Shreck, that is what my wife calls the truck, green but lovable
Never did any kind of build thread, many posts on this site but this project that I am undertaking with the truck I feel will help others considering this kind of swap and hope follows interest and involved in my adventure converting my pride and joy from a 350 to a 2005 LQ4 6.0 engine from scratch.
I always considered swapping this engine in the truck, but an adventure into the unknown always kept me at bay, until now.
The 15K mile 350 in the truck gave up, main bearing failure. Don't know why, but a suspected bad line bore in the block wore the bearings down prematurely.
The plan
I picked up a 2005 LQ4 from a friend with 317 heads and going the stock route maybe headers. It is at the machine shop now, getting fresh cam bearings, and a bore hone, and checking the block out for anything out of place. Going to use the stock truck cam, manifold, pan, aftermarket wireing harness, and tuned computer. Plan on going with a truck thermal fan, and accessory mounting.
The trans, I have a stout TH700R4 in there now, giving a call to Bowtie OD for thier cable throttlebody LS1 brackets to run the non computer contorolled trans.
All 3 main bearings looked like this, engine sitting on the stand after the teardown, and the sad part the truck in the driveway with an empty engine bay....
I will post pics as I go along, hope to have it done by end of Jan/early Feb....wish me luck
