LS swapped 1982 G20......Final episode #8. Parts list in description.
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Yep,,,,,,,,,, Finally done. Stick around to see how it turned out.
I really appreciate you all following. Hopefully this video series has provided some of you vanners with some knowledge and inspiration !!!!!!!!!
please like, share, comment and subscribe if you want to
Now for the promised parts list.....................................
your engine specifics will require different things in relation to wether or not its a 'drive by wire' or a 'drive by cable' and also if the intake fuel rail has a return line or is a single rail with no return........
1. Donor engine and modified ECM and harness----------2011 chevy silverado 4.8L
(this includes accessory drive)
2. Alternator----------------2011 silverado
(yours should match year of donor vehicle if using that harness)
3. water pump-------------2011 silverado
4. exhaust manifolds------------2011 silverado
5. power steering pump-----------2011 silverado
6. gas pedal (DBW) -----------2011 silverado
7. serpentine belt (if not running aftermarket AC) ----------2011 silverado
8. motor mount adaptor plates------------ICT billet 551628
(will not work with stock gm compressor)
9. clamshell motor mounts---------westar EM-2292
10. AC brackets for sanden sd 5 compressor---------my design, on the market soon
11. power steering lines---------stock 1982 G20 (bent slightly to fit)
12. fan----------gm 1580692 (or equivalent)
13. fan clutch-------------fvp 930-2260
14. lower radiator hose--------stock 1982 g20 (trimmed to fit) gates G20603
15. upper radiator hose---------stock 1982 g20 (trimmed to fit) gates G21191
16. upper radiator hose union/coupling--------any barbed 1 1/4 tube
17. temp sending unit-----------standard TX111
18. temp sending unit harness-----------ACD PT3829
19. oil pressure adaptor plate-------motion raceworks 10-10020
20. silicone 45degree elbow for throttle body-----------siliconeintakes.com SIL001090
21. MAF----------ACD 23309433 (or equivalent)
22. air filter------------spectre 8138
23. mechanical speedometer adaptor---------dakota digital 130006
(to retain stock mechanical speedo)
24. plug wire insulation----------- DEI 010403
25. single feed LS fuel rail AN adaptor-----------speedway 425751166ERL
26. vette style filter/return assembly-----------speedway 910-12807
27. #6 push lock hose----------aeroquip FCN 06-15 (last digit is length in feet, need 25 feet minimum
for a single rail application, more for earlier dual line fuel rail)
28. straight #6 AN fittings----------fragola 200106BL (need 6)
29. fuel sending unit--------precision FG17B
30. fuel pump---------aeromotive 11569
31. fuel tank---------spectra premium GM26C
32. sending unit line AN adaptors-----------russel 640820 and 640830 (1 each)
nice build.. that looks as clean as my 2024 6.6 l Express extended barn door cargo van with 400 miles and less than 8 hrs on it now. I'm sure it will last you decades.
its been fun. thanks for watching!
You should make it a shop van and you should do a wrap advertising your shop and RUclips channel. But upgraded the shelves and I like the mobile shop idea.
me to, im loving it
In 2018 my wife and I got married. The very next day we went to the middle of oregon and picked up a 1988 g10 sportvan. The man we bought it from had it listed for $700 and craigslist description only said runs and drives. Come to find out he bought it off the lot in 88 and i was shocked to find a 1 owner classic. The original 305 finally gave out this year so I am heavily considering putting a ls in. I definitely think i could get a few dollars once the ls is in
Sounds like a nice machine. If the job is done cleanly it will probably come close to doubling the vans value. I really like how much more useable and driveable the van is. More than doubled my fuel mileage. Its a big job tho. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Great job I enjoyed every episode of this build
@@M.D.Jones87 thanks so much for watching !!!! very much appreciated
1996 is when the Express came out ive had 4 of them now including 24 with 6.6 l L8T 400 small blook 401 hp with new 8 speed trans.. There is no room under the hood engine cover on this one.
Loved the build! Can't wait to start tearing into my 85 GMC van!
Thank you so much for watching!!!
I would like to thank you for such a great set of video’s on your LS swap. I have a 78 G10 and a 94 G30. I will definitely be watching them again when I start my swaps. Thanks again. Great job 👍👍👍
Thanks. Appreciate you watching them.
👍
Well, this is the best how to on putting an LS on anything that I have seen. I use to do engine swaps back in the 70s & 80s. And I've been leery about getting into the whole LS thing. But, now I can see the draw. Great job... Don
i really appreciate you watching and commenting. I’ve done quite a few LS swaps but this was the first in a van. Fantastic engines !!!! I got way better mileage and more power. totally worth it.
@@BrokenWrenchesCool, keep up the good work:) Don
I like how the series started and ended with a ride where you werent sure if you were gonna run out of gas, love the van, loved the vids!
appreciate ya !!! i love the van, i drive it a lot now. thanks for watching
Cool stickers and shirts
Ell ya 🎉
She's a runner! Well done sir! Open those wing windows and lower leg vents for "cooling". =) My van friends have the Air Filter 90 degree turn towards the A/C. Looks great.
thanks for watching and commenting!!! i sure love the old g20
Have loved watching this build series - would love to do it to my G30 someday. Well videod and explained - especially for doing it by yourself
thanks for watching and commenting. its really not to bad, mainly just a lack of space.
earned your sub on this series. I'll be following this closely as im about to do the same thing to my 92 g30 short bus. Also i did the window mod above the fuel tank to mine, but mine looks a lot better than the previous owner of yours. Mines a trap door on hinges that folds out.
Man i really appreciate ya watching and subscribing!!!
Really excellent series and build, I had no problem understanding or knowing what you were doing here. Ive done a couple engine swaps but havent done a van. Keep it up!
thanks so much for watching and commenting!!
Man what a great job brother, I learned so much thank you. God bless
appreciate u watching!!! thank you
This is a cool swap, I have a 95 G10 with a 4.3 and, I love my van!!! 😎
Same here. They look cool and they are super useful. Thankfully they are getting more popular and less of them are getting smashed.
Really enjoyed this build. I have a '85 shorty. I'm not big on LS swaps but it is well done.
thanks so much for watching!!!! It has doubled my fuel mileage and has noticeably more power, that’s with a stock 4.8. im looking forward to swapping a 4 speed automatic here before to long. appreciate ya.
Thanks for sharing your progress. Inspiring my 1982 G20 van build.
Thanks man….im really enjoying it. Its not fast but its the first time i can really use it as a daily driver, that was my ultimate goal. Price wise it was about the same cost as rebuilding the 350 that was in it. My mileage has easily doubled. Thats with probably 50-75 hp more.
@@BrokenWrenches It sounds good though and sometimes, that's all you need.
Very neat series👍👏very detailed and very much appreciated.
Glad you watched them. I appreciate ya.
What else can I say but it’s a true masterpiece
Thank you these videos were a lot of help
really appreciate you watching!!
hey fixed it like the old school stile van and paint black and called it yankee rose
I actually like the sleeper look of it. If I never saw this video I wouldn’t have thought that clapped old van had a LS in it
1990 Chevy G20 Van
Solid good runner
350 V8
Power windows
Automatic
Power Steering
Import approval supplied
$21,500.00 This van is for sale not far from me here in Australia. Great install. Thanks for posting
Wow that’s expensive for this area. Probably not many down there!!!
Holy cow, you'd have to drop a zero and get lucky to sell it around here.
@@literallyalwaysthejews5397 Yep that's the start of rolling barrels of money at an import, needs to be Transport approved even down to changing headlights for right hand drive.
Amazing job! I can't thank you enough for going into so much detail with everything. Great series! 🍻
thank you very much
I just found your channel and love it. The 8n and Ls swapped van were really cool. Good to see some different stuff. Keep up the great work and looking forward to future content. 😎🇺🇸
Thank you so much for the kind words. I will try not to let you down.
Going to comment here too. If you don't already have a van, the 1988-up vans have a larger doghouse as GM made the 454 an option that year. They have TBI fuel injection, so they already have the fuel sender with an electric pump (TBI is only about 15 PSI). They also typically have a rear ABS unit. In 1992 they went to a 4L60E or 4L80E and an electric operated speedometer. The ECU was placed under the driver's seat and the OBD-1 port on the lower dash rail to the right of the column. They have a two-piece fan shroud, which saves headaches removing them. They also got airbags, an improved, shielded lower steering column, and a 4WAL ABS located under the middle right floor with a ridiculous number of brake lines.
Power windows/locks are not hard to add, either, the harness is an add-on that runs across under the dash. You can swap doors or swap the guts into your doors.
I would suggest sourcing an Express van as a donor, as many come with a pretty basic stock wiring harness, they had crank windows up into the 2010s and a work van doesn't have a lot of extra wiring to deal with. They also have long dipsticks and on the Vortec 5.7 the AC compressor is already on top, I can't imagine they changed it on the LS.
The Express came out 1996 as a 1500 and 2500, the 1-ton remained this classic style for one last year. I had a couple, they're mechanically fairly decent but tons of plastic parts in the body and they rust pretty bad up here. When I got the chance to get a low mileage 1994 I bought it.
Hey, i welcome all comments, knowledge is hard to come by. You sure know the ins and outs of these vans !! I love them all. It definitely would have helped to have a little more room around the engine that the newer ones have. This van has been in the family for a couple decades so it was already destined to be with me forever. I would love to do the swap again on a late 80’s fullsize conversion van, you know the ones with basically your living room in them!!!
Appreciate you watching my videos😀
@@BrokenWrenches I wouldn't say I'm an expert but I've owned about half a dozen of them over the years. I'm not saying you did anything wrong, just thought I'd bring it up for the guy who hasn't bought a van yet, you can save yourself some hassle.
Pole Barn Garage is going even more ambitious - repairing a rusted '77 with the floors and firewall from a '95. Going to be like a full size AMT model kit build.
I actually had one van die because of a bad thermostat. I went to change it and a bolt in the water neck snapped off. Okay, I had another engine on a pallet, I'll just swap the intake. No, got to the two front bolts and they also snapped off. Being a NY van it had a fair amount of rust and wasn't worth a motor swap.
cant wait to dig through these videos. we’re gearing up to swap my 81 g20 and these little things like the firebird coolant sensor to use the factory gauge is super nice to find out about. i grabbed a holley terminator which will be nice for all the digital readouts and such, but i also don’t want a factory cluster fukk of dead gauges haha. thanks for all your hard work filming and posting these videos. gonna be a huge help. by the way if you’re concerned about water dripping onto the air filter, they make socks that fit over cone filters like that. fine mesh they’re a super fine mesh material that doesn’t let water in. google “cone filter rain sock”.
lastly, for my van i have the same dilemma with camping vs work horse. i have a 2x4 frame that has industrial velcro strips on top running long ways and a sheet of plywood wrapped in a vinyl carpet material so that i can separate the two and take the bed in and out of it myself. takes me 20 minutes to convert the van back and fort between camp and work. just tossing a mattress in the back would be fine if it were for all the camping stuff and luggage you end up bringing, so the slightly raise frame and platform for our futon creates a ton of storage for our lawn chairs and cooking gear and such.
Sweet. Thank you for watching!!! You will love it !!
Great series of videos. Easy to follow though at my time of life I don’t think I will be contemplating an engine swap on any vehicle. Look forward to your next venture. Job well done.
Thanks my friend
Thanks!
thanks again, that was super generous of you.
FRICKIN AWESOME man
Appreciate that
I didn’t have any trouble following along. Looks to be ready to roll and chase parts. I don’t know on the interior cause you need a parts fetching van but the camping stuff sounds neat. Be hard to do both. What’s already there looks functional but on the bare side. Cool got stickers to send in for. Ya almost got me at I took it for a spin and it came apart. Cause I remember you saying you didn’t know much about that engine. Can’t wait to see the next video
Gotta be something interesting right !
Man that motor was meant to be, you’d have to look twice to know it was an LS. Maybe with the air cleaner setup look at the polished y piece with a filter at each end I just purchased one of Amazon the other day for my LS Ute.As for the inside you could put a fold up back seat then you’d have the best of both worlds,great work mate enjoyed this build heaps I’d kill for a work van like that. Cheers from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺👍🏼
Im loving it, not the air filter so much !!
I just bought an 86 G30 ambulance (High Cube cutaway)
that would be an awesome cruiser???? awesome camping van !!
Nce job looking to pick up that AC kit too.
available very soon
Exelente!! Saludos desde Monterrey N.L México
Thank you
I feel like it's pretty easy to follow
Good !!!!
You had me going at 29:03 , I thought, man no way, what in the world, someone sold you a bummed engine, the oil leaked out ?
Yep 😂
Great series! About to attempt the same swap on my 83, and your videos convinced me I may be able to do it! Looks like you’re an okie too?
you won’t regret it. i drive it waaaay more now. im north of tulsa
Motorcycle hauler is my vote. With sleeping bag and short pile carpeting or vinyl.
Yea, that is one i think would be cool. It would combine two of my favorite things. Ive got a bunch of 60’s-70’s vintage bikes and lots of parts…would make a cool car shoe display, especially with a bike or two in the back.
@@BrokenWrenches - yeah, I think so too!
Hey man i’m doing pretty much this exact same swap but in a 94’ van, which apparently has a bigger hole for the engine. Your videos have priceless info, many thanks ✌🏻
Thats great man. That was my goal to help some guys out. You will love the van after the swap. My fuel mileage more than doubled !!!
Just out of curiosity, would you take on a job like this?
By the way, thanks for reading the comments!
@@MojarraMutante i do LS swaps for customers pretty regularly. Typically on full custom builds. I tackle pretty much anything. Im not cheap tho.
Good things cost what they cost. I’ll drop you a line via email.
I’m obsessed with this van build.
Oh, do you have a link for the ebay parts? Thanks!
Received the stickers Friday, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, NEXT will be a shirt, 4x
Awesome thank you!
((( = Top Top BW = ))) ... Love U Sleeper ;- /Joe
Thank you very much
🔥🔥👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
vans have always been more expensive for anything decent
Nice swap love the videos. How much better does it run and move? Nice job love the detailed job you completed
it’s way better, I drive the wheels off of it now. it gets way better fuel mileage now as well. looking forward to doing an overdrive transmission swap whenever the TH350 finally quits.
I used that same temp sensor as my main sensor. But ran the 3rd wire to the temp gauge the other 2 are wired to the ecu
On this build i just used the factory harness and pigtail from the silverado. Im just glad that sensor is available to swappers.
could make a pipe going towards a fender for the intake. colder air
very true. i may do that
I was told to wash printed Tshirts inside out apparently it helps to preserve the image. Anyway the image on shirt has matching patina with the truck.🤣
Good point!
Me gustó el trabajo yo estoy en un proyecto igual con una dodge caravan 1994
true, i may try that. just dont want to have fans spending money on crap shirts.
true, i may try that. just dont want to have fans spending money on crap shirts.
G20 Life
yes sir
2024 watch mutiple of these vans go for 4500 not running 17:29
Thanks for the series!! Just binge watched the entire series at work lol. I have a 1993. How is access to the spark plugs after the swap?
Thanks so much for watching my videos,,, very much appreciated. The LS plugs are quite a bit easier to change than the 350 plugs were.!!!
Not shifting properly because that detent cable is not set up correctly
It took 4 months for a swap? That’s actually faster than I thought it could be done. Around how much did it cost? I have a G30 (86) I’d like to put a new engine and transmission in it. This looks like a lot of stuff to do.
It only took about 40-60 hours to pull the old one out and get the new one in and running. I did a bunch of extra work not related to the LS swap and that part took a lot more time. Its really no different than swapping out a carbureted engine, a little more wiring and fab work.
I had $750 in the engine and probably $1000 or so in other parts..
It sure was worth it.
I’m still running the old TH350 transmission but when it dies I can put a 4L60E in it. This will only require modifying the trans crossmember and shortening the driveshaft.
Nice work! Is the AC kit for sale yet?
Will be in about a week.
Do you have part numbers for the compressor and serpentine belt? Assuming they wouldn’t be included in the kit.
Hi Brandon
Do you still sell the AC brackets somewhere?
I‘m swapping a 1992 G30 4x4 (Pathfinder) with a LQ9 and a 4L80e and would like to get the A/C back working.
Thanks for your reply
Regards out of switzerland
hey my friend. i will have the next batch available for purchase/shipping around the end of this week. i typically sell on ebay but can also sell directly to customers using paypal, wire transfer, cashapp or even checks.
Brandoman1968@yahoo.com is my email if you are interested and have questions.
Thanks!
I‘ve sent you an email.
Did I miss how you did transmission cv cable/ kickdown?
Good catch my friend!!! You did not miss it, currently the cable is zip tied to a wiring harness.
The TH350 only uses the downshift cable when you get on it real hard to pass someone or whatever. During normal driving conditions the kickdown cable does nothing. I had about 2 options to make it work with a complete drive by wire engine. 1. Rig up some kind of linkage connected to the gas pedal which was the best option, that was doable but would require a lot of tinkering to build. 2. Use a microswitch on the gas pedal to trigger an electric actuator to pull the cable……. Since I eventually plan to install a 4L60E I decided to just leave that undone. If I need to pass someone i can just manually drop it down a gear and get on it. The rest of the time the trans operates normally. Thanks for watching and commenting.
You ever come out with that AC Bracket?
@@fulltimeweirdos i sure did. i sell them on ebay. im about to open a website for the channel that im going to sell my bracket kits and channel merchandise and stuff on.
Could you have used a electric fan and do away with the fan shroud and fan blade ? Just asking would of saved you a lot more room
no worries, i like questions........ The ecm is actually set up to control an electric fan if needed.. However in my full time job restoring classic cars I have come to the realization that simpler is better... What I mean is that the less electrical aftermarket stuff you throw at a car the less likely they will break.. I fix a LOOOOOOOOOTTT of electrical stuff on the classics. Cant beat the reliability of plain old boring mechanical parts..
So wait. You are using the same trans that was on the van here?
yep. other than drilling 3 new holes in the flexplate and bending the dipstick tube its a direct swap. same driveshaft, same shifter linkage and everything. reason you ask,,,, th350 had been built recently and works flawlessly and a newer 4l60e or better starts at about $ 2K, which i didn’t have to spend at the time. however it definitely will get an overdrive upgrade at some point and the ecm is already setup to run it.
@@BrokenWrenches I’m debating that route. Mostly cause I’ll be doing a swap that’s still under 300hp
Can you do my 78 next
technically yes !! thanks for watching
@@BrokenWrenchesneed contact info
Who uses yahoo still lol
Old school guys like me, if it aint broke dont fix it. Besides its tied to multiple business accounts and client emails.
I still use Yahoo too !
There's still people rocking AOL man. Yahoo is new compared to that.
@@literallyalwaysthejews5397 - ATT bought out yahoo, which I never liked that they did, and unfortunately Microsoft crushed AOL, which I didn’t like either. I miss dial up and my old rotary phone too. When I switched to Ethernet cable ATT Uverse, my rotary phone quit work.
Do you have a Facebook page?
Brandon holland is my personal page, havent made one for the channel yet. Also have my business page but i never post on it.
@@BrokenWrenches uhm...I looked you up, ...fb search your name. Someone with same name has porn goin on! :/
Love the ls swap in this van. Also if I remember correctly you can get a short mouth throttle body just for figment problems like that. Love to see more of this beast.
You definitely will see more. I appreciate you watching!!!