rides great. no balance done on the rim and tires. no vibrations. smooth ride, you can definately feel the unsprung weight difference though. seems to make the truck ride smoother so I can't complain.

Since I can't leave anything alone for 5 minutes....... Heres the Import shredders.

still looking for the correct cover and caps for the rear though

 

WOW! Impressive...

 

looks amazing wow.

keep it going!!!!!!!

 

SAWEET! I tried to get my uncle to do this with his 6.5. But he didn't wanna do a body lift to make it fit. So now he complains about his $4,000 6.5 that is still s l o w ..

 

you don't have to do a body lift on this generation with the right motor mounts......so I'm told from the fabricator of my motor mounts. will have to be seen though.

 

He's already rebuilt the turd, so he's not swapping now.

 

keep us updated i just picked up a 95 just like yours and will plan on doing a swap if its not to much of a pain. the last swap we did was on a 3rd gen and it was a pain. also is the nv4500 in the chevy the same as the one in the dodge

 

 

 

sweet, i am going to try and do the same on a k30 crew

keep up the work

 

well gues I haven't updated in a while......not driving it yet. too dec off for holidays and to re-engineer the drivetrain. to a 2wd 47rh and a '70's Ford divorced NP205. built crossmember from the former steady bearing crossmember.

 

made smoke tonight. lots of smoke now to get driveshafts and button up Everything!

 

great looking truck, and nice work!!
keep us updated as you progress with your project
what was your estimated budget to do this swap?
just curios as to affordability of somthing like this.

thank you,
Patrick

 

Looks awesome!

Did the engine drop in without having to modify the oil pan? Pics of this would be great.

I have a 92 K2500 that I am gonna drop my Cummins into.


Glenn

 

i didn't touch the pan rail. I trimmed the bottoms of the Gm isolators to fit the pan rail in between. and swapped some pan bolts around for correct length clearance.

cost.......not cheap. I'd have to run up the tab to know for sure but its up there. though I've been compiling parts for about a year prior. and I'm not just going to drop the engine in and call it good. it would be far cheaper to do that for sure.

its something like this that keep me from buying a "new" truck. so if I spend $5,000-$15,000 on a swap and truck interior overhaul and paint job. thats a far cry from 30-50K for a much newer rig.


I got the '95 donor dodge for $2000 whole truck. plus 22 hours round trip to get it. few hundred for conversion motor mounts. then its all the fitting cutting and time. that theres no price for. its only time. plus whatever you decide to do with the ret of the drivetrain matters too I guess. it would have been cheaper for me to keep the NV4500 that was already in the truck behind the bigblock. but I wanted an automatic this time for this truck. and my donor had an auto. so I went that way. that was a hard road fitting that all in with out a suspension lift or body lift, and working around the IFS crossmember.


Theres cheap ways to go about it, but depends on what you want in the end and what you have to start with. I for sure didn't go the easy way.

I used a '70s Ford divorced NP205 converted the 47RH from 4wd to 2wd after we overhauled it.