Hell yes! This is the kind of project and vid I can get behind! A normal dude with a normal wallet, just figuring stuff out and getting things done on a normal man's budget! Well done and thanks for putting this together! Effing legendary sir!!

In a world of LS Swaps, it’s nice to see something different!!

I just love the fast pace of your videos! I know this was a long project, but you made it seem so quick!

This video was randomly recommended to me. I clicked on it and watched the whole thing. Awesome fabricating skills. That project turned out great!

Your level of ingenuity and resourcefulness of using what you have available to you is truly remarkable. Great work man the truck will be a hoot

Having a daughter that likes cleaning is a gift from god. Especially for a custom garage frankenbuilder like you.

I know this will probably get lost in the comments but sometimes when I’m home alone I like to go out in my garden and cover myself with dirt and pretend I’m a carrot.

Good job dude, that's a lot of work. Especially when you don't just go get on the internet and order everything you can possibly need. I always appreciate it more when a guy just goes to the junk yard and finds the things that will work.

"I've got the weather stripping in place, now we just gotta find something to hold pressure on it." That was a good laugh haha. Great build and video!

Your mind works at a complete other level. My hero! Just reusing the bull bar as an air filter attachment was genius! You’ve got a subscriber.

Man, just happened upon your channel and realized what I have been missing out on. I like these types of builds, no sponsors throwing money at you to scream their names, good old backyard wrenching to get a job done. Excellent channel/video. Subbed for sure. Can't wait for the next video now lol

This is an excellent video for anyone considering the V8 swap in their S10 you showed truly how much work it really is and that's what most of the work actually edited out LOL great video dude truck looks good

Very cool to see a 'more with less' S10 swap. Very well thought out and done. Love seeing a LT1 used for the swap. Very over looked engine. Lots of fun for cheap!

I can relate... first car: '69 Z/28... now I've got 3 S10s hanging around needing V8 swaps. I struck gold about 5 yrs back and now sitting in the garage properly cared for and stored is an original '69 Z/28 DZ 302 with appx. 20,000 miles. Getting off my butt to start this gig. Can't wait to hear that engine do its thing once again...I remember the way it sounded and felt back in '78....

The degree of sheer technical knowledge and ingenuity on display here is just amazing! I hope I grow up to be half as smart as you.

Currently workin on a backyard lawnmower puller. Nothing Profesional just for backyard fun.

Such a good video. No fluff or time wasted. Just the facts and details. I'm really impressed with your engineering and knowledge. Thanks for a great video!

The detail and time you put into this amazing ! This was fun to watch ! wish i had a uncle like you to learn this art you practice!

This is a great video. I think you covered everything that’s required to do this job and didn’t waste any time doing it.

I bought an 85' Blazer in the early 2k's on a "buy here pay here" back lot for $900, it had an old school 4 bolt 350, and what looked like Hooker headers, MSD ign parts, perfect base vinyl interior, no dents, no dings, nothing but faded pain. spent 10 hours working on the paint, and $300 on a used Holley/int. manifold...I drove that thing for 2 years, until the trans started to wear out, sold it for $3k :D there's some good finds out there, just got to pry a bit, even at the smaller sales lots, people don't realize what they have sometimes, don't feel obligated to tell them!

This video is jam packed full of so much useful information, I've been dreaming about V8 swapping my '92 S10 Blazer 4 door ever since I got it. I'm 100% using your channel for reference whenever I end up getting to it! You've got a subscriber in me good sir, stay dirty!

Yo, that masking tape on the wrench’s when installing the motor mounts is genius. So simple. I wish I would have thought of that. He simplifies everything. Awesome video and truck.

i have a rust free 1984 s10 blazer 4 x 4 , installing a tpi sbc from a z 28 camaro into it, 700r4 tranny out of the same camaro. changed rear shaft and housing to accept transfer case.purchased wrecked z28 camaro , for $ 500 , with 41,000 miles on drivetrain. your vidio motivated me to get back on it and geter done. thanks for sharing. double K from western pa

My buddy and i completely missed a corner in a 92 S10 at about 40mph and we landed in the middle of the Rocky Fork, our local river..haha, the truck is still there to this day i think, Everybody has a good s10 story.

Really impressive. I'm a budding shade tree mechanic and am very impressed with all the improvisation, reusing and recycling you did with this build. Wish I had that kind of knowledge and confidence!

I just watched a whole 45 min video without feeling like it was almost an hour. Nice work man! This things is awesome! Nice video editing, keeping it to the point and making great content.

What I LOVE about this video is that you went out of your way to make it look originallike it came from the factory that way. I have a 89 s10 with a 99 5.7 I am working on. I'm trying to make mine look like everything belongs and making sure everything works. Nice job!

Definitely one of the best home project custom work I’ve ever seen and the details of everything u did. This is how u inspire ppl to become true car builders. As a s10 owner myself my goal is to drop a 383 stroker built myself down the road

Very nice job with the truck. Looks real good. Looking forward to seeing what else you do with it..

Looks like a lot of hard work and tinkering. Turned out pretty awesome. I’m a true fan of the channel.

I've been thinking about it for years but just by me accidentally stumbling on your channel and watching your build just motivated me even further now!! Im definitely on the hunt for an old first generation S10/S15 Sonoma body now!! My dad has two old cast iron 350 blocks in storage so when i get one me and him will build one and use it for that project

ive had an s-10 addiction for a long long time. i have built six of them in my life. this makes me want to do one more! lol great content!

That sounds awesome. I have always loved those s10s with a v8

This was a great all in 1 video. I loved it!!! I hate having to wait months for a build like this lol. Chud your the man!!! Much love from indiana

Been watching tons of videos, this one is the best so far. You show everything. I bought a 97 S-10 for 1000 bucks it has a manual tranny in it. Bought a 84 vette to do a ZR1 swap and use the old engine for my S-10.

Looks like a dash cover would clean up the interior. Love the whole project.

Pretty much hits the nail on the head. I put 6L in my 94 SS and spent the summer driving the bugs out. Now it's winter time let the upgrades begin LOL. I swear it's an addiction.

Finally something that isn't an LS swap. I am so tired of those videos. Not every swap needs to be an LS. Thank you, I very much enjoyed this video.

I love the speed at which you present everything. I usually 1.5x these type videos and yours was great. Covered a lot of detail others skip over, and skipped over the dumb stuff like cleaning and grinding.

Great dedication and patience big dog awesome content 👏🏽

New here, but im stoked to see something other than an LS swap! Great video man!

buddy, u remind me of being a kid, in the 80s when i was a teenager my friends and i would share parts because there was so many of us with Chevys, and a friends uncle owned a salvage yard. we all spent hours pickin parts for the old man so we could get the parts we wanted. it was a win win, for the uncle and us boys. i want to build a daily driver LS10. thank for the time and money u spent making this video for all of us to watch.

You know I’m just randomly on Thanksgiving started watching this. I’m pretty impressed with the video I like to know how much mechanical experience he has because I think he did a good job

Oh yeah! I actually just got mine back (old channel name Red84s10), after being gone for a few years. Got a lot on the plate right now but this gets me excited to put it back together again. I let it go and it came back...maybe I should keep it this time

Great build. Just one little thing. I would build a sort of box around the air filter to sort of isolate it from the hot engine bay air. Then I think it would be a good idea to wrap the metal part of the tubing in heat shielding so it doesn't get as much heat.

Really nice work. Very much reminded me of my Father’s S10 Thank you for inspiring memories 🙏🏻👍

awesome work! as a project car guy myself i really enjoy this build and learned alot about the s10 at the same time . thank you for uploading and sharing.

Really makes me want to get my truck engine swap done. I have a 93’ SCLB Chevy 1500 350 tbi and a 98’ Chevy 1500 Vortec to go in it, just haven’t had time to do it yet. When I do, definitely gonna take some video. Amazing video my friend!

I taped bolts to a coat hanger and went in through the spring pocket. But worked great either way. This is certainly going faster than the last one! haha

Ive just been gifted a free 81,000 mile, 95 Z28, from a guy I used to turn wrenches with at the local Ford dealership. He spent thousands on the engine, heads and transmission. It dyno'd at 421 hp to the wheels, N/A. Plus it has a 130 shot of nitrous on top of that. He ran 7.40's on nitrous at our 1/8th mile drag strip here in Jackson, TN. Its been sitting out in the direct sunlight for 10 years and the clearcoat is bubbled up on it. So we're gonna have to try some wizardry on that, and see if we can at least make it a nice 10 footer. Lol. He parked it only 2500 miles after building it, due to blowing a head gasket. He got in a hurry finishing up putting the engine back togethern, and put a cheap set of gaskets on it. So im hopefully gonna pull the heads off this week, and drop them off at the machine shop, just to have them cleaned up and checked, just for peace of mind. best gift ive ever been given. Lol

This guy is legendary, most perfect video ive ever seen, his cuts/edits for the video showing the main important things is amazing, subscribed only after ten minutes watching

makes me want to get back to my roots where my swapping experience began

Just for safety sake, you might wanna put a hose clamp on that copper elbow so it doesn't move when the hose expands.

Now im regreting selling my 91 s10, she was a champ that 4.3 took me 270k miles with some hiccups, but with 450k on the clock when i sold it. She got an ls swap done. May have to buy another one. Great video and glad to see someone using the LT platform!

Excellent, low budget swap a great video. You planned it out ,then executed each part of the build .Good job Chud .I learned quite a bit on this video.

The 2" lowering blocks would have been perfect. The 3" has the rear lower than the front.

Nice you put that together well

I’m a fan of lt1s I had a 96 Camaro z28 with lt1 bore 30 over with forged internals with a nice cam and 250 shot of nitrous! It was really fun car!

Love the chanell

Yes

I love S-10's. My first truck was a Yellow 1982 S-10 Regular cab with a long bed. Had the V6. Great truck. I still miss it.

Great job!!love that you let us hear it run .i always love to hear the exhaust on a v8 swap!

Great build! Where did you get the seat cover blanket?

Awesome build! Love your old school building style, keep junk yard building alive!

Stopped by to see what if any new changes to install of LT1 small block . Started doin this in the 80s with 302-400s sledgehammer performance engines , auto trans or 4-5 speed manuals . Found the best hookup for traction is long bed longer wheel base . Better weight transfer and control at 170 mph + oh yeah lock right rear . I’m old now can’t do a lot anymore …so great to see these are still alive ,, square body first gen. Rpm’s 7000 n up to 9500 on 302s . You did a good conversion.

$2500, That's a real feat today, but most people would need to pay others to do 90% of that work, and most people aren't cleaver enough to find deals like that either, but it can be done,👍, awesome build-n-awesome video, thanks for sharing.

Love how you "JUST GIT R DUN" Chud.....

Love the ingenuity, a REAL budget build

That hood is awesome! I had a fiberglass 3" or whatever cowl hood on a trans am. Put nitrous on it and blew the motor in front of my house doing a sick burnout 10 years ago! Whoo!

I enjoyed the video. With the V8 power you definitely need to crack open the diff cover and clean it out and weld the spider gears ⚙️ to make it a posi traction so you won’t be doing one wheel peel and gain traction. Thank you for sharing chud327.

This is some genuine content and very well put together, thanks for a great video man definitely subscribed 👍🏻

Great Job. So fun and rewarding doing builds, and you'll never forget it!

I had a white 1989 single cab S10 with the 2.5 4 cylinder engine. It had a vinyl powder blue color bench seat. It had am fm and no cassette. It was a plastic dash with the powder blue color. Also had plastic molding OVER the lighter, so no lighter but a ash tray. It looked like a bare minimum company issued truck, my dad bought it used. Loved that truck, I beat the hell out of that tiny 4 cylinder! I was a broke college kid and would change oil every 12 thousand miles. Lol. ..also hauled ton of sand. Years later I bought a 1988 4.3 v6 with crew cab. It had 120k miles and smelled like a ashtray. The the passenger door was a different color. Rusty, lol.. this was 2001 and I remember the cassette deck and Delco still rocked, the 4.3 absolutely hauled. It unfortunately reek very bad of stale Marlboro reds. It was getting smokey and parts hard-to-find. Got rid of it after a few years

I had a s-10 with rads hydraulics in high school in the 90’s. Was my favorite vehicle ever. Always wanted a syclone.

Your style and resourcefulness is awesome. Great job on the build

subbed. love the no nonsense videography. I cant stand some of the other build channels with all the goofiness. thanks for the content.

On a dark raining day in Hermanus South Africa I came across your awesome channel and I really enjoy the story and creative ideas that made this a great build. Thanks for sharing your content.

thank you for uploading a full project not in 40 episodes, I enjoy both but its always nice to have a one in done video!

Amazing fabrication skills. Great explanations as you move from one fab to another.

I used to have a 81 ST 4x4 we put a 305 with a 350turbo it drove it to my army station in Utah. It did 11 miles per gallon with a 15 gallon tank. Everyone loved it. Used to destroy all the fast cars . Wish I still had it.

Guy has the patience of a saint, I woulda cursed everything and everyone out and given up a few times lol good shit man ur giving me motivation on trying something myself again

I had a 91 that the 4banger finally had it..dropped a LT1 I got from Dennis Anderson and a built 350 trans from a dragrace buddy in over a weekend at a friend's 4x shop in OBX...instant 10sec truck

Well explained, condensed, and thorough. Great presentation. 💪🏻👊🏻.

True fan of the channel Been here since the tiny house Pontoon boats builds mower builds now s 10. Definitely a jack of all trades.

Thanks for making this video, I'm have a project like this, and I hope you have fun with your s10.

Thank you for this watch motivational .. I'm nearing the end of my project to be road worthy so I'm looking forward for today when the sun peaks it's dawn

Great video. Sounds awesome. Wish I had the energy and dedication to accomplish a build like yours.

Finished product was beautiful, love s10s

I'm a Ford guy and I love this truck!!

This is the best video I’ve ever watched on KZfaq!!! You’re a bad man 🔥🔥

Fantastic work!!! You’re the example of what having a KZfaq channel is all about. Quick and brief explanation of what is going on and what you’re about to do. No useless rambling or tongue smacking like an African tribe and not sounding like you’re severely parched lol. Sorry for the rant but it’s so refreshing to find someone who speaks like an American. Sub’d 🤙🏾

Man, I haven't seen the embark red tag in almost 20 years. I've got a clean 1987 S10 up here in WI and they're great little trucks. I've kept mine stock and it's been amazing.

My daily was crashed by an old lady on her fone while driving last Oct.24th. So i have to make my project ek hatch runs b4 winter hits pretty hard soon. Your video helps alot brother.

These have to be some of the best vids on here (youtube DIY). Great job buddy

Fantastic build!! Awesome video from start to finish.

Always liked these s-10 swaps. Great job.,

Brings back memories of my 1998 ranger budget build. I had drove it for 7 years with the 4 cylinder in it before deciding to go 5.0. My budget in the finished product was zero dollars. So I found a 1998 explorer 5.0 for $500 and a F150 For the 5 speed for $400. Sold converters off explorer for $500 sold motor from F150 for $300. And sold the scrap from both donor vehicles and think I ended up a few hundred dollars ahead. But while the ranger was fast and strong it was extremely horrible on gas. I did drive it to work before gas went up and it cost $20 a day. I traded it of about 6 months ago. These projects can be fun but can be built on a budget

Great video,and pretty work.I like your style.Ive been wanting to do that for awhile,but when I saw this that was my sign to get to it

Awesome budget build. You are a good fabricator and problem solver.

About to take this journey myself thank you for the motivation