I have the opportunity to do this.

What are your thoughts of doing this vs a stock Vortec 350?

 

BOP GMC Be Original, Think Out side the Bowtie... besides that there is a tenancy with the more odd the build, the less likely they are heard from again...

Last one I followed was a Buick 455 into a 3rd gen. Never heard from again once done.

my theory is non chevy engines turn 3rd gens into a time machine...


I just happen to have a BB Buick stage 1 430, race prep TH350 just sitting on a stand doing nothing.

But there isn't enough steel in these things for me to attempt time travel....

 

How much technology do you think is in 30 years and billions of dollars in combustion and airflow research? The 425 will get eaten alive and the L31 will pull several more miles per gallon afterward. Spending more to get less? Having the car be worth less when you're done? Skip the old.

 

That's what I was leaning towards. I installed a new crate L31 in my car about a year and a half ago and it runs great.

I am getting a complete carb-to-pan Olds 425 for cheap. I'll just stick it in the garage for another project.

Thanks 3rd Gen.

 

I saw a buick 455 in a 3rdgen at a local show, looked like a factory install with AC and all. I think most guys that do end up doing and finishing something like this don't get on the net much if ever.

Odd but In June of 2000, Hot Rod mag has a buick 455 in a 3rdgen and it looks a very nice factory install.

 

And therein lies the problem: while it might be "cool", "different", etc. etc. etc. to do some random foreign motor transplant, such things ALWAYS open a YUUUUUUUJJJE can of worms that yerbasic "beginner" type swapper - the kind of person who would have to get on the Internet and ask if it's even possible - will dive into a project, hack up a bunch of stuff, come to some unforeseen insurmountable obstacle of some sort, and give up. Then all s/he'll have is a pile of parts that don't fit and a car that doesn't work.

Reserve the Olds motor for ... an Olds. There's plenty of those out there (well, maybe not "plenty", but "some" anyway...) that can make better use of it than this.

Do a couple of simpler swaps first to gain some experience before tackling something exotic. Just like, I wouldn't want to be the first patient an aspiring brain surgeon operated on, before he went to medical school. At least, assuming I had a brain to begin with. Learn, gain experience, see how things can go wrong and what solutions work and what don't, acquire tools, parts, materials, contacts, & skills; THEN tackle the exotic.

 

Listen to this guy.. Truth.

 

quoted for truth.