Saw this on hot rod garage, anyone use it on a thirdgen yet?

https://www.holley.com/products/accessories/drive_brackets/complete_kits/parts/20-180


​https://www.hotrod.com/articles/holl...​​

 

Wow, that is pretty trick!

 

2,400? ouch. No thanks.

 

Looking I've seen it at 1800, yes it's expensive. But not horrible compared to other full systems with all new parts.

 

Very nice, I think it's actually a pretty good price, includes everything as well as the AC compressor, hardware... If you had to build this....

 

Right and assuming you have enough forward space (which you should) this would allow a LS into a third-gen with no modifications to the third-gen. Just wires and custom AC lines.

It even puts the power steering pump very close to where the thirdgen was.

I did a somewhat middle of the road LS swap, tubular K-member $1300 , then I replaced all the donor part drive accessories with new or rebuilt parts which came in around $400. Custom AC lines $120. Bought a donor car with 96k miles on it for $4500 shipped, sold about $1800 in parts off it and old parts off the thirdgen. With this kit you should be able to just bolt it in with a proper pan and mounts.

Sure you can do it cheap, notch the kmember $100 and a 1/2 day of work, junkyard truck motor/trans and all drive accessories $2-5. And about another $800 in odds and ends (solder, heat shrink, zip ties, tape, gaskets, if you keep track of it it adds up fast).

I'm sure this kit will come down in price, my only issue is it seems you can't buy the water pump housing by it self, so if that got broken... I guess by then the cars totaled anyways.

Hotrod garage put it in a caddy--

Anyways was hoping someone had used it so I could see the radiator spacing. I may put this on the wish list for 2.0 version of the swap in a few years.

 

It looks very close to the engine, I would think this is the same, or closer than, the 4th gen F-body or the LS1/6 Vette accessories

 

I think I read somewhere that this is what it's based on

 

I went with their top mount system since it retains the normal water pump. This system is really nice but has a high cost of entry and the water pump becomes integral to the set-up. It's similar to what GM is going with the LT motors.

The price honestly isn't that bad if you start with all new parts. You'll have $800 tied up in the ATI balancer and AC compressor alone. The little odds and ends will add up. I ended up not going with this route since I already had more of my accessories pieced out.