One of the Frankenstein stovebolts with altered stroke length and custom machined connecting rods that I'm tinkering with just might end up running pistons from a 223 Ford 6 cylinder. The nice thing about auto parts is that they don't care where they run as long as they fit. I've run a Volkswagen engine with flathead Ford piston rings and wrist pins for a Corvair, and the 59 Burb I drove for years had a Dana type 60 rear end with a GMC housing, Ford gears, and a Dodge pinion flange.
It never fails to amaze me how supposedly mature adults can get passionate about the brand name attached to a 70 year old assortment of rusty junk parts! Most of us outgrew those kinds of petty emotions somewhere around the end of grade school!
Jerry
