Thought someone would be interested, S10 swap

[4eyedwillie]

sweet looking truck! I'd like to do a S10 Blazer 4wd with a 5.3 4wd setup except I would lower it and make it more All Wheel Driveish. What mounts and headers did you use?

[Pooter]

Cool build! Nice and clean too. I say keep the draglites for track duty and throw on some ZQ8 wheels to go street hunting, maybe even a ladder rack for good measure

[JPM]

I used the carshopinc headers and mounts off of ebay. They come with all the hardware and gaskets. I used the mls gaskets for the head side of the header, I've read they are far superior to anything else. Had no trouble with fitment. The two areas I did make changes to were, clearancing the a/c box to clear the coilpacks by refiberglassing the box and the other was to use the smaller pullied v-6 powersteering pump to clear the ps box. The v-6 pump was able to bolt to the 5.3 bracket with very little modification.

[4eyedwillie]

Will you have to notch the frame for the AC compressor? Or is it necessary with the mounts you bought?

[black2002ls]

Which vehicle was the ps pump from

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[JPM]

I did notch the frame for the a/c compressor but I decided to use the one off of the v-6. It will be mounted high on the passenger side and I believe that the hoses off a 94 will allow me to connect it without custom building anything.
The ps pump is the same one that was used on the 2.8 v-6. With a small amount of trimming, it bolted right to the accessory bracket. I gained a bit of room because the pulley is smaller. Just needed a shorter belt.

[Baba Ganoush]

Are you gonna swap the Ranger next?

This. Good looking little truck.

<------ V8 ranger owner

[Z06killinsbf]

Swap your 97? It's silver right? I tried to get up there to buy your truck about a year ago. This is what I would have done with it. I just couldn't find the time to go see you. And I'm not sure about the Ranger. It is really too clean to tear apart right now. There is a lot less room in that truck as well. It is very reliable and I am gonna wait and make sure the s10 is too.

That's right, I forgot about that! Truck looks good, makes me miss my 1st gen

[crapstang]

That's impressively clean for a swap!

[JPM]

Got a few pics of the inside but its dirty. You know, work truck....

[JPM]

Need to do something with the clutch pedal...

[Z06killinsbf]

Sawzall

[black2002ls]

Talk about a sleeper! Replace the rearend and surprise some folks!

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[terminator03]

Nice S10 and nice cobra