85 burb meets 6.0 lq4

[85burb]

Well i got oil and filter today. Got 6 qts of valvolines finest and one ac delco filter. Talked to my bro and we are all set for this friday. If the boss will give me the time off that is. Ran all over town to try to find a 3inch to 2.5 inch reducer and could not come up with any thing. So i will be going to my exhaust shop to see what he can do for me. Want to get the flandges welded on with short reduceres so i can get rest of exhaust welded on.

[68GMCCustom]

Order it from Summit Monday and you'll have it by Friday.

[85burb]

I need some that do not have a 3 bolt flandge on it. The ones summit sells are 26 bucks. I can go to autozone and get some with slip on flanges for 20 if my exhaust shop can not work something out for me. Dang pepboys had one 3 to 2.5 reducer and that is it. A 2.75 inch pipe goes in side my v band clamp like a glove. Maybe they can take a 2.5 pipe and expand it to that size.

[85burb]

Install day moved.....UP TO FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[y5mgisi]

Thats in like 3 days!!! Planning on having it running by sunday afternoon?

[85burb]

Sunday????? shoot...more like friday night. Starting friday at 8 or so am. Should not take too long to pull old one and stab new engine in its place. At least that is the plan. Would like to have the exhaust hooked up sat some time.

[harnalien]

Super excited for you!

[85burb]

Originally Posted by harnalien

Super excited for you!

Thanks i am not sure if i can be any more excited. and nervios at same time.

[85burb]

12 hours........ Going threw everything in my head.....may expolode soon.....Did not sleep last night good and tonight does not look good for sleep. CANT Wait. May just drive there and wait now..JK

[85burb]

My good buddy at work welded these on for me. He used a heliarc or what ever welder....I know absolutly nothing about welding so all i can say is they have not fallen off yet.....YAY

[85burb]

Well folks.....swap is officaly under way. Got to bros house at 8 or so. Then sat around and bs for while. Then went to get his truck, then went back to his house to get the engine hoist, then to storage, then to paint shop to see if bros blazer is still on scedual for paint and body, then to his house. By the time we got to his house it was after 10:30 am. Had old engine out sitting on its tire buy noon. Every thing is going great at that point. Then installed balancer bolt and touqed it to half a million it seemed like. Then set valves cause i backed them all off to take pressure off the springs. Then made list of stuff i would need. Then went to napa and got powersteering oil, new lower rad hose, powersteering hose, coolant, wire, loome stuff to cover wire. Then the fun came...........hoisted engine into its new home. It did not want to go. After jacking around with mounts and mount plates for what seemed like all freken day it was in and bolted to trans. Then all hell broke loose with pos headers. I must have to say they most deff DO NOT FIT a 4x4 truck. They hit everything within a 10 foot radius. We started with the pass side. No go. Had to cut ear off trans( Did not want to do that by any means.) After we switced off turns with hack saw a few times. It was off. Tryed to put header back on no dice. it still hit the frame, and shackel. SO i tryed the briver side. Went on perfict so i thought. Just needed collector to be moved a tiny bit. Then after giving up for the day went to try to shift into nutral and dang shifter would not move......It was hitting the collector. So pulled that off and pushed it back to clean mess up and go home. Sorry for the long post but it should answer most of questions some may have. Now for the good part.....PICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[harnalien]

It never goes as we plan it. Good luck on getting it all straightened out. Besides the exhaust it seems like things went ok?
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[85burb]

Had to fight the mounts to get them in right place but except for headers went smooth. The mounts kept trans in same place. With some adjustment left to go back ferther still. Tons forward. Wish i could have started it today but i have a factory manifold orderd that will be here at 8:45 am. So should start some time tomorrow. All i have left is msd box carb install and alt wireing. Should go smooth. Ha there i go again.......

[harnalien]

Awesome I am getting the dingo mounts for mine and will be using a 700r4 so I was hoping they'd work out for you.
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[85burb]

Would deff recomend them.. On mine i had to loosen them tell the bolts were only in a few threads on the plate and loosen the rubber mount on the frame then install the bolt that goes threw them. Then drop engine down and tighen all bolts. As far as i can tell the rear trans mount is not stretched one way or the other. Shifted into nutral and park great. Look good too. Great quality in the manufacturing of them. Can get better pic tomorrow.

[flamingbig10]

nice work

[85burb]

Originally Posted by flamingbig10

nice work

Thanks.

[85burb]

YouTube - engine start.mp4

Really crappy video of running. You can deff here the cam a bit at idel and in gear. Need to set up my timing and carb little better but it runs great. No leaks on anything yet. Alt puts out 14 volts with headlights, heater, fuel pump on. Engine has 45 psi oil pressure at hot idle. Will deff spin the TIRE..just one....for as long as i want it to if i punch it from dead stop. If i would have remembered to turn fuel pump on it would have started on first crank. Had to get new starter due to rust on bendix gear not letting it go twards the flywheel. Got to disturbe someones party down the street from my bros house already when i drove by at who knows how many rpm....Sorry if it was you....Will get pics of compleat engine tomorrow.

[harnalien]

So the stock manifolds fit fine? Does it have a noticeable amount of increased power? Good job!
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[85burb]

Originally Posted by harnalien

So the stock manifolds fit fine? Does it have a noticeable amount of increased power? Good job!
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Well the maniflod i have on pass side i had to nothc the frame where the collector bolts are. And had to grind on the egr port to clear. But driver side fits like it was made for it. Did not drive it very far just up and down street. Seems like it has good power. I have to set my carb and timing curve with msd box cause it kind of ran out of power. Pulled hard then flattend out. I had the smallest tuming curve the box came with in it so that may have been most of problem. It had no problem burning tire. When it broke free rpm shot up like it was in nutral. But everyone seen and hurd tire spinning. It is very very loud when you punch on it so i was easy on it most of time. Just punched it two times. After i get exhaust connected and max rpm set with box i will see what it does.

[y5mgisi]

Hooray! ITs been a long time coming! Glad to here it seems to be running good!

[kvn1011]

awesome!!
that 6.0 sounds awesome!!

[85burb]

Thanks yall. Has ben almost 1 year. I love the sound of the cam i have. May get the exhaust hooked up somethime this week. Any suggestions on muffs?

[68GMCCustom]

great news! glad its finally in I bet!

[85burb]

Wish i could really injoy it. The hole family is sick. I had to take day off work. I did manage to sneek it to the exhaust shop down some back roads. Holy moly it is pricy to have it done. They are going to charge me 450 for the hole thing. That is no chrome tips and 2 1/4 inch pipe with a H pipe and duels the hole way. It is a tiny little mexican shop too. Think i am getting screwed..... But tha is the only place i could drive it to. It had better look good for that money.