67 goat

Little bit of progress. Intake and injectors installed. Water pump. Crank pulley on and torqued. Will do oil pan tonight (CTS-V pan). All the other motor and drivetrain parts are showing up next week. I'll likely pull the 383 and TH350 out very soon. I have them both sold.

I attached a couple pics from under the truck. So clean!!!!

67 goat

A couple of goodies showed up yesterday. CTS-V oil pan, which I promptly installed. And the Hooker/Holley transmission cross member. Looks like a nice piece.

67 goat

Pulled the trans, torque converter and flex plate out. I've never pulled an automatic trans before....that was more work than I thought and very messy. Another reason to hate automatics!

67 goat

Headers from Speed Engineering showed up. I can't believe how nice these are for $279. Wow. Hopefully they fit nice, but even if they don't, I won't feel bad modifying them since they were so inexpensive.

Advanced Design

Nice swap and a really clean truck...enjoying following along.

67 goat

Thanks! I'm really having fun with this one. It's nice having one LS swap under my belt already. This one seems much less overwhelming and complicated, and therefore way more fun.

truckdoug

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haha if you liked pulling that tranny, you'd love a 4l80 or 6l80....twice the fun!

sadly they are hard to beat when it comes to strength/cost

67 goat

Maybe for automatics. Moot point for me, I don't do automatics.

truckdoug

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yeah rowin them gears is pretty fun. going fast is pretty fun too. you gonna try one of these turbo things the kids are messing with now days? these motors love it.

67 goat

They do, but this one is getting nitrous. My 3rd (future) LS build will likely be a turbo, then I'll have the trifecta of power adders. The GTO has a blower, the C10 will have nitrous, next one will have to be a turbo.

truckdoug

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heck yeah! nitrous is some all-american good times.

67 goat

I can't wait.

Advanced Design

Yes I imagine this swap is simpler. Went through your GTO build and that was well done. Just kept getting better with the supercharger addition. That looks like a very fun (and fast) ride!

jfg455

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I'm interested in this as well. I'm only about 25 minutes away from you too...

67 goat

Cool! You've got a couple VERY cool rides in your sig.

Pulling the 383 out tonight. Swing by for a beer!

jfg455

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Tempting! but I have to work my day (night?) job tonight...

67 goat

383 is out. Because of some cherry picker issues, that took longer than it should have, but it's out, sold, and gone.

adeeos

Looks great-your GTO build was awesome! If you don't mind how much did you give for the donor power plant with how many miles? Shopping myself and I know it varies from state to state.

67 goat

Thanks!

I only paid $400 for this LQ4, but that's a steal, especially because this one is very clean. That being said, I don't know the mileage. I think they are usually in the $1000 to $1500 range. I paid $800 for my last one (in the GTO) and it supposedly had 85k miles on it, but I had no documentation to support that. Plus it was a New England motor and had so much rust on it. It looked clean inside when I pulled the heads though....that was good enough for me.

Toddoky

That's a really clean truck 67 goat. Are you aware that Hooker has a set of engine mounting brackets that were developed to work with the Hooker trans crossmember you have and ensure that your LS/T56 install would be purely a bolt-in exercise without requiring any drilling? I don't know how well the holes in the crossmember feet will line up with the holes in your frame if you use it with any other type of mount...you may end up having to drill additional holes in your frame.