That would be nice, it would make it necessary to run an obdII harness to run the trans if you stay with factory stuff though. Not a huge deal, but the obd1 and 46rh is a lot less wiring for simplicity sake. obdII would possibly have more tuning capabilities down the road, but I dont think the 44re has a provision for a mechanical speedometer if he wants keep it. He probably needs to decide what are the most important things he wants out of the conversion.