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I was sitting board in class, thinking how it would be nice to have a chevy extreme 5-speed and my camaro. Then I remebered people talking abotu a 4.3L swap into the camaro.
I have an idea, what if say we took a complete 4.3L out of a Jimmy, extreme, Sonoma, or what ever along with the PCM and complete wiring Harness?
I am pretty sure the most 4.3L truscks use the same tranny as the v6 f-bodies, so we could either get the bell hosuing off of wone of those, or get one off of a TH700R4. So you could keep your stock tranny, jsut switch the bellhousing. Then you could mount the PCm in the sma elocation I am sure, but may have to check part nujmers on it but everything would read ok. YOu would need a custom Y-pip, and maybe a custom headers, if the stock manifolds do not fit. Not sure about the Cross memeber, may have to make a custom one ro something, or an LT1 one might fit. I am not sure if newer 4.3L have a ditributor or if they have a coil system, if they have a coile system it would be easier, but since it is based off of the LT1, I am almost sure you could fit it in, and if not I think a hood cowl would be enough to keep it in.
Now modding it depends on how the 4.3L aftermarket is, I know SBC are interchangeable, but I am sure the extreme has the usual stuff like a chip, and modified MAF(if they have a MAF)
Guages I am not sure, Mayeb they will hook up fine, but I am sure the tach will be off due to it being a different motor, maybe the rest of the stuff will plug in and work. Alot of GM cars take parts form the same parts bin so maybe it will work. The Tach problem maybe can be solved with an aftermarket tach.
What do you guys think?
I still think its NOT the best bang for the buck, but I was jsut thinking about the feasibility of it, to help the peopel out that were looking at it. I know someone was looking at the race preped motor, but I am sure you could build one up to match it in performance.
I have an idea, what if say we took a complete 4.3L out of a Jimmy, extreme, Sonoma, or what ever along with the PCM and complete wiring Harness?
I am pretty sure the most 4.3L truscks use the same tranny as the v6 f-bodies, so we could either get the bell hosuing off of wone of those, or get one off of a TH700R4. So you could keep your stock tranny, jsut switch the bellhousing. Then you could mount the PCm in the sma elocation I am sure, but may have to check part nujmers on it but everything would read ok. YOu would need a custom Y-pip, and maybe a custom headers, if the stock manifolds do not fit. Not sure about the Cross memeber, may have to make a custom one ro something, or an LT1 one might fit. I am not sure if newer 4.3L have a ditributor or if they have a coil system, if they have a coile system it would be easier, but since it is based off of the LT1, I am almost sure you could fit it in, and if not I think a hood cowl would be enough to keep it in.
Now modding it depends on how the 4.3L aftermarket is, I know SBC are interchangeable, but I am sure the extreme has the usual stuff like a chip, and modified MAF(if they have a MAF)
Guages I am not sure, Mayeb they will hook up fine, but I am sure the tach will be off due to it being a different motor, maybe the rest of the stuff will plug in and work. Alot of GM cars take parts form the same parts bin so maybe it will work. The Tach problem maybe can be solved with an aftermarket tach.
What do you guys think?
I still think its NOT the best bang for the buck, but I was jsut thinking about the feasibility of it, to help the peopel out that were looking at it. I know someone was looking at the race preped motor, but I am sure you could build one up to match it in performance.
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