anyone put a 440 in new style Challenger
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I am old school so still love my 440,s. I also love the new Challengers. I see a lot of the 2008-2010's around pretty cheap. I have a few 440's kicking around. I am not worried about the mechanical part of fitting it in. I am worried about the stock Challenger running without been hooked to a motor. easy enough to wire up the old 440 to start and charge etc. independent of the Challenger wiring. I will admit I know nothing about new fuel injection and new car electronics. Will one of these new Challengers even run without the 5.7 in it. Anybody do this reverse mod? I have been accused of been AS* backwards lots of time, so nothing new. Thanks
After almost 71 years I am on my last car. A 65 Plymouth Satellite straight axle altered wheel base car.
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Re: anyone put a 440 in new style Challenger
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The rest of the electronics will be looking for the engine controller. You would have to find a way to make it think it was still running the engine.
The gains to be had from a 440 swap would be off idle low end torque.
The losses to be had from such a swap would be everything except off idle low end torque.
As much as I love my 440s I have decided that the Imperial's 440 is the last old motor I'm building. The only reason I didn't go Gen 3 on this build was the desire for 500+ lb/ft below 3000 rpm. There is simply too much to be gained from using 50 years newer technology.
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Re: anyone put a 440 in new style Challenger
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It would be an upgrade to a V6 modern Challenger, but modern Hemi Challengers could easily be modified to make more power than even a stout 440 can put out. And to do a swap would need a fuel injection system and ignition system that could be made compatible with the cars electrical system. It would be cool to see someone do it though!
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Re: anyone put a 440 in new style Challenger
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Unless you are building a tube chassis race car I would say it's a total waste of time and money. I have been accused of that a few times though so follow your dreams.
"Follow me the wise man said, but he walked behind"
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Re: anyone put a 440 in new style Challenger
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01/10/20 08:15 AM
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Without really thinking about it much, I kinda like the idea of down grading a late model. The first thing you'll need to do is come up with a catchy term for it. New tech in old cars is restomod, what are we gonna call this? DevoMod maybe. Bonus points if you get the reference.
If the aesthetic here is an embracing of the modern body while rejecting the technology then I think the answer to the CAN bus problem is give it a complete lobotomy. When you rip out the engine controller, rip out the trans controller, body controller, digital dash and whatever the hell else is tied it. Drop in a 727, auto meter gauges and build a wire harness like you would to rewire an old car. Hooking up the air bags would probably be the biggest "fight the electronics" issue. On the emissions side, your local dictatorship may vary but here in PA if you run it less than 5,000 miles per year it's completely exempt from emission testing regardless of model year.
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01/10/20 10:07 AM
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Last reply is the path of least resistance, and the Devo reference is priceless. Gut all the electronics out, throw the abs systems and safety equipment in the garbage and start over. Wire the windows as shown on page 10 of the little manual my cohorts and I wrote, using p5155318 and 19 door modules. https://www.jegs.com/InstallationInstructions/300/312/312-P5155775.pdfYou need to have "smart glass" so the windows will seal when the door is opened and closed.
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Re: anyone put a 440 in new style Challenger
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I like the idea of old in the new. A 440 and 727 in a newer Challenger is fine in my book. Save you thousands over doing up an original plus any collision shop can fix the modern Challenger. You'd have to eliminate all the modern electronics and wire up all your instrumentation with aftermarket gauges. would be a lot of work replacing new tech with old but not impossible. I spoke to a gent at the dragstrip in 2019 who had a 2015 Camaro with old skool carbureted small block and Turbo 350. Yes it was a drag only car but looked nice and he said it wouldn't be a stretch to make it street legal. The car was a stolen recovered insurance buy missing its engine and trans but the body was still like new. Said it was much less $$ to go this route than an actual pre 70 Camaro.
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Re: anyone put a 440 in new style Challenger
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You need to have "smart glass" so the windows will seal when the door is opened and closed.
Smart glass is stupid. The only explanation I've ever heard for it is to make the glass seal better. The frameless windows on my 45 year old cars still seal just fine so not buying that one. Ever try opening one when it's got a coating of ice on it and the window won't go down? end tangent.
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Count me in the "I think it would be cool" group. I gave passing thought to it several years ago and there seem to be more early models popping up every day w/ bad engines for cheap. Modern Hemi's are cool and the power you can make with them is almost unbelievable BUT it's kinda hard to beat the cool factor of a tunnel ram and 2-4's sticking out of the hood, be it a SB or a BB. Personally, I don't think it would be that hard. As said, rip out the new electronics and go to town. I'm sure that if you were so inclined, you could even have functional a/c, ps, and pb. Tim
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Re: anyone put a 440 in new style Challenger
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I think I'd want to know if the front suspension could handle the additional weight. Then again, if you got rid of all the computers and wiring, maybe there wouldn't be much weight difference. Then the next deal would be the brake system. You will need to reroute all the brake lines to eliminate the computer controlled anti lock brake system currently on the car. Its not like the early days when you just bypassed the thing above the rear end and ran a single line to the rear axle. you get to start at the master cylinder and work from there. My concern would be if these massive brakes will work without all the computer assist. Beyond that, everything electrical inside the car has to be changed to old school. You might want to look at a flood car, clean up the body, trash everything inside of it, and build from there. Then, as long as you can drive it where you don't need to pass any kind of vehicle inspection or emission testing you might be OK, because it would never pass the visual inspection, let along an actual emission test. Of course, when you do this, we will all want to watch the process in pictures. Then we will be able to decide if we want to put this muck work into a project like this. Gene
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