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Gee golly willickers can't someone just offer a suggestion? Who knows what will be done down the road, a little bit of extra effort at the beginning pays huge dividends later on. Personally if I lived closer to Koda I would offer to help him do anything he wanted.jeez,,,you dont have to box a damn thing to do a v8 swap...i doubt he is talking about 6-700 hp.
You are right - he doesn't have to do a damn thing to the frame for a V8 swap BUT if you had read the very first post - he is considering a bag and drop which will involve a notch, which involves square boxed steel to form the notch and any modder with any sense would box the entire rear half in this case or build a tubular rear half. There are many ways of doing either project but when you do BOTH on the same chassis there needs to be some reinforcement because the factory structural integrity of the chassis has been changed and will be stressed differently than was intended.