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my brother and I are building a show truck and had this crazy idea to put a big block chevy in the back of a long bed 68 chevy, I figuerd it out that if I moved wheels back 8-12 inches and used a turbo 350 direct to a older corvett rear it would all fit
behind the cab and I have most of the parts just take lot of labour.
The main qestion is will it be able to handel freeway speeds without the engine above front supension or should I put lighter springs in front?

Oh, heck. Why not a 572 crate motor? 620hp out of the box.

Why not use the motorhome verion of the Toronado/Eldorado transaxle to allow leaving the wheelwells in the stock location?

would ya be able to even license something like that for the freeway? :confused: hope ya got an engineer around to sign off on it! could always move the gas tank under the hood for front weight, but don't tell the insurance company!

Bill

A guy up here did up an S10 with a Toronado frontend in back

you could do it but you will need to figure out a way to have enough weight under the hood or you will have no steerring ability. you could higher the rear and drop the front to put downward force but that still not enough

A 454 powered "ford T buckett" is legal and this thing is will be hundred percent safer.
worst case we could trailer it but would be way cool to be street legal!
I think a NHRA approved fuel cell in front should be perfectly safe, also we hope to keep the engine right up aginst the cab and the raidator will still be up front, so it should be 50/50 front rear.
could the motorhome version of the Toronado/Eldorado transaxle handle 425-500 horse power?

The VW Beetle had a fuel tank up front/engine rear and was sold in the US after '68. So licensing your '68 shouldn't be a problem. I had a 57 bug in 1960 when going to high school in Alaska -- in the winter I carried about 50# of sand in the front. It handled great in the snow -- lots of fun.

I seen a 70 model firebird convertable with a 454
big block mounted in the back seat at the Goodguys show. He added weight where the motor should be.

Yep Olds tornado rear, corvair springs up front with stang rack and pinion steering, gotta measure front with engine and trans setting as is now, pull engine trans an redo springs so sets with new spring as if engine trans was there.
Jbennett
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Second thought , Porsche 924 transaxle, it will take 350 sb chevy tork. leave engine clutch up front, trans rear gear in rear. Could shorten whole unit so it fits eight foot bed, problem is shifting, could be figured out,
jbennett
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Any type of transmission will handle the 450 horse power as long as you don't put slicks under it. If it never hooks up, it won't break! If you are going to race it, then you need to do so real engineering. The longer wheel base will add weight to the front. You could also add lead weights from the dirt track cars. Joe

thinking about putting engine in backwards trany forward, engineer some kind of gear box to trasnfere power back to rear end
got a plan almost worked out using my mechanical engineers hand book to figure out what kind of gearing will be needed, that would also help with weight to the front becuse of trany in almost stock location, only backwerds

maybe you should go for this kinda thing!

Bill