magnum and a 727

The magnum swap has been done with a manual transmission. They came with 5 speeds in the trucks and Dakotas. But if you want to use a 3 or 4 speed you will need a custom and expensive flywheel. People have talked about stacking the flexplate and flywheel together. Basically just sandwich the auto flexplete between the crank and manual flywheel. I've never seen it done and I'm not sure that it is possible but it might be worth a shot. There is a lot of info about it all on the Dakota forums.