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Here is a cross post that I hope is allowed, I originally posted in the new member forum since that was my prison for a month but now I'm trying to put this thread where it belongs and add more information. Also I'll hopefully update this as I ruin the car even more with the turbo kit.
I randomly decided I wanted to put myself in financial ruin so I bought a blown up, engine-less rolling shell for $500 and decided to do a swap with one of the new direct injected GM V8s that nobody had swapped yet. After scrapping the cat and selling the trans/diff I was $100 into the shell.
The shell had been sitting in a local businesses parking lot for a couple years, it turns out the owner was rebuilding the engine out of it into two single rotor engines for some plane he had designed (he was an Engineer who worked with planes his whole life). I then moved it to the local Dayton British Transportation Museum who were nice enough to let me rent warehouse space with lift access to work on it when I didn't have a garage at the time. I got fabrication help from 513 Motorsports in Oxford, OH since they had already done LS swaps but the kit had to be modified to fit the new engine setup. The full drivetrain setup is a 2016 Silverado L83 5.3 engine with Camaro manifolds for fitment, a 2001 Camaro T56 transmission, and a IRS Cobra 8.8 rear end with driveshaft shop axles (mounting/axle kit from LS1RX8.com).
My original power steering still works, along with the instrument cluster (aside from a few warning lights). I work for a company that makes CAN controllers so I have a small relay-sized CAN gateway translating the CAN messages between the two ECU's so things work as they should.
I didn't chronicle the build too in-depth but i'll include some pictures from shell to completed car below. I'm currently working on a single rear-mount turbo kit for it using a Borg Warner S366 that isn't quite done yet.
Here is the dyno reading. Stock truck engine, tune on 93 only. This was on an AWD dyno dynamics dyno that supposedly reads low, but I have nothing to gauge it against.
07-31-2019, 08:10 PM
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