Gifted a 68 c20- what to do

[Woody2shoez]

Hey guys, first post.

I’ve recently been gifted a 68 c20 from my wife’s grandfather. The truck has a sm465 with an in-line 250. It however does not have the original rear because he didn’t like how low it was and rather than changing the gear ratio put in another vehicles full float rear. To my understanding the Eaton rear doesn’t have a lot of ration options anyway.

The plan is to do a v8 and tranny swap and keep things fairly simple. However I’m having trouble deciding which route to take. I would like an overdrive trans and really am struggling to find which one to go with. My budget is 8k and I’m aware I’ll likely go over that. But if I say 8k and I go 11 I’m alright. I plan to lower the truck and have ac as well.

The motor I’m looking at is a blueprint motors 350 with 375hp and 420t. On top I’d like to do a fitech fuel injection set up.

Now the fun part... the trans. What is the best bang for buck route to go? 700r4 has issues with tv cable on the fitech. Th350 doesn’t have overdrive and I’ve delt with that before. Gear vendors added to the th350 is expensive. 4l60 isn’t all that cheap or easy. T56 isn’t all that cheap. I haven’t heard of anyone doing the nv4500 so I can’t find any info. Anything I’m not thinking about?

Now driving the th350 without the gearvender is what I keep falling back on for expense reasons. The idea would be I’d be able to have a drivable vehicle while I look for a used gv or save for a new one.

Any ideas would be greAtly appreaciated
Thanks
-Woody
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