checking into seeing if anybody have installed a v8 sbc in a 1965 g10 van.mine has a straigh 6 in . like to install one in my truck if not to much trouble.
It goes in the same place as the original engine only the dog house doesn't quite fit any more, you usually have to dimple it or widen it a little bit as I recall. That or it is absolutely something that can't be done and you need to trade me that for my Willys (61 truck).
has a 64 with a v8 W/3 on the tree, In it years ago. It ran hot on the summer. A lot of fun to drive though.
That's why I know it can't be done and he needs to trade me for my jeep. I have seen the ones that look like a van with the back cut off but never seen one with a real truck bed on it. it just seems a little more utilitarian. I have put V8s in the van and it shouldn't be any harder in that then in the van. I don't recall them running hot but that doesn't mean that they didn't.
what would you use for motor mounts is there a kit out there? i drag this out of barn that use to pull a no name old funny car. 3 on the tree wonder if that makes the swap difficult. trades? always looking for front engine dragster or old funny cars.
these is a old chevy 66 g10 then some one wacked it and stuck on a old dodge step side box even has the stack similar to what's on the dodge little red express that why the v8 question been brought up .straight 6 into dual stacks im guess wouldn't sound good.straight 6 runs like new so realy no reason to change I guess.
Chevy used small blocks in those vans from the factory. If you can't find original mounts, fab 'em up. I put a 400 SB./350 turbo in a 67 van once...originally came with a 2 bbl 283, powerglide. Was a piece-a-cake.
You use the same mounts as a V-8 truck from '66. Then pioneer, I am thinking that they will land right on the 6 cylinder mounts but I don't remember exactly, too many swaps and too many years. I doubt if anyone makes a kit but you just never know. Most of us just do it in the garage. It is not likely anyone is going to trade you and FED or a funny car for that. But if you traded for my jeep you would already have a V 8 and it would pull anything you wanted up to and including stumps. LOL I would like to have something like that old van turned pickup but it is yours so congrats.
Don't be so subtle Benno.......you want he should guess you want to trade....come on man, just say so.... Ray
Well I wouldn't want him to think that I wanted his old heap. This fall I should have about 400 ponies ready for another body (I think number 7), its going to get shoved into something.
So what year is it, you say 65 and later you say 66? Anyways, I did a 283 swap into a 64 in 1971.. .... "Man.." Mine was 6 with 3 speed standard column. I don't think 64 and 65 had an optional 8, as I recall. The engine box sides, down by the floor is too narrow for exhaust manifolds. I had to make mini-boxes after I cut enough room for the 283 manifolds. As memory fades, I know I only had a drivers side seat, and could not find a p***enger side bucket from a 64-65, even back then. I could find one for I think, 66-up, but it was different mounting, because those years DID have a bumped-out engine box for an optional V8. That is why the 66-or whatever I found, had different seat bases. My engine box threw a bit of heat as I recall. There simply was not much insulation, and none when I made the side boxes near the manifolds. Those side boxes maybe were 4 inches tall and maybe 3 inches wide, but it was a long time ago to know for sure.. On the V8 mounts...I simply don't remember what I did. I did not know how to fab custom mounts back then, so it must have been something really easy. I am not sure on vans, but similar years chevy pickups with a factory 6, had adapters bolted to V8 mounts! all you had to do, is toss the adapters, and the 8 sat right on the V8 mounts. That could be what I did, but not sure.
Not a Chevy but same principal. This has a 5.3 Ls1. You can do anything with a torch and hammer. I will warn you, the added weight gives you NO traction at all. We are adding about 400# to the back of the Econoline. I really like your truck by the way, neat idea. I ***ume it is a one off.
The popular thing to do here was to actually put the engine behind the seats in the '70s. Obviously you couldn't do that in OPs truck. I always liked the looks of the GM over the Ford of the era. GV the econoline vans actually had a steel plate hung in the back I think it was like 200 pounds.
I stuffed a 340 in a 1966 Dodge van and it fit like it was made for it,I didn't have to modify the doghouse at all. I sure would like to find that old van,I had a lot of fun back in the 70's in that ride. HRP
Small block Ford is narrower, so why not go that route? Besides, it would piss alot of SBC guys off....
Yea Beano, I took that out to fit a Mustang tank, It was actually cast iron and weighed 165#. Go here for a chuckle. Ford added the weight after this. Fun starts about 2:35.
im no chevy man but someone tell me if the drive of that 3 speed will bolt up to a 283? drive shaft length the same.just bought very nice 283 on the stand running for it. porkn****** you want this truck don't you.mo not that far away
Yes I do and you are not too far off I think about 3 hours to Des Moines and if you're south of there we are almost neighbors. LOL That 3 gear should be a sag and hold up fine behind a 283. You'll need the correct clutch plate and I don't remember how many splines the input is but you can count it when the engine is out. They should have one in stock at the zone or the napa. You won't want to do too many 1st second power shifts with it, if you miss on a sag you just bought a ******. LOL
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