Finding the absolute best bang for your buck LS swap donor

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6 ай бұрын

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@TahoesNTurbos 6 ай бұрын

man i love these, straight to the point with no bs. Merry Christmas JR!!

@eslim95023 6 ай бұрын

I got a 4.8 block for free I’m gonna try and bring back to life wish me luck 😂 and on a side note thank you JR for all your videos and work you do you have inspired me to get off the couch and get to work on my build Merry Christmas to you and your family God bless you 🎄 🎁 🌟

@cobyfield9237 6 ай бұрын

Even managed to get lucky with an Express van LQ4 + 2WD 4L80e here in Australia haha! Importer had the whole swap sitting on the ground not missing anything, got it for $6k AUD total which is fairly reasonable here. My dad needed a 2WD 4L80e for his LQ4 and I wanted a 6.0 for my C20 as a tow rig but I'm putting a TR4050 in it. Worked out extremely well! Got x2 5.3s for $1500 in a combo with it too. Lots of fun and learning to get to enjoy. No "not in my area" or couch sitting here! Makes me wonder what those peoples excuses are :P

@bobbieandianguenter6693 6 ай бұрын

Nice clean wreaking yard. My local yard is a mud pit with broken parts laying everywhere

@TheDrivewayEngineer 6 ай бұрын

My favorite yard is a mud pit also, I go there when the ground freezes lol

@bobbieandianguenter6693 6 ай бұрын

@@TheDrivewayEngineer same with me. Pulled my 4l80 on a five degree January morning.

@evlutionzllc5519 6 ай бұрын

My local yard has a full size truck/van section, a small/mid size truck/SUV/van section, fullsize American cars, and an import section. I wish they broke it down in each section with subsections by brand or manufacturer, but it is pretty convenient as it is. for LS swaps you would just hit the fullsize truck/van section or if you were dead set on an L33 or something like that you would hit the midsize, etc. section. I never considered the abundance of LM7 and L59 still sitting there being due to 4WD, but that makes a ton of sense... pesky details, lol

@devin7632 6 ай бұрын

I just picked up a lq4 and rebuit 4l65e from the junkyard. Found the invoice for the trans in the glove box. Front end accident yukon denali. Sold thr trans for 750 and bought the motor and trans for 700. Lq4 going into my 4.3 single cab

@Daryl-S 6 ай бұрын

Nice!

@timj5413 6 ай бұрын

LOL nice try JR, we all know you can't get any LS motors anymore because they got sold immediately and are impossible to find according to everyone sitting on the couch making youtube comments right?

@Smokeroux 6 ай бұрын

Great Video! 👍🏼🏁🏁

@hardball107 6 ай бұрын

I'm like you, I just pick them up off Marketplace for nothing. All I need is a long block. I just picked up a Gen 4 2009 4.8 for a trade with an old MSD 6A box. Nice part is supposedly it's a 77,000 mi motor and the 4.8's at the time didn't use DOD. It doesn't even have the oil manifolds cast into the block, just like a Gen3 5.3. I put a stock 2003 4.8 I got for nothing in a '86 S10 with a T5 behind it. I used a Chinese 4bbl intake and a 590 Truck Avenger I had sitting on my bench, only major expense was a flywheel and an old MSD 6LS box to fire the ignition bought from a friend, I even cut the outlets off the stock manifolds, reclocked them and welded them back on. had nothing into it including the cost of the truck and sold it for 3 times what I had into it. I'll take every cheap LS I can put my hands on. Even the 4x4 4L60's and 4L80's can be switched to 2wd for 200 bucks total, you just need the control box. I love swapping.

@WrenchBender 6 ай бұрын

I worked for a company that used these vans for mechanical construction work, driven 300-400k miles with mostly just regular oil changes, always loaded to the max with tools, piping, fittings, hardware, these vans took their beating and kept on eating, fuel that is!

@TheDrivewayEngineer 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, they generally hit the yard because they were simply replaced, or they lost reverse

@imo8249 6 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas JR Wishing you all the success 👍

@TheDrivewayEngineer 6 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to you and your family as well!

@Justwalkawaygarage 6 ай бұрын

Step 1, go to Wheelers. Lol. Seriously, love that place.

@SweatyFatGuy 6 ай бұрын

I don't have a yard that I can pull it myself, the yard here in the UP wants a fortune for 4.8s, and a 2wd 4L80 is like unobtanium. I end up buying the whole truck and parting it out.

@MrFlippingHappy 2 ай бұрын

Great video s thanks ehhhh

@samuelmcgill-rl3lb 6 ай бұрын

i am waiting for santa claus to bring me an LS, LOL Merry Chrstmas JR .😁

@extraextra998 5 ай бұрын

Great video new subscriber

@TheDrivewayEngineer 5 ай бұрын

Awesome thank you!

@chrissimes9445 5 ай бұрын

I see a lot of content about using 6.0 engines out of vans. My question: how do you actually pull an engine from a van, in a junkyard?? Front, side, back? Do you pull trans attached ? ( I can't imagine how...). I looked your stuff over, might have missed it.

@robertkrupa2552 6 ай бұрын

JR,. Thanks for the warm weather December yard tour. Hey you mentioned Flanders....does he sell reworked OEM harnesses, or does he make his own from scratch?

@TheDrivewayEngineer 6 ай бұрын

They're imported new hanresses, it's like 550 for a harness and pcm together.

@scotthultin7769 6 ай бұрын

28 👍's up DWE thank you for sharing 😊

@wtdonovan 6 ай бұрын

I wonder what 8 lug full floater would be the best choice to swap into a squarebody 3/4? Would these vans be a good choice or a pickup rear better? Seems like the van would be coil sprung and narrower? Either one would need perches welded. Do any of the them come with a good G80 even?

@TheDrivewayEngineer 6 ай бұрын

Really no significant difference in any 14b

@cobyfield9237 6 ай бұрын

Pretty sure van 14 bolts are 70" WMS-WMS wide from what I can find online.

@wtdonovan 6 ай бұрын

I believe I measured the '86 semi floater at about 68" WMS. 70" would be excellent. I haven't figured out if they use the same pinion length and u-joint.@@cobyfield9237

@fraserfab68 6 ай бұрын

Wouldn't the truck be a better option if your project is 4x4?

@MichaelSmith-wb1es 6 ай бұрын

I remember you saying something about a cheap injector upgrade in another video. I think you said they were 34 or 38# injectors and you were pulling them from cars with V6's. Can you tell me what car that was please?

@Martinez07 6 ай бұрын

3800 motors with the supercharger

@TheDrivewayEngineer 6 ай бұрын

No one with an NA engine needs to upgrade injectors. No junkyard injector is good enough for boost.

@maglight2006 6 ай бұрын

@@TheDrivewayEngineer LM7 injectors aren't good with big cams unless you're ok with 110 IFR's. L59's are. Not really a true statement.

@sxs4l245 6 ай бұрын

How can I learn to do JR stuff.....!? ....these are not I'm my area from my couch.

@jcanfixall1585 6 ай бұрын

I have a different question, at the very end of the video there's a "rest area" what the fuck is that I've never seen one in a yard... Is for the employees???

@TheDrivewayEngineer 6 ай бұрын

It's so you don't have to take a Dookie in a Ford Freestar and wipe your ass on the seat of the Focus next to it like an animal

@imo8249 6 ай бұрын

Those vans all go 200k plus with the worst morons maintaining them. We have over a dozen at work.

@dfwairductdryerventcleanin4234 4 ай бұрын

Yes so does the company I work for. They have 3 rite now that they are gonna retire 2of them are 5.3 and one 6.0 I’m gonna try and buy the 6.0 take it home take engine and trans and drop it in my 2004 single cab. The 6.0 has 170000 thinking of getting it rebuilt before installing.