Originally Posted by
ksryder
I'm too lazy to look it up right now but if you google around you can find this -- back in the late 90s/early 00s someone at Hot Rod magazine stuffed a Cadillac 500 big block into a Chevy Chevette and ran 11 seconds with it at the track.
My first car was a Chevette -- stick shift with a horrible clutch and barely enough power to pull itself. I always thought it would be fun to do something like that but the reality is that's just too much work and money and I'm never going to do it.
I remember that Chevette. Another favorite was when they put a second engine in the back of a Honda hatchback.
Swapping a blown 3800 into a car that has a 3400 is much easier, but not super simple. The minivans passenger side brace goes right where the 3800 coil packs and fuse box are, so would have to deal with that (maybe move the battery to the back and put the coil packs in the battery hole), and you have to bring pretty much all wiring harnesses over, and the dashboard display... who knows what else.