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Thanks for all of the discussion and advice on this. I found the quickener on Facebook Marketplace in upstate NY. The guy is shipping it Monday and that saves me a 6 hour round trip from Harrisburg, PA. My next question would be, should the quickener be before the EPAS unit or after? I wanted...

Yes, years ago I manual steering swapped a '73 Scamp with a 318. I used 24:1 and the column from a Duster. The Scamp drove fine, and I don't remember it being it being to difficult to maneuver or park. I am upgrading the electrical system with a complete harness and charging system from a '94...

Thanks for posting this. I had read your post about having a 16:1 box with larger tires in a different thread and I understand the amount of effort that would require. I plan on using a Toyota Prius EPAS unit. I haven't had time to make the parts and modifications to my steering column yet. I'll...

That was my concern, being too responsive.

I have a '71 Dart Swinger and am in the process of replacing my front suspension with QA1 and PST parts. The car originally had power steering and I'm swapping it out for a 24:1 manual steering box. The plan was to convert to electric power steering and get a 16:1 manual steering box from PST...

Video of it running. In the first seconds of the video, you can hear it misfire out the exhaust. The distributor and carb were on the original 318 and didn't do that before.

Finally made some progress pulling the 318 that was in my car. No matter how careful I am, I manage to make a mess. She's in there like swim wear. I know the electric fuel pump needs to be close to the gas tank. This is set up to test run it. These headers fought me every step of the way...

Thanks for posting this. Interesting solution to get some more advance.

Sending the OBD II PCM out might be the most cost effective solution. I just want to drive this car and do some cone dodging/autocross with it.

I really appreciate the time and knowledge you guys have given me. Once I get the garage straightened out I'll continue with the engine swap. For the time being ill run it on the Dakota's OBD I computer, but I have a couple of options for engine management and I would like your opinions. I know...

Thanks for posting the video. I'll have to watch it and set the base timing for ccam sync.

Welp, I figured out my tubeyubes. Here you go.

That makes sense.

Yes, there are two. The one for the gauge only has one wire and the one for the computer has two.

The coolant temp sensor was broken, too. You would think if the temp sensor was bad it throw a CEL.

Glad that video worked. The Dakota's organs were harvested at my buddy's shop and didn't have time to troubleshoot why it ran so bad. After pulling the engine I found the CPS had been broken and taped back together. Well there's your problem. That, and the exhaust system was about to fall off.

For some reason YouTube isn't letting me upload videos without going through a verification process. Until they figure out I am actually me, here's a video from 5 years ago of how bad the engine ran in the Dakota. Let me know if this video works or Google is trying to spy on you for thinking...

Ok, I'll upload them.

I'm not sure what's going on with that. I uploaded the videos to Google Docs so I could post them. Was it both videos, or just the second?

Second start after advancing the distributor. I know, not the right thing to do. Ran a little better, but still extremely rich. At the end of the video you can see my improvised "fuel cell."

First start. It was pig rich and didn't want to rev up.

Thanks again for the great responses! I got it running! It was a combination of problems with the fuel system. First thing was to check for pressure. Well there's your problem, no fuel pressure. I didn't have a spare pressure regulator like I thought. What I had was the Dakota's original...

I hooked a timing light up to cylinder 1 to see if it would strobe. Not scientific, but it gave me an idea of what was going on. Turns out that the tach doesn't work. More on that later. I thought I read that it will run with the fuel sync being off. If I remember right, the later OBD II JTEC...

Great information about how the different PCM's handle the different fuel systems. I agree that it's important to keep matching parts and systems together, or at least tune for the differences.

I would think everything is working right on that end since it's firing.

That is true, the computer doesn't control fuel pressure. Now this is just a theory, but it might adjust the duty cycle of the injectors since there is not a continuous flow of fuel in the rail.

Once I get it to run, I'll start tracing wires and see where to connect my car's wiring. I want to keep the Dakota's intermittent wiper control and cruise control, but those aren't necessary until I get the engine in and running.

You know, I didn't think about needing a different PCM for a return style or returnless fuel system. The Dakota was returnless and the van was return style. I have the PCM's from both. I tried both since they're easy enough to swap. The only difference I noticed was the Dakota PCM made the...

Thanks for letting me know who builds them if I need to get it done. I understand wiring and schematics and feel like I can make it work. I just happened to have everything and it was easier to hook it all up and try it, then opening up the harness and rewire it for the Dart. Don't want to...

Thanks for suggesting this. I was thinking along those lines, to see what the pressure actually is instead of guessing. I have a spare regulator. And I tried pushing on of the grounds onto the PCM case with no change. It would be easy enough to ground it. The fuel sync is adjusted by moving the...