Swapping a 472/500/425 into your project car or truck can be done in just one
day. . If you have all the right stuff to do it first class. You start with a
cup of coffee in the morning, and celebrate with a cold beer after your test
drive that evening. When contemplating a swap of any kind, consider that when you put any motor in to any vehicle if you have the Time, the Patience, and the Money. Given that, you must consider how much of the those three variables, you have to give for your project. Trying to do a swap cold turkey can be quite frustrating. Two or three weekends of hand-making brackets and braces and drilling and welding. Trial. Error. Trial. Error. Trial. Success. If you could simply make a call to Billy Ray Joe Bob at Cad's R Us & order the right stuff, it would be so much simpler. That's how the Universal Motor Mount Kit was born. Having to "Frankenstein" your oil pan to get it to clear the K-frame, and ever after worrying about leaks, cracks, pickup feed, etc., is no way to go. Driving yourself crazy modifying all the Chevy brackets and pulleys to work, and, the worst part of the conversion, the big ugly torched-out notch in the cross member to clear the oil pump and filter, or choosing the bearing killer remote filter. But, times have changed, fellow Cadders. Read on… Enter the Universal Motor Mount Kit… Do a swap in one weekend. Now there's even an oil pan you take out of the box and bolt on for a sweet drop-in on your Cad motor. Oil pump Blues? Not anymore. Order the Thing ‘Special Chassis" Gold (higher volume, higher pressure) Oil pump (Pg 24) and you're good to go. Use a PH-25 FRAM filter. That pump clears just about every chassis you would want to swap in to. Mid 50’s and earlier chassis are bit squeezy and can require some wizard chassis mods to fit a big Caddy, but it'll go in. Then there's the oil pan dilemma. You're dropping your Cad into your ‘77 Whatever, and clunk. Oil pan hits the cross member. Just give us a call here at Cad Company. order up our PRO/Cad 7.0 Rear Sump Oil pan, Kit, or aluminum pan (Pg 17) and count one, two, three days, and VOILA! Sweetest install you'll ever see! If our trick pans just aren't in the cards for your budget, we offer a oil pan installation kit for changing out your front sump pan for a OE Eldo unit, and do-it-yourself front-to-rear sump conversion kits (some welding and fabrication skills required, but the pre cut, pre bent sheet metal pieces make for a much simpler job, eliminating the design headaches and necessary sheet metal brake from the requirements to do the conversion). Why spend hours cutting boiler plate and home-building a plate to bolt your Cad to the Chevy TH-400? You? You only need to give us a call, order the Transmission Adapter Kit (Pg 27), and have at it. Takes a few minutes to take it out of the box and bolt in on! Got Power glide? Got TH-350? Noooo problem. Call us up and tell us you want the Steel Billet Flex plate (Pg 27) with the multi-pattern for TH-400, TH-350, Power glide and even the 700R-4. We can even setup one with other TC bolt patterns, such as Ford or Chrysler on request (but then you're on your own for the tranny adapter). Wanna run a clutch setup so you can torque test your 4-speed (or 5 or 6 speed…)? No problem again. Call Cad Company and order up a Steel Billet Flywheel (Pg 27) (166-tooth ring gear for standard Caddy starter). Whoops . . . What about headers? The tradition continues. Can't get much more simple: If one of our sets of budget or premium headers (Pg 28) is beyond your budget, or not applicable to your particular swap, you just buy whatever big-block Chevy or big-block Ford header fits your chassis, then call Flashcraft and order the Header Flange Kit (Pg 28). You'll receive some bitchin’ plasmacut, shot-tumbled 5/16" steel flanges, gaskets and trick bolts, and your neighborhood will never be the same! Good Luck, Cadders.
Motor Mounts and kits
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