Originally posted by Rusty Rod Road Raging again:
but lose those gawdawful wheel covers And a V-8 will slide right into that immense engine compartment.
You haven't been to the Bonneville Salt Flats lately, have you? That's where the truck is gonna spend about 3 weeks this year. And just to clarify, those gawdawful wheel covers are gen-u-wine Dean Moon moon discs that were made about the time the truck was built. I just happened to have a set.
Now I may go to baby moons and trim rings if I do a complete conversion to 5-lug wheels, but at the moment, there are 3 different types of wheel on the truck (I bought it that way) and the moon disc solution was a relatively easy way to give them a consistent look.
Remember, this is a rat rod...not a Kalifornia Kruiser.
As far as the V8...well, I've got 7 other Chevys and they all have V8s (twin-fours for the inline purists) ranging from 355 to 454. The Ratt Truk is the only I6 I've got...and I chose to build it that way to be different. If I want fast, I can drive my El Camino with 400 smallblock and 3.73 posi. It's fast enough. And if that ain't enough I've got a 67 Camaro RS/SS and a 63 Nova that are fast enough to scare me. In addition, I'm preparing a Monte Carlo SS to run on the Salt Flats in hopes of breaking 200 with a street-legal car. I'm starting with a AFR head, roller cam 406 and will prolly run that up to 150, then convert the drive train to use the 454 (prolly punch it out a bit) and a Muncie 4-speed.
So I've got plenty of them V-shaped things. But I've only got one 6-banger...and I wanna keep it.
