It's not a common swap because that motor would be hard to find & expensive for most of us. Might be a more common swap in the UK - if you can find a forum for such.
If you swap it, just balance the "free" cost of the motor against the cost of additional driveline conversion and your experience level with EFI / electronics.... It'll be hard to get help in the states on that one.
i am unable to find an adapter for the toyota transfer case, so I guess I would have to use the rover gearbox and transfer. Good units however the work and fabrication I think will not outweight using the rover v8 instead of the gm 4.3, just because it's a v8 and just because it sounds oh so good and just because it's a solid engine
Does the 215/3.5 use the standard BOP bellhousing pattern? You should be able to find TH350/400's, SM420/465's, or the like to bolt to it and adapt from that.
does the th700 share the same bolt pattern as the th350 and 400? I would like it to stay 4 speed.. I dont know what the 400 is though.
I was mainly thinking about this swap because the engine is free, it looks smaller than the v6 so I think it should be easier to fit into my pickup..
However I don't know anything about the EFI, wiring fuel pressure and such so i would have to do some research.. The light weight of the engine is also very tempting 140 kg dry weight.. nice.
I would save time and money adn put a 4.3liter chevy v6 besides on the chevy motors you can reuse a lot of parts if you want to swap in a v8 later
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