For the amount of money you'll spend making everything else connect to the car - motor mounts, exhaust, electrical, transmission, shifter linkage, new driveshaft, it would be cheaper to rebuild the 302 than to try and stuff a chevy motor in it.
Stroke your 302 to 347 and customize your components and put throttle body EFI in it and you’ll be much satisfied with the results and have Smokin performance without the blasphemy!
Money is tight?? Likely you should not be considering any sort of engine swapping.
Alright if I do a stroker setup will the stock transmission be adequate and in regards to the efi wouldn’t I need a new fuel sending unit from the tank?
It depends on how wild you go. I have a 351W in one car, which is essentially a stroked 302 from the factory. Mine is just a basic stock-style build. No fancy upgraded racecar internals, but I do have all the external bolt-on upgrades like intake, exhaust, 4 barrel carb, underdrive pulleys. Thats maybe low 300HP numbers. The transmission is a C4 with a shift kit. It has survived back there for many moons, ever since I was a college kid and a pizza delivery guy.
Just looking for enough power to cruise comfortably but also still be able to get up and go when it needs to
That whole sentence is subjective. For like 30 years, ford put the 302 into its performance model cars. And thats just a bone stock 302. I only takes like 17HP to keep a car cruising at 70MPH, which I would consider "cruising comfortably".
