Another way to skin the cat; the High Torque 292 LS swap

[dayj1]

I picked up a solid '72 SWB stepside back in February. I finished up the bulk of my LS swap a few weeks back, but I took lots of pics along the way and thought I'd post the details of the swap.

Here's the only "before" picture that I have.



The driver's fender and door were repainted at some point in the past, but the rest of the truck sports the original paint and it's all original sheet metal. The bed wood also appears to be original, but someone had replaced the 307 and manual tranny with a 350/350 combo.

I've had this taking up room in my shop for the last year or so waiting on the right vehicle to come along for a swap:



It's the "littlest" LS; a 4.8. Since 4.8L converts to 292.9 cubic inches, I decided to round down and call this a 292 swap

The 4.8 came from a 79K mile 2003 Tahoe. I bought it over a year ago and slowly gathered parts. It's got a mish-mash of truck and Camaro parts for the accessory drive and a LS1 'vette intake.

Every good LS swap starts with lowering the truck, right? 3 inch spindles in the front and 4 inch springs in the back left us with this:



Then, I snatched out the 350.