FW: Conversion

1 NO I will find the right one and get back to you, and it wont have teeth on it, use the stock converters teeth. That flywheel you found is for LX cars. The flywheel I was referring to was if you were installing a 400 or a newer externally balanced engine to your internally balanced currant setup. Bouchillon Performance is a great resorce for items you will need for your conversion like kikdown linkage and so on. http://www.bouchillonperformance.com/Default.asp
2 NO Your probably going to have to fabricate them, not to hard. Or wait, six months after I Fabed mine for my 63 Fury, Schumacher Creative Services http://www.engine-swaps.com/ came out with a set for my car. Go Figure!!
3 Probably wont fit but easy to fabricate or use braded line.
4 Yes
5 They make a delete pulley setup for non AC & one for non power steering.
6 Yes might have to have new ends on hoses or new hoses fabricated but the new pump will work with your old gearbox.
7 Converter GONE, O2, will depend on how your computer is set up or flashed. I used a MoPar performance computer specifically for conversions. It's not looking for all the other computers that is a bug when flashing a factory computer.
8 NO your going to have to find a small block tranny to fit your car to keep your pushbuttons and Parking Brake. As far as the PB is concerned, if your going to change to a Limited Slip, just find a 66 or newer C-body rear-end with LS & in drum PB you will also have one piece axles. PB cables will be easy to fab combining your existing cable and the cables and brackets from donor car and welding the brackets to the underside of your car.

Herb

Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:58:40 -0800
Subject: Conversion
From: ericsturgis@xxxxxxxxx
To: zephyr9900@xxxxxxxxxxx

Yes it's a 361 that I have, and they did tell me after I bugged them several times it is a 5.7L out of a 2009 Dodge Ram 1500. I thought it might be as they had a bad rolled over wrecked one sitting in the back. They do have the whole truck, so wiring, computers, fuel pumps and gas tank mods are not a problem. The space in that Newport, you can put nearly anything under the hood with room to spare, not like the smaller Dodges and Plymouths that everybody races. I looked it up online, it puts out about 375 HP at something like 5000 RPM. Spins much faster than my old 361, and puts out 100 more horses. I admit I would love a newer style Hemi in the car, and 100 more horses would be a lot of fun. That rear axle will have to go at some point for a "posi" or whatever it's called, but later.

Just so I understand it in my head these are the things that will have to be changed over or modified to make this work.

1. B & M Flexplate... is it this one? http://bmracing.com/?wpsc_product_category=mopar-flexplate

2. I keep my 1962 motor mounts for the new motor?

3. New fuel lines, from the pump to the front and a return line (I'm sure the truck one is long enough)

4. Modify the fuel tank for return fuel line and for the electric fuel pump from the truck

5. I don't have A/C so that will have to go or be caped off

6. Can I used the PS pump from the truck for my car? Just hook it up and go?

7. Will I have to use the catalytic convert from the truck or can I just toss it? Will the computer be happy with the O2 sensors if I get rid of the CAT?

8. Does the bell housing of the trans bolt directly to the motor?

9. If I remember right the torque converter has the teeth for the starter, but the new flexplate looks like it has the teeth, do I just have them take off the teeth on my old torque converter at the transmission shop?

Sorry to ask so many questions, but it would be really fun to have a faster, more dependable daily driver. It will look so sweet and Innocent, till I step on it. The work I was going to do to my motor was going to cost me around $600 in gaskets, carb, dist, paint and labor so just $400 more plus prob another $500 to make all the new stuff work is not really out of the budget. So I have to wait a few more months to re-chrome my bumpers to do the motor. I can live with that.
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Eric

Tacoma, WA

1962 Chrysler Newport 2 door HT