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Old 12-11-2013, 10:53 PM   #14
The Reserve
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Erie, Pa
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Re: 1954 Panel build

Gonna have to wait till after my training bro, but then its on, going everywhere.

So here is where the trouble starts, 6.0L out of a 2005 Escalade. I didn't want to cut out a huge hole in my firewall or a massive tranny and driveshaft tunnel, so I decided to drop the engine over 3" down inside the frame more. The oil pans on those big trucks is excessively deep, so luckily GM uses a lot of interchangeable parts, so I got a pan from a corvette, same capacity but different dimensions so it allowed for a few inches of ground clearance, otherwise I would have drug a hole in the original.
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Cut out, notched and welded back up
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