my first ls swap 1996 2 door Tahoe 4wd 385 Stroker to LQ4 cam headers **pics**

[myzterray]

It's a major pita to put the DBw pedal in the truck of you don't have cutting and welding and bending equipment. Not the same by a long shot. Half the reason I ditched mine and went dbc

Edit: oh hey and I have the 706 heads too! It's like we got identical engines

oh i thought i could just drilla hole in the floor and bolt it on...i tried searching for some threads where someone did this but didnt find anything. yea i got my engine from an 05 avalanche. once i get the frame painted and finished ill drop the engine in place and bolt it all up. im going to go buy a stall next week so i can bolt it up and start putting my front end back together. thats going to be the hard part there.

[myzterray]

everyday i plan to get something done on this build. so today i got the engine out ofthe truck and started to clean it up. didnt use a hoist. just me and big red.(my 3 ton jack). i took the wheels off the back and lowered the rear to the floor and just kinda wiggled the engine out. got it on the floor and went to work.

started off masking off the heads so could paint the block.


came out pretty decent i think


Thien i decided to paint the top cover as well


did the valve covers and the vortec cover in red



painted the intake black and the coil holder things
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started putting everything back together










so i accomplished cleaning up the engine today. it was a mess too.i think the guy had it sitting in the corner somewhere for a while. tommorow i will pressue wash the fame get the last bit of dirt and then primer and paint the frame. then it will be time to drop the engine in and bolt up the trans!

[Mhotrodscooter]

Looking good man..

[myzterray]

Looking good man..

thanks alot! i would like to see the numbers your getting on mine

[NoTaTurBo]

thanks alot! i would like to see the numbers your getting on mine

looks very very good bro

[myzterray]

looks very very good bro

thanks! i love this site. pretty much everything im doing to my truck i learnt from this site.

[Mhotrodscooter]

Have you ever weighed it? I've always been curious to how much of a difference would their be between yours & rcsb 4wd..

[fmanak72]

Try street and sand performance for the pcm I got my harness and pcm complete from them and they can also provide and program one for ya. Those guys where lots of help so far for me. Check ebay also lots of stuff always on their. Wow wish I had your motivation to work work work. Or you where my neighbor. good luck with the build.

[myzterray]

Have you ever weighed it? I've always been curious to how much of a difference would their be between yours & rcsb 4wd..

yea this was when i had 2 huge 18 inch subs 4 amps and 26 inch rims it was a little 0ver 6200.

[myzterray]

Try street and sand performance for the pcm I got my harness and pcm complete from them and they can also provide and program one for ya. Those guys where lots of help so far for me. Check ebay also lots of stuff always on their. Wow wish I had your motivation to work work work. Or you where my neighbor. good luck with the build.

yea i ordered the adapters for oil pressure and coolant temp from those guys. they atre pretty pricey however. there a local guy who i will give me the harness i need to work with my drive by cable conversion for 450 and a member on this site is going to send me a pcm already tuned and eveything for 150. the local guy also said for an extra 300 he will wire the entire engine intergrate my stock pcm and get it running. i love reading other builds on here so i figured ill try to keep mine pretty interesting. once i get the frame done im going to bolt the engine up and put the front end back together.