im droppin a 6.0 into my 82 model soon, any pointers on what to do and what not to do?

 

This past week I have been working on lowering it. 30 years 200K miles make ball joints not want to give up! I have had a heck of a time getting that done. Finally got the drivers side to give up, after using a pair of pickle forks. The rear end, I pulled out 3 springs and seemed to have gotten 2" drop out of it, I ordered a pair of 2" drop shackles from Summit to add. Other than that, mine's just been sitting, to much salt on the roads right now.

 

Spend the money on the fuel system and run braided lines if you can, what are you doing for a wiring harness? I went with a nelson and it was plug and play....had very few wires to wire into the truck!

 

Good deal! Yea they can be a bitch sometimes lol I need to do mine lol

 

i planned on going nelson on the harness and wheatley on the tune, just to keep things simple. Did you look into possibly running 2 87 model tanks with pumps and using the stock fuel lines and just adapting them at the engine instead of running all aftermarket fuel lines? That way you keep the same 2 tank setup?

 

Good deal, the nelson harness is top quality. I know there is a write up of it somewhere that street&performance did on a 73-87 ls1 swap with dual tanks, I may probably do it down the road sometime! If you ever have any questions dont hesitate to ask! If I find the link I'll pm it to you....

 

did you stick with the factory gauges, im thinking i wanna go autometer somewhere down the road but wanna stick to stock for now budget wise. I know the ect and oil pressure are both 3 wire sensors so you can use those plus the volt meter gauge you can wire to work, but your SOL on speed

 

I was able to use the factory lines with my 79. I used Russel tube nut to -6, It worked well.

 

i found a 90 suburban cluster, has a elec speedo, all others you should be able to adapt. Some where on the web I saw a guy use a 94-9? Dodge ram cluster, looked kinda trick.

 

used factory 87 model lines? do you have a pic of how it adapted?