Posted By: mopar65
Hooker Gen3 hemi Black Hart crossmember 91 Dakota+ Magnum en - 03/10/23 08:37 AM
Hi. I have been meaning to make a post about the new Hooker black hart crossmember. Hooker designed it to help you install a gen3 hemi in your 87-96 Dodge Dakota. Ok my story starts with, after I installed hooker long tube headers on the 360 magnum engine in my 91 Dakota sport. After I got the headers installed I noticed I only had a few inches of room between the header flange and the transmission Crossmember. No room to install a exhaust system etc with out hacking up the crossmember. I didn't want to do that, so I started searching for aftermarket ones. I found out that holley started making them to mount a gen3 hemi and let you run up to a true 3 inch dual exhaust system. Holley only list it working with the hemi engine, the crossmember with transmission adapter plate and poly mount I think at the time was around $350. I wasn't sure if it would work with my magnum 360/904 engine set. But I decide to take a chance and found out.wellafter mounting everything up, I found if I redrilled twi holes on thr left side crossmember mount that everything would bolt up and work great. Also I found out if holley would of added two more inches of metal to the back of the transmission adapter plate. I could of just redrilled the holes in the plate . Here are some pictures of the factory mount with long tube headers and then the hooker set up with same headers + 18 inch header exstions. Also here is a link to the hooker crossmember..
https://highhorseperformance.com/ho...ember-for-87-96-dodge-dakota-2wd-bhs545/
https://highhorseperformance.com/ho...