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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
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
there's no such thing as cheap. :lol: 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.
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.
i bought a cheap set of long tube headers off of ebay, the were new and for a 2000 camaro, but it is for a 86, had to slice the collector on the drivers side and angle it in, and ground about 1/8 inch, 12 inch long, off the right side and the fit good now. out less the 200 total
Now that's what I'm lookin for. Now my concern is whether or not your 86 frame is wider or narrower than my 64. I know the frames are very similar for 60-72 but wonder what changes were made for your body style? You wouldn't happen to know the width of your frame in the engine bay area would you?
Finally took a picture of my truck lol. And so the build begins.. gettin a 3600 stall this weekend:burnrubb: and hopefully pullin it in the garage this week and yankin the ol 235 and sm420. Almost feel bad cuz its all in such good shape.. and its red BTW. Its not a halloween truck. I dunno if its my computer or the iphone i took the pic with but it looks very orange to me lol
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...zenwhat/64.jpg
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.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...enwhat/642.jpg