Nashvegas Yota

For your viewing pleasure.......

Back side of engine, notice how much of the blower has been cut off to graft the elbow on.


Notice the intake has been cut out to allow air flow over the entire intercooler.


Drivers side of engine, notice the spacers under the blower, same height as intercooler plates.


Intercooler glued together and clamped up. wanna let it set up about 24 hrs before install.


Blower after hacking and grafting is done.


Closeup of my ugly throttle body/LT1 MAF combo. I did not realize how thin the walls were after boring to 72 mm. When I cut the end off the TB, it cracked up like an egg. I had to build it up with weld, then rebore it. The MAF is larger ID than the TB, so I smoothed the transition with a boring bar on our radial drill. That thing is the shizzle! That is also what I bored the tb with.

eric924run

got any pics of the bellhousing. I like the idea of the 3800sc.

Nashvegas Yota

Will try to get some pics of it sometime this week.

4x4jeffyota

dude, awesome just isn't the word

Nashvegas Yota

You are right about that.... I think insanity was the word of the day when I decided to do this. To say it has been a bitch would be the understatement of the decade. Thanks for the kind words, I hope to have the engine set back into the truck for the millionth time and hopefully the final time by Halloween.

4x4jeffyota

hahaha, well good luck brother. I wish I had the space to do a project like that. When ever I get another car/truck for a DD I hope to install a built 302 or a 305.

Nashvegas Yota

More progress..... Really hated my fuel rails. As ashamed as I am to admit it, I have never really learned to braze. This made for one hell of an opportunity.

From this......


To this.....


































Not the prettiest brazing ever, but then the fitup on a lot of it is horrible, so I had to use a lot of rod in it.

TurboTruggy

where in nashville do you live? I live off westend right near vanderbilt

4x4jeffyota

lets get this thing runnin

87hilux7mgze

im pretty interested to see this through. i know the capabilities of the l67 platform and was originally going to go for that swap, but the 7m made me feel better and it was monetarily right at the time.

eventually id like to put one of these in tho. even in N/A form, these motors are pretty peppy in 3600 lb cars.

idk if im too confident in the blower job lol. if that case ever gets effed from bad bearings, youll have to fab a whole new setup (i guess that would give you an excuse haha). id make it bolt on personally. and why does no one make the intake system go straight into the cowl portion of the truck?? not much back there besides some wiper linkage. my 87 has TONS of room to run the stock TB pointed straight into it. add some custom ABS tubing and air box, flat k&n filter and fender well or snorkel intake port.

and i know how welding a pan with flux core goes, doing that for my 7m right now. custom pan works waaaaaay better.

anyway, get it going!

Nashvegas Yota

Unfortunately, I am now unemployed, and with that I lost all the great fab equipment at the shop.... I am so thoroughly disgusted with some very noobish mistakes I made throughout this build. It is back to the drawing board on much of the swap, will still be same motor, same trans, thinking about going to a SWB frame with the extended cab and a short tube bed. I have finally come to realize that I bit off more than I was ready for and until I get some facilities and equipment, it is gonna have to go back on the shelf. The wiring harness is disgusting, and I am gonna fab an engine harness from scratch. Still haven't figured out the clutch, not to mention I found out the crankshaft is scored because of too many miles a quarter mile at a time. The engine will be totally freshened and is getting a new crank. With my being unemployed, I just don't have the money to see all this thru right now.

TurboTruggy, I am off Haywood Ln near the Antioch line.

Gone_in_9sec

man that sucks, i was really excited to see this in action

ShortyzKustomz

Can you snatch some pics before you start over. Im getting ready to start my 3800 swap, Mine is a N/A from a Camaro so no intake work, And Im using the T5 thats already bolted to it. I need detailed pics of what you did for mounts etc. Ive been working on my harness already, Got the ecm tuned so its not looking for alot of the bs

trd4runner

please get pics of your clutch slave set up and motor mounts please also can you tell me what parts you used on the clutch
i have this motor sitting in my back yard

thank you