89 g20 swap
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Staging Lane
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From: the sneads fizzle, NC
89 g20 swap I recently picked up a 89 g20 cargo van for my sons to work on and wasn’t really planning to do an engine swap just yet but I was in the junkyard today and came across what I believe to be a l33 in a trailblazer. The intake, coil packs are gone but I’ll just grab that off another engine. Outside of the major components what are the small items I need to grab from the truck to make the swap easier and cheaper?
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From: Euless, TX
I recently picked up a 89 g20 cargo van for my sons to work on and wasn’t really planning to do an engine swap just yet but I was in the junkyard today and came across what I believe to be a l33 in a trailblazer. The intake, coil packs are gone but I’ll just grab that off another engine. Outside of the major components what are the small items I need to grab from the truck to make the swap easier and cheaper?
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Staging Lane
Joined: Oct 2005
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From: the sneads fizzle, NC
Fast355 was the relocation set up just the normal accessory brackets from a 96-2000 tbi truck? I should be done pulling this engine tomorrow morning. I got off work late and was only able to work on it for about an hour. Turns out it’s a lh4. 5.3
My van had a roof leak and it ate a hole about the size of my head just over the trans cross member. So I have to replace the floor pan under the front seats and the rectangular floor pan just behind the front seats. I keep wondering if I could just move the engine back like in the 60s van and build a doghouse in between the seats. When I pull those floor pans I’ll see what it would look like in there. I got 37 inches in between the frame rails so there is all kind of space for activities. Not saying I’m dead set on doing that, it’s just something that is bouncing around my head.
My van had a roof leak and it ate a hole about the size of my head just over the trans cross member. So I have to replace the floor pan under the front seats and the rectangular floor pan just behind the front seats. I keep wondering if I could just move the engine back like in the 60s van and build a doghouse in between the seats. When I pull those floor pans I’ll see what it would look like in there. I got 37 inches in between the frame rails so there is all kind of space for activities. Not saying I’m dead set on doing that, it’s just something that is bouncing around my head.
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Joined: Oct 2006
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From: Euless, TX
Fast355 was the relocation set up just the normal accessory brackets from a 96-2000 tbi truck? I should be done pulling this engine tomorrow morning. I got off work late and was only able to work on it for about an hour. Turns out it’s a lh4. 5.3
My van had a roof leak and it ate a hole about the size of my head just over the trans cross member. So I have to replace the floor pan under the front seats and the rectangular floor pan just behind the front seats. I keep wondering if I could just move the engine back like in the 60s van and build a doghouse in between the seats. When I pull those floor pans I’ll see what it would look like in there. I got 37 inches in between the frame rails so there is all kind of space for activities. Not saying I’m dead set on doing that, it’s just something that is bouncing around my head.
My van had a roof leak and it ate a hole about the size of my head just over the trans cross member. So I have to replace the floor pan under the front seats and the rectangular floor pan just behind the front seats. I keep wondering if I could just move the engine back like in the 60s van and build a doghouse in between the seats. When I pull those floor pans I’ll see what it would look like in there. I got 37 inches in between the frame rails so there is all kind of space for activities. Not saying I’m dead set on doing that, it’s just something that is bouncing around my head.
The brackets are custom built to use the 1996-2002 Vortec 350 alternator and compressor. I know a bracket is made to use the R4 but I believe it mounts too wide for a van engine tunnel.
