65 GTO LS swap

[Old Iron]

Well I took the 1075 horse big block (on nitrous) out sold it to a friend for his 67 Nova SS and sold the JW powerglide to another friend of mine for his pro street Gremlin I built him.
It's a 6.2 all aluminum LS out of a 2012 Camaro with a 4l80e tranny.
Got the engine positioned and lifted the tranny into the tunnel to find that I'm gonna have to enlarge the tunnel for it to fit.
We've been using the factory ecms and an aftermarket harness for our swaps.
This engine required both the ecm and a tcm (transmission control module) which I didn't receive the tcm with the pullout so, I purchased a Holley Terminator X Max that will control both the engine and tranny.

 

[bob w]

Welcome to hot rodding in 2023. The results will be terrific! Did you get the engine and trans out of a wrecked Camaro? What horsepower?

 

[lowbudget50]

Very cool!! Will make a fantastic cruiser!!

 

[Tripper]

Sweeeet... I love LS motors!!! [cl[cl[cl

BoB

 

[Couper]

Sweet![cl[cl[cl[P[P

 

[Burgerman]

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Exactly

 

[Old Iron]

Welcome to hot rodding in 2023. The results will be terrific! Did you get the engine and trans out of a wrecked Camaro? What horsepower?

Thanks y'all
The engine came out of a Camaro, the tranny did not, it was performance built by a friend of mine DNJ Performance Transmissions.
The engine started out as the 400 horse with VVT and DOD which I deleted because, the Holley unit will not control the VVT and we all know about how DOD will fail.
I went ahead and rebuilt it, it only had 80,000 on it, then added a Brian Tooley stage 2 cam.
I got the tranny tunnel clearanced yesterday and the engine positioned. I used Dirty Ding engine mounts with clamshell style rubber lowers that mount to the frame.

 

[Old Iron]

Had a busy week but, managed to get a little more done.
The engine and tranny were installed for the last time.

 

[Bamamav]

Only bad thing about those is the fuguly intake. I’ve seen some with “ valve cover covers” that hide the coils and look like an older SBC. The Coyote Ford is just as ugly. Can’t discount the power they put out though!

 

[Old Iron]

I agree that they are not as eye appealing as the classic engines.
Like you said they can be camouflaged.

 

[bob w]

I've been watching the LS into a Chevelle swap on Vice Grip Garage on You Tube.

Your swap should be killer.

 

[Old Iron]

This is one of the problems of leaving a vehicle set too long.
The headliner was full of their nest too

 

[Bamamav]

Them critters will ruin a good car in no time. Think you have one sealed up, but they can get through the tiniest of holes. Hope they didn’t destroy yours too bad before you found they were in there.

 

[smallfoot]

^^^ agree with Bama! Check your wiring too. Besides nests, they like to chew on the wire coverings. I have a tractor waiting on some wire repairs due to this issue. Goat looks good OI!

 

[Old Iron]

I laid under the dash for a couple hours yesterday going over all the wiring, thank God they didn't chew any of it up.

 

[smallfoot]

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[Old Iron]

Got the swap done and then spent 5 days lookin into why it wouldn't start
I had Casey, the young man that works with me and a friend that has installed over 40 of these Holley Terminator X systems and none of us could figure it out.
After going through all the wiring and checking the pinouts of the sensor plugs and computer with no avail, Casey noticed that the alternator wasn't turning over and the belt wasn't moving. Low and behold, I had the serpentine idler pulley locked up on a bolt behind it and it was causing the starter to drag enough the injectors and the coils wouldn't fire, even after I installed a 1,200 cranking amp battery.
After fixing the pulley it fires right off [S
A local muffler shop done an outstanding job on my 3" exhaust system and it took 4 mufflers to keep it from being extremely loud.

 

[Tripper]

Casey noticed that the alternator wasn't turning over and the belt wasn't moving. Low and behold, I had the serpentine idler pulley locked up on a bolt behind it and it was causing the starter to drag enough the injectors and the coils wouldn't fire, even after I installed a 1,200 cranking amp battery.

The alt actually froze up on the LS3 in my Chevelle & wouldn't start. I tried everything & finally had to take it in & they figured it out. Never had that happen before or since!

Swap looks great & should be a beast on da streets!!!

BoB

 

[bob w]

Glad you got the tech problems solved. The exhaust system looks great. Should be areal performer.

 

[Old Iron]

Well, I took the GTO to a friend of mines hub dyno today, I was pleased with the Hp and torque it put out.

First pull

After 5 pulls and tuning between each one