LS SWAP WITH OLDER GM TRANSMISSION 

Finally someone who pays attention! Lol. Ironically that’s the same combo we started with in Chaos Theory, right down to the th350 that we pulled out of the DR Nova when we swapped it!

By the way I’m pinning this comment to the top. 🤣👍

It's gotta be frustrating for you to keep answering the sane things repeatedly. Don't let them chase ya away from making he videos man I appreciate everything I've learned from them on my lil journey. I'm putting a 4.8 in mine and my intention for it is to be a street driven, drive it to the track( i57 dragstrip in Benton Illinois) to bracket race it.

@@brandongibson85 Brother when I started this channel years ago it was to help people help themselves. What I’ve come to find out is a lot of people don’t want to help themselves. They want to be spoon fed and your time means nothing to them. People will click on a video that seems to be about what they need to know, never watch one second of the video or skip through missing all the important bits, then ask questions that were already answered in the video. Then when I tell them to watch the video they get pissed like I’ve got time to type out answers for 150,000 people when the answer was already in the video. This video is a perfect example of that if you read through the comments. Are used to reply and let them know the answer was in the video or if the answer is in another one of my videos I would just post a link to that video. But now days for the most part if it’s obvious they didn’t pay attention I just don’t even reply. It’s just a waste of time. My parents always told me “You can’t help those who won’t help themselves.” And if I tried to take the time to re-answer every question that was needlessly asked I wouldn’t have time to do my read job. I’d literally be sitting on my phone 22 hours a day.

@@brandongibson85 Just curious, have seen seen our DRNova project? That car is literally my uncles daily driver. Cruises nice, gets around 22mpg and runs CONSISTENT 7.84s in the 1/8. And when I say consistent I mean the it ran 3 7.84s back to back to back. Lol. I told him we should pull some timing out and get it doing solid 8s or 8.50s and let him bracket race it.

Glad it helped!

Thank you sir. And thanks for watching. Glad I was able to help. 👍🏻

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@@BadLuckGarage will do

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Glad to hear it helped. 👍

Glad the video helped you out brother! Be sure to share it on any forums your in and help spread the word so others can get the info they need!

Any time!

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Awesome! Thank you!

Glad you’re finding the videos helpful brother!

Glad you found the video helpful!👍

Great to hear!

Well shit, it’s the great Denmah!!! 👍🏻 Yea I finally decided it’s easier to share a video link than to type out answers to this question 20 times a week. Lol

Glad you enjoyed it brother. I’ve typed this information out in so many emails and on so many Facebook pages that I finally just decided to make a video so I wouldn’t have to type it anymore. Lol.

So this will work fro the 5.3ls to a 700r4

Lol that’s not good.

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Thanks brother. Glad the video helped you out!👍

Glad it was helpful!

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Glad you’re finding the videos helpful brother. 👍

Hopefully it helped brother.

Thanks brother. I should have made this one years ago really.

How bout replacing flex plate on 96 blazer. 4.3 How difficult is it. How long may it take I have some mechanical knowledge

Thanks for the sub!

I thought you didn’t need the spacer with the 4l80 flexplate because it has one built in?

@@KeepOnRollingTide The flex plate comes with the built in spacer and bolts when you buy the one I have linked in the video description. That’s what he’s saying he ordered.

Thanks for popping in Zane!

Have u done a ls swap into a 71 Cutlass supreme yet

@@dwayneford9028 No. Brad actually has a 70 Cutlass and a complete 6.0 that he wants to swap in but I don’t know if he’ll ever pull the trigger on it. 🤦🏼‍♂️

I know this is an old vid but was wondering if you could expand on bolting a BOP TH350 to an LS. Will it still have the 5 bolts?

@@sarge436 Won’t work.

I have a question so I'm using my 700r4 transmission with LQ9 engine that the bellhousing on 700r4 doesn't fit with the 6.0 what do i do

Welcome aboard brother! And thanks for the kind words!

Well I hate to hear that but I’m glad you found the video helpful. 👍

*5 bolts

I don’t have any LT experience yet unfortunately.

Thank you sir.

Glad to hear it

Glad you found it helpful. 👍

Happy to hear the video helped! Thanks for watching!

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Glad you found it helpful brother.

Sounds like you’ve got some weird fuckery going on. Possibly something done by the previous owner. If you’re using an aftermarket converter then call the converter company and use whatever setup they built it for.

Yep they come in a kit. Should have come with bolts as well.

Glad I could help!

I wish I could help you there but I only do videos on things that I have real world experience with. And I really don't see me ever doing a build that combo brother.

Thanks brother. 👍🏻🤘🏻😉

yes

Lmao! No brother I’ve never done a swap into a Ford but it might happen eventually. The good news is there are several companies that make direct swap mounts to put an LS where a sbf used to be so it should be a fairly easy swap. 👍

correct

Yes

As I explained multiple times, the engine didnt determine which flexplate you have, the transmission does. You seem to be misunderstanding alot of what I said in the video so I'll summerize again.....4L60=dished flexplate, 4L80=flat flexplate. Engine doesn't matter.

@@BadLuckGarage 👍👍

You can buy the 4L80 flexplate with spacer and bolts for less than $70 from most auto parts stores brother. Why would you want to pay twice as much from Jegs?

The earlier 4L60e has a 10.75” converter bolt pattern. My advice would be if you’re adamant about using a 4L60, avoid the drama and sell it or swap it for a late model LS style 4L60e with the bolt in bellhousing.

Sounds like an issue with your starter not kicking the gear out far enough. That could be a bad starter or the starter not receiving enough power or not grounding properly.

LSX INNOVATIONS. I've already done several videos on engine mounts brother, And thats who I always recommend.

What transmission are you using? If it’s a th350/th400 then either use a th400 specific converter or a dual pattern th350/400 converter. If it’s a 700r4 or pre99 4L60 then you’ll have to either slot the holes as explained in the video or purchase an aftermarket flex plate.

@@BadLuckGarage th400 - which is why I'd want to use a 4L80E flexplate. Here's the issue: the 11.5" and dual pattern torque converters I'm looking at (Summit, and I think I looked at Jegs) are nearly twice the cost of a 10.75" TC. Lots of aftermarket TC's for th400/350 only seem to come in 10.75", So I'll be using the dished 4L60E flexplates I have, and slotting them, I'd just rather have the holes drilled in the right spot (on an aftermarket 4L80E type plate) and not have to use that cheesy adapter or weaker plate. The Dirty Dingo flexplate other than being SFI rated, is nothing more than a 4L80E plate with 11.5" hole pattern. I just don't get why they wouldn't drill both holes if they're going to the trouble of making a plate and getting it SFI rated and whatnot. 100% I'd have bought that plate if it was double drilled.

@@notsure7874 most of the summit and jegs brand converters I’ve seen are dual pattern brother. And ANY th400 converter will be 11.5” pattern.

Explaining all this will require a whole separate video.

Honestly my recommendation would be to sell it or trade it for a 4L60e. If you’re LS swapping then you’re going to have the means to control a 4L60e. Leaving the 700r4 is going to just create more headaches and still be basically the same transmission without the tuning abilities and advantages the 4L60e have. Meaning you’re basically still going to have the weaknesses of the 700r4/4L60 platform but without the technical advantages that the 4L60e would offer.

No

200r4 uses a 10.5” bolt pattern so you will have to slot the holes as stated in the video.

ls1tech.com/forums/conversions-hybrids/928911-anyone-know-how-hook-up-kickdown-tv-cable-700r4-ls1.html

www.ebay.com/itm/LS-Engine-to-Transmission-Bell-Housing-Bolts-Set-/133815730338?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m2548.l6249&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0

The flexplate doesn’t doesn’t effect what starter you use. In the end they end up being spaced the same. I talked about that in the video. 😉