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I have the engine positioned about where I want it. Before I get the engine mounts welded in I'm checking to see how much of the stock firewall I can use. It looks like a good 80%. I have to make clearance for the passenger side valve cover, but as luck would have it I can cut about 1 or 1.5 inches below the factory bead. Almost perfect how it lines up. I'm not sure of the factory recess is deep enough, but will worry about that down the road.

After looking at alot of pictures on Google I think the second one may be from the 1978-83 Dodge Omnis.

When I bought the car it came with two different steering racks. The that was mounted I think is from a Caliver which I know is a popular option. I did have to remove.the bracket for it because it was in the way of where my engine mounts will probably have to be welded in. Here is the second rack. If I remember correctly the previous owner said he was going to use this one instead. I don't remember the reason. Does anyone recognize what car it may be from? It has one mounting point cast in, but the other side has a rubber mounting strap that rotates.

The Buick 350 the oil filter is in front passenger side corner. First I tried a Ford Racing Style 90 degree adapter but that still didn't give me the room I needed. I had to tap the threads out to match Buick thread. What I'm using now is remote oil filter from Canton Racing (bought on Amazon). This is a two part system. First piece screws on to where the oil filter goes. You can see the black piece on picture above. It has two 1/2" npt ports. You can spin the adapter to point the ports in the direction you need. They sell different versions, you just have to find the one that works with your engine thread pitch and gasket size. There is second piece you can mount where convenient that also has two 1/2" npt ports and let's you screw on a filter. They have different options depending on what filter you want to use. I then got npt to 8 AN adapters and going to join the two pieces with AN hose. I.e you have a feed and return hose.

I decided notching the frame would be necessary to get the engine where I wanted. I marked out where I thought I needed clearance and cut it out. I found ALOT of dirt inside the frame. I cleaned a lot of it out with compressed air. I'm afraid I'm going to have to cut a spot open on the drivers side to check for and remove dirt. Anybody have any ideas of treating inside of frame for rust? I'm thinking maybe I could use a fish tape and pull through a rag soaked with something 🤔

I started this project with rebuilding a engine, mostly because I had it before I bought the car. It is Buick 350 I took out of 1976 Lesabre. It is probably not a conventional choice, and honestly probably something I wouldn't recommend. Parts are expensive. It's wider than a sbc which makes fitting into the car a challenge. You can also see the firewall in the background I picked up. Not sure I can use it but it wasn't too expensive. I'm trying to offset to the passenger side to better line up with the rear end and leave room for steering The challenges are the oil filter location and header hitting the frame. I did get a remote oil filter to deal with the filter issue.

I may have posted a picture of this car once before, but I'm going to start a thread just to post general updates and ask questions. Here is a picture of the 1948 Business Coupe as I was trailers it home. It did come with a hood, which is in back of the truck. It has a Ford Explorer rear end a d Scarebird front disc Breaks. What it doesn't have is an engine, a floor, firewall or viable rocker panels.

I will probably have to call them if I want to to know. I crawled under the car again and one of them is marked DGE FXM..or maybe FXY...that last letter wasn't very readable.

That part number is not listed in my Dodge 1948 book

Here is the car for those interested...has the Ford Explorer rear end in it. I'm rebuilding a Buick 350 to put in it along with the TH350 transmission that came out of a 1976 Buick LeSabre

Hello, I'm new to the forum. I bought at 1948 Dodge Business Coup that has a scarebird dusc break conversion. I have looked at their website and I can't determine if it has the budget or non budget conversion. The bracket looks more like the budget, but the caliper looks like chevy celebrity the non budgets uses....