Anyone done one of these swaps? Gettin ready to prep mine and get parts together. Lookin at mostly the exhaust situation. Got motor and trans mounts covered. Puttin cammed LQ9 4L65 in it. Anyone have cheap header suggestions? Was gonna get a set of Pacesetter LT's and cut em as needed.. Thoughts?
I know KWKENUF did, check here.
http://www.ls1truck.com/forums/lsx-t...or-mounts.html
"ALisSa1 Silverado"1990 Chevrolet RCSB● 2002 Chevrolet Camaro LS1/4L60EScrimpin Ain't Easy( . Y . )
Hey that's an excellent thread on the swap aspect but he only used the stock manifolds. From the sounds of things it might not even be possible to fit LTs in there?
i have a set of doug thorleys on my 72 they may make some for your 63. cheap route would be putting an lsx flange on some big block headers
72 C10 5.3 4L60E
there's no such thing as cheap.I made a set of headers from big block headers before the OBS headers became available from Schoenfeld. It was a tremendous amount of work. I think I have 40 hours of cut, weld, grind and cleanup time on them plus coating costs. VHT paint doesn't last long at all.
See my truck data in the "My Garage" section here... http://www.ls1truck.com/forums/my-ga...tml#post191709
Well making headers is not very hard for me but I just don't have the time these days. Just wondering if there was something off the shelf that could be easily modified that's cheap like the pacesetters. The doug thorleys are nice but for the 700 bucks vs my time I would rather fab em.
Now that mess of a front clip is off and all those 45 year old body bolts are off I can clean all that stuff up and paint it. Anyone wanna buy a good 235 and sm420? Got that pulled out along with the driveshaft. Time for a thorough powerwashing in the morning. Killed a super gnarly black widow too lol. Then at night get the driveshaft out and start cleanin the firewall and cuttin the old crossmember out.
WHat did you figure out for motor mounts and or headers? I have a 65 and am stuck on that.
For motor mounts I'm just using the factory ones with the adapter plates. Transgo has them and other companies. They run about 50-70 bucks. I have access to a plasma cam so I'm just cutting out my own. As for headers I decided to cut the back of the inner fenders out and am just going to make my own that run over the frame and to the outside of the frame rails
Post pic of the exhuast when you get that far. I have a 63 C10 and will be following this close. Hope to have my swap started in early Feb.
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