How to Drop In a New Chevy Engine

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Doug. I work with twenty great guys in St Louis at Doug Jenkin's Custom Hot Rods, and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. Now we're going to stuff the engine in the car and see if it fits. We've done a couple of mockups. We've checked a couple of things out and measured, and it seems like it will fit. There was an engine there in the first place, but it was a different shape. So, we're going to be real careful. This is all fresh paint on the car, so they're being real thoughtful on how they do stuff. I'm not a big fan of two man jobs, but this is a good opportunity for a guy who's real smart to help you out. You don't want someone getting their fingers smashed. You don't want someone crawling, or moving things around too fast. If you don't know someone smart, just do it yourself. It's plenty easy to do if you are just slow and careful and thoughtful. Some vehicles, you can't physically fit an engine and a transmission at the same time, going in the hole, but this one we think we can do it as an assembled unit. It seems like there's enough room in there. And there's going to be the right angle too. Some times you have to go in steep. Some you can go in shallow. Some vehicles, we have to take the core support out. That's the place right in front of the motor in order to get an engine and transmission in there together. It looks like it's going to lower in there okay. And this isn't a prepared tv show. This is just a nice guy with a camera, so it isn't as if we've fit all of this and then we're going to re-do it, just to make a good film. This is actually in real time. This is how it's going man. Now, the transmission will be shooting down at a pretty radical angle. In order to get the engine in at the right angle, we're going to have to lift the back of the transmission a little bit higher, so it's in there at a good angle, so that we can check the fit of our motor mounts, and start making our transmission cross member. So he's having a fit problem with the distributor cap. We'll go ahead and remove that so it doesn't get damaged in the fitting. "