kstones63 wrote:There is a guy on the modularfords.com website that is putting a 4.6DOHC engine in a 56 Chevy. I bet that will ruffle some feathers.
I would post a link to it but you have to be a member to see his pics. The guy has done a great job putting it in there and it looks right at home sitting in it. He calls it a Fordolet.
Kevin
I had considered stuffing a 4.6 Continental drivetrain midships in a Corvair Loadside pickup.
The track width difference bounced me back to my senses.
A local racer stuffed an LS2 in his already-potent Fox body. I can't object too much to that idea, since it gave me the opportunity to purchase some really competetive SBF parts at an excellent price
Paul
I think that people who are "brand-x only" may just have limited experience with other brands. I would venture that most automakers have/do make a vehicle that I would like. For me it's not such a brand issue as it is a vintage issue. I want vehicles from late sixties to very early eighties. My wife, however, does not agree!
1965 F100 "Papaw's Pride"
"So I'm working on a cistern inlet valve and the guy hands me a lock nut wrench! I was like 'What is this, a drainpipe slipknot!'" -Flo
to be honest i'll drive or work on anything that has a wheel bolted on each corner. i've driven, wrecked, and rebuilt cars and trucks from all the us makers and a few imports.
i just think old steel is good steel, be it a ford, chevy, or even a honda. find it, fix it, and get it back on the roads.
rust must be my favorite color, its on every car i own
My dad sold cars for 35 years and worked in every brand name dealer we had in Australia, when he went into his own yards he sold anything and everything but his personal drive car was ALWAYS a Ford. He insisted they handled km's a lot better than other local products.
I have a question on the chevy engine thing....
Why is it whenever you see some awesome hotrod be it a T model, 32 Ford or Boyd Coddington killer, they usually always have a chevy under the hood? How can it be easier to install a chevy engine when all of these cars would require mods for engine mounts g/box's etc anyway? I just don't get it....
Ferg said it as good as anyone. I prefer ford but like ferg they all have their own uniqueness and following. The more old iron on the road the better.
Mike Kincheloe
Mikes Old Trucks
I restore old trucks and cars
1962 UNI Short Box, Stock Y block, 4 speed
1972 F 250 4X4 429 4 speed Dana 70 rear
1977 F 350 Camper Special, Ranger, Super Cab
1950 F7 Cab and Chassis
1976 F150 4 Speed 4 X 4
1996 Taurus
Leeroy wrote:My dad sold cars for 35 years and worked in every brand name dealer we had in Australia, when he went into his own yards he sold anything and everything but his personal drive car was ALWAYS a Ford. He insisted they handled km's a lot better than other local products.
I have a question on the chevy engine thing....
Why is it whenever you see some awesome hotrod be it a T model, 32 Ford or Boyd Coddington killer, they usually always have a chevy under the hood? How can it be easier to install a chevy engine when all of these cars would require mods for engine mounts g/box's etc anyway? I just don't get it....
I think one of the primary reasons you see Chev 350's in a lot of builds is there are a million and one of them out there, they made a gazzilion of them and parts are a dime a dozen. That makes it a cheap way to get an engine under the hood with any hop up parts you could ever want readily available. And for a lot of people that would make great sense. For me....No way, I want something different like a Yblock yet true to the make, I could never stick a 428 Ford in a 69 Camaro any more than I could stick a 350 Chev in my 68 Mustang. Just wouldn't work for me, but I do understand.
P.S. Awesome Volvo!! Can you imagine a 350 Chev in it?
Cory
1962 F100 SWB Unibody, 223
1931 Ford 5 window coupe
1968 GT/California Special Mustang, 289
Complete 61 LWB Unibody parts truck with 292 Y Block
I guess if chev's are that easy to come by it would make more sense, they aren't as easily available here as they are in the USA.
I suppose the same rings true with the mighty cleveland down here, most guys outside Australia are a bit anti cleveland (not all!) but we had so many of them here in 302 + 351 variety so they are particularly popular and are a lot more readily available than a windsor.
Leeroy wrote:My dad sold cars for 35 years I think one of the primary reasons you see Chev 350's in a lot of builds is there are a million and one of them out there, they made a gazzilion of them and parts are a dime a dozen. That makes it a cheap way to get an engine under the hood with any hop up parts you could ever want readily available.
i dont have a problem with a chebby when it is stuffed into a
jeep , studeabaker , international..... high performance parts for those are
almost impossible to find used....
BUT NOT FORD
lots & lots of Ford engines and goodies floating around... KEEP IT FORD
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. '' I think what scares me the most about you guys is that I understand you '' ..... KID
'' lookin good, a little paint adds at least 100hp!'' ....... COOTER
'' well an old guy can dream cant he? ''............ICEMAN
''I would donate organs before selling my slick''........ HOOFBEAT RACER
I have a 37 Chevy p/u that I am consider stuffing a Ford motor in it,it has a rebuilt 235 that has a noise issue with #2 cylinder and dont know if I want to fix it. I never had a good Chevy motor,the 250 in the 67 C20 I had years ago did not last too long and the same with the 350 that replaced it and the 350 that replaced the first 350 was not that great too. I could never get 200,000 miles out of a Chevy motor unlike I could with a Ford motor and I am thinking a 240 or 300 six would be great for the 37,now I like Oldsmobile motors and really liked the dependability I had with the ones I owned. I had a 53 Olds with a 59 371 that would blow away many 350 powered lighter cars and thinking about building another 53 with the same drivetrain but a 2 door hardtop this time,I loved that car as it was quick out of the hole and had plenty of top end and would get about 20 miles to the gallon if driven easily which was hard to do.
My dad had a 69 chevy longbed with the 292 6cyl in it, and I gotta tell you that was one hell of an engine. It pulled its own weight over and over and would still be running if my brother had not rolled it falling asleep at the wheel.
so you can still put a chevy in it and dodge the engine police!
I now own an F100 and a Chevelle. Every time I switch from driving one vehicle for a while, I fall back in love with that vehicle. In my opinion, both are well made, both have their own issues, but both make me love to drive em!
...and for simple minded people.
To me the whole part swapping argument is a way of saying "I'm lazy and can't spend 10 seconds to figure it out," particularly in this day and age. Dealing with a Ford is really not difficult.
But I could care less about what I own. I have a Chevy (actually a Firebird, but in the 80s, we all know it's a Camaro with a body kit) and it is great. I think most "problems" with a particular brand are self fulfilled. If dad tells you that brand x is terrible every day when you're a kid and you ever get a hold of a brand x vehicle, you subconsciously sabotage it in order to satisfy dad's argument. There is simply no way that a company such as Ford, Chevy, Dodge, etc. will have been around so long if they truly only produce junk.
How about Harley Davidson? 1903 to 2011........because of the "Life Style". I know this will ruffles some feathers,but I really believe it to be factual.
I don't know that I agree with the "Simple Mind" comment. I consider myself a confident mechanic on machines that don't require Dr.Spock to plug a computer in to it so that you know a sensor is telling a computer that trouble code 17 is causing the problem. I was amazed when I went to school on the New Holland Genesis series tractors had three on-board computer, one of which controlled the three point hitch! I for one appreciate simplicity, which brings me to my love for these old trucks.
1965 F100 "Papaw's Pride"
"So I'm working on a cistern inlet valve and the guy hands me a lock nut wrench! I was like 'What is this, a drainpipe slipknot!'" -Flo
yeah you could say im sick of working, or working for someone else.
sb chevy engines are common. i think a good example of that is i have seen many times in alabama the farmers using them to weigh down harrows and the like. they seem to be good for that.
I still like the big ford 6s and the fact that you can usually find fords with a manual transmission. chevy usually has automatics, and I wont drive a vehicle that has a carb and an auto trans.
For every person with a spark of genius, there are a hundred with ignition trouble
