Re: swapping motors?

Posted by Fish'n Jim On 2013/12/2 19:49:41

That's was mainly 4 funzies...
I had looked at Falconer V12 several times but, thanks, did not know they were involved in a reincarnation project. Sounds like a wonderful idea in our current look alike car world. But at $65K+ for basic motor, I'm not interested. For that jack, I'd go AMG mercedes V12. U can buy one heck of a fast car for that much alone. My total budget was roughly 2 B = Roush stage 3 Mustang/Zl-1 Camaro.
I'm on the scent of a couple GTO's, so this could be become moot. If that happens, this one will stay stock and be a nice driver/grocery getter/show goer. But it's not out of the question long term to rework the intake and exhaust and put the 327 crank in it, pistons, and do some brightwork/plumbing/linkage work, for show. I already have the basic layout for a period hot rod. The guy that owned this one, had some period add on "items". So I'm trying to period replicate as much as possible.
I saw a post from a guy that has hot rodded many packards and he thinks the 288 is fairly stout out of the box. I drove it down the road and it's peppy but not registered or road worthy yet.
Dave had the best suggestion, one that's been played before and that's get a later Packard V-8. But then you got the rebuild $ money again vs new. There is an earlier(~2005) HOT ROD article of a rat rod with a nice packard straight 8, a guy turbo charged. Quite a piece of machine work, in such a lousy body.