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Re: It finally starts... another S10 swap...
So... busy over the holidays... got some work done on a buddies house that netted me $1100, so time to buy more goodies!
I ended up with a Painless TBI harness, a set of headers, a Monster-in-a-box Transmission rebuild kit and a new fuel pump from a late 80's F**d F150. ![]() Last friday I tore down the old transmission that came behind my V6 4.3 (used it because it had the "K" case in it), turns out it was a V8 trans anyways.... score! This was after it was stripped down and cleaned... ![]() All the guts strewn across my workbench! Wow... didn't realize there was sooo much stuff in there (never rebuilt a trans before!) ![]() And my Christmas present to myself! ![]() Finally got it all put back together on tuesday night, last night bolted it and my headers to the block.... What a pretty sexy combo! And should hold up to the power of the V8 no issues now. ![]() Should have the mounting brackets all welded and bolted up tonight.. primer and Zero rust on and dropped back in by tomorrow... ![]() Cheers! Ted.
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Geez, I wish you'd hurry up and get some stuff done... sheesh!
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Re: It finally starts... another S10 swap...
i am so freakin jealous lol...jk love the work you are doing man, great job.
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Sigh... I wish... I had 2 1/2" wheel spacers on there... now I'm trying to figure out how to get it back there without them. I've moved my offset on the tires from 4 1/4" to 2 1/2" but still have a ways to go... (about 3/4" but it makes a difference.)
Looking at full size chevy control arms and see where that leads me... Tubular are going to be a b*tch to jig up and weld. Ted.
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Re: It finally starts... another S10 swap...
Gimme time... I figure I will find a way for a swap that will work. I'm not fond of having to build suspension parts... so if I can find a swap that will work, trust me, I'll post it!
Cheers, Ted.
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sounds great to me, i figure i will retire in 10 years and old s10 frames will be hard to come by and old nova and camaro sub frames so i have one of each stored away, all of your notes, ideas and build pics are logged in a folder stored on my pc to lol
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Ted, One more question, what is the total dimension from center to center of your wheels? i read in your forum that you cut the frame but i don't remember if you gave the dimensions after you cut it....thanks, keep up the good work.
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can you say sleeper. nice truck keep up the good work!!
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Re: It finally starts... another S10 swap...
Honestly, I wasn't intending to be different... although it always seems to be that way... lol.
I just measured the distance on a stock 47 from measured center of the wheel wells and it came up at 117", although a stock s10 wheelbase for a longbed standard cab is 117.9" ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_S-10 Cheers! Ted.
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Nice build.
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Figure out how your going to mount that 350?
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Lol! Yes... the 350 is finally solid mounted! A big thanks to Jeffs51chevy for the Headman conversion headers!
I ended up cutting off the mounts I welded on earlier (what a b*tch), grinding them flush and rewelding new ones back on, centering the block again and raising it about 1/2" just to get the headers in the right spot and the intermediate steering shaft to clear, and only by about 1/4-3/8" between the pipes. Got the front end remounted back on and levelled after I put in 2" drop Belltech lowering springs in the front. Then decided that I didn't like the fact that I was putting about 280-300hp to one tire, so swapped out the 10 bolt non-posi drum rear for one from a 2000 Jimmy that was a 10 bolt posi with discs (guy wanted $150 for it and couldn't pass it up!). Didn't like the fact that I had lowering blocks (2") in the rear and had removed a leaf from the S10 pack.... soooooo.... picked up a set of leafs from a 96 F*rd Exploder (I had a ranger back in the day and remember the leafs sitting pretty flat), looked up the lengths from the locating pin to the ends and realized they'd work perfectly! Sooooo, using everything but the top leaf (the one with the eyes in it), cleaned them up, coat of zero rust and installed the rest of the pack. Dropped the rear by 3", no blocks! So, now I'm running 7" at the front of the boards, 8 1/2" at the back and 6 1/2" at the bumper with no "mickey-mousing" (as we call it). Had a buddy of mine pick me up a repop grill from Portland last weekend for $360 US and with the dollar being on par... great deal! (they want $600 up here!) and so now just waiting for the Dakota Digital shift indicator kit to arrive.... ![]() But really.... I haven't done much! ![]() Oh yeah, waiting for the laser cutout to show up from a buddy to finish up the rear roll pan... Cheers! Ted.
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So what mount did you use? Where are they in relation to the orginal mounts on the s10 frame? I think I got the same headers.
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Basically I plated over the original mounts with 3/8" steel and skirted the outside of the plate with 1/8" to the frame... that gave me a clean slate to start with and didn't look like swiss cheeze. Then using 1/4" plate made the mounts. I used the 2.8 engine mounts and think mine were 2 1/4 to the bolt hole in the front and 2" to the bolt hole in the rear. That and my trans location and small hump in the floor gave be a 4 degree slope to the block (measured off the carb mount).
Cheers, Ted.
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oh the torture, all that work and no pics.
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Blame the wife... took the camera on her trip!
She should be back soon and I'll fix ya up... Damn junkies! ![]() Ted.
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I blame everything on the wife.
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