So you want 2 go Big block...Read this first!

You have all kinds of stuff added in to your big block swap that wasnt needed.

With the small block you didnt change intake/carb
You had the trans rebuilt for the big block and not the small block

You had a drive shaft shortend. A small block 727 with a 8-3/4 uses the same drive shaft as a big block with a 727 amd 8-3/4

You centerlink problem was most likely because it was a straight slant 6 piece and not a drop center small block one. Not even a small block pan will clear the straight one.

Summit has a aluminum radiator for $150. You could have used brass just like every big car that ever left the assembly line came with.

Idler arm and pitman arm probably needed to be changed on the small block car after 30 plus years also. Plus if you switched to a 73 pitman arm like you said you would have had to change to the 73 and later steering box as well.

Plenty of cars running around with fender well headers and no frame connectors. 100% needed just like the disc brakes and aluminum radiator werent 100% needed.

Joe,. Were beating a dead horse here so I give up. My point is simply that building a nice car the right way without cutting corners and slapping it together costs money, Big block. small block, slant 6.


Im done with this thread.