I got my 454 BBC in my 95 Z yesterday. Of course you can tell by the photo's I went in through the bottom. This payed off really well because I had to lift the car about 4-5 times to do some modifications on my firewall on the drivers side. It wasn't too bad. Only took me about 5 hours and that was having to make room for the bigger motor too. Putting an LT or LS-1 back in this way shouldn't take an hour or so.

 

I like it!!!!

 

Wow! That thing is going to be a beast! Nice work, man.

 

Thanks for the reply's. Putting the 454 in through the bottom was actually easier than when I put an LT-1 in though the top last year.

 

Very Nice

 

Awesome. Get some vids once you get it running and drivable .

 

Wow. That's going to be cool. My question is once it's installed what normal stuff maitnance wise will you not be able to do anymore because of the position of the motor?

 

That's sick. I hope you have double-diamond subframes and a 9" rear

 

Is this a common swap? How is it going to effect the handleing?

 

do you actually have enough room for the intake/carb? looks close

 

Wow, that's a big motor in there. What are your plans for the exhaust? headers? How is spark plug access?

 

I'm going to have to cut a little for the carb to fit. It''' fit fine but I have to use a low profile air filter. As of right now I can get my hand inbetween the engine and the firewall on both sides. So I don't think anything will be anymore difficult maintance wise than on a LT-LS motor.

I'm probably going to make my own headers. I might try a set of Hooker Headers that are supposed to work but the primaries aren't that big. I'm going to run a 3" x-pipe and bullet mufflers.

Suspension will be worked on after everything else is done. I'm also working on my 9" rear end right now.

 

Have fun changing the distributor if you ever have to. I think a RamJet fuel injection set-up might fit.

 

That's SWEET!!

 

Dang cwaldt I need to move my shop from the frozen tundra of Wisconsin down to Charolette and you come work with me man! Sweet job!