is 3481lbs according to what I found online. Between the lighter motor/trans and things that he's removing, we feel it will be around 3000lbs w/o driver; possibly less. The motor will be internally stock for the time being, but will have intake/full exhaust/UD pulley & tuned of course. Eventually a nice sized torque converter will be installed. He already has 4.56 gears in it, however we might go back to the stock 3.92's.
I'll post up some pics a lil later. We're shooting to have the new powerplant installed this weekend
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Last edited by 98tadriver; 04-27-2012 at 10:32 PM.
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