LS Swapping an Abandoned 2nd Gen Camaro (former race car) 

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Sounds cool. The c10 has a pretty basic 350 in it. It's getting a swap shortly and we've got a few videos coming out about it soon.

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Wow, thank you! Good luck with your swap.

Glad you like them. Thanks for watching!

Nice

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Sounds awesome! Good luck.

U couldn't find an easier generation f body to begin with....4th gens are a p.i.t.a.

Right on! Having all the pieces ready and all together probably make sit much less painful. We're just using a stock truck manifold for now. We'll have some new Camaro videos out soon...finishing up our wiring and fuel system plumbing and hopefully doing the first fire in the next 2 weeks. Thanks for watching!

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Sweet! good info. We ended up cutting the truck pan & pickup. We'll end up just shortening our stock driveshaft a few inches...it's close though.

@@BLVCKFLAGD I received my sticker today. I had forgotten about it and I had no idea what the envelope was. As soon as I opened it I smiled. I picked the sticker of this Camaro. The 78-81 Camaro hits a sweet spot in my heart as my 79 was my first car (nearly 20 years ago).

I ended up buying a master cylinder/brake booster kit that was smaller in diameter and angled upward. Jegs #555-631432. Mine was hitting on the roll cage in the engine bay. Don't know what car you're working with but fixed my issue.

Nice. All the little extra stuff is hard too track down, but we decided to build a sheet metal cluster with custom wiring.

Good info. Thanks!

Like the ls swap headers or u talking abt stock manifolds?

@@alexishuerta9087 stock manifolds.

Awesome...if you have questions, just ask...we've got so much video on this swap we haven't edited yet, so there's a lot more to come. We fired it up about a month ago, but we're just behind on the videos

This ones just mostly stock with cam, springs, and headers, so I'm happy with anything 400 or over

Yes, there's more videos to edit in this series and I've yet to put the whole vintage air kit on the car.

yes, we'll do a video on a/c when we get to it

yes, everything should be roughly the same for your car

A bigger cam usually makes more power, but also moves the power band higher up in the RPM range. The math equation for horsepower = torque X rpm/5252, so moving the power band up in rpm makes more horsepower if everything else were equal. The stock cam in these engines is optimized for low end torque to move a 6,000 lb SUV, so when you swap it into a small car that weighs 3500 lbs, you don't need all the low end. Because the new bigger cam has more lift (opens the valves more) it needs valve springs that won't bind up at full lift. They also need to be stronger to close the valves fully at high rpm. Stock springs will limit the amount of lift and rpm an engine can take. If you've heard of "valve float" that's when an engine can't rev any higher or make more power because the valves aren't fully closing.

Basically any truck engine from 2000 or later will be a good candidate. Ours is a 5.3 (lm4 code) out of a 2000 suburban. We got the whole donor vehicle running and driving for $500. The biggest difference between something like the ls6 and our lm4 is the ls6 is aluminum and cost a lot more. Other than that they're basically the same platform. Truck engines were rated 285-295hp I believe, but a simple tune will get them above 300, and a cam swap will get you way more. You should be able to find a 5.3 (or even a 4.8) for around $300 already pulled from a junkyard. Really you can't go wrong with any ls-based engine. It just depends on how much you want to spend. You should be able to use your th350 no problem. It will bolt right up just like it was a regular small block. You might need a different flexplate though for correct spacing with the crank and torque converter, but I don't have the info off the top of my head

Depends on engine mounts. 1st mounts I was considering needed a smaller power steering pulley to clear the steering box. The final engine mounts I went with were all good so no modifications needed.

lucked out on a sale on the holley website...deal was only good for a few days

@@BLVCKFLAGD thats one heck of a deal brother!!! Maybe set them out on the ground, and make a video of them so we can see them better, a d try to copy some cheapie design from fleabay. Hopefully holley has them on sale again soon!!!

for sure

Yes, we'll do a video covering wiring soon

Nice! If the firebird has the stock clamshells in it still, you should be able to fab something up pretty easily. Sometimes you can even drill a set of regular sbc mounts to work. We haven't had any issues with front accessories...everything stock works well as long as the power steering gear clears the steering box.

@@BLVCKFLAGD did you use the truck accessories?

@@xozindustries7451 yes. Donor was a 2000 suburban. We dropped the stock a/c compressor but it was on it's own belt apart from everything else. It would have hit on the camaro frame. We're doing vintage air on this one, so got an ict billet kit for a high mount a/c compressor. It works with the stock accessories but just needs a longer belt. If we weren't doing a/c, stock routing would have worked 100% with no mods.

sbc trans will bolt right up to an ls, but it's the flywheel spacing that's tricky. I don't have part numbers but I know its a matter of using the correct flywheel clutch setup.

Holley website. Occasionally they have really good deals and huge discounts, especially on discontinued products..

Most came with a small block chevy...Trans am and firebird with pointiac engines....you can make just about anything fit. Engine bays are huge.

Alot

Guy I got it from robbed the engine and trans for his '32 ford he was building.

Nice. These 2nd gens have really grown on us.

But Third gen starts in 1982. What's that make this?

Lmao imagine thinking you’re right. Second gen Camaro is from 70-81 bub.

It has been...learning process

@@BLVCKFLAGD I bet my son wants to do that .To a 80s camaro.