throwing a durka carbed 350sbc in a pooper shell for lol's. looking for the best "off the shelf" kit out there, trying to get the 350 as low and far back as possible. im sure mark has some ideas how i can actually get a hold of the mckinny motorsports kit, looked on their site but saw nothing relevant.

 

Try calling them.

 

well the main purpose of the thread is to discuss which kit is the best, if people say the mckinny kit is shit i wont bother.

 

my 400 cubic inch, carbed, 240sx build - DRIFTING.com

 

Mckinney and their new kit, would have to be the first off the shelf gen 1/2 mount "kit" i've seen. The main problem to mounting is the oil pan, and header clearance, using a Gen3 engine allows use of the GTO front sump pan, making things a good bit easier, you'd probably be better off getting a truck 5.3, and adding a carb to it.

 

truck 5.3? is that like a vortec or something. and will the kit still work?

 

its a ls4

 

99+ chevy/gmc/caddi trucks have the 4.8/5.3/6.0 vortec's, for all intents they are interchangeable with "LS1s", not to be confused with 5.7 and 4.3 vortecs, which are gen 1/2 stuff.

The LS1 mount kits would work with one, however making your own mounting kit would be much more reasonable, especially with an off the shelf GTO oil pan taking out most of the trouble doing the V8 swap.

 

NO, it is not the "LS4" is an LSx variant, designed for transverse mounting, and found in the "303HP" impala SS.

 

LS4 can also refer to a 454 CID Chevrolet Big-Block engine of the 1970s The LS4 is a smaller 5.3 L (5,328 cc/325.1 cu in) version of the Generation IV block. Though it has the same displacement as the Vortec 5300 LH6, it differs in that it has an aluminum block rather than an iron one and it uses the same cylinder head as the Generation III LS6 engine.
This engine is adapted for transverse front-wheel drive applications. According to GM, "The crankshaft is shortened 13 mm – 3 mm at the flywheel end and 10 mm at the accessory drive end – to reduce the length of the engine compared to the 6.0L. All accessories are driven by a single serpentine belt to save space. The water pump is mounted remotely with an elongated pump manifold that connects it to the coolant passages. Revised oil pan baffles, or windage trays, are incorporated into the LS4 to ensure that the oil sump stays loaded during high-g cornering." [8] Active Fuel Managemment is also used. Output of this version is 303 hp (226 kW)/300 hp on LaCrosse Super and 323 ft·lbf (438 N·m).