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My 86 K5 build

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Cool vid. But I gotta ask what's with the rubber band wobbly editing? Or is it some messed up camera? I felt dizzy watching some of the parts lol.
 
Deuling said:
Cool vid. But I gotta ask what's with the rubber band wobbly editing? Or is it some messed up camera? I felt dizzy watching some of the parts lol.
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You should have seen the raw footage. If that made you dizzy, than the actual video would have made you puke for sure. My bro used a stabilization software that helps correct "shacky" videos. So ya, you should be happy we didn't use the actual video :D

Purchased some of diy4x's front shackle eye hanger kits and greasable 9/16 bolts

factory hangers removed





new hangers painted



had to widen the hole to fit the new hangers



Also had to drill out my top shackle bolt to 9/16 too (had kert originally do 7/16 so I could run the factory hangers/bolts when I first did the 52 swap). Finished and installed

 
Also built a few more tubes off my front bumper. I knew if I ever hit the tubes around the edge by the headlights, that it would probably bend because it didn't have any support on the backside. So I cut and notched some tubes. It should be a lot stronger now. I don't have much worry about beating on it now.



 
A new development has occured...:pimp:

I purchased this wrecked 1989 K5 off of craigslist for cheap. I plan on swapping the entire TBI 350 (whole motor w/ wiring harness and computer and all) and the 700r4 tranny over to my blazer. Also, my bro-in-law purchased an 84 K5 a couple months ago but just had his tranny blow, so I am selling him my tranny thats currently in my blazer right now.





This thing is actually in pretty good shape other than the smashed front-end. so I will be keeping a lot of it for parts for mine, and all my brothers blazers. It's just nice to keep parts around. Might sell some of them if I don't end up using them in a while.

Don't really know how many miles are on the motor/tranny, but I don't care. I drove this thing home and it starts up and runs smooth. So i'm just gonna drop them in and run with it :D
 
Deuling said:
You don't like the 383?

Or just doing it for the TBI?
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The 383 is fine, but fuel injection is more important to me. I've said it before, but my 383 isn't anything special. Yes, I am loosing horsepower by going to a bone stock TBI 350, but I don't care too much about horsepower for what I do. I care more about reliability on steeps and off-cambers (I don't do any high horsepower sand running and I hate mud, so...). In CO/UT where I do all of my wheeling, there are a lot of steeps that I have been finding the limits of my carb very quickly. So, I plan just to swap the motor/tranny exactly as they are. Maybe in the future if I have extra cash laying around, then I will pull the motor and build it a little, but I am trying to do this as cheap as possible (to buy this whole vehicle was at least $400-$500 cheaper than getting an Affordable EFI kit, plus I can swap tanks/fuel lines and have a ton of extra parts laying around for the future. And I plan on selling my 383 and tranny that I have now, which means I should at least brake even on the deal :woot:)
 
82355 said:
383's are overrated, and EFI trumps horsepower.

Martin
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:sign17: I may keep the 383 around, but I am thinking if I can sell enough parts off this that I won't use anytime soon, than I could make enough money for beadlocks and a spartan locker for my d60 :whistle:
 
Why not TBI the 383 and have both? All you would really have to do is buy a Transdapt plate for your intake, slap on the TBI body, drill a hole in the exhaust for the 02, get a speed sensor in it which that Blazers t-case would work for that and wire it. Then either tune it, or run it on the computer with that tuner cable and have someone read the output of it and burn you a chip. Then you could sell that motor 90% intact and viola, done dot com.
 
Very nice! I agree with you guys on this one. Wheeling with a carb on steep stuff really blows. I need to get this done to my rig.
 
454Sub said:
Why not TBI the 383 and have both? All you would really have to do is buy a Transdapt plate for your intake, slap on the TBI body, drill a hole in the exhaust for the 02, get a speed sensor in it which that Blazers t-case would work for that and wire it. Then either tune it, or run it on the computer with that tuner cable and have someone read the output of it and burn you a chip. Then you could sell that motor 90% intact and viola, done dot com.
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First off, there are a lot more sensors than what you mentioned here. So it would either be figure out how to get those sensors to work on my motor, or rework the harness more. Like i said, i am trying to do this as cheap and easy as possible. And everything you listed just keeps adding cost that i dont want to spend. Second, i plan on selling the entire 383 as a whole anyways, so not sure what your point here is. If you are referring to the fact that i can still have more horsepower with the 383 and have the tbi, i would say the time/cost to do that really isn't worth it to me right now. Like i said, i dont care much about horsepower, more about reliability
 
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I understand that, but you already have all the sensors in that wrecked Blazer. Since you have all the parts right there. And a motor swap is alot harder than swapping out for a plate and drilling a hole in the exhaust. And secondly, your going to have to strip the Blazer of the wiring anyways so your not losing out on anything. Like I said, just a thought is all.
 
I appreciate the input, and actually that was my inital plan was to swap the tbi parts onto the 383 (and actually it would be better to swap intake manifolds too cause there are some sensors there too, temp sensor if I remember right), however it is not harder for me to do a motor swap, it's actually easier. I have a couple cherry pickers and engine stands at my dad's shop, plus I have my father-in-law, bro-in-law, and my dad and brother that will help with everything. So we should have both motor/tranny's out of each and then the tbi motor/tranny bolted in mine in just a couple weekends.

So, since swapping motors isn't a big deal, then I don't have to deal as much with swapping sensors and figuring out how to make it work. It's just a "pull off one blazer and put on the other" deal. And that is a lot easier/cheaper than purchasing new adapter plates, reworking harness and getting new chips burned. So i'm gonna run with it.
 
Well, been doing some work on this parts blazer the last couple weekends. Any chance I can get I have been putting towards getting this thing stripped. Everything is just about ready to pull the motor (I will be pulling motor and tranny together and dropping into my blazer as a whole. I actually found a receipt in the glove box that said the tranny had a full rebuild about 7000 miles ago :pimp:)




I unbolted the 7747 ECM from under the dash (have the dash completely stripped too) and then just fished about 90% of the wiring harness through the firewall. I plan to just fish the wiring harness through the dash on my blazer and just plug it back in. That way it makes this as much of a simple swap as I can. I still have some wiring to filter through inside the cab, but most of it is done



I also decided to make some half doors out of the donor trucks doors. Stripped them down and removed all the glass, then looked at a lot of pics of guys who have done it and decided on this. I think it will turn out really good. I have always liked half doors but never wanted to destroy my only set of doors (since I live in CO where it snows a lot). But now I can throw these on in the summer and my full doors on in the winter :D






I still have to fill the gaps with some kind of sheet metal or something. And then I will paint them flat black like the rest of the rig.
 
Ouch.
:doah:



Poor doors.


They will look good though. Nice work. Next time use crappier doors, like mine :whistle:
 
Deuling said:
Ouch.
:doah:



Poor doors.


They will look good though. Nice work. Next time use crappier doors, like mine :whistle:
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They look better in pics than what they really were. The inside panels were junk and there are some rust spots on the bottom side of the doors
 
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