5.7 L Hemi, ZF 8HP70 Swap

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That's exactly right! That reminds me that I too am guilty of stirring up some sh*t once. I was restoring a '54 Corvette for a guy and with the blessing of the owner, we went on a Corvette website and I very innocently inquired about how easy or hard would it be to put a nice slant six in the car. After all, "the '54 was one of my favorites and I just happen to have this hot little 225 looking for a home". What an uproar that created!!! I even received death threats. One guy was going to hunt me down and shoot me!

To take some oddball car like a Willys, a Nash, a Fiat Topolino, etc., you can put anything you want in it and it would be cool. But to cross breed a more main stream American car when the options are pretty vast within it's own manufacturer's offerings is rather stupid, in my opinion. When you're done with it, who's going to buy it? You greatly diminish your resale market and price you can get.

It just occurred to me too how putting a late model Hemi in these older muscle cars stirs up some harsh feelings within the Mopar camp. There's guys who think we're ruining them by not sticking with a carbed / distributor engine.

4speeds4me said

Cause Chevy guys get so excited when someone sticks a BBM in a Camaro... There's a 67 Camaro in the Vancouver, BC area with a 440 in it, and it pisses the Chevy guys off to no end, so don't just be blaming us Mopar "purists"...for all intensive purposes, it only doesn't bother someone with no brand loyalty, or Chevy guys who got a good deal on a Mopar...

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