Editor’s Note: This story appeared on April 1 as an April Fool’s joke.

Here’s news we couldn’t believe when we first heard it, but we’ve gotten confirmation from a source in the know.

Chevrolet’s crate engine programs have become very profitable for the company. Chevrolet Performance sells complete crate engines for both hot rodders and racers, and executives are always looking for ways to expand the market. Their latest success was introducing the LS engine into racing with the CT525 crate engine. Executives say it was quite a hurdle to convince stock car racers to accept the LS engine package but now that it’s racing it has become quite popular.

But it appears that the market is becoming saturated. In an effort to continuing to grow their crate engine sales, Chevrolet engineers have taken the relatively drastic step of recasting both the small and big blocks to accept Ford bellhousings and motor mount bolt patterns.

The idea is to make a Chevrolet crate motor–either a small block or a big block–a direct drop-in for Mustangs, and other classic cars. We spoke to someone close to the program who says he expects to see a lot of the small block crates placed into classic and Fox body Mustangs. “These car owners have been stuck with the smaller 289 and five-liter engines for years, and we think they are going to love being able to finally drop in a 350,” he told us.

We’ve also been told that Chevrolet will make a large marketing push for the new Ford-specific crates at the upcoming SEMA show. In fact, several select car builders have already been chosen to build a Mustang, an F150 pickup and even a Cobra replica with Chevrolet crates as the featured power plant. We can’t wait to see that these will look like.