Hey fellas, I hate being the noob bumping a thread that has been dead longer than a few weeks, but I found some useful info and wanted to put it here so l could find it later, and contribute to this thread!
I had a few questions that didn't make sense, and instead of asking more questions I thought I would contribute...
So being out of the Mopar game almost ten years, my new Japanese car fetish found a way back to my Mopar roots: the LA-series is an easy drop in the '70-'78 Datsun Z! I was perusing HybridZ when a link to this very thread...
My biggest question was how the R154 input shaft cooperated with the Mopar pressure plate... I found
this answer on Slant Six.org...
This is the clutch... I'll get to that...
Now, call me speshul, but I might have seen this picture a page or two back...
Okay... What I found...
This was user Joshua Skinner, and he is stuffing a 273 in an RX-7...
So like what I have read here, 3.9 (AX-15)Bellhousing, 89-91 Soopra R154 gearbox. Spec Clutch built that pretty blue thing, and he had a sleeve machined to hold the bearing to accept the Toyota snout. That is a Shiefer aluminum flywheel, I read in a later post it is a 143 tooth big-block unit!
I didn't follow the starter idea, but I did see a link for a good upgrade for the plastic clutch slave. What I read on an another post (I will see if I find the link again), a newer Liberty slave has an aluminum body (say if your master isn't a Mopar bolt pattern)...
Okay, I lied. It's from a Grand Cherokee... There's the part number...
Okay, this thing looks like the plastic Dakota unit, but being rendered in aluminum, it can be tapped and a line can be ran to your clutch master!
A company called Advance Adapters makes this kit for about seventy-five
Bucks...
Blowing the dust off my latent Mopar knowledge, all Magnum and pre-'92 LA have the same flywheel (and bellhousing.. I think even Early Hemis, excluding '55-'56 331s have the same , I am sure someone can fill me in), so if you find that Dakota or Ram with the five speed, rape and pillage. The R154s are stronger and have a better gear ratio spacing, so continue reading. 318s are internally balanced, 360s are externally balanced, and 340s cross the block at Barrett-Jackson.
I didn't find a clear answer on what starter you guys used, but everything else made good sense...
I leave for my Japan deployment in August, (woo-hoo Fender Mirrors and JDM taillights!!) so the question of getting a stock dual snorkel air cleaner (with the forged-crank 340) under the hood of a 918 Orange 240Z with correct "D" hubcaps isn't happening soon, but I am keeping an eye open for parts... And answers!
Later,
KFD