Re: A body engine swap discovery
[Re: B_Body_Bob]
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02/28/06 08:47 AM
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Trucks have multiple holes in the crossmember..No K frame per se. It looks like it might be "off a hair as far as right to left, but really, stick a driveshaft in, and take a few pics showing from the K frame back. Is the oil pan inplace? Steering linkage too? Looks like it is..How about heads and headers or manifolds? Getting the bare block in is easy..it's getting it all to work that gets a little tougher. Cool idea tho. It took me 2 cuts and 2 welds to make big block mounts out of the factory /6 mounts that used factory rubbers and mounted a 383 to a /6 K frame in a Swinger some years back. With the 2bbl exh logs on it and power steering. I was bet I couldnt do it with not buying any parts. I won $50, and had one whale of a burnout machine...lol.
Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.
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Re: A body engine swap discovery
[Re: POZEST]
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02/28/06 09:36 AM
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Innovation is a good thing, but not if it leads to hassles in everything else you put on the car. I hope that works for you, but I would mock up the entire driveline. I have a 72 duster that I bought with the 340 4 spd already in it. The previous owner liked to be "innovative" and used a B-body clutch fork and pivot. Needless to say it didn't line up so he torched the pushrod and bent it to get it to work. I found out this was done on the side of the street when it snapped. Just one example of what I have to go back and fix right after his "innovative" ways of doing it the first time.
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Re: A body engine swap discovery
[Re: RV2]
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02/28/06 12:35 PM
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This Post needs to be "IN THE BEST OF" Pages GOOD JOB MAN
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Re: A body engine swap discovery
[Re: SGTFURY62]
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02/28/06 01:20 PM
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Can anybody think of why this wouldn't work with a 360 also?
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Re: A body engine swap discovery
[Re: Rhinodart]
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02/28/06 02:26 PM
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I just picked up a 71 Duster with /6 k-frame and I also pulled a 318 from a 78 Dodge truck with the mounts. Would be very interested if this works also.
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Re: A body engine swap discovery
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02/28/06 04:09 PM
02/28/06 04:09 PM
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I always thought you used the truck mount on the drivers side on a /6 K frame. Thats the way my 72 Dart was (I didnt put it together). I broke the mount and almost never figured out what I needed. Tim
70 Dart Swinger
72 D-100 440 shortbed
76 Pinto, 68k 21mpg!
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Re: A body engine swap discovery
[Re: RV2]
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02/28/06 04:21 PM
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It worked! the engine and trans are in, I finished up late so I did not get any pics, but in a day or two I will post several pics.
Finally some one who is ready to improvise and to try something with out having to order everything ready made. Nice to see some one else that is willing to do a little homework and save a few bucks. I posted a post the other day on /6 to V8 conversions that the right mount is right and it is only the left mount that needs to be reworked.
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