DaemonForce wrote:
73hornut wrote:
Nobody is swapping I6's into V8 cars, so no demand.
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I really wanted to chime in just to challenge this but what car is this going into? If it's the Concord, just get an I6 crossmember from a yard Eagle and quick swap the crossmember with the V8 when you finally get around to swapping in the new V8. I get the point of this. V8s are expensive to build, especially ours. The average BBF in my trucks runs a typical $4K just for the short block assembly. With any mid-block American we're looking at $6K complete from start to finish. Compared to the usual $2K Jeep stroker, the money just isn't there.
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Well dude.. its like you're reading my mind... because that is the entire motivation behind this post I made. I have a lot of the stuff to do the v8 swap.... but my front end has gotten so bad over the recent years... ball joints... steering... bad shocks... sagging coils... etc... I think its questionable to even drive around right now. Unfortunately... the car sat for 10 years before I got back to it and I have been driving it lightly ever since... so it REALLY needs to be done. So while I COULD just do the suspension and get it all squared a way... I am going to take it all the way.
I am taking the engine and trans out. I am getting my body guy to go through the engine bay (rust on inner frame rails next to engine and under battery tray) and refinish/repaint it from the frames rails down. This will not be show car work but driver quality. He'll make it nice and then redo the undercoating as well. During this process he is going to drop the entire front end off the car... so the front end will be down to the sub-structure.
Over the last two years... I have been accumulating all the parts for the front end redo. I already have like $600 worth of steering/suspension parts and I am about to order about another $700 in brake and steering parts in the coming weeks. I also have all the hard parts... upper/lower control arms.... strut rods and brackets... spring perches... shock towers... and I will have all that assembled, painted and ready for my friend when I drop the car off. So he'll have a table of about 1000 bucks worth of parts at his disposal when he gets it. Then all he'll have to do is take down the old stuff... throw it on the floor... fix the engine bay.... then hang all the new stuff. I don't want him wasting his time refinishing/repainting the old hard parts or installing bushings or all that stuff. I want the stuff to be ready for him and he can move from A to B and C.... and so on. Doing this way... I hope... will make less headaches for him and I can get my car back faster.
Now mix what I wrote above with the added expense of building a 4-6000 dollar engine and you can see why I asked the question for this post.... if there was a way to use the v8 cross member with the I6 for a few years... without hacking it all up... that would make sense to me considering how deep Iam going into the front end of this car.
Also... Thank you for validating my thought process.... just when I think I am over thinking something.. someone comes along and justifies my thinking... thanks.
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