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Old Apr 16, 2008 | 11:56 PM
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Default LS1 Swap into Blue SN95. Build thread.

Well I figured I might as well go ahead and make a thread.

Plan is an LS1/4l60e into a 95 v6 body (no power anything, light hopefully).

Here is how it looked about 10 days ago when i got the car.





Then about a week later...



A bunch of wires to remove...





Beginning to tear out the suspension/kmember



Crossmember and everything out. all unnecessary wires removed. Time for paint soon.







Next installment will be after paint. And then installation of AJE k-member, s-arms, coilovers etc.
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Old Apr 17, 2008 | 10:13 AM
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Looks just like my 98 GT that I'm doing right now.

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Old Apr 17, 2008 | 10:30 AM
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what a clean car to swap a ls1 into. cant wait to see the progress
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Old Apr 17, 2008 | 06:22 PM
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lookin good
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Old Apr 17, 2008 | 09:22 PM
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Cool project.. Should be a good combo.
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Old Apr 18, 2008 | 09:42 PM
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Update, painted the engine bay. Now I cant do anything until the autometer guages/bezel show up or the AJE crossmember/suspension.



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Old Apr 18, 2008 | 09:56 PM
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That's great man. You sure don't waste any time.
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Old Apr 18, 2008 | 10:07 PM
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This is sure to be a good build, keep us updated.
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suscribing.
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Old Apr 18, 2008 | 11:24 PM
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what headers you using or making some?
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Old Apr 19, 2008 | 10:00 AM
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paint that old yellow master clyinder resevior black. night and day difference.
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paint that old yellow master clyinder resevior black. night and day difference.
Yeah I tried cleaning it up because if everything is black it gets cheezy looking. But I might just end up painting it as well.
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Originally Posted by cryer
what headers you using or making some?
Kooks LS1 into Foxboy Headers. $693, AJE says they fit right in with their mounting equipment with stock steering shaft and rack.
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Old Apr 19, 2008 | 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by 00SilverWS6
Yeah I tried cleaning it up because if everything is black it gets cheezy looking. But I might just end up painting it as well.
just razzing ya. looks pretty good all painted up.
too much body color is a bad thing, IMO.
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Old May 14, 2008 | 12:22 PM
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Well the car has been sitting waiting on parts for weeks now. I finally got my motor/tranny. AJE says my k-member etc will be here Friday, we will see I guess, its been 6 weeks.
I think I got ripped off on a convertor: https://ls1tech.com/forums/lsx-parts-sale/906422-tsp-giant-cam-tci-street-fighter.html
I wanted to have the convertor installed before putting the motor/tranny in the car, but looks like a d-bag ruined that.

So in the last 3 weeks all Ive gotten done is swapping the fuel pump, and about 75% of the wiring of the custome guages.
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Even had a positive trader rating of five and still got burned. That sucks!
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Old May 20, 2008 | 11:46 PM
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FINALLY got all my parts from AJE last night, so I installed all that and the motor, a few hours last night and a few tonight.

Here are the pics.















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Old May 20, 2008 | 11:56 PM
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thats crazy man, its goin to be awesome when you get finished, ive seen alot of swaps into fox bodys but this is the first ive really seen done to an sn95, keep postin pics, and I wanna see a vid when its all done props on the great work so far everything looks great, good luck on the rest of the swap.
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Old May 21, 2008 | 12:57 AM
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Also have a slight problem. My front tires are Toe'd WAY out in the front. One can be straight while the other is almost all the way turned.

Do I need shorter tie rod ends with the AJE K-member/a-arms???
Also I will be doing a manual rack in the near future from flaming river. Recommendations on what to get?
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Old May 21, 2008 | 09:20 PM
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aje was a lil slow on my end as well. i hear this all the time.
i dont know exact times, but id say 3-4 weeks to get a coilover kit from them.
called day after day and all i heard was "we are getting the parts together so we can ship it out"

if you bought a new rack, id see an issue with the toe, but being you just bolted your old parts back up, thats kinda odd.

you can play with a strait edge on each tire with 2 people and a tape measure to set the toe yourself.
3-4 ft strait edge on each side. measure front, measure back. the difference in measure is toe in or toe out.
its pretty simple if you can read a tape measure.
dont count out something could be off on the K member. id hope its not, but dont go chasing other problems till you rule the new parts out.
looking good!
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