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| | | | Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 9 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 9 | Finally got the truck back on the road after a 5 month engine swap. Went from a 283/sm420 to a 5.3/4l60e setup. Much more fun to drive now, however I never guessed it would take as much time (and $) as it did. Photo bucket album
Last edited by Dukes'59; 09/26/2010 9:43 PM.
C.J.
1959 Apache 3100
1968 Short Wide
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 150 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 150 | I'd love to know about the swap. I don't have an engine for my truck yet but I do have a Nova subframe and I'm looking at the 4.8L with a 4L60E. edit: I looked at the photos and it looks nice. It gives me hope and ideas!
Last edited by Doug5558; 09/27/2010 2:35 AM.
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 549 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 549 | Sumbitch looks nice, very nice!!!
Too bad you took the clutch out. Just my old guy opinion though. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 13 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 13 | I was going to try a 6.0ltr swap with a 4L80 swap. Do you have any notes? Or anything to steer away from?
Some people say I suffer from insanity, in reality, I enjoy every minute of it!
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 293 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 293 | Try the site called LS1tech.com, they have a section called "conversions and hybrids". These engine have been installed in pretty much everything and there is massive aount of knowledge on this site.
'57 Chevy Suburban; '70 Chevy Impala.
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 9 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 9 | 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
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