The Dodge Dakota R/T was a neat little truck that never quite eeked itself into legit “muscle” territory. They were decently quick, but not the blazing hot rod truck that many expected them to be. In fact, we road in and thrashed a couple of 318ci, 5-speed trucks, that seemed to haul as much mail as the R/T. A manual transmission conversion would go a long way for the R/T trucks. Here’s video of one!
Shafi Keisler of Keisler Engineering takes us on a cruise with his 1998 Dakota R/T that is now sporting a six speed Keisler transmission and far more fun. Everything about this swap is right and unleashing the truck from the factory four-speed auto really seems to wake it up.
We want one. We want one bad!
