A833 OD 340 4x4?
Get a wife; she'll strangle all your truck dreams, ............
Hahah people keep recommending this idea but I keep disregarsding it :lol:
Now, for the altitude... its not like Im going to be living up there, or even go there more than once a month...I still have to attend work, and overwork...specially if I want to keep the wife idea away. So, its more like going to the beach, and the mountains hardly go over 4500ft altitude. This brings me to an important point I haven't addressed- Its VERY hard to get parts here, let alone complete engines/trannys. Everything I have I have imported from the states, or some stuff laying around from grandpa and pops, and here is a land of chevies, not many mopars around...so thats a big issue. I have very little availability on spare parts, so I have to make do with what I have or overpayfor imported parts. Also, gas here sucks big time, so thats another issue.
As for what I have...I do have a 360 .060 over, with ugly van compression (like 8:1) and ugly van heads (nicely ported). Hugues' Whiplash cam (I do have a comps XE268 laying around, I have a manual reverse 727, and 3.55. Radials, for now, nice 15´sx8. Msd ignition, a 750 eddy (have a 500cfm laying around, eddy rpm intake, hooker headers, powermaster starter, and a nice optima battery. This makes starting the engine an easy task, and we dont get too cold a weather here. It does rain like crazy.
I have a 318 block I could use, have a 383 (Im thinking of this, but I was planning to swap the slant off my dart63 for the 383, and a 727 push button). I could get a big block for the Dakota, and make it fit. But the 360 is a finer than fine engine, and i could always eventually stroke it, i guess. I found a NP203 but for a chevy, so i guess I have to get an adapter? Or buy one off ebay already mopar fit.
But the more inbfo and input Im getting, specially from you (I appreciate it a lot, btw, thanks for taking the time), Im thinking this might be a very difficult task, and It would probably sacrifice the well being of the car. As said, I could get a Ram, say a 99er, and hop that up, Or, crazy thought, 4x4 a VAN, or a Caravan, which is something that would do the job much better, for camping comfort.
So, I will study your engine build idea. I WAS thinking of hopin up SCR to 10.5 with some nice hypereutectic, use some nice J heads I have laying around, big valves, and change the whiplash for the comp XE. Keep the 727, make vroom vroom, go fast sometimes and "cruise" other times, go to mickeyD's or Taco bell with the DAKOTA, and find something else, a cheap old car thats already setup for off roading/camping, and be practical.
Practicality...thats a good idea and a good moral to this story, no? Thats also why the wife idea im not too fond of. :)
Thanks again for your help. What do you think?
