Re: installing a small block?

Posted by Ross On 2011/4/15 20:10:30

Hi Garret, and welcome. Glad you are saving that car. I bought my first Packard at 14--and still have it uh, some years later.

Anyway, those 200s are great driving cars and you can have a lot of fun and good service with it.

It may really be much easier to make it run than you think. My own current 200 driver was a $500 junkyard beauty and was coughing and snorting to life about 2 hours after I got it home.

As several folks have mentioned, I agree you will be bucks ahead and sooner driving if you stick with the Packard engine. Plus, it is infinitely cooler. I'm sure none of your friend are running engines with 3 foot-long cylinder heads.

Stick or automatic? Post a few photos.