The rest of the truck is really nice. All original sheetmetal with no patches in the floor or cab corners. I can live with un-butchering the engine location. That's easy. I wouldn't go back to a 235, as they weren't as good an engine as the 250 in it. If I do stay with a 6, it will either be the one it has now or a 292. My preference would be for a vintage 283 or 327 2bbl. Then I can run dual stacks up behind the cab and look like a big-rigger.
I was under there looking again this afternoon and the bellhousing ears are at an angle and the crossmember appears to have used a straight mount. I found a tag under the seat for future owners that the rear mounts are from a Dodge 400 !! What I need to know now, is if an adaptor is availble to go between the bellhousing I have and the crossmember to fill in the wedge that will exist once I remove the cobbled junk in there. Then I can drop the trans down below the floor line. It also needs to move rearward about an inch too. It looks like they moved it ahead to use thru bolts on the rear mounts that are ahead of the crossmember.
