Hey guys I'm starting my 89 blazer build . I will be using a VS Racing 7875 billet turbo on a 5.3 . I started building the cross over pipes today and I notice that the truck manifolds facing forward hit the steering column shaft . Any ideas how I can fix this. I can't move over the engine any more . Here are some pics . Enjoy.
I've never seen someone successfully do that. However, to gain room there's the jeep steering shaft mod, and/or you can slot the mounting holes in the column to move it over, and/or put washers between the steering box and frame on the lower bolts to angle it.
G/L with the build, I'm going to use the same turbo on mine.
No Green : what is it that you haven't seen someone successfully do? Now you got me scare lol .. are you talking about utilizing the truck manifolds facing forward ?
Correct, if you get those manifolds to clear the steering shaft in an s10, you'd be the first that I've seen. However, it looks like you don't have too far to go from the pictures?
Another thing I've seen is angle (or strait) mill the flange on the manifold to get it to clear. I've even seen a guy notch the manifold, and weld in a pipe, but it looked butch.
There are no stock manifolds or headers known to clear in an S10 LS swap when forward facing. Everything I've ever heard of always hits the steering shaft. That's why everyone either runs a custom setup or a modified driverside header or manifold.
Got it to work .
1) shim the gear box to angle it
2) move the steering column, down and to the right
3) 3 minutes of grinding the manifold sides
4) 20 hours of stressing 30 minutes of work time .
Yeah glad to hear you got it to fit. Post up some pics from the front/driver corner so we can see how it fits better. Do you have the front accessories drive on?
The billet 7875 you have is 1000 crank hp worth of turbo, that's way undersized for the turbo capacity. If you fast forward in the thread, tiresmokinv8 makes like 750 wheel with that treadstone, with cast precision.
I'm (hopefuly) going to put a treadstone tr1235 in mine in front of the condenser, but not until after Christmas.
I bought a used a/w intercooler, but once I figured out the pump and heat exhanger would be more money than the treadstone, and more complex, I changed it up.
This was my plan, but not sure about servicing it (dumping water all over the engine when I take it off) and it needed surgery after I installed the wiper motor it didnt fit this nice.
I just looked through some of your pictures on photobucket. Looks like you do nice quality work. I love the attention to details. Looking forward to seeing this build come together.
Honestly I'm not sure , I know it has a shift kit and racing red racing clutches im sure is not top of the line but hopefully a little better then factory
Actually the factory ones are better due to utilizing thicker steels. The only place I put more clutches than factory was in the direct drum where I put 6 factory clutches instead of 5. I just used .077" steels from the forward clutch pack. The direct is the most common failure but this can be remedied buy doing the dual feed mod. There are different ways to do it. The HD2 kit allows one to do it without taking the transmission appart. Since I have a trans brake from a vendor on ls1tech and was rebuilding anyway I had to do it the other way.
I am guessing the manifolds fit because this is a Blazer, however, I don't know for sure, because I don't know if the first gen Blazers have the engine sitting higher, like the second gens? Who can verify?