1952 Pickup Street Rod project

[csmeutah]

Originally Posted by e015475

I'd think with a Corvette bat-wing oil pan you could drop the engine pretty low in the frame.

Have you put the accessory drive on the engine yet to check fit? With the engine low in the frame you might have problems with the Corvette's low mount alternator getting it between the frame rails. The narrowest LS accessory drive is from the trucks and you can still run the Corvette intake with a pulley relocation kit, but even with the truck accessories you can't mount a stock AC compressor down low and clear the frame rails.

I modified my firewall to allow my LS motor's valve covers to fit about an inch and a half in back of the sheet metal, but I was still surprised how little room I had for an intake tract between the TB and the fan shroud. If I ever do a LS in one of these trucks again, I'll make sure I can get the intake/MAF and filter to fit well before I weld in the motor mounts by mounting the radiator/shroud and support for mockup too

All good points, I need to drop the cab on and look at the accessories thanks