Engine SwapEverything about swapping an engine into your Third Gen.....be it V6, V8, LTX/LSX, crate engine, etc. Pictures, questions, answers, and work logs.
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Looking to get rid of my 3.1 V6 and have a guy locally selling his 5.7L L31 vortec stock rotating assembly for $50obo. I trust the engine is good and useable as the seller is one of the owners of Texas Speed (a local high performance shop geared towards LS1 performance).
Is the L31 worth doing? and how hard would the swap be into my camaro? any write-ups on it?
he's selling just the rotating assembly? you'd need a whole engine, and if you do the swap you need to swap the tranny and engine mounts and probably a couple other small things too. not easy but i'd say it's worth it
yeah the vortecs are really good engines, and if you have the money and can do the whole swap it would definitely be worth it, i have a friend with a 5.7 vortec in his camaro and the thing is a beast!
i don't have any experience with engine swaps so i don't know abything about the wiring aspect of things but if worst comes to worst just use mechanical gauges
