Anyone put a Small Block Chev V8 (in my case a 350CI), Into a 1960 - 1962 Chevrolet C10 truck that originally came with a straight 6, 235CI engine.
I have a 1961 Chevy C10 Apache Suburban that came from a military base near Huntsville Alabama. It had a 235 straight 6 with 3 speed manual trans. It had the “U” motor mount at front of engine and bell housing mounts for trans. It has the torsion bar front suspension. I want to install a sbc 350 and an automatic trans. I have motor mounts from a 66 C10. I know I will have to fab a trans tail shaft cross-member. There are the 3 holes on each frame where a tranny cross-member would go. There are NO holes or indication on frame or front cross-member of where to place the motor mounts. When I place the engine and trans in truck, with motor mounts and towers attached to engine, with trans tail shaft up as high as possible, engine seems on too much of an angle. If I put 1” blocks between frame and towers, engine sits high. Without blocks, I have issues with oil pan clearance and firewall clearances.
We have a 62 with the torsion bar front end - it had a 350/350 in it until we put a twin turbo 6l and 4l80 in it.
The 350 fits well once you get it jostled into place
I do not remember now after some 7 years what was on it for mounts.
We used the same sbc 350 mounts with 1/2" thick adapters to put the larger 6l into it
Only issue we had was fitting the larger 4l80 to the rear xframe mount as it was really tight being as the tranny is so long
Those are all side mounts. You need the triangle cups and spikes that bolt to the front of the block or a HURST front mount. It would be fairly easy to make or Lightspeed Mike could always fab one for you. But, wouldn't a 60-62 truck have side mounts?
Warren
