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The torque converter (non-locking) in front of the 700R4 should save the drive line from the worst of it.

Yep- - - - -that happened just a bit south of you, at Foster Farms in Livingston CA. in 1978. They grew their own rice for feeding the chickens they grew and processed. I was running a diesel shop in Merced at the time.
Jerry

I was born in Merced. Been to and through Livingston many times.
I still have Family in Snelling, Atwater, and Chowchilla.

Well, the customer is always right, that can be true, but sometimes a customer will go to a pro because he does not know, he expects info and he wants to learn... A 327 in that truck is indeed a funny idea, but maybe this customer wants a 327 because he had 1 in high school (in a Nova), or his parents' station wagon had 1 when he was a kid. Maybe someone needs to tell him that any small block can be made to look like a 327 (with the right stickers!), maybe he is the kind of guy who just does not know and who needs to hear about options, to hear that GM sells an excellent 383 crate engine that would suit him much better (if he wants a GM crate)!
Because the risk here is also a customer who ends up not happy and blaming the shop for not steering him in the right direction...

Didn't "Poor Richard's Almanac" have a few comments about somebody with more money than sense (to put it as charitably as possible)?

Something about being "soon parted"!
Jerry

I did not know we had any rice fields in the U.S. Very informative post so far.

It's really cool to say you have a 327 because it sounds Corvettey. It was called the "Mighty Mouse" motor.
It's also cool to say you have a 454 because it's a Big Block. A Rat Motor.

In eastern Arkansas and central California, the rice fields are so big they use crop duster planes to sow the seed. I was driving near the end of a plane's run one day out in California and got pelted with thousands of grains of rice when he pulled up for another pass. It was like a mini-hailstorm.
Jerry

They burn the rice stubble here in SE Mo. Nasty.

Hey Jim,
I just got done attaching the CPP engine mounts on the frame of my '52 3100.
I measured from the center of the front cab support bolt hole, to the center of the hole in the CPP mount. It is 31 inches.
The center-to-center measurement between the two CPP mounts is 19 inches. (That 19" is what CPP calls for in their instructions.)
These specs should put your small block right where you need it regardless of what series truck you have.
Carl