Can I put a Rover engine in place of the Buick 215?
Hello there...
My name is Mike and I'm a Newbie posting for the first time...
I have a 63 Buick Skylark that I want to change the engine on because it's siezed... I would like to put in a Rover 3.5 or 3.9 or something cheap that is available as this is a car that will be used in the movies and it just needs to run... I currently have a seized engine so anything that runs will be better even if it burns a little oil but that seems to be very hard to find nowadays but the Rover engines are pretty plentiful but if you call the guy in Michigan, he tries to sell you a $900 kit before you even buy an overdrive transmission and have your drive shaft shortened and what not which I don't want to do... I want to use the original 2 speed transmission in there that does not have transmission lines and has those aluminum fins. supposedly there's a difference in the size of the crankshaft as far as size and depth but I'm not really sure. If anybody knows the actual sizes I would like to know... Supposedly the Rover engine is smaller and there's very little information known about the automatics it seems like everybody knows more about the manual transmissions... But being that the original transmission has those aluminum fins that come off the torque converter, I would like to machine that thinner if that's the case because I feel that would be very easily achieved because I've done that with another much more expensive torque converter from a Dodge diesel that I put into a V10 to get the durability and to lower the stall speed... Any help with sizing it up as far as bolting a Rover engine to the original 2-speed automatic would be greatly helpful...
Thanks
Mike in Long Island NY...