The day I bought my 48 home, my neighbor said you should put a Chevy V8 in it. I said it is to nice to cut up. I had a 48 coupe in the late 60's, that I put a drive train from a 56 Chevy. The engine was a bored out 265 to a 283. In about 1970 had a junk man come and tow it away. BIG mistake.