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Thinking of converting 96 Vortec 5.7 to 5.3

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Old Apr 21, 2012 | 09:09 PM
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Default Thinking of converting 96 Vortec 5.7 to 5.3

What all is needed to do the swap and how hard would it be? The 5.7 in it now has alil over 300k and is leaking oil so just wanted to know how hard the swap would be.
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Old Apr 21, 2012 | 11:43 PM
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Pretty sure ther are a few write ups on this. Just search for it. Fairly straight forward. Just find a good motor with harness and PCM. Just got to change a few things on the harness, rid of vats in the tune, get you some engine mount adapters and voila. It is a little more involved than that lol! But, you get the picture. I think you may have to do something with the a/c because it may hit the frame rail.
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Old Apr 27, 2012 | 08:57 PM
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Originally Posted by cammed00
What all is needed to do the swap and how hard would it be? The 5.7 in it now has alil over 300k and is leaking oil so just wanted to know how hard the swap would be.
Here is what I found in my search for 98....
http://www.hotrodlane.cc/PDFFILES/Lisa%20Tahoe.pdf
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