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Old 11-20-2007, 08:56 PM
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Trying to put a 6.0 into my 87 vette, so far I'm really thinking the truck intake is too high and I need to put a car (vette,fbody) intake on. What all do I need to do this? the crossover tube for the fuel rail is obviously too tall as well and the truck fuel rail has the pressure reg on it which I really need to keep since that makes things much easier on me???
Old 11-20-2007, 09:13 PM
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just off the top of my head... injectors, fuel rail, EGR if equipped, pcv/vacuum hoses might be different, water crossover tubes, and intake gaskets

oh, dont forget you need an intake!
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Not sure what accessories you are using, but I dont think the truck accessories work with the car intakes.
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Yes, I'm keeping all the truck acc. Why would that matter? Or you talking something else other than the belt driven acc? I'm not going to use egr so I was assuming intake, fuel rails and misc hoses??

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Truck Water pump outlet (top) is in the way of a F-Body T/B. Check the Performace Truck section as may of the Truck gen iii guys have swapped the F-body intakes to there trucks.
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I am doing this on my LQ9 engine right now. Do you have a throttle cable or drive by wire? I have the dbw and this makes the swap a little more difficult. You can switch your water pump to the 07 water pump if you are using the throttle cable. This puts the outlet away from the throttle body. I bought a 98 f-body water pump that had the bolt on pulley (12552059) and spaced the pulley out 3/4". You can get these at napa for $107 with a lifetime warranty.
For the fuel rail you can use the 97 corvette rail and regulator(12556705
and 12554677). It is hard to find these used. New is about $250. Professional Products has fuel rails for about $65 and a kit with a regulator for $179. Part numbers are 10610 for the rails and 10611 for the kit. They use pipe threads for the fittings. I wanted to have the rails with o-ring ports and bought the ones listed in Summit for $185. I also bought a fuelab regulator. They are in Litchfield, IL for $120. The truck injectors are shorter and you will need to figure out something if you want to keep them. I bought 02 28lb injectors and new connectors for the harness.
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You'd have to use some car accessories as well... the Water pump outlet will not clear the throttle body on the truck water pump...

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Keep the truck accessories, and get the L92 water pump. It clears, but I think the alternator will still be in the way of your hood....
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here's a write up on how to do it

http://www.efialchemy.com/db/intakeswap/swap.html
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Well, I went out and looked a couple times. The water pump does not seem to be in the way at all?? Now the idler pulley, that may very well be. Does the 93 have a different water pump? I have the cable throttle body now as I didn't want DBW. I have some new 28lb injectors from a couple years ago never installed so no problem there. I hope to get a corvette pan here pretty soon so I'll just drop it in and see what i've got. I know it's tight
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Speartech makes an idler pulley relocation kit if that helps

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Originally Posted by v8mazda351
here's a write up on how to do it

http://www.efialchemy.com/db/intakeswap/swap.html
Hmm, pretty sure my TB will not hit the pump outlet. The cable throttle body does not stick out near as much as that one (DBW). Now I can see about the alt...that might hit the hood Out of curiosity I pulled the idler pully from my 87 vette and it's a perfect match to replace the pully that's in the way. It lines up perfectly with the other pulleys. Some ideas at least.
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I can help you with lowering your alternator.
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Where did you find that, or did you make it? Can you weld the brackets? Not sure what they are made of (alum I know but). If they are I can cut/tig?
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I am considering this myself, will the truck injector harness work? And assuming that the same size f-body injectors are used, will the computer need to be re-programmed?
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Trucks use a different injector (plug is different and I think it's a different length?). I already have the 28lb ls1 injectors (car) and the connectors so I'll just snip the ones off the truck harness. The connectors are pretty cheap and I scored brand new injectors a couple years ago for less than $50. If you use the same size no pcm changes are needed as far as that goes.
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Go here, there are guys who have done that and know a lot about it. They were great help with my LQ9.

http://www.performancetrucks.net/for...hlight=boltons

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Originally Posted by 76LQ9TA
I can help you with lowering your alternator.
i could also use your help lowering the alt on my 5.3

is this something you built

do you have a template that can be shared, or would you be interested in building another?
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PM me with your email address and I will send the drawing files for the brackets. I have tried to post them but the resolution gets lost and you can't read the dimensions on the drawings. I made them out of 1/2" aluminum plate and 1" aluminum tubing. The best place I found to buy it from is mymetalconnection.com.



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