Have you checked out the Car Craft Engine Swap Challenge?

[Pro Stock John]

Want a new LS engine for your street machine? This is your chance to win one! Here’s how it works: Two teams of no more than four participants each must swap a running non-LS engine for a LS-engine in the time allotted. The team that completes the swap and drives the car first wins the contest and the new engine!

We will supply an area to work, an engine hoist, and the crate engine. Each team must supply their own vehicle, fluids, drain pans, hand tools, and everything else to make the swap happen. No air/power tools will be permitted. Each vehicle must drive under its own power through the front gate and into the ES Challenge area where it will be allowed to cool until Noon on Friday, the official start time.

To win the contest, the vehicle must have the engine in the engine bay, it must start using the ignition key, idle, and drive on a predetermined route led by contest officials before Noon on Sunday, September 12, 2010. The winning team drives home with the swapped engine, the losing team can either pay a predetermined fixed price and buy the engine, or swap it out and return it to Holley.

This is an invitational. To enter send an e-mail to engineswap@holley.com with the following information: Your name, address, phone number and car year, make, model and engine that will be in the vehicle when you would begin the contest. Send photos of your vehicle’s exterior and engine compartment. Then tell us (in 200 words or less) why you should be chosen for the contest, and what mechanical skills/qualifications you have that will help you compete. The contest is limited to 1955-’97 American rear-wheel-drive cars and trucks only. Car Craft editors will select the two teams and two alternates. Deadline for entries is August, 10, 2010.

Web Link: http://www.holley.com/LSFest/EngineSwap.asp

[01 ss vert]

sounds like fun. Will it be in Bowling Green?

[Pro Stock John]

It will be happening during the event so yes. This is the opportunity for a guy with say a clean S10, third gen Camaro etc., to enter and see and maybe be one of the teams selected... See you there!

[BlueZee28]

Hmmm I wonder how hard it would be for me to get off work for this. This would be a cool way to finish my dad's iroc-z swap.

[OldSchoolFormula]

It says nothing about swapping an LS for an LS. They think they got it with the '97 cutoff, except for those of us already swapped. LoL. Too ba dits an invitational and they'd never let it slide. To be competitive you'd have to start with a Chevy so no frame mount swapping, a car preferably already retrofitted and plumbed for EFI, maybe an older TPI swap/LT1 or just a carbed engine with an external pump, a car without a torque arm but already has a 4l60/700r4 installed. I'd have some pins made up for the motor mounts, not bolts with a terribly sloppy fit to just ram em in there so the engine literally just does not fall out of the car. I bet if you were properly prepped with a well selected chassis you could do a swap in under an hour.

[IH8FORD]

What kind of engine are they gonna give up?

[LS1MCSS]

Originally Posted by OldSchoolFormula

It says nothing about swapping an LS for an LS.

First post says non-LS for LS.

[BlueZee28]

Originally Posted by IH8FORD

What kind of engine are they gonna give up?

Ya, what is the setup, gen 3, gen 4? We would need to know the specs of the motor so we know what kind of harness to have for it.

[Pro Stock John]

I'll check on that.

[BAKED]

Hmmmm, Try to give up some more details if you can. Like what all we would need to supply, wiring harness & computer? accessories? ETC...

[Pro Stock John]

They would have techs on hand. They would supply the engine harness. If you are seriously interested, email me at john@motorsports-media.com and I'll get you in touch.

[Irish350]

there are a ton of reasons i cant participate, but thats a really awesome event. Im hoping theres a lot of news afterwards from the ls fest