I asked a provocative question and I received the answers I expected. I have put a 345 hemi in a 51 chevy pick up and a SBC 283 in one. I have now fought a 454 into a wooden cab 1935 tall cab pickup. I guess my reason for asking the question is I wanted to find out if I am the only one who has such desires. If you note I said I have used a 283, my humble attempt to vary the SBC theme. All is good, I just wanted to know if there were any other like mined souls out there that saw another way. At least we are all working with chevy's and proud of what we are doing!