By my seniour year in high school, I had pulled the Mopar engine and tranny and swapped them into a '55 Ford at my parents' insistence, though. Was a little '53 Henry J with a '53 DeSoto hemi backed up by a '54 Dodge 3-speed manual transmission. My very first car (I was14 going on 15 when I began piecing it together). I was half-kidding about the Cummins turbo diesel swap into one of the newer cars. Let alone one of the newer models having a low hoodline. A serious 'power bulge' would be required in order to get the hood shut.Īctually, I measured one a few years back and it would be quite a squeeze to shoehorn a Cummins under the stock hood of a mid-'50's passenger car. Excellent point! And those engines are quite long as well.
