Engine Swaps
The 2wd S-series pickup shares several front suspension components with the GM G-body platforms. Along with the fact that the optional 4.3-liter V-6 shares several characteristics and dimensions of the early small-block Chevy V-8, it has become a popular platform for hot-rodders. Since the introduction of the S-series the ingenuity of its owners has made the V8 installation one of the most popular American domestic engine swaps. With relative ease the V-8 swap has seen almost every size small-block Chevy displacement produced from 262 in3 to the large 400 cu in (6.6 L) engine, including the popular LS series engines. Some owners have even been able to install the big-block GM engines such as the 396–454 in3 engines with minor modifications.
The chassis and running gear are also a common swap under older cars and pickups. This gives the advantage of using off the shelf parts, full independent front suspension, disc brakes and a complete late-model drivetrain. Most commonly, these are retrofitted under the body of an early 1950s Chevy pick up.
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Famous quotes containing the words engine and/or swaps:
“Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“When you got to the table you couldn’t go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn’t really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)