He elected to pick up an old 1994 Chevy Astro van. It’s got the necessary transfer case, 4.3-liter V6, 4L60 transmission, and all the other bits and pieces needed to make the AWD swap work.

The L99 small-block V8 of 1994 came close to being the smallest V8 ever dropped into a Chevrolet, but it was a tad bigger than the 262 of 1975, by just 10 cc. The engine came in mid-cycle of ...