That's easy build a first gen Dakota.
Have you looked into maybe building a First gen Dakota? You can find them pretty cheap with blown up stock engines. Also they can be made to weighed 3200 pounds. My friend built a 94 extended cab 2 wheel drive dakota, that he built into a race truck. He built a 2000 5.9 magnum that was built for a claimed class. So he probably had around $1500 in the engine.maybe less. But any way he ran a bunch of 7.16 at 96 mph in the 1/8. He then tool a 200,000 mile 5.7 hemi that had a rod let go and put a small hole in the block. He welded the hole up and replaced the one pistion/rod that broke with a used set up he had. Added a bigger than stock cam and some home ported eagle heads. In the same 94 dakota with everything elesecthe same as when he had the 5.9 magnum engine in it. He ran a bunch of 6.80 at 99/100 in the 1/8 mile. Now for the hemi,the intake and the MSD Hemi ignition cost some money. But I couldn't believe how good that junk yard 5.7 hemi ran for what little was done to it. I decided to build a dakota my self after see how much used A bodys are going for now days. I am building a 96 Dakota SB to race. I bought the 5.9 magnum off my friend that had it in his 94. With the 904 and my gutted 96 I hope to run 7.00/ 10.99 in the 1/8 mile and 1/4 mile. Well what ever you decide to build i hope you post it here.
