LS1 Swapped 1999 Ponitac Firebird
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2016
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Originally purchased the car back in 2008 with 107K and a boring 3.8L V6. Drove it for 4 years then decided to upgrade its power plant. I went to a local salvage and picked up everything I would need for the swap for $2,200 bucks. got it installed in about two days (originally came out of a 2002 Z28) so install was easy. Motor had a noise. so i took a head off and one of the pistons had a small piece missing. Owner of salvage yard gave me $1000 back and i returned just the motor. I Went to Chevy's website and ordered a brand new crate motor instead ($3000). A guy I work with built the 4L60E with a shift kit that hits each gear beautifully! As of April 2016 i have owned it for 8 Years. Its just a great car and i plan on doing a T56 swap in the future ;) Body of the car now has around 170k, lost track after changing to a V8 Speedometer.... - Auta a dopravní prostředky
nice work
OutLawGarage thanks!
Nice work. We're doing a v6 to lt1 because there's a couple a those available to us. Like to do an ls though.
SteveSeiwald Same here brotha! Doing a 94 3.4 To an LT1
No way I also live in oklahoma I have so many questions for you on how to do this
im doing a 6.0 swap on my v6 any tips and parts i will need to get it done
I have a newer video going over roughly what I did, a donor car would make it way easier. Need the v8 K-member, accessories, harness, ECU, Radiator, transmission lines (if auto) gotta add a wire to the fuse box so all the injectors will work. The v8 harness plugs rights into the v6 body harness. The v6 cluster will work with the swap, ran mine for about a year before swapping.
nice build. I have a 2000 Pontiac firebird v6. just wondering did you use the same v6 rear end. if not then which rear end did you end up using for the v8 swap. thanks!
Original 3.08 open diff that came with the car. Has survived my lead foot for the last 8 years lol
What all did you have to change in order to do the swap ?
What did you do for the front cradle? Use the V6 or did you get the LS cradle? How much of the wiring harness did you use from the V6 or did you find a complete LS harness? I have done tons of engine swaps but looking forward to my first LS swap. I to have a 99 Firebird currently with a blown up 3.8. were you able to just change the bell housing on the 4L60 from the 3.8 bolt pattern to the LS pattern? Any insight you can give would be great.
i got a complete lift out from a 02 Z28. came with craddle, engine, transmission, accessories and harness. as long as you get the F-body LS1 harness it plugs directly into the body harness of the v6 car body. only got to add one wire to make it run. had it running in two days on a weekend
Evan Hall you didn’t have to switch out the radiator or fans?
Evan Hall what wire did you have to add to make it run? Was it the wire splice on the passenger shock tower to get power to bank 2 injectors and coils?
Angelo Edwards I need the answer to this as well what wire is it mine is only firing on bank1
Christian Del Bosque you’ll have to look at the wire schematic. Basically all your doing is splicing into power that feeds bank 1 with bank 2. The main issue is the bcm (chassis harness) is still V6 and the 6 cylinder cars only has 1 fuse that powers all 6 coils and injectors. Well with the LS that side fuse on the body harness will work but it only sends power to bank 1. AL you have to do is get power to bank 2 and that should be all the wire management don’t take my word on that tho
You wouldn't happen to know if this could be done the same way in a 96? I'm not sure if GM made any changes to the wire harness between 96 and 99?
I believe 99-02 is all the same. And maybe 98. 97 and below you have to change quite a bit of wiring to make a ls work. Havent looked to much into it
So the dash gauges and that worked with just the engine harness?
Yup. I ran the v6 cluster about a year before finding a low mileage v8 cluster (which shows 160mph)
What stereo console is that? I think I want one.
jensen vx7020, its pretty old. Works good though
what kind of rims are those?
Zach Cook they came off of a 1999 Camaro Z28
Sounds killer, What exhaust is that?
I think i had had a magnaflow muffler welded to the original piping... now i got full exhaust. 1in7/8 speed engineering headers and their 3in true dual stainless exhaust with bullet mufflers. I have a newer video of the car
Evan Hall Awesome Thank you so much
How much that cost
Originally was gonna cost $2100. Got a deal at a salvage for a Engine, transmission, subframe, ecm, wiring, and accessories. Motor ended up knocking and gave it back, got $1000 back then spent $3000 for a GM performance LS1 long block (which you cant buy any more). So id say a little around $4500. Getting a brand new engine hurt the wallet the most lol
check out my vid on my 99 WS6 I swapped in a built LM7.