5.9 Magnum MPI swap flywheel idea

We're in the same boat. I'm swapping a T56 into my Dakota using a Quick Time Bellhousing. Of course the bell only works with a 130 tooth flywheel. Bruce at Modern Driveline is going to be selling a billet steel one, I'm first on his list.

He also tried to machine a 143 tooth flywheel down and install a new starter ring, but there seems to be in issue finding a factory flywheel that runs true enough. If you have a line on someone that can do this, please let me know and I'll be right on that.

Using a flexplate with the flywheel would take about a 1/4 inch spacer between the two and may push the flywheel back too far for the starter to properly engage and there may also not be enough splines on the input shaft.

Of course moving the CPS to the damper would eliminate the need for the tone ring. That is going to be my last resort as it would involve making a mount for the pickup, extending the wires and fabbing a new tone ring.

Didn't they use a 143 tooth flywheel with pre-Magnum small blocks in some trucks? Finding that bellhousing may be challenging, but that should work for an 833.

Finally you could probably get one from Keisler, but I have no idea what that would cost.

Please update this post when you get somewhere and I'll do the same. I've got about $2500 into this swap so far and until I get a flywheel, my truck isn't going anywhere.