LS-1 Swapped Tacoma

In my signature, but its not much of a build thread i need to take some time and finish it up.

 

Getting my butt kicked on engine position and headers; using cxracing mounts and headers. We had to cut most of head off and smash pipes to fit passenger side. The driver side had to smash pipes and cut collector off. Now we have some pipes, we are moving forward with reinforcements of frame/engine cage and wiring. We found several shops that will fab custom headers.

 

Are those long tube? I’ve got s10 truck headers and I had to ‘massage’ one pipe on the drivers side for the steering shaft and that was it. Now granted I’m sure the 2nd gen is a little bit wider than the 1st gen back there.

 

We went with front sump to use automatic tranny and keep 4wd. My son finally will make time to push project. He has a 4 link and full float 40 spline spooled rear axle assembly he wants me to try.

 

Drivers side
pass side

And I used lsx innovations universal slotted mounts and made my own tabs for the frame.

 

yeah the front sump makes sense since your rear side steer vs the 2nd gen front side steer.

 

Headaches for me, spent 2 days on moving motor back and forth before settling where it is; forward/last slot cxracing mounts.

 

yeah I just pushed mine as far back as I could... wish I could of gone further but then I would have had to cut the firewall

 

Nice work, my son is the mechanic. I like to drive lol. Daytona Talladega road Atlanta and others. How far are you along in project

 

Oh I had it together and drove it in the summer, just tore it down to finish up a few things/ change oil pan and put some new suspension on.

 

He is changing position of shock mounts for coilovers and bypass. He also got me 10" coulovers replacing the 8".

 

Our headers are from cxracing and were supposed to fit with their mounts; expensive and trashed lol

 

Long tubes

 

Not anymore lol. Passenger side cut at tranny bell housing and smashed pipe to clear frame and motor mounts lol

 

My son doesn't seem to be worried about any of it, his problem is time available issues. He just won some dyno comp with his stock bottom spinning 1020hp.

 

Tacotunner, have you reinforced frame/engine cage?

 

My son mentioned engine plates front and mid. This motor has cam springs harden pushrods, but he said there is more to come.

 

Manual transmission?

 

He mentioned ordering 60ft 4130 tubing