V8 Swapping the 2nd Gen Syclone took TONS of work

[@LawrenceTolman]

what supercharger should we go with? The go-to LSA or something a little spicier like a TVS 2300 or even a 2650?

[@governmentcalamari9785]

Go Centrifugal

[@t.l.robinson2162]

A 2650!

[@IDRIVEOLDCARS]

Kong 2650

[@matthewmineo5393]

I was just about to comment that a Magnuson 2650 would be killer and solves the turbo placement issues

[@yoderboys1]

Put a whipple on it. That would be my pick.

[@donaldgavigan9376]

Stop apologizing. Trying to run a shop. And still getting these videos out. I think you're doing amazingly well. Enjoying all the videos. And all the projects.

[@BrothersNBolts]

LT, When I heard you say hydroboost, you are building almost identically what I built. Difference is yours is AWD. When you do the accessory drive, I ran into clearance issues with the power steering pump so I went electric power steering via a volvo power steering pump. I'd be happy to send you pictures and videos of what I did in case you were interested in seeing that

[@philbert006]

I bet ol Tony Angelo would give you a few bucks for that 4.3. He has been going through them pretty regular. 😂

[@stevenbelue5496]

Lol

[@beausmith3900]

That oil pan was art. Great job. I really enjoyed this episode

[@jameskirk3]

$5000 oil pan...

[@chadhipwell192]

The oil pan is basically jewelry. Absolutely stunning work. That fit up is so good it should come with a warning. A proper trouser tightener 😊

[@robertkollasch2473]

Bro I can barely keep up with life and maintaining all the equipment and cars and trying to help run a business. Don't know how you can do all this stuff. It takes a lot of work. Great build, great content.

[@danielfiske9849]

Nothing wrong with phase 1. 5.3's are pretty stout. High mileage too.😊

[@robertmceuen3630]

I was a Millwright for 15 years and an structural Ironworker for 25, so I've done my share of fabrication. I enjoy watching you fit&fabricate. You're an expert. Great videos. Thanks.

[@rook13pdx]

10/10. The view of the oil pan over the differential is awesome. The fit is👌- Keep going LT!

[@jacobvanhalteren7452]

That oil pan is insane!

[@jefflindeman2145]

Really like how you did the oil pan and didn’t bother trying to find one.

[@meanmax9663]

Hydraboost brakes for the win! Great move! The oil pan is beautiful work, nicely done. As for clocking the transfer case up, have you considered just redrilling new mounting holes in the 4L60E flange, and then putting slugs in the original mounting holes? Everything seems to be moving along very well, I can't wait to see more of the project.

[@seanmiller4585]

Very nice work on the oil pan LT!

[@rlscustoms]

Man that pan turned out great despite loosing 1/2 a quart of capacity. The mounts too, I seriously love how you work!

[@CS-oe8og]

Excellent work! That has to be the nicest install I’ve seen done, I can’t wait to see the rest of it!

[@LawrenceTolman]

Thanks for watching, I really appreciate it!

[@AngelRamirez-yk9ix]

Fabrication skills on point 👌

[@krnwhitlow]

Wow that pan surgery was impressive...Tony's gonna be jealous 😂 great work

[@robertgriffin7569]

Nothing less than amazing, how you got that in there... And how well some stock pieces fit too. Looks great..cant wait to see how she goes, those first gen typhoon and syclones were pretty quick.. Kudos..

[@BryanBeast13]

Nice progress LT, I envy that pan. It's wicked

[@blahblah4125]

I am an IT Systems guy, I will probably never have the budget, tools, or skillz to do something like this. I do enjoy watching it get done. Thank you for your content!

[@RCSmith90]

@LawrenceTolman I’ve been watching you a long time man. Just had to let you know that you are a BAD MAN!! The results you get with these builds just keep getting better. The difficult subtle details you pay attention to take your projects to the next level. Glad you took that leap of faith with your channel and the shop. It definitely wasn’t easy. Hoping it gets easier for you 🙏🏾.

[@2000S10V6]

Love the S10 already! The oil pan is a work of art.

[@josephmartin7381]

This is crazy, I bought the same mount kit a week ago to rework my small block S10 Blazer, cut down the height on the mounts and put them on the frame.

[@TPDbuilds]

On my LS1 swapped 95 S10, I scrapped the factory hvac and went to a vintage air gen 2 compac under the dash. Was able to tie into the factory dash vents and defrost. Smooth firewall and ac that works better than factory system.

[@georgeryan7615]

Love the sump pan looking awesome 👍

[@kylebailey8498]

That’s a sick mod on the oil pan props

[@ralphfritzsche2000]

Great video LT. Well done!

[@BillMulholland1]

Don’t worry about the time frame. Upload when you can. True follower’s will wait 🍻👍

[@traviscoombes3578]

I think the second gen Cyclone idea is pretty cool.

[@bluecollarhotrods9781]

I thought to myself at the beginning, I bet an H2 pan would fit. But, the more I watched - I started thinking you would have had to modify that too. I know it would have been slow, but wish you had at least done some dragy hits to get some numbers for a before and after. I knew these swaps were snug, but damn... and yet you made it look easy.

[@LauftonCahill]

King of making factory pans work I love that you won’t it stop you like most !

[@8hunnit4life]

Chris is the man, you both are lucky to work with eachother! Love ALL the content LT!

[@LawrenceTolman]

Yes he is!

[@AaronWieringa]

LT, Once it's finished, you need to take this beast to Cleetus's AWD truck race!

[@geriatricginger]

I remember doing a V8 swap in my '84 S10, back in the 80s.. The headers were 7 pieces, wrapped both inside and outside the frame rails, did some spaghetti looping around the steering shaft and a was a total PITA to assemble. I think I used Chevy II motor mounts from Moroso, and backed it with a built TH400.. Man that was sooo long ago.. :)

[@henrybrundage7186]

Always enjoy watching you work your GM magic on your projects especially your welding and modifications of the oil pan keep up the great work!

[@ts302]

When I saw the Hooker exhaust manifolds, my thoughts went with a turbo(s) upgrade. Great project, thank you for posting!

[@TagGeorge]

That pan Is a work of art. I can only imagine how much that cost if someone made it for you.

[@philbert006]

Budgeting one of those sounds like some nightmare fuel!

[@kalebholt]

That was quite a bit of progress for just one week. I love the idea of the project. Keep it up!

[@LawrenceTolman]

Appreciate that! It's been a fun one to work on.

[@2000blackstang]

I still can't believe you haven't at least gotten the mobile Dewalt cart for your miter saw.😂 doing it like all us weekenders on the floor chop sawing!

[@EJV-i9d]

You are an excellent and talented Fabricobbler

[@saulGjr]

When I did my cousins LS swap on his 95 s10 I bought the slotted motor mounts, got them in and fitted and then marked where the bolts went and welded up the slots after that. Really easy and simple.

[@VectorPrimeZion]

Yeah I didn’t appreciate the comment saying it’s stupid for 98% of people it’s a stout idea

[@sickstringbender1364]

I have a '95 too and wanna drop in a 6.0. Can you tell me what I need to do it or at least what to look out for as to not get stuck? How do I make the trans work? The 4l60E has its own brain box thats tied into the motors cpu, right?

[@jonallen1985]

I remember a long time ago when horsepower TV put a 5.3 L V8 in a four-wheel-drive S-10 blazer for Rick Bacon, I remember it took them a long time to get everything working right but it turned out really cool in the long run.

[@everettgrover9459]

i just re-watched those episodes yesterday, and still cant grasp that the guy also had an LS swapped geo tracker

[@fartzr.schmelli3351]

I remember that episode. I thought there was talk about the modded pan getting some love from an aftermarket manufacturer.😢

[@lowbudgetbob1155]

That truck is going to be a rocket...

[@TheMeatheadfan]

I don’t know why it took me so long to figure it out. I watched a power nation episode yesterday, and I was like ohhhhhhh that where I knew him from

[@tonydew]

The timing on this is IMPECABLE. Thank you so much.

[@charlesamey3144]

I swapped a 5.3 into a 5 speed zr2 s10. The manual transmission was absolutely going to stay no matter what! Built a bone stock engine with a cam and valve spring upgrade. I took the "easy" way out and bought engine mounts, wiring harness, radiator, and ac compressor, ac condenser, and ac hoses from current performance wiring. The oil pan is a milodon 31083 and I'm using Sanderson shorty headers. I wanted to keep the AC, so I cut a section out of the heater box to make room and used sheet metal to fill up the hole. The truck is pretty dang awesome!

[@scottdaubert8648]

What engine mounts did you use? I'm not seeing great kit options for LS swaps into the ZR2 and would stoked if you have a source!

[@charlesamey3144]

@@scottdaubert8648 Look up current performance wiring, those are the mounts I used.

[@NBC_NCO]

Modern day swaps are no joke when adding extra cylinders into the mix. Very cool.

[@fartzr.schmelli3351]

Has nobody had their modified oil pan prototyped? You would think at this point after so many swaps that someone would offer a pan that works in the 4wd engine bay. Cool AF though! Love seeing the progress!!!

[@francesyoung8910]

I've been so excited for this start of the build because I'm not in any sense of the word a fabricator and the oil pan dilemma on my S10 Blazer ls swap has hulted my build....so I figured I'd hold off until LT started and then I'll just copy and paste his smarts to my own project! But I forgot one key component....LT is a bad mofo and I'm still hulted because how does one follow such beautiful work like that when one sucks at it!!? Lol. Still, I'm going to at least try to cobble something together like what you did LT. Thanks for showing such a detailed video on the oil pan....looks killer!!!!!!

[@DaInfamous0ne]

They sell a oilpan for the 4wd trucks. It's just stupid expensive

[@nameless3870]

​@@DaInfamous0neWhat company?

[@cilli5866]

dude i could watch you customize oil pans all day

[@LawrenceTolman]

Appreciate you saying that!

[@ls7camero]

This was an awesome video!

[@PeterHatch-mx7zc]

Great job on oil pan realy credit to you!!

[@h.h.legacydiesel6724]

Spicy as possible . And by the way, THANK YOU. You are an artist when it comes to fit and usability❕️👍 Such a pleasure watching the second gen Cyclone come to gether. ✌🏻🧡 🇨🇦.

[@freshkryp69]

Back in the day, early 90's in Orlando.. I did a 350 v8, w/ 350 trans swap in a 83 s/10, easiest way to remove & install an engine is to remove the core support. So much easier! Just a basic 4b carb set up, used Hooker super comp headers with stock cross member but just slid back to align different mounting holes. Removing the core support let me do all this by myself in around 1.5hrs. Traction was always a prob for me, even with fuel cell and 2 batt's over rear axle.. That was to be expected lol but that truck was a lot of fun!

[@markwegner6100]

Excellent, totally worth it effort, LT. Great job! Can't wait to see how this beast turns out.

[@maxwolthuis]

Man the fact that you run your shop and put out this amazing content is mind blowing! Keep it up!

[@TandD1w]

Try putting a AGM battery in the fender pocket before the rear tire. This will create some under hood room for a turbo.

[@Sergeantgrunt]

This is by far the best car channel on You Tube. A lot of good ones out there but it's so damn real. I don't see any Lamborghinis in the future here, just down to Earth fabrication making hotrods!

[@LawrenceTolman]

much appreciated!

[@merylpelosi8485]

Instead of Ed Hamburger's oil pans, this will be Lawrence Cheeseburger's oil pan. Nice job. Don't think for a second that Ed isn't watching this video.

[@scottg391]

I'm not sure what's more entertaining.... Watching you shoe horn this package into an S-10 or Larry Hofer stuff a Gen7 big block into a C-8 ? I think you're both nuts, fun to watch but nuts.. Good luck with the build.

[@V8RJIM]

I used stock coil mounting brackets on mine. I made adapters for the rear coils (both sides) that moved them up and forward for booster/ ac box clearance.

[@duanekindred901]

Definitely on board with the supercharger!

[@benwitte8114]

The S10 solved that problem with the 4.3 by running a remote oil cooler. I love the build.

[@shadetree10000]

Awesome build 💰💵🏆

[@nate7161]

Nice early video for Sunday

[@LawrenceTolman]

Thanks for watching!

[@saelegance]

Definitely can’t wait til u supercharge it! Great work as always!

[@Slappyracecars]

Clean work LT!

[@minitrucker04]

Did a good job on the oil pan!

[@MississippiDan1]

This is gonna be awesome 😎

[@Mis73rRand0m]

Those transfer cases are nice in that all the guts and cases are swappable between all variants; simply replace the input shaft for the correct application. This also provides an upgrade path for the earlier model in that the chain and main sprockets are larger in heavier duty/newer applications and slip right in the original case.

[@SteveNicholson-tk2se]

Great fab job on the oil pan LT good work as awalys clean job dude North Maine Steve

[@user-neo71665]

Im a first gen sdime nut. Ive built a few clones with sbcs. My son turned 16 so i put his 91 witha a 4.8 in top priority. My 94 bravada with a 6.0 ty clone is in the back burner Been daily driving my 87 blazer with dana 60 axles and 36s since the days of internet forums. Before my son was born his 91 sonoma had a 3.4 out of a 94 camaro with a 3x00 swap and was single turbo. Back then building a custom FI was a major PITA. Didnt have cheap stuff off the shelf like kids do today When i built my baby 87 it was carbed. Now its holley fuel injected When i built my 91 2wd single cab it was butchered oem stuff when i was i think 24. Both had AC and heat. It aint hard to do you just gotta use the brain matter and some fiberglass on the box.

[@davidflorcruz2908]

Matt is coming down the stretch on the Spud Truck, so your timing on the engine is perfect.

[@LawrenceTolman]

I was just thinking the same thing!

[@ScottRottger]

Love the s10 build has helped me with 2004 blazer build .Glad you're going to super charger it Wil help me out

[@CamaroZ28Nut3]

I had looked into doing this with my 96 Blazer 4x4 (the LS swap, not the AWD). I don't have the fabrication ability, or the equipment to pull it off right though. The old 4.3 isn't exactly a powerhouse, but it's still keeping the wheels turning for the time being.

[@ronaldhellengreen7063]

Your oil pan is off the hook! Nice job! PEACE ✌️

[@teaguegearhart9851]

This is my dream come true. And yes I was waiting for this day to come. 🎉

[@2000blackstang]

Those are some nice dimes! Getting really good at the ol' tig machine!

[@LawrenceTolman]

Appreciate it, it's taken a while to get decent!

[@billywillis4194]

I installed stainless works 1 7/8 headers in my swap and I had to cut those pieces off the block to make the fit . No problems so far .

[@bert5003]

have you thought about an accusump to maybe assist in priority oiling when auto-crossing?

[@garyburrus9379]

Did you look at a Trailblazer LT/SS oil pan at all? That pan work was great, but the trailblazer pan had the axle pass through for 4wd.

[@kevinlewis9151]

That 5.3 can be spicy enough if you build it with some trick flow heads, and twin turbos like the orange cyclone.

[@Chris-pz4mb]

The "dirt" on the manifold is the ceramic coating coming off because it's not fully cured and won't be until you run it through a heat cycle or two. Do a big Whipple on it.

[@ChevyARt15]

Excited about the supercharger. I don't know enough about FI to suggest one.

[@joshuaelizabethfoster6276]

13:10 ribs on block are used to reenforce the block. I've seen tighter smaller ribs on purpose built high output blocks. Trimming what your talking about should be fine; clearances, shaving the block all the way around however, would probably pop it.

[@michaelgregorich3774]

It may sound counter intuitive but, rough country lift brackets in the front lower the front diff a solid 1.5"-2". With it lowered on lowering keys in the front you end up with nearly straight CV shafts. I haven't gotten to the L's swap part yet.

[@mchristr]

Nice work on the pan LT. I'm partial to NA motors because weight distribution is a big deal. But if you can figure out the cooling, supercharge it.

[@bobqzzi]

I enjoy watching you work

[@Thecleananunseenteam]

I've used the slot mounts and when I got it all set and adjusted where I needed it to be and marked it where the bolts were and welded the slots up just an idea 💡 maybe you could do in the future 🤷💯🏁🏆

[@2000blackstang]

Great work as always! Just watched ol' Pat do an engine with the Ohio tech school guys.

[@ARAMP1]

Damn, you make it look easy!

[@josephmartin7381]

There is a place in Hudson CO, northeast of Denver, called Alreco they specialize in aluminum, including scrap and job remnants. Its one of the things I miss from not being in the area anymore.

[@melvinrawlings1457]

Hell yea brother. Great footage. Keep up the great content and keep up the hard work and dedication towards the channel and much love to ya from Maryland ❤❤❤

[@navyman8314]

Why don't you have your own TV show, man? You're awesome! Keep up the good work!

[@philbert006]

Who in the hell watches television anymore? Besides, he already did that gig. Now he gets to do what he wants on his schedule, would be my guess as to why he gave that up, as well as the other reasons he has mentioned.

[@joshingram6408]

Love this build!

[@wkjeeping9053]

You can use the np242 transfer case from a jeep too. There is adapter plates for that swap too.

[@johndcramblit3045]

A website called Jags That Run used to have a v8 swap kit for 4x4 s10's & it came with brackets to move the front axle forward a few inches so that the oil pan would fit. It gave the s10 a kind of pre runner look with the axle moved forward a few inches. You had to trim the front of the wheel opening a little bit so the tire wouldn't rub but it makes the truck look badass.

[@itsrogue2]

nice job LT

[@scotttimpany2845]

SHAGGY RULES! ZOINKS!!