Hello All,
I have a 1989 Trooper LS with the 2.8L (217K miles) and the manual trans.
When we first bought it:
A little background:
My friends and I bought the trooper for $500 in July 2020 for the Rocky Mountain Rambler 500. Long story short, we had a ton of work to do and we spent a couple of months tinkering with it to get it running enough to take it on the 'rally race'. It made it nearly 300 miles through the race (more like a marathon) in one day and the engine 'seized' within a mile or two from the finish line. Despite the perfect opportunity to haul it to the junkyard, we fell in love with it and decided to giver a new heart.
After doing some research I found the Planet and all the helpful info on here that has led me to this point. I asked Ed Mc for his swap info to determine the feasibility of doing an engine swap ourselves, we have decided to storm ahead with the engine swap and figured now is a good time to start a swap thread.
So far we bought a 3.1L GM V6 out of a 1992 Pontiac Firebird (~140K miles). It's on an engine stand right now and we've performed a leak down test and no worse than ~15Psi.
Bought a throttle body injection unit off a 5.7L V8 to affix to the 2.8L Intake manifold (bore it out) then bolt to the 3.1L GM V6.
The first (of many) questions I have when I drill the starter holes on the 3.1L block will I be using the starter off the 3.1L or the 2.8L? Are they the same starter by chance?
Thanks in advance!!
I have a 1989 Trooper LS with the 2.8L (217K miles) and the manual trans.
When we first bought it:
A little background:
My friends and I bought the trooper for $500 in July 2020 for the Rocky Mountain Rambler 500. Long story short, we had a ton of work to do and we spent a couple of months tinkering with it to get it running enough to take it on the 'rally race'. It made it nearly 300 miles through the race (more like a marathon) in one day and the engine 'seized' within a mile or two from the finish line. Despite the perfect opportunity to haul it to the junkyard, we fell in love with it and decided to giver a new heart.
After doing some research I found the Planet and all the helpful info on here that has led me to this point. I asked Ed Mc for his swap info to determine the feasibility of doing an engine swap ourselves, we have decided to storm ahead with the engine swap and figured now is a good time to start a swap thread.
So far we bought a 3.1L GM V6 out of a 1992 Pontiac Firebird (~140K miles). It's on an engine stand right now and we've performed a leak down test and no worse than ~15Psi.
Bought a throttle body injection unit off a 5.7L V8 to affix to the 2.8L Intake manifold (bore it out) then bolt to the 3.1L GM V6.
The first (of many) questions I have when I drill the starter holes on the 3.1L block will I be using the starter off the 3.1L or the 2.8L? Are they the same starter by chance?
Thanks in advance!!