Om617swap?

I am not sure if its a good plan but what defines a bad plan? If a swap can be done successfully and to the owners satisfaction, then its a good plan. I like a challenge and enjoy something i understand and can control some. I started a turbo drag race car project with my son on a 2000 Mustang GT, we swapped in a 14’ coyote, power glide and turbo. that quickly developed into hiring people to install more and more systems to make this car run fast. It has much more computer tech in it than i want to learn. It’s almost track ready, i plan to make a few trips down the 1/8 mile and hand it over to him. 

I have swapped a Allison with brown-like 3 speed into a 97 dodge 3500 5.9 back in 99’ when we all were losing 5th gear. it took a month of trial and error, lots of fabrication to get it working right. i put over 400k on that setup running hot shot. I like a challenge and I enjoy some fab work. I am not a pro by any stretch of the imagination. Some things look like junk and I seem to run a 50/50 on that scale. I had a 76 cj7 with 304/3 speed. It was pretty clean, motor ran but had a burnt valve. I had been looking for a clean willys with no luck at all here in south Texas. I bought the cj7 from my brother thinking I could get into it. After a year i found a willys on a hunting forum. We basically swapped projects and thats how the willys became mine. This projects gets the the brain working for me. I cleaned the dust off of the welder and cutting torching in anticipation of the up coming swap. searching to forum about this swap shows that the front axle will hi the oil pan. It appears a custom pan will need to be made and i wonder about moving the axle forward to help clear the pan. Moving axles forward is common on latter Jeeps for the rock crawling crowd so some research is needed on the 2a. I need to get them both at the house to get see more of what is needed. 

that was started as a short response-then turned into me babbling on