as it says I bought an LT1, its a 95 from a Caprice with the iron heads. Anyway I dont know much of anything about these engines, and since the engine didnt come with any accessory brackets or accessories, I have no idea what to buy or where to buy it. I know there were different setups depending on car models, so what brackets should I get? Can I use the brackets from any LT1 setup. I know the A/C pump hits the crossmember with the f-body setup, but is the Corvette setup easily used. I heard the A/C is at top driver side on corvettes, so could I just buy a vette brackets and use it on Caprice iron heads? How about alternator? the A/C and alt are a necessity. I want my A/C back, person who had car last removed it. Someone on another forum said that only 1 bracket is used for accessories, so is that the case?

 

F-body bracket is the same as the Caprice/Impala bracket. Corvette brackets are expensive and the accessories are as well, depends on what you want to spend. As far as the compressor hitting the k-member, a BFH works great on it and a few of us are working on getting the a/c working again but I haven't had the time to work on mine this summer

 

I did a search on ebay last night and got about 6 or 7 hits, and looking at the brackets on there, I noticed that some looked different from others, not just different as fbody/caprice and corvette, but also variations within the fbody ones. It may be me just being stupid but I could swear there were at least 2 different variations of the bracket for fbodies.

What is a fair price for the bracket? On ebay they were listed anywhere from $20 and 30 bucks all the way up to over $100 for claimed to be new brackets.

Also are the idlers supposed to come with the bracket or is that something that is bought seperate? I only ask because I also noticed some had idler pulley's and some didnt.
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would it be possible to use BOTH the fbody and the corvette bracket, and cut the corvette bracket so its only used for the a/c compressor. That way the accessories would be bolted on in the traditional way of both sides, and the only corvette part would be the compressor, which I would hope to find in a salvage yard or used on ebay or something. I really like the thought of the a/c being up top where I can easily get to it. Makes things much simpler.

 

No, because of the way the belt would route. Basically the Corvette has all the accessories on the driver side, F-body/B-body have them on the passenger side. Plus the corvette a/c compressor is like double price of an f-body one.