Purple92

GM made a carb intake manifold for the LT1 - it also had a distributor hole in the back. I've seen a couple of C4's with Gen I SBC's at the track - you want to run a distributor with a small cap (not the standard GM HEI cap), but they work just fine, and if you spend a little bit of time tuning the carb - the car will not only haul - but will also drive with very reasonable manners on the street.

ANTI VENOM

If you are getting rid of PS, AC, FI, etc. I think you would be crazy not to go to an "LS" engine. The aftermarket world supports them and they are very easy to work on, not to mention they generally make more power under the curve with smaller cams.
P.S. I believe they are a bit lighter also. I have an LT1 in my 91 with a conventional distributor and if I didn't have so much money into it, I would throw an LS into it. There is a reason thousands of people are swapping in LS engines into every make and model of automobile.

Lindy65

The LT is a great engine, but I'm finding myself

blackozvet

Im with Aardwolf, keep the injection and go fabricated alloy,



although a strong carby engine with a 106 lsa cam will be a tough sounding combo !

ANTI VENOM

That manifold looks pretty and I'm sure it could perform if it was on top of something worthy, but I believe it is over 3 grand by itself. Could get into an LS with a cam, intake and carb for less than that. Just my .02

ANTI VENOM

The LT and SBC's are great engines, but I hope you meant LS.

blackozvet

its just a bit of engine "eye candy"

how about this carby version then,

Lindy65

Meant to say that they LT is a great engine, however I keep looking at my spare LS blocks and thinking how nice it would be to save the weight, as well as to be able to take advantage of the huge aftermarket for those engines (with this car). Every year that I go to SEMA (vendor), am amazed at the aftermarket for these.

The biggest deterrent is just getting an LS into the LT1 chassis and adapted to the ZF...

cv67

Holley and GMPP make different pans, brackets mts etc to make the swap painless as possible ck into it. The LSx are hard to break the block architecture, large cam core etc really help it be stable at higher rpm.

Heck yeah those are sweet....GM LTx will get the job done in most cases and have lots room for improvement if you are good with a die grinder
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If you got some extra laying around looking for a good 5.3 or 6.0 24x buider for my 02 truck I can piece together if price is right. People out here still think they are goldplated

Lindy65

Mine are 5.7's, but if you haven't already you may want to try the "Search all Craigslist" URL's as they seem to pop up pretty frequently.

Still wondering why it seems that no one has developed even a basic kit for an LT to LS engine swap with:

Motor mounts
Headers
Clutch
ZF adapter
Senders for stock gauges

Am in the manufacturing world and no-doubt am missing something, but this doesn't seem like rocket surgery...

ANTI VENOM

Maybe these will interest you...
http://tech.corvettecentral.com/2010...-c4-corvettes/
http://petrisenterprises.com/#

Lindy65

Thanks. Just to confirm, is there some kind of basic LT to LS (to ZF) kit already "out there" that I may have missed...?

Churchkey

Some change over parts links:

http://www.vettaid.com/



http://www.kwikperf.com/index.html

ls swap guide
http://www.cartechbooks.com/how-to-s...m_campaign=diy

bell housing
http://www.jegs.com/i/Quick+Time+Bel...FdM2gQodNdwLQQ