Re: 356 & 359 info and choices.

Posted by Packard Don On 2022/7/16 21:11:45

You definitely don’t want to put a 356 into a 120 chassis as the springs would never support the weight! Also, as Howard pointed out, rebuilding a 356 is very costly. Keep in mind that the 1950 and earlier cars had a single motor mount at the front and two (one on either side) at the transmission while 1951-1954 was reversed with one on either side of the engine and a single one under the transmission so using a newer engine in the older car would mean re-engineering something to work. The 356 also had so much torque that it had an additional absorber device on one side. Surely you can find the proper 282 and save yourself a whole lot of grief in trying to make something else fit.