Whatever!!!!!!!!! Gearhead-EFI Edition

[dave w]

With custom rides / custom power trains comes unexpected headaches / nightmares. Grounding the TAC module ... it's a good thing to do!

dave w

[Six_Shooter]

Uh oh... What's this?

[1project2many]

Haha... one pipe short of the right engine swap! ;)

Looks good. Lotsa welding and checking to come, eh? Wish I had time to fabricate anything right now. :(

[steveo]

that truck is my dream. ls. boost. room to work on it. dont need a jack to do an oil change. i'll take one!

dont know why im screwing around with f-bodies still, i guess its a compulsion, some kind of sickness. im on like f-body number 12 now.

[JeepsAndGuns]

With custom rides / custom power trains comes unexpected headaches / nightmares. Grounding the TAC module ... it's a good thing to do!

dave w

While I respect the time, money, skill, and hard work put into building that truck. I still have to cringe a little every time I see a ford with a chevy engine or vice versa. I am not a ford or chevy purist by any means, and the vehicles owner is free to do whatever they want to their vehicles (me included). I have just never understood the cross brand engine swaps. I would like the truck a lot more if they had went with like a turbo or supercharged mustang engine.

[Six_Shooter]

While I respect the time, money, skill, and hard work put into building that truck. I still have to cringe a little every time I see a ford with a chevy engine or vice versa. I am not a ford or chevy purist by any means, and the vehicles owner is free to do whatever they want to their vehicles (me included). I have just never understood the cross brand engine swaps. I would like the truck a lot more if they had went with like a turbo or supercharged mustang engine.

For me, it's not because it's a GM in a Ford, it's because it's another damn LSx...

I think there may now actually be more vehicle with LSx in them than what GM made with LSx engines. Overpriced POS' that people are brainwashed to think are the best thing since the wheel. :facepalm:

Very clean swap though, and that is something that seems to be difficult on an LSx, it seems, since I see so many that are just thrown into cars and look terrible.

[RobertISaar]

Overpriced POS' that people are brainwashed to think are the best thing since the wheel. :facepalm:

that sums up my feelings on at least one engine that is oh so popular to swap in the FWD world. luckily, they tend to thin their own herd with neverending BBQs.

[1project2many]

In general, cost and technical support are major considerations in any project. I have to wonder, "what if" Ford, Dodge, and Toyota engines / transmissions were available for about the same price point as the LSx engine / transmissions combinations and supported by EFI Live and other similar software suppliers?

Which is why the SBC swap was also extremely popular. Building a 350 was at least half as much as almost any other brand, and you could mix and match parts from a gazillion years and models to make a drivetrain.

I have just never understood the cross brand engine swaps. I would like the truck a lot more if they had went with like a turbo or supercharged mustang engine.

I used to feel that way but really, is there anything on a new engine that resembles that truck? If you have to weld in mounts, change pulleys and brackets, adapt power steering hoses and cooler lines, does it matter what brand you're adapting from? Or think of it this way... the Chevy LSx engine in the ford isn't as cool, but what abut a Falconer? Or a 4-71? If those engines are cool, then the "not as cool" comes from somewhere else... "Oh, yeah, another LSx Swap"

BTW, I do very much like how clean the Ford is and it looks like a well executed vehicle all around. Somehow, though, as I get older it seems like an engine compartment should look full. It's probably because I work on vehicles daily where there isn't an extra cubic inch of space around the engine but even my '57 looks empty when I open the hood.

[RobertISaar]

i always thought it was hilarious when the hood of my father's 70 monte carlo was open..... if there were ever a GM car that could have justified more than 8 cylinders, that was it.

[1project2many]

Funny that you mention that car. I had a friend with one and used to dream of building a twin 231 turbo powerplant for it.

[dave w]

I would like the truck a lot more if they had went with like a turbo or supercharged mustang engine.

In general, cost and technical support are major considerations in any project. I have to wonder, "what if" Ford, Dodge, and Toyota engines / transmissions were available for about the same price point as the LSx engine / transmissions combinations and supported by EFI Live and other similar software suppliers?

dave w