LS Swap '65 Valiant

harrisonm said

Who makes a kit to install an LS in an early Mopar A body? You do!
Who makes headers for an early Mopar A body with an LS? You do!
Who makes a wiring harness for an early Mopar A body with an LS? You do!
My question is Why! I am NOT being rude. I know it is YOUR car. Please do what you want with it. @RustyRatRod correctly said that a Mopar A Body with an LS swap can be "Bad to the Bone." But then again, a Mopar A body with a 340, 360, Gen III hemi, etcetera can be bad to the bone. I guess I just don't understand why one would jump through hoops and work to overcome so many obstacles to put a motor from a Chevy or Ford in their Mopar. If there were no decent Mopar engines available, I might be able to understand it. Kits and parts are readily available to put a Mopar engine into your Mopar. Again; I am not trashing anybody's plans or ideas, I want people to do what they want with their own cars, but I just don't understand it.

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Because of the LS, everybody wants 600 plus HP......problem is, more than HALF those people have never even felt HALF that. They don't know WHAT they'd be happy with, or WHAT they can and can't handle. They get this car where it can halfass drive and wrap it around a tree.

Not to mention, if they put it in something that's NOT GM, now we have the whole "gotta fab stuff" goin on. Some of THOSE will end up neglected in the back yard, because they THOUGHT they had fab skills and they did not, so now the project gets sold on the cheap.

I'm not talking about the OP in any of this, as we don't know what fab skills he may or may not have. I'm just throwing out some scenarios that we all know have happened.

I think maybe if most guys would just start with something like an old Dodge truck with a 318, hone their skills on getting it running as good as can be and getting everything on it road worthy, they'd have a lot more fun and experience on their next project. Over half their questions would already be answered and just think of all the experience they'd have from that first old truck.