Welp. Reviving this old thread to announce that I decided to do a Magnum swap on the Scamp! To hell with the slant....
I am picking up a 5.9 this weekend. (If the link works, its this bad boy:
Pardon Our Interruption...)
I sent an offer of $349 and the seller accepted.
Donor vehicle was a R/T Dakota with 101k miles, according to the odometer anyway. It looks like the truck was in a wreck, so if luck pans out, I'm hoping the motor is still pretty good.
I'll probably start a new thread for this build, as I'm sure I'll have questions. But right now the plan is to get the motor home, then disassemble, and do "light" rebuild: tear down, hot tank it, replace bearings and gaskets, make sure there is no bad damage internally, then reassemble using the exisiting rotating assembly and roller cam, top it with a carb and intake, add a distributor, shoot it with some paint, and drop it in. Of course I need a new trans and exhaust, and eventually a rear as well, but I might poke along with the 7 1/4 with mild driving for a bit.
The goal is fun per dollar—a budget build. So i'm hoping I can reuse the Magnum internals as much as possible. I think the R/T motor had a good cam, if I'm not mistaken.