Finally get to pretend I am one of the cool kids - Holley kit swap
So one advantage to having the motor up 3/4" or so is the steering clears the pan by a decent amount.
I looked at how much clearance there is to drop the motor out of curiosity and it looks like the headers would crash with the manual box, the oil filter adapter would maybe just clear the k-frame and the oil pan doesn't have clearance to bring the motor down the full 3/4". In addition, the bottom of the oil pan is already 1/2" or so below the k-frame so that would be pretty low (IMO) if I dropped the motor.
All of this was more just to look at it, I'm not entertaining the idea of trying to set the motor down. I don't like the idea of putting weight higher in the car, but since I'm not looking for 10/10th's I am going to chock it up to "it makes the motor fit better" and get on with the swap.
So one advantage to having the motor up 3/4" or so is the steering clears the pan by a decent amount.
I looked at how much clearance there is to drop the motor out of curiosity and it looks like the headers would crash with the manual box, the oil filter adapter would maybe just clear the k-frame and the oil pan doesn't have clearance to bring the motor down the full 3/4". In addition, the bottom of the oil pan is already 1/2" or so below the k-frame so that would be pretty low (IMO) if I dropped the motor.
All of this was more just to look at it, I'm not entertaining the idea of trying to set the motor down. I don't like the idea of putting weight higher in the car, but since I'm not looking for 10/10th's I am going to chock it up to "it makes the motor fit better" and get on with the swap.