Rainy day auto
Well-Known Member
so it's time to get this funny looking belvedere running. After thinking about what I want from the car and what I want the car to do for me, I made a very unconventional engine choice.
So let me back up a little. This car came into my life on 8/9/2018. At first i thought I was going with a 440/727 out of a friend's GTX, who swapped the GTX to a 472 HEMI.
The 440 ended up going to another GTX through a series of events that would be going way off topic.
So back to the ranch, the belvedere is just sitting and getting covered in weeds every summer until now that I'm felling really guilty about it just sitting.
So on fabo I saw a thread where a guy has a slant six duster that he is swapping to the latest generation HEMI. So i pm him and asked what he is going to do with the slant and he says "come get it before it gets scrapped".
So i get it thinking I'm going to put it in my 72 swinger.
So back in the garage I'm staring at this free slant and thinking about how much I like slants and suddenly the idea comes to me:
The belvedere still has the original slant k frame in it because it was a slant six car originally. So why not a slant powered B body.
So i start searching the shed and I found the b body slant six motor mounts.
So coming together is a 67 belvedere 1 with a 225 slant six and an 833 OD transmission.
I'm not sure if the A body oil pan will fit in the b body but I'm guessing it will but I'm going to do some measuring this weekend to verify. I went through this before with a 63 valiant when I learned the hard way that A bodies have several different slant six oil pans and not all interchange.
So here's to the start of an odd ball B body.
I'm going to try the slant six because after thinking about what I want the car to do for me, I really think it can accomplish this goal with a slant six because i want a reliable car that can be a mileage collector and be very different from the crowd.
So let me back up a little. This car came into my life on 8/9/2018. At first i thought I was going with a 440/727 out of a friend's GTX, who swapped the GTX to a 472 HEMI.
The 440 ended up going to another GTX through a series of events that would be going way off topic.
So back to the ranch, the belvedere is just sitting and getting covered in weeds every summer until now that I'm felling really guilty about it just sitting.
So on fabo I saw a thread where a guy has a slant six duster that he is swapping to the latest generation HEMI. So i pm him and asked what he is going to do with the slant and he says "come get it before it gets scrapped".
So i get it thinking I'm going to put it in my 72 swinger.
So back in the garage I'm staring at this free slant and thinking about how much I like slants and suddenly the idea comes to me:
The belvedere still has the original slant k frame in it because it was a slant six car originally. So why not a slant powered B body.
So i start searching the shed and I found the b body slant six motor mounts.
So coming together is a 67 belvedere 1 with a 225 slant six and an 833 OD transmission.
I'm not sure if the A body oil pan will fit in the b body but I'm guessing it will but I'm going to do some measuring this weekend to verify. I went through this before with a 63 valiant when I learned the hard way that A bodies have several different slant six oil pans and not all interchange.
So here's to the start of an odd ball B body.
I'm going to try the slant six because after thinking about what I want the car to do for me, I really think it can accomplish this goal with a slant six because i want a reliable car that can be a mileage collector and be very different from the crowd.