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PROJECT VK
You’re forgiven if you’ve forgotten – but some time in the dim dark past, Ed Guido bought my VK wagon project car along with a shiny engine, and then rashly announced we’d be doing a build. That was a few years ago! Look, we’ve all been busy and the plans somehow went astray. Anyway, we’re now back on the case. A quick refresher: It’s a Berlina wagon that started life as a six-cylinder auto. The original engine has gone to the crankshaft gods and we’ve since bought a freshly-built 355 V8 stroker (based on a 304 block, below) to drop in.
That of course raises the question of what transmission to bolt to the back of it. We got a quote on a current five-speed manual with most of the required trimmings, and that came out at $11,000.
