Originally Posted by
wyotech_cuda440
It's gonna be a little trickier than that. The 2001+ Dakota was made with a CAN bus JTEK PCM. There was never any CAN bus JTEK pcms made for any manual transmission applications, because the earlier Dakota's that were a a available with 5.2 5 speed combos and all magnum powered rams, auto or manual, used a PCI bus JTEK PCM.
IMO I would say he's better off building a new 4.7, or doing the swap to a hemi. The fab work involved for the hemi would be much easier than the wiring issues of converting the 4.7 to a 5.9.