Some junkyard shopper had already grabbed the heads off this engine before I got to it. The block casting number indicates that the engine began life in a 1987-1995 car or truck. The small-block ...

Finally, the Ford Y-Block V8 appeared in the 1954 Fords, and today's Junkyard Gem is one of the first cars to receive that engine ... 1965 (though only for trucks after 1960).

Turned into the perfect jacked-up truck, it was dumped into a junkyard in 1992 ... inspecting the bottom-end of the small-block Chevy V8 engine. Apart from a spun rod bearing, the oil pan wasn ...

That said, V8 conversions aren't the sole domain of 1960s and 1970s muscle cars. Especially nowadays with the widespread junkyard ... engines like the M54 and N52 with a motor out of a Chevy truck ...

15 – 1973 Ford F-100 in Colorado junkyard ... V8 engine that went into the engine compartment in Milpitas back in 1973, but it’s some member of the FE big-block family, and the truck ...

Depending on the engine placement, you may only need minor firewall modifications. We also picked up a sturdier rearend with disc brakes from our local junkyard, California Mini-Truck Dismantlers ...