My 2001 Tahoe LQ4 swap saga (lots of pics)

yota · 10-03-2011, 11:27 AM

First off, i want to give a HUGE thanks to Shawn and Colin for the help... without you guys, this swap would have never happened

So, Saturday morning Shawn and I showed up at the shop to start on the engine swap. There was a crispness in the air, the weather was beautiful and we had a wide open shop with plenty of tools at our disposal, life was good and we started the tear down.

Excuse the pics as all i had was my ipod...

The top end came apart fairly easily. Decent amount of grime built up but it did have 198,500 miles on it and still ran awesome.

Shawn trying to get the y-pipe off. Stupid rusty bolts!

Well the bolts weren't budging on the collectors so we had to cut the y-pipe off. Who knew I had high flow cats this whole time?!?

A couple more bolts and some vertical persuasion from the forklift and it was out! Hellz yeah, hot damn!

10-03-2011, 11:27 AM	#1
yota Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Va Posts: 1,049	My 2001 Tahoe LQ4 swap saga (lots of pics) First off, i want to give a HUGE thanks to Shawn and Colin for the help... without you guys, this swap would have never happened So, Saturday morning Shawn and I showed up at the shop to start on the engine swap. There was a crispness in the air, the weather was beautiful and we had a wide open shop with plenty of tools at our disposal, life was good and we started the tear down. Excuse the pics as all i had was my ipod... The top end came apart fairly easily. Decent amount of grime built up but it did have 198,500 miles on it and still ran awesome. Shawn trying to get the y-pipe off. Stupid rusty bolts! Well the bolts weren't budging on the collectors so we had to cut the y-pipe off. Who knew I had high flow cats this whole time?!? A couple more bolts and some vertical persuasion from the forklift and it was out! Hellz yeah, hot damn! __________________ 1999 Trans Am 2007.5 Dodge Mega Cab Cummins