Magnum engine in an A-body?

yossarian19 said
I know, I know - it has probably been covered a million times. I searched a bit and didn't find what I was looking for.
Basically, I'm 26 and have grown up with fuel injection. I like it, I get it, I want to keep it. On the other hand, my old man always had muscle cars and I want one of those, too.
I understand the wiring issues involved.
What else would need to be done to fit a Magnum series 5.2 or 5.9 into a 72 Dart? Engine mounts? Bellhousing patterns? Anything else?

And what kind of performance can you get while keeping the EFI, anyone know where to go for that kind of tech?
Thanks for any help guys.

I don't know jack about the injection I saw a dyno test comparison between a stock injected 360 Magnum compared to a carburated 360 Magnum that had a dual plane M1 intake, a 750 Holley, headers and a stock camshaft. The injected 360 had slightly more horsepower but the carbed 360 had more torque by 40 ft lbs. I am installing a 92 360 Mag with an 850 Thermoquad in my 70 Dart. Trans-Dapt engine swap mounts at Summit 65 bucks, inexpensive headers 120 bucks at Summit, If you use the flexplate,balancer, and converter that came with the Magnum engine you should have no balance issues.My situation is a tci converter neutral balance with no weights, professional products balancer, the factory magnum flexplate which I had to elongate one of the holes in as some magnum flexplate /converter combos had one hole on the flexplate slightly offset... all this is mated to a 904 with a reverse manual valve body.. You should be able to bolt up a 727/A518 or a 904/A500. An 80's 904 will have a lower first gear 2.45versus 2.76 and will be lighter and take less parasitic horsepower to run. If youre already have a car equipped with a v8 and a 904 tranny and and 8 3/4 rearend you will not have to cut the driveshaft to shorten it. If you have a 7 1/4 and are going to and 8 1/4 , 8 3/4 or something like a mustang or explorer rearend you will be shortening it..Camshaft choice with the factory injection can be tricky . If the cam is too lumpy you will constantly be throwing codes. I would keep the original serpentine belt arrangement as the original pump is reverse flow and that way you could avoid hunting down pulleys, a balancer, flex, LA timing cover etc etc etc. If I was doing my swap again I would buy a wrecked vehicle that has the original drive train which would keep you from having to hunt down a lot of parts.Look at Hughes Engines or KRC Performance for cams and technical knowledge.