I don't doubt you can build just about anything to handle a decent ammount of power. I'm not sure what was in my 70 Chevelle. Maybe it used the 7.5? That was nearly 30 yrs. ago and I wasn't into Chevy's long enough to learn much about them. I do recall that just about every guy I knew that built his car up to even run in the 13's and used the 10 bolt scattered it pretty quickly.