LSX454 swapped 95 BASS burb.

[shady]

From what I can see now, I don't have to take the engine back out for anything. I'm going to be able to put a lot of stuff back together. Like the driveshaft, shift linkage, build exhaust, etc....
I'm not putting the front clip back together until it's needed.

I'm going to start with accessories and such too. Getting it all sorted, and finding bolts and such. May clean some of it up.

 

[shady]

Every time I get close to this thing chit comes up .
I've planned to work on it 4 different days now since I got the engine setting in it.
Every time I've been shut down by something else.
Most of it bad.

I'm getting tempted to take vacation days and just start hammering through it with the phone shut off lol.

In the past week we've had one cat get accidentally poisoned at home, barely made it, then found out my grandpa, who seems healthy but just old, has 1-2 months to live , then yesterday our neighbor informed us that a different cat of ours had been hit and killed .

I have to work a bunch of my days off to cover another dudes vacation, and I'll have to visit grandpa as much as possible.

So turkey day burnouts are probably out.
By the time I get it going and broke in a little, I'm going to have plenty of frustration and heartache to excise through rubber to pavement contact.

Going to be a rough hectic close to this year.

 

[Truckman4life]

That sucks when shit all hits at once. I lost my grandpa when I was 12. Get as much time as you can.

 

[campfire]

Bump. Any progress on this?

 

[shady]

Nope. Still waiting on Holley. Forkin blows.

 

[mrk5]

But the thread title says you made progress!

 

[beags86]

But the thread title says you made progress!

He did. 3 months have went by, I'd say that's progress in waiting.

 

[shady]

Title fix accomplished

 

[shady]

Current state of project
I could actually have a bunch done while I wait. But I wanted to have all the new harness on, and the top of the engine put together before I put the front back together.

 

[shady]

Oops forgot pic lol

 

[shady]

Finally
Holley went and got off their azz.

Now I gotta work some OT because I'm about $2k short of making this run

 

[shady]

I decided it was time to go through the wire mess. And did some mild cleaning on the firewall.

Then I got the exhaust gaskets in and torqued the headers down.
Tightened the engine mounts.
Took the trans cross member out, elongated the center hole.
Got it back in and the trans mounted to it and tight
Found a mounting spot for the terminator ecm.
And started a semi plan on routing it's wires.

 

[shady]

These are all I had for wires left. The electrical manual the @Truckman4life linked for me helped tremendously

Ended up it was only for 94 on these trucks, so some colors and pins are different. I have to see if I can find one for this truck some how, or just deal with out it. I'm sure the terminator probably has most of what I need anyway.
Mostly Wondering about gauges and such.

What signal do factory gauges get? Is it 12v or the 5v system the sensors run on? Anyone know?
Wish I could afford Holley's 12.3" touch screen dash module. That thing would fit a gmt400 dash like it's made for it.

 

[shady]

While working on sorting the wires I decided to separate them from the bulk head pass through. Heat gun made short work of the glue/sealant stuff in it.

And I found that right in the middle of that there was a 12v+ switched wire on with the key, that was wrapped around one of the white fingers and linked hard.
I think maybe I might have found part of the dieing issue . That wire fed the ecm and the kinked part bends back and forth super easy. Think it's broke in there.

 

[shady]

Found a different mounting place, and routed the wires. Some are hooked up already. The harness from Holley is set up so that it pretty much has to have the ECM on the pass side.
The harness has the driver's side ignition plug at the farther spot from the ecm.
Seems like it's going to be a decent route and setup.

And, the truck provides,...
I took all the lines for the rear heat and cool out. Leaving me with the perfect size routing clips.

 

[campfire]

While working on sorting the wires I decided to separate them from the bulk head pass through. Heat gun made short work of the glue/sealant stuff in it.

And I found that right in the middle of that there was a 12v+ switched wire on with the key, that was wrapped around one of the white fingers and linked hard.
I think maybe I might have found part of the dieing issue . That wire fed the ecm and the kinked part bends back and forth super easy. Think it's broke in there.

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Let's see if I've got this right. You're doing an entire engine swap...thanks to one flaky power wire?

 

[shady]

Not just because. And that flaky power wire would have been hard to find for the most advanced mechanic.

I was going to hotrod something, one way or the other, and the burb was the best candidate for that. Since it's getting the badazz stereo too.
But it just happened to work out that my dizzle was driving me up the wall with poor mpg, couldn't start the darn thing below 30*, and then the random dieing deal on top of it. So I figured if Im going to hotrod one of my 3 trucks, I'd start there lol.

 

[shady]

Blue truck is a big 4x4 and already has a ton of power. Dually is a tow rig/DD.
Suburban looks decent, getting a competition level stereo, and was the least reliable of the bunch.
Kind of a no brainer.

And not totally going to be a hot rod even now really. Only about 400-450 hp for now.
But I'm set up for a future upgrade in the form of some sort of boost. Then hot rod lol.

 

[shady]

I ordered a trailblazer SS intake for it, that should be here tomorrow.
That intake is supposed to be the best for cathedral port engines.
I also started actually mounting the relays and fuses that come in the terminator harness.
The trans harness wasn't bad, and actually had some room built in to move them around a little for placement. But the engine harness gave me mere inches to play with, which made finding a good way to land them hard.
I don't like the way it looks, but it's functional.
I'm going to move the air box a couple inches forward to get some space between it and that overflow bottle. After that I'll have to mount the battery tray and see how much room I have before I do the power harness fuse holder.

The loose red wires will be run with the power harness and go to relays that I need to get yet. And the fuel pump relay will be mounted on the circled area of the firewall.

 

[shady]

I could have done a lot more in the looks department. But I'm mainly concerned with getting it all in and functioning.. then later I can do small weekend projects, or even a week long semi tear down to make things look better.
I want proof of concept before I go through it all, just in case something is going to change that I don't know of yet.