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Is there an aluminum 440 option?

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Bought a 70 GTX clone from a SS project. It has a 72 440 in it, looking at options to replace it. Also how good is the 70-74 E & B BODY 4 SPEED ?
 
Id say rebuild that 440 if your not happy with it....or even go 426 hemi
 
I was trying to save weight. Can I stroke the 6.1 litre, is that an aluminum block?
 
How about a dodge v10 ? Can it be maetd to a trans and fit in there ?
 
How about a dodge v10 ? Can it be maetd to a trans and fit in there ?

I'm sure it could be made to fit. It all depends on your skills at fabrication and how much money you want to spend. Plan on having to build your own motor mounts, probably an adapter for an original style transmission or mounting system for a newer transmission (assuming it can be made to fit the transmission tunnel in the floorboard), and an entire exhaust system at a minimum.

I don't know what a V10 weighs, but it would seem to me that it would be at least as heavy as the 440, if not more. Unless you are talking about the Viper aluminum block version, but again...how much are you wanting to spend?
 
The V10 can indeed go into these cars, I started a thread with it in there, somewhere in here...
 
The E body sticks are pretty much the same trans as was the ones in the B body cars except the E trans also had a rear shifter mount on the tail shaft....ie, it could be installed in either body style.
 
This is my first Moper project, had a 71 challenger back in the day but didn't do anything beyond ball joints..LOL

I'm going to want to do a brake swap in the front and put disc's on, I think that can be done by swapping factory parts around and get a power disc set up on there ?

I was trying to think of a good way to make decent power and the modern engines have so much better flowing aluminum heads. Shipping this huge 440 block to my builder will cost a lot of money and I cant pick it up by myself. I'm used the LSx world from GM right now and its all aluminum except for the 6.0 iron block and LSX iron block....
I guess I didn't know the V10 was iron? Are the 5.7 and 6.1 and 6.4 hemi's iron too?
 
Wow, I can get a new crate 6.1 for that much money though.
Are all the new mopar blocks iron?
 
Ok why is mopar aluminum and iron so much more expensive than gm?

I can get a 440 capable block for $2850 in GM aluminum
 
Dayem !...LOL not that I would do it but I could drop a 650 hp Ls1 383 into this car in a heartbeat for half the money..... I've got a salvage yard on the lookout for me for 5.7 hemi or 6.1, they said the avg is about $6500 for the complete swap... trans, harness, ecu and engine.
Its not that bad if you think about it, just need to decide if I want to go EFI or not I guess. I know the carb and iron block can be done a lot cheaper.
 
We pay more because

1) there are fewer of them and

2) they don't break like GM stuff does
 
Easy now...LOL, I have both.
Looks like the 5.7 is a decent way to go just saw a challenger getting a conversion at a performance shop I was visiting, but the fly by wire stuff clutters up the bay and I dont like FBW anyway.... I might have to stay old school and have the 440 built and put some decent heads on it.
I was, believe it or not, was hoping to improve gas mileage with an EFI 440 over the carb version. DO they offer a coil pack controller so a person could do a cheap efi conversion?
 
So Mopar doesnt have one of its own. GM had MSD make thiers, it retails for like $268 and then all you need are the coil packs and a couple sensors. It comes with 7 or 8 pre programmed map curves and you can propgram it as well. Its the cheap way to avoid the aftermarket controller systems.

Looks like I'll be learning a lot with this project, cool, I like it !!
 
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