@@davidgoucher7177 I did not and I used Texas Speed. Honestly I went to a Holley Terminator X later and it was a similar cost but 100% worth the money.
This will not hold up! If you want to understand why...go to novak adapter and you'll see that the combination he's using will only allow 30% of the clutch friction disc to grab the flywheel. It's going to vibrant something crazy! Those dowel pins are what centers the pressure plate on the flywheel. This whole thing is a complete problem waiting to happen and that very first time you have to slip the clutch for over 30 seconds...you better have a tow arranged. Spend the money...do it right. The flywheel needs a shim whoever commented change the fork...yeah, no! It's nearly ⅜" difference between the 2 flywheels position. You won't have enough throw on the arm to have the travel for the clutch. Not trying to be a dick I've done this swap 3 times and it's going to take over $1,000 if you do it right. Drill tap bellhousing tab to accommodate the missing hole...the top hole just is what it is. Go to Novak.
The reason for the holes being different. An LS uses a 10 mm bolt and the old style Chevrolet uses a 3/8 bolt. The LS bolts are .010 bigger than the 3/8 bolt.
I’m doing the exact same think for my square body, I have the same parts roughly and it all bolted up pretty good, only issue is when I put the engine and tranny together and tighten it up to put back in the truck, the engine won’t far over. If I loosen the bell housing bolts 1/8 to 1/4 inch it bars over fine, did you have anything like this when you did it?
Did you demolish that clutch yet? as soon as I built my 383 I put it back with the stock clutch on my 91 Chevy. within 500 miles I demolish that clutch and it was in perfect condition. It literally shattered and stacked it itself. i was able to drive home with one little sliver of metal holding on and baby in it
Darius Mitchell I believe that this will work, if I remember from Novak conversions website you have to turn down the outer diameter of the input shaft retainer. You might look at Novak’s website on their tech articles for AMC to sm465
Just incase you don't know, the GM corp. 10 bolt axel <and the Dana 44 axel are considered equaely good. some break parts are interchangeable .Dirt every Day on u tube did a video on them.
GDT ENGINE yes I’ve been driving around for a while, I did blow out second gear but then had the transmission rebuilt and it drives amazing. I do not drive this on the highway though so if your going to daily this you might want an overdrive transmission. All that being said if I were to take out the trans again i’m going to install a th400 just because this thing is so heavy and is not the easiest to balance on a transmission jack because of its shape
Clifton link for the kit is in the description from Dave’s customs and I used the stock springs. I have recently bought new springs but have yet to install them
Clifton I did not use the steering box relocation it still sits in the stock location. I did make my own steering, after the fact I could see moving the steering box forward about an inch would be useful and that’ll happen sometime in the future. As for the rear end all I did was weld new perches on and set the pinion angle that way. Soon I will be using a different rear axle, I’ll be going Toyota because of their semi float design and dropout 3rd member.
Did you use the GM steering box / steering system or did you keep it stock? Also for the rear end did you just buy bigger perches and set them in the same place? I have a whole parts truck to work with so I'm trying to figure things out. Sorry man I don't mean to blow you up.
Jimmy D689 just cut off the stock spring perches, then bought new ones from Barnes 4x4 I believe. You’ll basically bolt it together unwelded and center your axle then get some of the vehicle weight on it and set your pinion angle. After your pinion angle is perfect you can weld the spring perch to the axle
part number on that pilot bearing is 12557583. Also, if you can find a 85-87(91) squarebody chevy bellhousing, it will take a chevrolet external driver's side slave with no adaptations. The fork pivot ball will need to be swapped with an adjustable one to compensate for the 1/8" difference in flywheel location between the sbc and the LS motor.
