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Old 04-24-2017, 06:47 PM
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I have a small block chevy ford focus I built a year ago. Instead of building the small block I decided to go ls.

I am using a 5.3 trailblazer aluminum motor

Holley intake

Painless wiring harness

Lingenfelter gt1-1 cam

Garrett GTX42 turbo

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Need to see some more of this!
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I gotcha, should be a handfull!
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http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/sh....php?t=2159873
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as it sits the car weighs 2638.

hopefully I will lose a little weight in the swap. There are still some thinks that need to be cut out of the car.

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Current motor makes 240whp

stock 5.7 vortec from a 98 truck

summit dual plane intake
holley 650 hp
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small update.

I got the cam and springs installed.

Alternator bracket and throttle body came in.

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Such an odd car to LS swap. Makes me like it even more. Keep up the pictures
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I got the engine sat in today
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Seems something's a miss with those scale readings -- Seems like the 7xx-8xx readings should be the front and the 5xx readings the rear -- but that doesn't match up with the markings on the readout face. Perhaps the scales were plugged into the wrong connectors? Getting rid of some weight up front would be nice. If the current lump has cast iron heads - you could be looking at dropping at least 125 lbs. off the front -- good stuff!
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Such an odd car to LS swap. Makes me like it even more. Keep up the pictures
Not as much as you might think -- they made kits to convert them to rear wheel drive and drop SBF's in them -- suspect this might have started with one of those kits. Just swap out the Ford lump for GM lump for GM aluminum 'winner'....
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Seems something's a miss with those scale readings -- Seems like the 7xx-8xx readings should be the front and the 5xx readings the rear -- but that doesn't match up with the markings on the readout face. Perhaps the scales were plugged into the wrong connectors? Getting rid of some weight up front would be nice. If the current lump has cast iron heads - you could be looking at dropping at least 125 lbs. off the front -- good stuff!
yeah I had the connectors in the wrong places
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Originally Posted by Michael Yount
Not as much as you might think -- they made kits to convert them to rear wheel drive and drop SBF's in them -- suspect this might have started with one of those kits. Just swap out the Ford lump for GM lump for GM aluminum 'winner'....

i built this one from scratch but you can get complete kits from http://www.kugelkomponents.com/focus/focusv8.php
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Clearing steering shaft with exhaust a non-issue? Hard to tell angles from picture...
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Clearing steering shaft with exhaust a non-issue? Hard to tell angles from picture...
It is really tight but it fits.
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Originally Posted by Michael Yount
Not as much as you might think -- they made kits to convert them to rear wheel drive and drop SBF's in them -- suspect this might have started with one of those kits. Just swap out the Ford lump for GM lump for GM aluminum 'winner'....
Never would've imagined that, being a FWD car and all.
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