Just picked up our new project vehicle (56k warning!)

Reply #15 – June 06, 2012, 08:41:18 PM

It's a '70 CJ5, it's worth more $ original than with any other swapped in engine. I'm most familiar with the later Jeeps that had the AMC engines...but I do know some of the older Jeeps had 327 engines (not the GM 327) and they were best avoided.

It'd be like having a '70 SS 454 Chevelle, and taking the BB out for an LS engine. Not that a CJ5 is as valuable as an LS6 Chevelle, but still...I'd rather have a stock Jeep, V6 and all, than some monster-engined rock or mud buggy like so many peckerheads build out of 'em... just my .02...