ive had my 86 ta since i started driving almost 7years ago and even then i know one day it would be getting a "ls1 swap" and now its finaly a reality! although its not a "ls1" but its a 01 lm7. i picked her up yesterday and have been wired and excited since. so far ive got a complete 5.3 minus flexplate ps pump and alt a 03 lq4 harness 99 camaro pcm stock ls1 fuel rails ls1 intake some 99 fbody manifolds. ill be using my old th350 and ******* 9.5in 3500 stall for the inital swap with hopes to find a deal on a t56 swap or 4l60e with a aftermarket converter soon. the car is still rocking the 2.73s which i will eventualy change but the car needs so much other stuff from sitting all these years i just want it to move under its own power for now. well enough talking here are some pics!

 

congrats and welcome to the club!

 

thanks! ive been waiting and putting it off for too long. my poor car has gotten rough. need to gather all my stuff to put the interior back together and to put my side skirts back on.

 

so a little update ive been trying to get as much done as i can while working all this overtime and with all the vacations and hollidays so bare with me. i got my injectors and fuel rail in painted my intake and got all of that put together with hopes to yank off the truck intake thursday and try to set the car one on if i can find the right bolts. i also ordered my crank spacer and motor swap plates from carshopinc.com

 

ok i know i havent updated anything since july so here goes lol may take a couple posts with all the pictures. i really started making progress on it this week we had been house hunting all summer and spent most of the last month moving and i finaly started getting things done. i finaly have a garage now so thats very exciting. i finished cleaning out the car and pulled the hood off today still need to shop vac and scrub inside and going to cut out the cancer in the floor pans in the next week or two. i got my ls1 intake setup on and painted the valve covers and coils and brackets. i bought a flexplate this week and got a good deal on a ls1 hot cam with springs so that will be atleast a little better than the stock cam for now. i still need to pull the trick manifolds off the thing and do a lil block cleaning still.

 

some more pics.

 

Welcome to the lsx crowd. good luck with the swap

 

thanks! im hoping that to have my floor pan patched interior back in and motor and trans set in the car so i can build the exhaust by the end of winter and hope to start it by late spring early summer. it all depends on cash flow lol. i still need a fbody pan thats really the only thing stoping me from a test fit.

 

i guess i need to get that thing to you lol

 

Lol yeah I figure even if I decide not to use it ill put it on and do a few test fits for exhaust building lol

 

http://www.jegs.com/i/GM+Performance...12593/10002/-1

 

way to deep

 

What are the specs on a stock ls1 pan? That one doesn't look too bad if it will work.

 

http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/conver...-oil-pans.html

 

Iroc'nthe87 thanks thats the page i was looking for! ive been getting on with my phone all weekend ive been outa town and my phone makes it hard to pull up some pages lol. looks like its about 1 3/4 and 2 3/4 too deep :/ ugh

 

its been awhile since ive updated so here we go. i got the motor all cleaned up and painted and everything on it minus alt and power steering pump. i bought a 88 rs for parts since i need a floor pan and the car has a 3.73 posi rear sportlines and all new poly bushings and brakes ect ect. i droped the k-member out of my car tonight and am going to start cleanup tomorrow and repaint the engine bay and stick the k-member from the rs with my motor and transmision into my car. now since im kinda closer to the homestrech and have more progress to post ill try to keep up with the thread a little more. im also have been talked into doing a 4thgen dash swap by ShMaCk2004 so that will be going in too. i hope to have it driveable enough to take it on a 2hr one way trip for a f-body show in the late spring so its now crunch time. here are the pics enjoy!

 

here some more pics of pulling the k-member

 

Looking good so far. Did you have to drag the k-member assembly out of the side of the car?

 

haha actualy yes i did i had a friend there to help but when it all goes back together ill have to get some blocks and support the car so i can roll the new k-member with motor and trans on it.

 

can u please let me know how you did the wiring harness so i can get my harness right. i have a 92 camaro im putting a ls6 in would like a little help.

 

Get in contact with Pockets on this site. When its time for me to do my swap that's who I'm calling!

 

Sounds like a good plan. I'm planning on doing mine the same way. What did you connect to on the car to lift it?

 

This is prob not the right way but its the way we did it. One end of the chain was around the steering box the other ent through the strut tower. I will more than likely find a better location when I lower the car back down.

 

some updates. i sent off my harness to pocket at the begining of the week i picked up a 4thgen tank a few weeks ago got all my f-body accessories and picked up a box of 3in mandrel bends from ebay to build a y pipe to the factory manifolds. im debating on buying a set of the ebay shortys to throw on also. i installed the kmember back in the car last weekend and repainted the engine bay a few weeks ago plasmacut the driverside floor pan out to weld in a new one and hopefully by the end of the weekend ill have the stock rear out of the car along with the stock tank.