viper transmission swap

[d/l dakota]

I was reading an old issue of truckin' and i came across a small article about a dakota. The thing that caught my eye was they said the 4.7 qc had a T56 viper transmission in it. I was wonder ing if anyone else has heard of this being done and if so how complex and expensive this would be?

[blackdak00]

I would imagine it would be pretty difficult. I don't know if it will just bolt up to your motor or not. Plus you have to have a good amount of torque to allow your motor to run efficiently in 6th gear and don't know if you do.

[d/l dakota]

hell i think it would be cool just to say "I Have a SIx Speed and YOu don't" of Course all thanks going to reptillian cousin.

[Lguy]

if your gonna go through the hassle of the tranny, which would cool as hell, why not go for the engine also?

[DAKRACER]

This to is something I have been thinking about for the past few months. I think I would have a better chance at it since I have the 5.2 and not the 4.7. I would think the 5.2 is a lot like the 8.0l motor?!?!?!? Well at least the back of the engine block.
Im not sure where the tranny would mount, if i could use the same crossmember and if the stick would come up in the same place thru the floor board. I was looking around on the MOPARPERFORMACE page, and they have Viper Tranny replacements , and the parts to mount them...
Heres a link to the mopar perf page that has the stuff for installing viper stuff in non viper applications...maybe this will get one of yall thinking a lil harder..

http://www.mopar.com/m_perf_parts_pr...010&itemID=276

[d/l dakota]

Swaping the engine had come to mind Lguy. If iwas going to do this I would mostly diffenately have to take it back to the days of the big block and drop in 426 hemi or even if i could squeeeeze it a 528. Talk about a tight fit. Alot of work there.