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I can't wait to ditch the Ford motor in my 37 but I'm stuck with it for now, truck deserves a mopar motor.

IMO if all you have is body sheet metal parts you aren't saving anything

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I can tell your not from the rust belt. If you have body sheet metal left from anything pre 1970, you have something worth saving! A little , , , & and a modern drive train on a decent chassis makes a fun summer ride. Some of us are more concerned about what brand drive train goes in what brand of vehicle. (I'm amongst the group). Gene

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I can't wait to ditch the Ford motor in my 37 but I'm stuck with it for now, truck deserves a mopar motor.

IMO if all you have is body sheet metal parts you aren't saving anything

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I can tell your not from the rust belt. If you have body sheet metal left from anything pre 1970, you have something worth saving! A little , , , & and a modern drive train on a decent chassis makes a fun summer ride. Some of us are more concerned about what brand drive train goes in what brand of vehicle. (I'm amongst the group). Gene

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I've got to stop looking at this thread,
it make me so sad seeing this
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I AGREE

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some car guys use what they have i get it,,,but im just tired of seeing chevy motors in every thing encluding icon ford bodys,,, lets face it chevy got popular because of pricing,,not because they ever spent big money in developing any thing,,they just took and copied,, do your home work if you dont believe me,,,if you have a chevy motor and cant efford some thing else,cant knock any one for wanting to be a hot rodder,,,but when i see big bucks i na street rod non GM body and a GM motor theres no excuse,,, chevy in a non GM bodied vehicle or chevy in general is what i call the walmart syndrom cheap stuff and every one else is doing it,,,,,,,,good luck with your build

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This x10...

I don't get all the support on here that justifies putting that junk into a Mopar. It is a Mopar site and they wonder why we don't get it

Good luck with the build regardless.

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I don't get all the support on here that justifies putting that junk into a Mopar. It is a Mopar site and they wonder why we don't get it

Good luck with the build regardless.

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It is a Mopar site and they wonder why we don't get it

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I don't get all the support on here that justifies putting that junk into a Mopar. It is a Mopar site and they wonder why we don't get it

Good luck with the build regardless.

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Because it's not your truck, it's not my truck and unless you want to front the cash to swap out what's in it for what you think ought to be in it your opinion is moot.

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The 5.7 hemi was the one I tried researching. From what I read it was a pain to make it work without using the steering column that came with the engine (I want to use the old steering wheel and column for looks). Making the trans work sounded like a pain too (ABS required?).

I never tried looking for what it took to swap a 4.7, 5.2, or 5.9

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Richard it is easy to use the 5.7 hemi but Yes it does cost some dollars to use one, the hot wire harness is around 1k but you don't need a special column, just their harness and pcm, I plan to use this setup on my 34 phaeton delivery.

but if you went with a older 318 or 360 with a carb you won't need any extra harness or computer.
they are easy to wire up and work great in these trucks,
My squattie fire truck had a 318 that I bought for less than $100.00 it ran great and got around 18-19 mpg on the road. Ron....

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What's older the truck or that barn you are working in?

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The barn is barely older than the 2001 dakota chassis. I think dad started his shop in 1998....but he had looked at old barns for probably 30-40 years before he figured out exactly what he wanted to build. It is 70x70 with a 30x70 open area down the middle and 14 20x10 bays on the sides (seven on each side).

The big window in the back was from a 30's Ford dealership in Tunica, MS that was salvaged when the casinos went in. The huge front doors were built from cypress rafters slavaged from the same building. Dad built the whole building pretty much by himself. He built the sides with the stalls and then spanned the middle with arches that he assembled in a jig on the ground. He then raised them into position using a homemade crane (35 ft tall tower mounted on a 16ft car hauler trailer, powered by a suzuki samurai with a winch and trailer hitch mounted on the front). He would build the trusses, raise them in the air, drive them to their destination and nail them in place. Man, I wish I would have taken pictures of the set-up. It worked incredibly well.

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What's older the truck or that barn you are working in?

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The barn is barely older than the 2001 dakota chassis. I think dad started his shop in 1998....but he had looked at old barns for probably 30-40 years before he figured out exactly what he wanted to build. It is 70x70 with a 30x70 open area down the middle and 14 20x10 bays on the sides (seven on each side).

The big window in the back was from a 30's Ford dealership in Tunica, MS that was salvaged when the casinos went in. The huge front doors were built from cypress rafters slavaged from the same building. Dad built the whole building pretty much by himself. He built the sides with the stalls and then spanned the middle with arches that he assembled in a jig on the ground. He then raised them into position using a homemade crane (35 ft tall tower mounted on a 16ft car hauler trailer, powered by a suzuki samurai with a winch and trailer hitch mounted on the front). He would build the trusses, raise them in the air, drive them to their destination and nail them in place. Man, I wish I would have taken pictures of the set-up. It worked incredibly well.

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Awesome barn, we don't have things like that out here