so i finally got my 92 camaro done fresh 355 now time to give some attention to my 86 camaro. i want to do a ls1 t56 swap next spring sense my dad wont let me use the garage doring the winter.so my question is what trucks or cars do i look for in the salvege yard to pull an ls1 i know the camaro and transam have them but here is hard to come by ether one of those so i have look for other cars thanks

 

some corvettes had ls1s.

there are other LS engines that are very good too (which ones aren't).

many trucks have 5.3L which make pretty decent power.

then there are the 6.0L which a lot of people with LS1s switch over to. they can be found in Escalades, Correct me if i'm wrong someone, they can also be found in Tahoes, Yukons and maybe Suburbans.

if you get one from a truck, you need to get a car manifold seeing how the truck manifold sticks up too high. you can get an LS6 manifold for ~300 bucks. or an LS1 manifold for dirt cheap. both perform well, the LS6 just gives ~10rwhp.

you'll need the front acessories from an F-body as well.

 

so the truck truck manifold is to tall to fit under the hood? sorry this is my first fuel injected swap i done 3 swaps to my 92 but have been carb so im i little slow when it cames to fuel injection

 

don't worry i am too, i still think all of that is voodoo. but yeah the intake+throttle body sit too high. you also have to replace the front accessories too.

a plus on the truck engines is that they're a dime a dozen and put out pretty decent power

*** 4.8L aren't necessarily out of the equation. they have the same bore as the 5.3L, the difference is the 5.3L have the same rods and crank as a the LS1

 

well i think im going to hit the salve yards sence no one likes cold so i get the good parts

oh other thing if i find a truck or suv do i pull the wiring harness and ecm or do i need one from a f-body?

 

you can use the computer, as far as the wiring harness i'm not 100% sure. hopefully someone else can chime in

 

You can have the truck harness re-pinned to whatever you want, so snag it if you can. Also the oil pan is too deep so you'll want one from an fbody also. There is a subforum in the engine swap area specifically for ltx and lsx swaps, I'm sure one of the mods will move this for you.

 

There is a sticky in the Engine Swap forum, and an identical sticky in the LTX and LSX sub-forum (where this now resides) that details the LSx swap into a 3rd gen f-body.