Originally posted by Kimberly McDowall:
JFK,
Do what makes you happy and what you can afford, unless you are planning to sell (for profit) or show the truck. Houston54 was right, you will most likely have to fabricate new motor mounts and a tranny cross member. We did, and we only put a 305 in our '54. It just takes time, patience, and good planning. Neither was expensive or even that difficult.
One word of advice: think about potential areas you are going to have interference with your fabricated mounts and accessing parts. For example, our "new" motor mount is making it pretty d*mn hard to replace the fuel pump! Also (this was an issue with both of our Stovebolts) make sure you've got sufficient firewall clearance for your distributor – I'm not familiar with the 440, but you might have some clearance issues there too.
Have fun with it.
K
