June 2012 Chevelle Update: Firewall, Engine Placement, and Race Car A-Pillars!
Published: Wed, 06/27/12
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June 27, 2012 |
 Allison Customs handiwork - a new firewall!
It's been quite a while since I put out the last Chevelle update, and as more than a few of you have asked for the latest news I thought that a pictorial spread might be the best way to go. Long story short, since my last update quite a bit has happened by Jeff Allison at Allison Customs from a work and decision making perspective that will dictate the remainder of the build. First and foremost, the location of the LS engine has been
determined. As anyone can attest to, when placing a new generation
engine into an old car the easiest route to go would simply be to place
the new engine where the old one used to be....but what fun would that be?
Since the car was already in a bazillion pieces we decided to take the
opportunity to improve the handling of it even more and relocated the
engine as low and as far back as was reasonably allowable (that didn't
require the engine in the front seat with me).
One of the most difficult choices with LS engines in particular in doing engine swaps into Chevelle's (or really any car) is to account for the following factors:
Obviously, when working a problem with 5 variables it's helpful to
have 5 equations to solve to (thank you 9th grade algebra), but in this
case we had a few fixed variables to work with that made things easier... Home of the world's best muscle car podcast.
  
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