ZTwentyAteU

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Fixing to start on this swap for a buddy. Car is an all original 6cyl, 3 on the tree sedan. Still had plastic on the back seat, front seat still perfect. Car has 80k original on it, and was garage kept, driven to church on sundays only by a now elderly couple, NO KIDDING!

So far it has 4whl power Disc brakes, drop spindles, air ride on all four corners, and Boss 20in wheeels.

Base for the project is a 2002 LM7 5.3. Still waiting on a few parts and ordered more. Going with a ls1 pan setup, cheap Ls1 intake, 218/224 .550/.550 114 or 116 LSA, ls6 yellows, hardened PR. new pump and timing set. Shooting for a decent runner cruise car. T70 turbo, manifold setup, intercooled, like 5 or 6PSI, 4l60 stock stall.

Sending harness off tomorrow to be modified, ordering more parts. going with 255 pump, 42lb injectors. Going to build mounts, they are easy on this car.

pic with just wheels

71 chevy

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will the 42lbs be enough? thats what I have now for my NA bbc and I was thinking of using them on the 5.3 with t70 but everyone seems to be running 60 pounders

ZTwentyAteU

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42s are easier to tune. In fact I have a friend with a 6.0 t88 fox with 42s in it. A good fuel pump and it will run great

71 chevy

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nice.

ZTwentyAteU

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my buddy decided to ditch the turbo until we get the car up and going, but I have s ? on fuel pump. I know theres a chance of vaporlock using an inline pump, but i'm going to have to go the route, the car has a brand new tank and sending unit, so he does not want to take the new junk out. Is there a solution on the vaporlock situation? And I need to know what pump to run, Im going with a 255 walbro, but need to know which one will support the 55-62psi it needs

1sick62

nice car lol

ZTwentyAteU

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ordered more. we will be installing the engine/built 4l60e soon, and we are waiting for harness to get back from current performance wiring

ZTwentyAteU

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Trying to get some motor pics up. Decided to use manifolds for now, so when he goes turbo we can flip them. Motor is looking cool, located some vintage styled FRC's to use too.

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Motor and trans are in, it went in too easy. Only thing we had to do was dimple the x member to get the pan to clear. Almost everything is ready, it even has a belt on it with a custom mount for the alt. We are only waiting on the harness and the car will be fired up

ZTwentyAteU

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Its alive. custom DS being built tommorrow, need to install shifter and cable, and get exhaust built thursday. Heres a cellphone vid of first startup, straight manifolds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvnTnzeSYgA

flippincamaro

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Fu*&^%$ Sweet, What a punk, I dont remember you telling us you were building this! LOL its clean as hell

ZTwentyAteU

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I thought I had told you?
you know now! exhaust got pushed back till monday. Cars gonna be sweet

ZTwentyAteU

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Havent updated because a snag was hit. The car runs and drives great, but after a little flogging(like, the first day) we grenaded the carrier bearing. I pulled it out, braced it, and it ended up going south again.

So now i'm just waiting on Keith to drop the jack on a billet carrier. i don't see how the 409 4 spd cars ever held the stock carrier at all.

psiconversion

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I agree carriers in those cars are a disaster. Why not go with a single driveshaft? That is what most of the superstock guys used to do, granted that requires modifying the frame.

LS1BLKSS

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looks great man, with the 5.3 im sure you'll be boosting 10-12 easy!!!!

iViLe

You can buy those billet carrier center bearings, I have braced my standard one and it is still holding up fine, I always thought a 1 piece would hit the floor especially if you had airbags?

gofastwclass

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You won't hit the floor, you'll hit the frame. The frame needs to be notched in the rear for axle travel. With the air ride and 20" wheels it may not be possible to run a one piece drive shaft.

I used to have carrier bearing problems until I realized I was putting the drive shaft together incorrectly. There is supposed to be a tang that only allows you to assemble it properly but for some reason mine was gone. It took buying a used one to figure out what was wrong. Once I discovered the error of my ways I never had drive shaft issues again. This was with a 350HP SBC and a muncie 4 speed... I was HARD on second gear... and tires. When I rebuild that car next time I am going with a billet carrier and a LOT more power.

Stormed_Norm

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I have a 62 Biscayne that I'm thinking of doing a similar swap. My center driveshaft bearing is junk, replace it with a stocker that lasted a couple weeks. So I bought a billet one from e-bay;

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Just that we had winter show up, and won't know how well it works till next year.