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Blown 4.6 in all its glory!
Super stoked to slap this thing in!
This one is by far the most controversial.
I bought this 67 Chevelle (technically it’s a 136 Malibu but I hate that name) through a family friend who’s uncle had it sitting in the backyard.
A lot of time and $1500 bucks later it was mine.
Initially the stock 283 was what I planned to get running and then cruise it (powerglide transmission) but it was not cooperative albeit super clean inside the engine.
Time passed after I stuffed it in storage I got this crazy idea, why not cram a ford modular in it?
It’s nearly the perfect swap, no shock towers to cut off like the mustang, plenty aluminum 4V’s in the junkyard (mark 8) and high flowing aluminum heads (cobra/aviator/marauder/etc) so why not!
Ironically years ago I helped friend pull a mk8 long block for his 68 mustang coupe. Turns out he traded it to another friend and then that friend sold the shortblock to me.
Then I located an aviator (same heads as the cobra, capable of flowing well enough for 800 ish flywheel hp stock)
After searching around I found they make a slick intake for a carburetor (albeit expensive) from sullivan, found a used one and also picked up valve covers with a distributor mounted whee the cam gear is for a totally old school layout.
Everything got shifted around when I found a super cheap vortech and learned they sell brackets to mount em for cheap too! The whole build shifted to a blow through carbureted all aluminum 4V modular.
Based on the success of my Firebird and it’s t56 transmission I started grabbing parts to convert everything. I found a couple cobra t56s to use with this engine turns out they are very versatile.
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Small and big block chevys weren’t appealing because there’s a sea of them at every car show and most are iron unless you throw big money at them. An LS (true LS not the truck engines) are ~4k+ I wanted to keep a carburetor and distributor which was expensive on an LS too. I’ve got ~2k or less into all of that (aluminum block, heads, distributor and carb intake) while also the junkyard heads are the same ones used on 03-04 mustang cobras capable you 1000hp unported. The only 2 swaps I would have considered outside of this would have been a duramax diesel but those suckers are pricey and would be expensive to configure in my car, or the atlas 4.2L aluminum I6 but I felt this with a carb and distributor will look old school, be light weight and make plenty of horse power especially with the inexpensive blower I purchased (200 bucks, 150 more for the mount)
Posted by Cuttyman9 on 12/6/20 @ 9:40:58 AM
Being the one who put an Italian V8 into a plucky little German sportscar, I'm only gonna applaud ideas that piss off loyalists. So besides availability to you and a quality kick to the nuts of purist ideology, are there certain advantages to the Ford engine over the various Chevy offerings?
Posted by Squonkwerkz Garage on 12/6/20 @ 8:03:31 AM