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autowrench · 08-30-2022, 08:47 PM

I'm still picking out specifics but I would prefer to use a mainstream engine instead of the Pontiac 455. Parts are way more spendy. It seems to have had a manual trans and 6 cylinder originally. Matt removed the 327 that had been in it. I think it had failed. He had access to a 455 and turbo 400, so in it went. When that went south, it sat and waited. A late 70s Camaro subframe was procured. That is as far as it got. I want to have an IFS, a V8, and be able to drive it anywhere. It will not be a work truck, show truck, and it will not be too low to get up my gravel driveway. I want to be able to use the pickup bed IF I want to. Those are my larger goals for this project. Comments?

08-30-2022, 08:47 PM	#7
autowrench Registered User Join Date: May 2022 Location: Trout Creek, Montana Posts: 65	Re: Hand me down 59 I'm still picking out specifics but I would prefer to use a mainstream engine instead of the Pontiac 455. Parts are way more spendy. It seems to have had a manual trans and 6 cylinder originally. Matt removed the 327 that had been in it. I think it had failed. He had access to a 455 and turbo 400, so in it went. When that went south, it sat and waited. A late 70s Camaro subframe was procured. That is as far as it got. I want to have an IFS, a V8, and be able to drive it anywhere. It will not be a work truck, show truck, and it will not be too low to get up my gravel driveway. I want to be able to use the pickup bed IF I want to. Those are my larger goals for this project. Comments?