LQ4 into a 3rd Gen/1972 Nova by frojoe

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Yeah, from what I recall of a comparo to a the stock truck pan, the LH8 offers barely more ground clearance, so it confuses me why it seems to be the hot new item...

Truck pan:


LH8:

An LH8 pan is the one that comes in the Hummers, I believe.

Which pan are you unsure of drag link clearance issues, the LH8 one? It should have plenty of room, because it's sump is 8.5" long as opposed to the truck one with is 9.75" long, and the truck one clears my steering even though my engine is moved forward approx. 1 inch.

ATS motor mounts are really nice billet peices (for $140)..


and S&P/Carshop ones are identical, but much more inexpensive!...

All 3 of those put the engine in the same place. I believe the Hooker ones put it forward a little bit more..

10-26-2008

Header-wise, Kooks make the really pretty ceramic coated ones, as well as several other companies. Hooker makes some but recommend that you use their mount mount adapters in order to properly fit around the steering box; I've heard mixed stories of these headers fitting with non-Hooker motor mounts. $5-600 seems to be par for decent ceramic coated headers that fit this conversion, but that doesn't guarantee that they won't need some BFH "clearancing" around the steering box.

Yes, that's the simple explanation of what I did. The overall spacing between the front and rear exhaust ports was close, but not close enough to just bend the tubes. Also, the difference between siamesed middle ports and equally spaced ports was too big to heat and bend. I ended up cutting off all the primaries from both headers except for the rear tubes, and swapped some of the tubes around until they fit closer overall, then chopped and sectioned my way bit by bit until each tube fit and on the driver's side they all fit around the steering box.

It sucked. But I was stubborn and cheap, and the majority of it only took me all of one complete weekend.