This was the route I was so very close to going years ago. Had a neighbor that had enough of his race car, a 66 Nova that ran 9's. Had 14wx32 slicks on the *** end of it. Plan was to take the 15 to 1 small block out of it and replace it with a warmed up big block, change the gears and spool and a few other things. By the time I got the $$ together we had chased the gremlins away again and he was back to enjoying the car....