[DeTomaso] Chevy in & out of Panteras or Engine Psychology Today

[Kirby Schrader]

Chuck,

GT5S 9390 went from a Cleveland to an Cleveland stroker to a 545 Chevy  
and back to a 351 Cleveland stroker.
The latter, I rebuilt when the car was in my garage back in uhh....  
gee... uhh... must have been around 2000? My memory is getting poor....

The story was that the previous owner wanted to go 200mph. Or so I've  
been told by 'those who know'. Why he took the 454 back out and put  
the original engine (which was a botched build job in any case... it  
was ready to self destruct when I took it apart) back in is unknown to  
me.

Also, the hatchet job that went into 'modifying' the engine  
compartment for the 454 was atrocious, in my humble opinion. I did a  
LOT of rewiring and repairs at the time.

FWIW,
Kirby


On 16 Jun 2009, at 7:09 PM, Charles Engles wrote:

> Dear Jack,
>
>
>            You wrote:
>
>
>  " Just an added note- if someone does do this swap, remember that  
> virtually
>> ALL such swaps eventually get reversed and a nice 351C is settled  
>> back where
>> it belongs. That includes at least 10 of the dozen 454 Chevs that  
>> MIke Cook
>> did in the '80s, the ZL-1 that used to be in Weldon Brown's Pantera  
>> and a
>> host of others including Windsors going back to Clevelands."
>
>
>
>              Why is that?     Given that the Pantera is already a  
> hodge podge of parts and a chimera of a car;  given that the Chevy  
> engines have the distributor in a good location for a midengine car  
> plus other intrinsic attributes (ignoring the  miscegenation of a  
> Chevy in a Ford car) ; and given that most of these Chevy  
> transplants are done as well as a Cleveland installation----then why  
> the mysterious trend to remove them and revert back to  
> Clevelands?     I can understand the benefits of a Chevy powered  
> Pantera.   I can't really understand the gravitation *back* to the  
> original 351C configuration after all the cost and effort to make  
> the Chevy change.   Do you have an understanding and some sort of  
> psycho-social-engine-ethnic (babble) explanation for this weirdness??
>
>
>                     Life is strange,  Chuck Engles
>
>         It gets stranger when you start swapping  
> engines...........................!!
>
>
>
>
>
>
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