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Re: Project: Over My Head
Determined, so far, the following guidelines to LS swapping in a stock '57:
Stock Vortec manifolds will fit between the frame rails but it is close
4l60E will be non-removable without sectioning or removing the stock trans cross member, but it can be installed
The truck pan sump can get behind the stock axle but getting behind the steering is a reach
The steering gear box needs to be removed & updated to an outside-the-frame PS box, like CPP's kit, unless you want the engine *way* forward.
The hand actuated parking brake seems like it can be left alone
The CPP x member is poorly made, if my experience is to be generalized.
Hopefully I'll have pictures of it mounted up by Friday evening.
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