Hi all,
It looks like I could become the proud new owner of an '83 Mirada (and if so, I would be hanging out here a whole lot more often!)
Situation is that the car has no engine/trans. It was a 318 car, but the engine mount ears have been cut off the K in prep for a big block swap, and the trans mount is also now missing.
I want to put a hot 318 back in the car.
Let's assume that I don't want to go with an engine plate, and that I don't want to swap out the K (since all the front end work has been done already), so I want to weld in new mounting points on the K.
Questions:
- are all small block K mounting points the same, so I could source them from an A, B, C body K-frame?
- if not, could I get them from an F, M, or J body? Or would they be J-body specific?
- what about the trans mount? The car was a 904 car, but I'd be installing a 727. Would I just need to get a trans mount from any J-F-M body, or...?
Any other thoughts?
Thanks for anyone's knowledge on this. I've always liked F, M, J bodies, but if I get this Mirada, it would be my first since I had a '76 Aspen R/T back in the early '90s.
It looks like I could become the proud new owner of an '83 Mirada (and if so, I would be hanging out here a whole lot more often!)
Situation is that the car has no engine/trans. It was a 318 car, but the engine mount ears have been cut off the K in prep for a big block swap, and the trans mount is also now missing.
I want to put a hot 318 back in the car.
Let's assume that I don't want to go with an engine plate, and that I don't want to swap out the K (since all the front end work has been done already), so I want to weld in new mounting points on the K.
Questions:
- are all small block K mounting points the same, so I could source them from an A, B, C body K-frame?
- if not, could I get them from an F, M, or J body? Or would they be J-body specific?
- what about the trans mount? The car was a 904 car, but I'd be installing a 727. Would I just need to get a trans mount from any J-F-M body, or...?
Any other thoughts?
Thanks for anyone's knowledge on this. I've always liked F, M, J bodies, but if I get this Mirada, it would be my first since I had a '76 Aspen R/T back in the early '90s.
