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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:36 am 
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As the title state's, is it possible to put one of these into a 72 luv? A buddy of mine is resto modding his 66 Nova wagon and he is willing to give me his inline 6. Now I know there will be some Fabrication involved, but will it fit? I also have or will have a T-350 to go with it. So I pretty sure I'll half to move the cross member.

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This is temporay engine swap till I can put in a V-8.


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:46 am 
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My guess is no, not without doing a lot of firewall and core support cutting, that wouldn't be needed for the V8. The I6 is just too long.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:06 am 
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Well aren't you going to half to move the radiator to the front side of the core support any way? Then you could run a eletric fan to gain some more room.


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:25 am 
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LittleRedWagon68 wrote:
Well aren't you going to half to move the radiator to the front side of the core support any way? Then you could run a eletric fan to gain some more room.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:56 am 
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A V6?, no problem. A straight 6? No. It is too long. I guess you could mount your radiator in front of your grille... stand it on top of your bumper.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:44 am 
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Ok, thank's guy's for the info. I guess I will just half to wait till next summer to do the "V-8" swap. :ebiggrin


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 11:38 am 
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If I remember right, your truck was the tan one that you had pictures of earlier this year? Bought it from a co-worker?

That truck is clean!

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 1:16 pm 
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Yup that's the one


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get it from him trade it for somthing that will fit

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