It looks like the stock timing map is very conservative at full load. I'm not sure why Chrysler did this. I may experiment with that but I'm not prepared to spend a lot of time and money on dyno time. It will be road tuning only so I am not expecting much if any difference in the power department. It would be nice if I could squeak out a bit better economy though.
As I mentioned, the transmission will be the NV4500 manual, but interfacing with the '01 dash will be a challenge. I'm going to have to figure a way I can fool the stock PCM into thinking it is still running the engine in order for the dash to work. I have the factory manuals for both the '95 and '01 but they don't give out much in the way of theory of operation so there will be a lot of experimenting going on.
