First mileage test result.
The first mileage test results are in. A quick review of what was done to the truck. Cometic head gaskets half the thickness of Fel-Pro and with full o-rings around each cylinder, not combining int...
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Ain’t no old LS getting 15mpg in a 3/4ton 4x4.
plus F250 LS swap? Rofl. Can’t see anywhere that might get difficult or have issues…..
no it would probably get better. 🤣
LS into anything is easy now days, they make mount kits for almost any aplication you can think of, and their cheep including the harness or you can buy an aftermarket harnes and its all plug and play for the most part. that was just an example, like I said, a coyote swap would be fun also but I think its more suited for hot rods and not things that need low end, and its much much more expensive. I even have a friend who put a cummins into a old ford 1 ton 4x4 , we had him comitted for using that POS engine but he did it 😆
seriously thought, myself and my two buddys have now swapped about 15 LS motors into classic trucks some as old as the 40's but a lot of 1960's and 70's stuff also. a few of them are street/strip procharged, one a turbo setup but the rest are all naturaly asperated and if you keep the foot out of them they get amazing milage. its all about building them proper for what they are going to do.
Agree, LS swaps are very popular now. Considering it for my C10 actually.
Doesn’t mean it remotely makes sense to swap similar technology and power for similar technology and power + a pile of money and a bigger pile of compatibility issues.haha a ford 5.4 turd is hardly simular technology, there is a reason ford dropped that motor, along with the 4.6 (which I think was a way better motor than the 5.4, less problems.
I am not sure whyere the pile of money comes into play here, a LS is a very cheep swap, if you are good with wiring and figuring out schematics then you only need the full junkyard harnes for the motor and the motor and trans. so 1000 bucks give or take where you live and depending on which LS setup you want, but a 5.3 LS will way out preform a ford 5.4. and I am a die hard ford guy saying that... when we put them into something like a 49 international it is ualy about a 2K job if we can get the wiring harnes with the motor, orther wise 3K if we have to buy a standalong harness and comuter. its the cheepest 500 hp you'll ever make if you get a 6.0 a cam and tune it...
now I would love to swap a cyote into something but thoes are expensive, not enough of them on the road yet, but for 7K you can get a used cyote and put it in anything and then spend another 9K on the 3L whipple super charger setup and have one of the fastest things on the street.
Whole different ballgame dropping a LS and a 4L/6L trans into an “old” car.
I guess at least both trucks assuming a GMT800 swap are driver side drops for front axles.
But the rest? Lol.
New driveshafts (likely), different or adapter u-joints, crossmember and mounts, trans and engine cooling mods, 4wd actuation, speedo and gauge controls, cruise control, etc, etc.That’s just the cliffs notes version. Assuming someone could even take on the task of custom swapping everything from axle to axle.
Just simple little stuff “if you’re good at wiring”. ROFL.
So many good LS swap applications. This happens to not be one of those applications.
would be 1000% easier to swap a Frod V10 than a complete Chebbie drivetrain and operating system.
And I’m anything but a Ford fan, and aside from the spark plug spitting and sticking issues (different engines), the Triton platform was pretty solid. Had about a 15 year run. Not stellar but the Coyote platform and the 6.2 were a great upgrade for sure.
