InTheDoghouse50:
Like the guys said, the smallblock is the way to go if you don't wanna go with a Six. You will want to dump the old rear and torque tube ( Here\'s Mine when it came out.)I used a rear out of an 84 Monte and it turned out to be a little narrower than I wanted. It measured the same as the stock rear but unless your planning on running narrow tires then that's not what you want. Figure out what tire/wheel combo you plan on running and make sure you take that into account when selecting your rear. I ended up having to put negative offset reversed wheels on mine to get the tire size I wanted. It turns out I like the deep dish look that I ended up with but it was a little more $.
MONGO

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Please post links to your pics like I did above instead of the embeded image method to help save the bolt the bandwidth.


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