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miloinda
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Want to know if its possible to replace the 215 engine with a Chevy 305 Engine and New Trani? Will the motor mounts be the same pattern and the same for Trani? Has anyone tried this before? Milo.
Why on earth would you post this in the "restoration" section of this site?
Nothing could be farther from a restoration!
A SBC can be installed in ANYTHING that has been proven already by the MILLIONS of cars that have had then shoe horned into.
The mounts are not the same and this is the first of many problems. The mounts are always the first consideration by a first time swapper, but the mounts are the easy part. The list of modifications to exhaust, radiator, shift linkage, drive shaft, firewall clearance, etc....... blows away the little mount problem.
I am a BIG fan of engine swaps, but they have to make sense, this doesn't. Depending on why you want to do it. If you are doing it to save money, forget it. If you are doing it for more horse power, forget it (unless you have something better to offer the car than that lame 305) If you just want a "better" motor then you are way off, that 215 was one of the best motors ever made by GM and WAY ahead of its time! Infact if you didn't know. GM sold the rights to that motor in 1965 to British Leyland and that VERY SAME motor has been used very successfully in the Triumph TR8, MGB GTV8, Rover sedans, and still to this day in the Land Rover and Discovery.
Now, why is it you want to swap?
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Life long Buick fan,
1965 Gran Sport Conv.
1965 Skylark H/T
1948 Chevy P.U. with 401 in it.
[This message has been edited by MARTINSR (edited 07-28-2001).]
Nothing could be farther from a restoration!
A SBC can be installed in ANYTHING that has been proven already by the MILLIONS of cars that have had then shoe horned into.
The mounts are not the same and this is the first of many problems. The mounts are always the first consideration by a first time swapper, but the mounts are the easy part. The list of modifications to exhaust, radiator, shift linkage, drive shaft, firewall clearance, etc....... blows away the little mount problem.
I am a BIG fan of engine swaps, but they have to make sense, this doesn't. Depending on why you want to do it. If you are doing it to save money, forget it. If you are doing it for more horse power, forget it (unless you have something better to offer the car than that lame 305) If you just want a "better" motor then you are way off, that 215 was one of the best motors ever made by GM and WAY ahead of its time! Infact if you didn't know. GM sold the rights to that motor in 1965 to British Leyland and that VERY SAME motor has been used very successfully in the Triumph TR8, MGB GTV8, Rover sedans, and still to this day in the Land Rover and Discovery.
Now, why is it you want to swap?
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Life long Buick fan,
1965 Gran Sport Conv.
1965 Skylark H/T
1948 Chevy P.U. with 401 in it.
[This message has been edited by MARTINSR (edited 07-28-2001).]
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hilljack
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A chevy in a buick is not cool and comes from years of brain washing from the car magazines. It is so out of control that people have been building 383 and 406 chevy engines to resemble the power curve of a BOP motor instead of just running the POB motor to begin with. People have taken out the BOP motor and then have spent the next 30 years trying to give there chevy the torque curve of that BOP motor they pulled out!
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Buickdude
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The 215's motor mount holes are in exactly the same place on the block as all other RWD small block Buick V-8's. You should be able to bolt in any of these engines using the original mounts. This would also mean you could use a BOP THM350 or 200-4r trans too.A custom driveshaft would no doubt be required since the splines on the original may not match the new tranny and will certainly have to be shortened.
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