Thanks for looking,

My 59 has a TCI mustang II front end and a TCI leaf kit in the back. I originally had a 283 with sm420 in it. I was able to use adapters that adapted old three bolt sbc engine mounts to the 4 bolt ls engine. I cut the original trans cross member out and replaced it with a TCI crossmember meant for a 4l60E. Headers are hedmann (block hugger style) and I had to add an extra universal joint to get the steering linkage around the headers. I found a new trailblazer 5.3L radiator on ebay for cheap, so i bought it in hopes of making it work. I fabricated some simple brackets and it fits like it was meant to be in a 59 chevy truck. My column was already a shift column, so I put the shift lever back on and the shift linkage was fairly easy to set up. The wiring for the engine had already been modified when I bought it, but there are some good websites out there if you want to convert the wiring yourself. Finally, I already had an underbed tank in the truck, so I set up a inline fuel pump that runs into a corvette style filter that also regulates the pressure. from the filter one line continues to the fuel rail and another returns fuel to the tank.


C.J.
1959 Apache 3100
1968 Short Wide