Posted by Aaron Sellars 71 comet 351 on March 17, 1999 at 08:23:19:
In Reply to: Re: 351w swap posted by Mustang on March 04, 1999 at 20:15:26:
The 351 will fit without modifications, the tower braces can stay on. All I did was grind away a little from the ridge on the exhaust manifolds and droped it in. They ( the exhaust manifolds) touch on both sides and changing the plugs is a pain but it worked. I have since decited that 13.2@104 is to slow soI haev pulled my motor and am building it up to 425 to 450 hp. since it is out I am cutting back the shock towers so I can use headers. If anyone have doen this any sugestions would be greatly apriciated ( as far as how much I can cut, and what headers I should use.
Aaron S.
: I sat a 351-w down in my comet,But I couldnt get any exhaust on,I tried Serval different manifolds,and a tried Headers.I couldnt get those to work.Im sure there is some manifolds that would work,somewhere,But i couldnt find any..SO i just forgot the 351-w idea,and bought a 302 and sat down in there.
: : :cutting the shock towers is not needed but, it makes things alot easier. I set the Block and heads in mine and it was tight but you could do it with madifolds or block hugger headers but, not much clearence