Silver_Whistler

I have a buddy that wants to put a 5.3 that ive got into his s10. How complex would this be. Its a 2000 s10. any advice/input is appreciated.

Badzracing

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Supposedly, it's one of the easiest conversion to do. Make sure you/he has all the electronics needed. There is a book, that I can't remember the name of at the moment, that goes into some detail about it. Look on ebay under "ls1". It's not the white book it's the one with color photos on the front.

ls6jimmy

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The book is on v8s10s.com. Some things I can say at this point is get you a custom wiring harness(painless, speartech, etc) instead of trying to rework a donor harness. Think a/b 9" ford rear end, use corvette front accessories, if you know a fabricationist get him to make you some custom motor mounts. Use 8" brake booster from a some type of chevy car.

Silver_Whistler

thanks for the input. keep it coming.

kossuth

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I'm doing mine right now and I can say this. A custom harness would be nice, but I was able to make my fbody harness work. You need to use a 5.3 oilpan and you still have to cut the front crossmember. I used a brake booster off a late 90's malibu and welded the S10 booster rod on the end. I have pics and some descriptions on my website. www.geocities.com/jays_s10/ls1swap.html You don't have to cut the AC box or get a new booster if you relocate the rear most coil packs, but the more you get into the motor swap the more you will see that room is a premium. Swap isn't all that easy really. You have to retain the BCM if you want everything to work correctly. I have run into the problem of the class II data path incompatability. I'm gonna need a custom program made by westers or somebody to correct that problem. That's just a rundown of the basics.

StickSS

Hi all: Do a search on Ebay for Ls1 Motor Mounts I saw a vendor selling custom S10 motor mounts kits at a good price.

WS6FirebirdTA00

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what kinda cost is it to do this kind of conversion?

kossuth

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A bare minium if you are talking about a LS1 not a 5.3, 4.8, or 6.0 is gonna be about $5k at a bare minimum using cheap stuff. I know I have probiably close to 10k wrapped up in mine and it still isn't on the road yet. Custom headers and the exhaust if you go with all mandrel stuff is gonna run at least $2k if not more.

OldNovaGuy

The shop that is working on my 66 Nova has done this coversion several times. Here's a link to pictures of the complete project ( I believe this was an LS1 upgraded to an LS6)http://www.ttcustomsinc.com/current_...chevy_s10.html

kossuth

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Ah, I see. They are using modified truck manifolds. That's cool and a cheaper way to go than manifolds, but you see in that pic even better than mine just how much you gotta chop out of that front crossmember. Gotta be carefull with that because it laterally stabilizes the frame during cornering and such. I reinforced it with 3/8" plate steel.