Hello, new here. Looking for anyone who has done a big block Chevy swap in a 1962 Caddy. I'll search for threads but figured I'd begin my own. She's a Coupe DeVille with a 390 that smokes like crazy and a hard shifting transmission. The cost of rebuilding those has me looking to my strong running 454 / 400 combo I have in my shop while I save up to have the 390 / trans rebuilt correctly. Anybody know of kits? I have fabricator friends, but a kit would make it simpler. Any advice would be helpful. Tanks.
I have a 63 coupe de ville that had a cooked engine and trans about 20 years ago. I installed a 350 th400 combo and still have the car. Does this help? I also did a lot of looking and measuring and replaced the stock drum brake set up with the stock disc brake set up from a 69 Cadillac . I doubt that there is a kit for the engine swap but you never know.
Any Chevy "kit" will work, big or small block. It's been a long time since I've seen a 62 engine bay empty. If Hurst type mount can be used you're 1/2 way there. If that Cad is 'X' frame look at full size 61-4 full size Chevy or Canadian Pontiac (Chevy engine).
I think when Kiko Lora says “kit”- he means a specific kit made just for putting a 454 in a 62 Cadillac. I’m not sure such a kit exists but HIGHLANDER is right any Chevy motor mount kit will work that is what I used. The fuel pump comes in contact with the frame and needs to be notched and boxed. The radiator from a 69 Pontiac Ventura (recored of course) fit really well. The driveshaft had to be lengthened or shortened I can’t remember but the speedo cable screwed in no problems. But again my swap was 350 but tons of room.
Someone here did one in an older Caddy, maybe a '53 or so. But I can't think of a kit. You'd have to have both power trains side by side on the floor and start with a whole lot of measuring...
Old thread but the idea of a 2nd gen Cadillacs with Chevy engine haunts me almost daily. Was there somewhere a red '59 with a blown 454? In some magazines in the late 90's? In California maybe... I can still remember, that it had "only" 750 cfm double pump but in Hillborn air box. The machine was more pro street-themed than a custom, but anyway...
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