redex79
Well-Known Member
Hello all, I'm not new to the site, just don't post a lot. I've been soaking up all this great information on 5.7 Hemi swaps.
Just so happens, a friend of mine is the second owner of a 1970 Charger. This is a FM3 (panther pink),original color Dodge Charger. Yep, Pink. The Charger is or was a 318 car, a/c p/s p/b a/t, black vinyl top and black interior. He wanted to make the car more reliable to drive and wanted me to build a 340 for it with some kind of modern fuel system. My suggestion was finding a 5.7 Hemi to swap and be done with it. Well, that's what we did.
We found a Hemi out of a wrecked 2007 Ram 1500. I removed every thing from the salvage and got started on the swap. After reading on this site and many others, I got most of the info and parts list to get started. The idea was to keep the car original as possible but have a reliable modern engine to be a daily cruiser. I have keep the 904 trans, just because we did not want to cut the floor board tunnel and used as much original parts from the car as possible.
I dropped the K member, engine and trans as one assembly, and the fun began. At this point, I have the Hemi, K member and a mock up trans in the Charger now. Not to bore you all the details, I'll post some before and after pictures.
Just so happens, a friend of mine is the second owner of a 1970 Charger. This is a FM3 (panther pink),original color Dodge Charger. Yep, Pink. The Charger is or was a 318 car, a/c p/s p/b a/t, black vinyl top and black interior. He wanted to make the car more reliable to drive and wanted me to build a 340 for it with some kind of modern fuel system. My suggestion was finding a 5.7 Hemi to swap and be done with it. Well, that's what we did.
We found a Hemi out of a wrecked 2007 Ram 1500. I removed every thing from the salvage and got started on the swap. After reading on this site and many others, I got most of the info and parts list to get started. The idea was to keep the car original as possible but have a reliable modern engine to be a daily cruiser. I have keep the 904 trans, just because we did not want to cut the floor board tunnel and used as much original parts from the car as possible.
I dropped the K member, engine and trans as one assembly, and the fun began. At this point, I have the Hemi, K member and a mock up trans in the Charger now. Not to bore you all the details, I'll post some before and after pictures.