Re: Fwd: My AMC NEEDS SPEED

[farna@xxxxxxx]

On February 1, 2005 andrew hay wrote:

> i don't have numbers but i've looked at both quite a bit.  in a '64 -
> no problem.  '63 - still major surgery.
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> Andrew Hay  

I don't recall the exact length of the 195.6 and 4.0L either. The 4.0L is about 2" shorter than a 258 (fan and all, V-belt 258), but the engine bay of the 58-63 American is about 4" to short for the 232/258. There's no easy way to get more room either. The radiator can't be moved forward more than 1/2"-3/4" because of the hood latch. you can move to the rear by notching the firewall under the heater in the 61-63, but the heater box has to go. If it's a summer time hot rod that might be fine (no heater or defrost). Otherwise it would take a cobbled heater, maybe from a 59 or so Chevy truck (box under passenger side of dash IIRC), or a custom hot rod unit ($300 or so for heat and defrost only). Not worth it in my opinion. The GM 2.8L-3.4L V-6 (Ford 2.9L) is a good fit, but the accessories are mounted to wide! You'd need custom mounts. Even a modern four is to wide without surgery to the left inner wheel panel of the 58-63 -- the intake stick to far over! The 195.6 OHV is a nar!
 row engine, and the engine compartment of that car (50-55 Nash Rambler, 58-63 American) was built around it! May as well cut the humps on both sides and put in a small V-8 with block hugger headers or stock manifolds. Changing plugs will be a bear though. 

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