Most Unusual G-Body Engine Swap You’ve Ever Seen?

[DRIVEN]

But sometimes you should just because you shouldn't.

 

[Wraith]

But sometimes you should just because you shouldn't.

I don't disagree, really, I love weird cars but sacrificing aesthetics to simply prove you can is like cutting off your fingers and gluing them to a beer can to say you are still technically holding a beer.

 

[ssn696]

If you can without cutting up the car, then you should. Don't compete with the salt, man.

 

[CaliWagon83]

Only thing I don't like about it is how he laid out the turbo plumbing. I think he probably could have tucked it under the stock hood. I would have spent more time trying to do that than doing that janky-@$$ hood bulge. Don't get me wrong, I respect the work he did on it, but that's just one compromise I wouldn't have made.

 

[ssn696]

The Banks kit fits under the truck hood. The exhaust manifold arrangement is kinda weird, though.

 

[jiho]

I test-drove a used 5.7 diesel Malibu wagon, and on the highway, it did just that. Everybody in the rear-view mirror just disappeared.

Why I've daydreamed about it. Drop one in my 4-door, don't even need to go see the referee because it was a factory option. Just turn up at smogcheck, they look at it, and I'm on my way BLOWING SMOKE AT THEM AS I DEPART. 😛

I guess it's a good thing that motor is hard to find around here. 😀

 

[online170]

Just curious to know what the most unusual G-Body engine swaps you’ve ever seen/done were?

I’m not talking SBC, BBC, Caddy 500. .

That's a first for me. Guess they are getting more common.

 

[Clutch]

That's a first for me. Guess they are getting more common.

My buddy put one in a Malibu years ago

 

[pagrunt]

I’m not talking SBC, BBC, Caddy 500.

Back aound '99 I came across a place that was big into & had alot of stuff for G body/big Caddy conversions. I ordered my first double hump crossmember from them. I wish I could remember who they are/were.

 

[DRIVEN]

Maybe others have done it but Mike P did it best.