Something wrong with my Dakota

gunbunny said
I figured it had to something other than a 5.9L but I've seen some crazy stuff in my time.
It wouldn't have surprised me a bit to see the back half of a Cummins in the seat with you ;)
Around here they run pipes out the back of the bed or hood and smoke the place up.
They also sit at the bottom of a certain hill, and race up the thing.
I know, because I live on said hill.

Oh believe me, if I would have got a good deal on a 5.9 (like I did on the Merc setup...less than a junkyard 318 in price and low miles too) I would have made it fit, even If I had to do some surgery on the firewall and heater box.

I'm actually in the Green on this conversion. I sold my A518 Torqueflite for $500 (what I paid for the whole Dakota in '09), sold the NP231 Transfer Case to someone with a Jeep, Sold the Mopar Perf ECU (with larger Injectors and 5.9L Throttle Body), Sold the '92 Only Large Outlet Magnum Exhaust Manifolds and 3" Y-Pipe, etc... All said and done, even after buying the diesel setup and a bunch of new parts it ended up being equal to getting the truck for free and being paid to convert it to diesel.

I have a normal 3" Cummins tail pipe that dumps back at the bumper/quarter panel. I refuse to reduce the hauling capacity of my bed to be a poser/member of the diesel crowd ( LOL ).

Not a fan of gigantic clouds of smoke either, as a driver and also a motorcycle rider. Last year a ****nozzle in a show diesel kept pumping clouds of smoke. Poor guy on the motorcycle behind him couldn't see anything, I was in my D50 so I flicked the high beams and motioned to the guy on the bike to pull off to the side of the road. I got in front of the bike and served as a navigator for him until the diesel finally turned off the main road.