Not a truck, but still a LSx swap

[ducky]

Our roads in Vermont are straight up horrible. The roads are crowned so bad that if I don't hug either the double yellow or the white line I will scrape damn near everywhere. It would have been a lot harder to fit 3" all the way back, so we ran 2.5 after the high flow cats instead, and it was still a little bit tight in some spots, but not too bad. 3" bullet mufflers would have been hard to fit next to the drive shaft like we've got them now.

well I mean it looks good either way and like i said, a damn tight squeeze lol

[MunsonAuto]

haha thanks bro. It's not too bad of a fit, changing plugs isn't bad at all. Everything is laid out pretty well and I love the GM reliability! I've got friends with other JDM vehicles and things are always breaking while I just turn the key and go hahahah.

[ducky]

haha thanks bro. It's not too bad of a fit, changing plugs isn't bad at all. Everything is laid out pretty well and I love the GM reliability! I've got friends with other JDM vehicles and things are always breaking while I just turn the key and go hahahah.

haha yeah gm is pretty reliable. I mean **** breaks but its a whole of a hell lot easier to fix.

btw you were mention your top ends not that great? How would you fare against an sr20 top end wise?

[MunsonAuto]

Honestly I have no idea. There aren't any in VT that I know of so I'd have to run against one first. But supposedly my setup will run a mid 13sec 1/4 and a stock sr20 swap can supposedly run a mid 14 at best. So I should by all means be able to take one, but on a long highway run it would probably catch back up after a while haha.

[ducky]

Honestly I have no idea. There aren't any in VT that I know of so I'd have to run against one first. But supposedly my setup will run a mid 13sec 1/4 and a stock sr20 swap can supposedly run a mid 14 at best. So I should by all means be able to take one, but on a long highway run it would probably catch back up after a while haha.

I would think you could most likely outrun one. Is it all stock internals? And if so, are you going to keep it that way? You have a t56 behind it right?

[MunsonAuto]

haha if I had a t56 i wouldn't have topend issues. Sadly I've got a 4l60e due to money, i picked up my 60e for $550 from a forum member, and the cheapest semi-local t56 i found was $1500. With the extra 2 gears the gear ratio's work out well, but the 4 doesn't quite cut it, plus I don't think it's going into overdrive cause the tune isn't calibrated for tire size or gear ratio.

[ducky]

haha if I had a t56 i wouldn't have topend issues. Sadly I've got a 4l60e due to money, i picked up my 60e for $550 from a forum member, and the cheapest semi-local t56 i found was $1500. With the extra 2 gears the gear ratio's work out well, but the 4 doesn't quite cut it, plus I don't think it's going into overdrive cause the tune isn't calibrated for tire size or gear ratio.

are you gonna eventually go the t56 route, or is that too much more fabrication you dont wanna do?

[MunsonAuto]

I'm really considering doing it this winter. I don't really think much will have to change other than the tranny mount and driveshaft length. But I have no clue where the shifter lines up with the hole in the car with my engine placement you know? It would be nice to get the engine a little farther back so I can run a stock hood without a scoop but oh well.

Oh, and it is stock internals for now. I would really like to do a cam and heads, but I haven't looked into it too much yet.

[LSXmyford]

Nice job.

[ducky]

I'm really considering doing it this winter. I don't really think much will have to change other than the tranny mount and driveshaft length. But I have no clue where the shifter lines up with the hole in the car with my engine placement you know? It would be nice to get the engine a little farther back so I can run a stock hood without a scoop but oh well.

Oh, and it is stock internals for now. I would really like to do a cam and heads, but I haven't looked into it too much yet.

haha how funny would that be if the shifter was in the back seat..

Is there enough room to do a cam swap without pulling the front end?