My 89 5.3l swap

[tmjoki]

Ok so here it is. Had the truck 9 years now put a new 5.7l in 7 years ago. parked it did body work few hiccups and i bet i have only got 40k on the new motor and it blew up. oil pump pickup fell off in teh pan adn got all chewed up. i will try and keep track of all the parts a pieces i use.

[slightly_modified]

so is it on already?

[keniff]

man, i love that silver an those polished rims. drop it 3/6 and put a supercharger

[tmjoki]

haha, i am just a poor machinist, supercharger is not in my budget. I am going to try and make some motor mount plates and market them in canada, shipping is killer. I think i am going to put a newer grill style in a change out the headlights to composite something. i put 97 f150 60/40 bench in with a console and cup holder.

[thelsx]

nice!!

[keniff]

yeah do a paintable GMC grille with new nights and HIDs just imo but it looks awsome as it is imo

[tmjoki]

Ok , so i got my engine finally bolted in, been a busy 2 weeks no time for the ol' girl, so i ended up building my own custom engine mounts 1.5" offset, exhaust manifolds line up super sweet cause i am usin the factory manifolds, and there is a little more clearance for the tranny cooler lines.

I am going to fab up probably 10 sets of these mounts cause they work so nice i don't like the mounting of the original obs mounts to the plates with different bolts and such.

I got my wiring harness in from PSI this week and a fuel pump from ebay, the computer is coming from PSI programmed ready to go, hope it all works. I am also going to get the rad and coolant tank from the 99 that i got the motor from, my rad has a few pin holes so i may as well just upgrade and run all the same hoses also use the engine fan and fan shroud from the 99 cause its newer and cleaner.

I will get a better build list as time goes on, and post some pictures that aren't from my cell phone.