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Chevy Engine Swap!!! What!!!!

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I think if I did a Chevy engine swap, nobody would even know. After pricing several engine builds and then seeing this!!!!!!!! Makes me frigging sick to my stomach.

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Hey, I have an old school a 327 ifin you need one LOL. KJ KJ
 
But just try and sell a Mopar with a Chevy engine in it down the line.
 
You realize this is also included in the deal-

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For you as well as the car.
 
Sell the charger and get a bunch of camaros full of chev power
 
I just bought my first Chevy since 1994. It's a big block car,but it is not cheaper than owning a Mopar.

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I think it was a Joke...

But;
You can make a crapload more power & a lot easier, parts are relatively less $$
& available all over the place
literally bolt on/bolt together proven to be 800+ (to well over 1000 N/A) useable HP,
without even trying really hard, with a BBC Mark-IV (or now Mark-V) Chevy platform...
Great platforms with killer superior canted valve 350+cfm Rect. Port heads
out of the box factory cylinder-heads 1970, ported or race 450cfm with std bore spacing
& easily more that that, on a race prep...
Especially in/out of the GM Performance Cat.

Got into the 7's with $10k, back in 1982...

Try that with a MoPar, it didn't happen...

You can't do that with a MoPar, unless you spend 3-4 times or more, more $$$
& extremely hard to find parts, even Hemi's...
Not many reputable builders will do it well, for a budget friendly or know them well enough
& make it live too, unless you break the bank...

Been there done that, several times,
I don't need to bore a bunch of 'MoPar people' (bias) with details...

I know I did it for decades, I love them too...
I also was a big Pontiac guy, same deal, way, way more $$, than the other GM brother...
Olds same deal, even with DREC systems...
I also always had a great MoPar, w/MoPar powered street car/street beast or 4x4 too
occasionally a 8.90 S/C - 9.90 S/G MoPar bracket cars too, usually a wedge
they didn't live long, not at them ETs, not back then, they didn't...
or a Milodon Mastodon 572 Hemi Powered, then de-stroked to 526cid, to be legal
6.90 A/A - 7.90 @ 190 S/E altered/s (it was a whole lot cheaper with the BBC/MkIV platform)
or 49 Ford Pro-Gas 8.50/B or C Gas car/7.98 @ 188 best Hemi, was an A/Gas

Just a lot cheaper & easier to build a GM Chevy, to make huge power, economically
that's why most N/A classes in NHRA go that route, even Pro-Stock,
all BBC w/a wider bore spacing platform to accommodate the, motors still live at 10,550 rpm
needed flow/4.60+" bore size, w/500cid (498") with a short 3.75" stroke 1,400hp+,
& unshrouding the (huge) intake valves, it's a necessary evil
its a far more budget friendly, or more friendly as an all out race assembly could be,
& any 'real race' combo is expensive now...

But,
IMO it's just sacrilege to put any GM engine,
in any muscle car era MoPar
it'd be like a Chevy guy putting a Ford in his Camaro,
it's just not right, it's shouldn't be done...
 
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Budnicks said:
I think it was a Joke...

But;
You can make a crapload more power & a lot easier, parts are relatively less $$
& available all over the place
literally bolt on/bolt together proven to be 800+ (to well over 1000 N/A) useable HP,
without even trying really hard, with a BBC Mark-IV (or now Mark-V) Chevy platform...
Great platforms with killer superior canted valve 350+cfm Rect. Port heads
out of the box factory cylinder-heads 1970, ported or race 450cfm with std bore spacing
& easily more that that, on a race prep...
Especially in/out of the GM Performance Cat.

Got into the 7's with $10k, back in 1982...

Try that with a MoPar, it didn't happen...

You can't do that with a MoPar, unless you spend 3-4 times or more, more $$$
& extremely hard to find parts, even Hemi's...
Not many reputable builders will do it well, for a budget friendly or know them well enough
& make it live too, unless you break the bank...

Been there done that, several times,
I don't need to bore a bunch of 'MoPar people' (bias) with details...

I know I did it for decades, I love them too...
I also was a big Pontiac guy, same deal, way, way more $$, than the other GM brother...
Olds same deal, even with DREC systems...
I also always had a great MoPar, w/MoPar powered street car/street beast or 4x4 too
occasionally a 8.90 S/C - 9.90 S/G MoPar bracket cars too, usually a wedge
they didn't live long, not at them ETs, not back then, they didn't...
or a Milodon Mastodon 572 Hemi Powered, then de-stroked to 526cid, to be legal
6.90 A/A - 7.90 @ 190 S/E altered/s (it was a whole lot cheaper with the BBC/MkIV platform)
or 49 Ford Pro-Gas 8.50/B or C Gas car/7.98 @ 188 best Hemi, was an A/Gas

Just a lot cheaper & easier to build a GM Chevy, to make huge power, economically
that's why most N/A classes in NHRA go that route, even Pro-Stock,
all BBC w/a wider bore spacing platform to accommodate the, motors still live at 10,550 rpm
needed flow/4.60+" bore size, w/500cid (498") with a short 3.75" stroke 1,400hp+,
& unshrouding the (huge) intake valves, it's a necessary evil
its a far more budget friendly, or more friendly as an all out race assembly could be,
& any 'real race' combo is expensive now...

But,
IMO it's just sacrilege to put any GM engine,
in any muscle car era MoPar
it'd be like a Chevy guy putting a Ford in his Camaro,
it's just not right, it's shouldn't be done...
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It was definitely a joke. Ive been talking to quiet a few engine builders and Im just floored at the prices but i guess when you have 4-6 months scheduled work ahead its name your price. I did find somebody that even said theyd give me a 1 year 12k mile on their build. That was a 1st!!!
 
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