LS Swapping a 67' Camaro SS In 30 Minutes

[Music] foreign [Music] what do we have here looks to me like a Camaro that needs LS swapped it's a 1967 Camaro I'm not sure if it's a real SS or not but it's got the badges and it has a big block Chevy in it um not sure what big block it is I'm not really sure if the owner knows or not I think he said somewhere in a 400 cubic inch area so it could be a 396 could be a 454 it could be a 402 could be a 427. who knows that doesn't matter this guy wants to be able to drive this car and it'd be super reliable and him not have to Tinker with it all the time and he wants to be able to get in it go down the highway and just Cruise so we're gonna fix that for them how are we going to fix that well we're going to fix that with this this is a nice clean 5'3 that I built intake headers F body front accessories Etc and that is going in this car if you guys want to learn how to do an LS Swap and something simple like this or are just interested in seeing this car get LS swapped and follow along because it's going to be pretty interesting and I'm very excited to work on this car so before we go ahead and start tearing this thing down I want to take a couple shots and let you guys check out what we've got going on it's a relatively simple car needs a little bit of cleanup on the wiring we'll deal with that um but overall it's in great shape especially body wise the interior is super nice it's a little dirty but not bad overall interior is very nice got some aftermarket gauges down there that are laying on the floor we'll go ahead and mount those up for them back seats nice still in it of course the fuzzy dice this thing is for sure a time capsule uh it's a very cool car almost makes me want to get one this car would be perfect to cruise around with the family in it and uh you know have some fun but uh right now it's got this big block and a turbo 400 three-speed Transmission in it um we're gonna end up keeping that we're going to get that rebuilt and then slap the 5-3 and 400 back in it and it'll be ready to go the five threes all ready I've already done the Standalone harness it's sitting over there ready to run so the first thing we need to do is go ahead and get this car tour down so let's get busy oh [Music] all right foreign first order of business is to get this hood off voila all right all right first step to doing any major modification or work to a vehicle is always disconnecting the battery because when you're messing with live wires like the alternator wire the starter wire you don't want to have the battery hooked up been there done that so let's get the battery out next we're gonna get the radiator out the front accessories off and this is going to be pretty simple [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] things escalated I'm really sorry but uh I just started working and got carried away and I moved the camera out of the way and I was just working and working and working and then all of a sudden I was like oh I didn't record any of that but uh this is where we're at so engines out um I took the throttle linkage out because we're gonna end up going to cable and I modified a fuel line right there um shortened it up and put some fuel injection hose on it uh so that we can run it to our engine and then I have the LS hung up over here and right now I'm working on getting the motor mounts in so if you're doing a LS Swap and the previous engine was a small block or big block Chevy it's super easy you just buy these plates they're like 30 bucks 30 to 50 bucks you can get them on Amazon eBay ICT bill that sells them I think all over then what you do is take your factory Mount that bolted to your big block or small block and you bolt it to this plate um and then it will drop right in in the factory location everything you do have to measure because there are multiple holes that you can use but once you get that measured and figure out where the mouse should go bolt it in and you drop the engine right down in so I did have to modify these mounts just slightly let me see if I can find one I had to modify them because they weren't working very good as you can see here I ground down there was a little hump right there where I ground down and it wouldn't let the mount seat up against that plate properly but now I think we have it good enough and all we have to do is take these bolts out set this Mount up there like that and bolt it in so that's what we're going to hit on next and I'm going to try and be better about filming all right so gotta take these out and I've already taken my measurement as to where I need to put this Mount what I did was measured from this bolt hole to the Belt to the bell housing surface on our big block and then I went ahead and did that again and found where I needed to put these so it's actually all the way in the forward position and uh so basically this will bolt right in where the big block did and our trainee will still use the same exact cross member and bolt that it had with a big block on it I would like to note that three hours ago there was a big block in this and it was running and driving and we've got the big block out and we're about to drop an LS in it so you can do this relatively fast uh obviously we've got a ton of button on up to do this is the easiest part of the whole build but uh I'm gonna quit talking about it let's get this LS drug around here and slapped in so I can go to bed [Music] I don't know why I stayed up till two in the morning working on this thing but I did and uh check it out yeah this car just got dropped off to me like six hours ago there's a big block and there's LS so it looks really good in there it's just kind of sitting in there right now I've got one motor mount bolt and I'm probably gonna have to take it back out lift the motor back up and raise the motor just a little bit because our old pants touching the uh cross member but we'll deal with that that's not a big deal but the ls is in and it's very easy um so if any of you are wondering for maybe a car you have at home they sell 69 Camaro LS swap headers or 67 68 69 Camaro LS swap headers um but the ones that they sell touch the steering gearbox they touch it and we've got a lot it doesn't look like it on camera but we've got at least half an inch of clearance uh in between there and that's what I wanted was some more clearance than the Speed Engineering headers so what I did was got the other vehicle that's commonly LS swap that's super tight with the steering shaft and that's S10 headers and these things worked out perfectly uh the exits are perfect uh it's pretty much lined up with the old exhaust already we're gonna have to do some stuff there but everything fits really nice that low Mount alternator fits nice I ended up having to move the motor plates uh backwards to get the motor to come forward some because we were just way too close to the firewall but turned out really good and it's already all wired up I didn't even unplug anything I just took the harness I just left the harness on it and uh threw it right in so it's basically a one wire hookup to make this thing run so we got a lot accomplished today I'm really happy with it and we're going to keep moving forward but yeah pretty easy all right it's a fresh day uh it's not two in the morning anymore thank God and we are back on the Camaro I'm gonna try and film this whole LS swap in one video from it running with a big block to it running with the ls so uh we're gonna Skip Along a little bit here and there but check it out so as you guys saw in the last clip we did get the engine in and we got some power steering lines ran for it some new ones and we also got our heater core hoses ran and we also got the engine legitimately bolted in there now it's good to go um we're waiting on the training it's getting rebuilt right now and we have a few things to tie up here and there we're probably going to start on some wiring here soon and uh we also got the radiator in we've got some fan wiring to redo I had like some old school fan wiring done but we're going to take care of that so let's go ahead jump into this thing and start butting stuff up all right all right so the first thing that we're going to do uh buttoning this stuff up is hook up our oil pressure gauge all right so this is what we just hooked up this copper line that goes to the back of the ls right down there um and that's going to send oil pressure up to our gauge and give us an oil pressure reading at this point we've got some wiring to clean up which is what you see right here this is just kind of a mess is there stuff we don't need on here there's wire we're going to use on here um it's just kind of A Rat's Nest back here so we're going to clean that up and then we're going to take the wire that you see right here which is originally for our distributor and we're going to manage to get that not sure how we're going to do it yet but we're going to get that wire up here to go to our new fuse block right here and it'll plug into that so that way that distributor wire will turn on our new ignition system so and that'll pretty much take care of the ls wiring if you guys are interested in one of these harnesses get a hold of me down in the comments or whatever I can get you set up I sell these harnesses for 250 bucks a piece uh 400 with a tuned computer and it's Plug and Play you plug it right into the ls it'll start right up but uh let's go ahead and get that wiring cleaned up and pull the wire that we need out of it real quick I'm just going to throw the battery back in before I cut any wiring just so I can test and make sure we have what we need out of there so I'm going to toss the battery in so I went ahead and routed this battery cable down uh between the motor and the crossmember we need to hook it to the starter so I'm going to go ahead Jack the car up and we'll get that hooked up foreign [Music] get your jack stands when I was young I used to climb well I guess I should say when I was younger I used to climb under cars no jack stands no nuts pulling trainees doing all kinds of stuff and uh now that I've got kids it's nice to have some reassurance that you're not going to get crushed under a car [Music] America [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] all right so as you can see we've got our battery in and the battery wiring is all done up pretty nice it goes down there it's all wire tied together routes down there nice not away it's away from heat and all that stuff then we also have a body ground coming from the same engine ground going to this Fender so that's all done like I said earlier we do have some wiring to clean up here but I want to start getting things mapped out so right now what I'm doing is I'm going to find a place to mount the computer uh probably going to be on this inner Fender somewhere I'll make it look as nice as I can we do have these computer mounts here they're pretty nice say LSX so we're going to try to mount those somewhere in there and uh hook and mount the computer up so we can start getting all of our wiring laid out and cleaned up um yeah so let's start tackling this wiring uh I kind of enjoy this stuff but it is a bit of a process so let's get to it okay so the first order of business is going to be mounting these to the computer and then we'll kind of move the computer around and see where it fits best all right so we have found our spot for the computer you can see where it's laying right there but it's actually going to go up in the inner fender and bolt in just like that we're going to use this hole to bolt it in at the top so the computer will be suspended kind of up in the air and out of the way but to do this we're going to use this hole and we're going to drill a hole over here and that will Bolt the computer in but there's no way to get back there to hold a nut um to bolt and nut it so what we have to do is we're going to go ahead and take the other mount for the other side we're going to grind the paint off of this and then we're going to tack some nuts on it that way we can slide that computer up in there and then just bolt it right in no bolt nut no nothing you just two bolts in it and it's held in there so we're going to go ahead and get this done first things first we have to grind the paint off of this all right paint's ground off both sides so now what I have here is the bolt nut what I'm going to do is just hold that just like that and I'm going to go ahead and Tack the nut onto this plate [Music] foreign [Music] guys we went ahead and threw some tacks on there on both sides really can't get to focus so you can see there's two nuts on there just tacked on now we're gonna go ahead and throw some paint on this so it doesn't rust [Music] good [Music] we've got the bracket on our computer now we're just gonna toss our bolts in uh we are going to have to drill one hole but we'll go ahead and get one bolt started and voila the computer is bolted in there we're going to drill one hole here to get the other bolt in there but once that's done she'll be uh mounted all right as you guys saw we got the computer mounted I went ahead put the battery back in and I kind of routed some wiring along that inner Fender tried to make it look as neat as possible and check this out all right so with the battery in there where's the computer I don't know it's hiding way back up in there so we did a great job at hiding the computer it's out of sight out of mind and then the wiring for the computer we went ahead and organized just about as good as we could there's a lot more wiring there than it looks like so that's routed there it'll get just a little bit neater and then we have our fuse block which is nicely mounted there we've got our one ignition wire we'll end up running that somewhere and then we went ahead and hooked up our fuel line here to the rail so that's all hooked up ready to go obviously we still have to modify the fuel system we've got an inline fuel pump and a few other things so we got to run a return line we've got to put a bulkhead in the top of the tank to send the returned fuel to and stuff like that but for now we're going to keep on this wiring um now we can finally get to this Rat's Nest that I thought we were going to get to way earlier we're going to probably Loom that up tape it up nice and run it behind the engine and around there so we can run our starter wire and run our ignition wire so that's what's next all right guys so we are back on this mess of wiring back here [Music] all right so I've got all of the electrical tape off of this and we've got it simplified down to what we need and don't need this orange wire was coming out of this harness as well but it went down by the transmission I'm assuming maybe at one point this car had a trans brake in it I don't know but I cut that out of it it literally went to nothing so we don't need that now what we have here is two wires coming out of this Loom and that's it so one wire which is right here goes to the ignition switch so that turns on your distributor that's what gives the car ignition we're going to use this we're going to extend it over there and use it to turn the computer on this purple wire as most GMS are is the starter wire so this is what turns the starter solenoid on so we need that and then we have this yellow wire and this yellow wire was tied in to the starter wire for some reason but went to nothing on the other side so we can get rid of that so at this point all we have left are two wires out of that Jungle of mess we're going to tape these up real nice and get them where we need [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] we've got that wiring I showed you guys taken care of check it out no longer looks like a mess back here we went ahead and taped these wiper motor wires up good and ran our ignition wire and our starter wire up and under this and around the back taped up nice you can see they're secured with two clamps there and there looks really good and it comes over and goes to it goes down goes down to the starter and one of the wires goes to this fuse block I've got the wires hidden up under the fender so I hit it the best that I could that's the plan with this car is the height ever all the wiring as much as we can obviously you're going to see some I mean it is a fuel injected engine so you've got your computer wires and everything going back there still going to clean that up probably just a little bit but let's see if it works so obviously the engine is not going to start because it doesn't have any fuel going to it but we'll at least see if it cranks over buy the key all right ignition on perfect well there you have it uh it cranks um the computer is being turned on with the key as well uh and at this point we've got a little bit more wiring to do uh but not much so the wiring that I was just referring to has to do with our electric fans so previously this car did have the electric fans already wired up they were done uh an oks job they were done using some older technology where it had a probe that stuck in the radiator once that probe seen so much temperature it would turn tell the box to turn on the box would then send power to the fans uh we're not doing it that way mainly because the wiring that was done for that just didn't look very good and kind of looked like a mess and instead of redoing it I just figured we'd go ahead and have our computer control the electric fans uh it's much more efficient and overall it'll just be a better and cleaner way to do this so I'm going to show you guys how we're going to take care of this so the way that we're going to do this is we have our accessory wires that come out of our harness so there are two fan control wires in this uh for electric fan one and electric fan two which is what we're dealing with we have two here so what happens is when the computer sees a certain uh temperature you can program this temperature to whatever you want but it'll send two ground signals out of these to activate our relay so what we'll have to do is go ahead wire two relays up um probably going to mount them just right in here kind of hidden out of the way but still accessible if you need to work on them and we're going to go ahead get those pretty much wired up we'll run our two ground signals uh out through this to our relays to trigger them on and then I'm gonna have to get into the computer into HB tuners and uh set the parameters up for them to kick on around the same time that the thermostat is opening up so uh we've got a 160 degree thermostat in it I'll probably set the fans to turn on around 195 degrees somewhere in there I know these LS engines like to run a little bit warmer but we'll keep it right in that 160 to 195 range so that will be a pretty healthy place for it to run all right guys check it out the relays are wired up in there uh it turned out really nice I already went ahead and tested it and it does work good I just sent ground to the relays and it's turned the fans on which is good that means it has everything it needs besides the computer input we're going to go ahead and set the parameters for that once we get a little bit closer to driving and tuning the car we'll deal with that and make sure everything works but for now the only thing stopping this thing from running is fuel it has everything it needs to run except for fuel so we need to get all the fuel lines done up I've already got one done there but we need to get the fuel pump in the fuel filter in and we're also converting this to a return style fuel system so we're gonna have to run a return line and a regulator which that's relatively easy because I have a Corvette fuel filter that has a regulator built into it so that'll be super simple but we need to drop the tank and put a uh bulkhead connector in it to send fuel back down in the tank and between the last shot and now I just went ahead and dropped the tank so we could get started on this so as you see I have the tank back here I went ahead pulled it out and I pulled the sending unit out of the tank and if we walk over here here's the setting unit now this setting unit only had one feed line coming out of it I went ahead drilled a hole and stuck this bulkhead can this bulkhead fitting in there so that we can send fuel back down in the tank so I'm gonna finish this up uh we need to seal it up and put a nut on the other side and then we're going to go ahead and drop this whole assembly back down in the tank and then we can toss that tank back up in there and put start mounting our fuel pump and our fuel filter in there and wire that up and get it all ready to go once that's done we should be able to fire this thing up and listen to it run so yeah we're gonna go ahead and Tackle this fuel system all right guys we pretty much have this fuel system or at least a fuel tank wrapped up and got everything mapped out check it out so as you can see here we have our sending unit back in with our bulkhead uh fitting in there uh it's 5 16 for the return so I went ahead and cut that stainless steel line off that ran along here because we're actually probably going to mount the pump uh over here and then loop back around to the fuel filter and connect to the rest of the fuel line just to kind of package everything back close to the tank make it as simple as possible but we've got our fuel injection clamps on there I made sure I flared that that way it doesn't pop off but for now the tank is about ready to go back in once we get the tank in we'll get the pump and the fuel filter mounted we'll get the lines hooked up and then we'll test fuel pressure see how that is obviously we've got to wire up the fuel pump and everything as well but we'll get to that and hopefully we don't have any leaks when we're all said and done but after this we should be able to start it [Music] okay we're gonna take you guys under and let you see the fuel system so here we have it we've got we have our feed and our return coming out from Top the top of the tank as you guys saw we added that bulkhead then so it goes out of the feed in and around to the pump the pumps mounted there I have a little isolator to help reduce some of the noise then we've got our feed coming out going into our C5 Corvette fuel filter feed goes in this is also a regulator return goes out and back to the tank so we have a very short return line which is really nice then our feed comes out and goes up into the original line now this original line had a few spots in it where it didn't look so great so I went ahead and repaired those but our fuel system is complete the only thing that's left to do now is to wire up our fuel pump and just like our fans we're going to go ahead and have our computer control the fuel pump so let's get to that all right guys I went ahead and just wired the fuel pump up to get it out of the way I did it as nice as I could so these harnesses that I sell have a fuel pump fuse ready to go all I did was tap into the back of it I grabbed power from the battery and then sent power out to the fuel pump this is already this is pre-wired from the ECU so the ECU controls uh that relay turning off and on so let me take you guys down here and show you the wiring to the fuel pump that I ran out back so if you can see there I went ahead Twisted that wire and tied it up secured it next to the frame it goes all the way back to the fuel pump so as you saw the fuel pump wiring is done let's go ahead and check and see if it kicks on when we turn the key on all right we should hear Prime for two to three seconds once the key is on look at that I did something right uh so in theory right now if we crank this thing up which we know it's going to crank because we already tested that um in theory if we create we try to crank it it's gonna start so uh screw it let's see see if it starts it's not going to let it run for long but [Music] all right there we go we have a running 1967 LS swap Camaro uh this thing turned out great guys check it out [Music] hello [Music] foreign ahead and took the tape off of the intake manifold just that I had up there so I didn't scratch it and this thing looks incredible it's got nice stainless steel headers on it this cool little dual intake obviously the polished intake manifold the guy eventually I think wants to relocate the coils which isn't a big deal at all we can do that pretty easily uh but that's something we'll do down the road right now he wants to just get in it drive it enjoy it with his family and just have a nice Cruiser and I think it's going to be great for them obviously we're not finished we have a transmission we need to put in and we have exhaust that we need to hook up and some small things here and there that I've got to deal with but as far as this video goes that's going to be it we started with a big block Chevy that ran in the car he wanted to LS swap it we took that out and LS swapped it and it's been about three to four days I'll ride in there and I mean it's already running again so training is getting rebuilt right now as soon as I get that back I'll be putting it in and this thing will be ready to run and drive so I'm pretty excited I know the owner is pretty excited and I think this thing turned out awesome you guys let me know what you think down in the comments make sure you like if you like this video and uh make sure you subscribe if you want to follow along from more builds so if you if this is the first time that you have been on the channel to watch this video of the Camaro we have a a OBS Chevy truck that I'm building right now the frame off it's going to be twin turbo LS probably seven 800 horsepower somewhere in there and it's going to be an awesome badass truck um and yeah I'm excited for that so but anyways I hope you guys enjoyed this video make sure you subscribe if you're not already subscribed and I'll see you guys next time thank you 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Channel: BrokeBoyz Garage

Views: 17,027

Keywords: ls, ls swap, ls1, ls2, ls3, ls4, ls6, ls7, ls9, swap, engine, car, build, garage, tools, hptuners, Camaro, chevy, 1967, fast, low, slow, cleetus, weld, mechanic

Id: DLqPmCRY6Hs

Length: 39min 35sec (2375 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 17 2023