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Rearend swap...done!!
I just did my rearend swap the other day. It came out of a 2001 Trans Am with LSD and 3.42 gears, I bought it from some guy off of LS1tech for $450 shipped (FYI: shipping was $250).
It took us about 6 hours, but that is including time for swapping brakes and putting in my KYB shocks too. It was me and a friend of mine who is a professinal mechanic. We did it at the hobby shop on base with the use of a rotary lift which is a life saver!
Crappy part is that I have a kit for the drum-to-disk brake swap but the brake lines were different on the backing plates so for the time being I will have the old drums on there :( I am searching for either new backing plates or brake lines to fit. I also broke 2 bolts that attach the swaybar so I dont have a swaybar on it right now either.
Other than the brake line/backing plate issue, this was an easy swap! Eventhough the shipping was ridiculously expensive, it was still cheaper than buying a new diff, gears and paying for instalation. My buddy is a he11 of a mechanic, but he said he would not swap gears or the diff, only a whole rearend swap.
Check it out:
http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...t=S4010004.jpg
http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...t=S4010005.jpg
http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...=S40100072.jpg
http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...t=S4010008.jpg
http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...t=S4010009.jpg
I dont have any burnout pics......yet.
It took us about 6 hours, but that is including time for swapping brakes and putting in my KYB shocks too. It was me and a friend of mine who is a professinal mechanic. We did it at the hobby shop on base with the use of a rotary lift which is a life saver!
Crappy part is that I have a kit for the drum-to-disk brake swap but the brake lines were different on the backing plates so for the time being I will have the old drums on there :( I am searching for either new backing plates or brake lines to fit. I also broke 2 bolts that attach the swaybar so I dont have a swaybar on it right now either.
Other than the brake line/backing plate issue, this was an easy swap! Eventhough the shipping was ridiculously expensive, it was still cheaper than buying a new diff, gears and paying for instalation. My buddy is a he11 of a mechanic, but he said he would not swap gears or the diff, only a whole rearend swap.
Check it out:
http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...t=S4010004.jpg
http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...t=S4010005.jpg
http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...=S40100072.jpg
http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...t=S4010008.jpg
http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...t=S4010009.jpg
I dont have any burnout pics......yet.
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