Anybody building/ racing a First gen Dakota??

Crammed in the 340 stroker motor (418) today. First mockup.
Using the 833 trans and found the header hitting the scattershield. Also have to move engine back 1/2 inch to mount tranny to crossmember or make a different trans mount.
Hooker 5803 long tube headers.
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On my 91 I got tired of trying to get some header exstions to work around the factory cross member. After some research I found put the holley black hart crossmember would work on my dakota. I just had to redrill two frame mount holes on the holley crossmember on the drivers side. The holley black hart crossmber was designed to install a gen3 hemi in a 87-96 dakota. It even has different mounting plates for different model transmissions. Here is some pics of it installed on my dakota

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