That's the Cliffs notes lol

@@TheDrivewayEngineer hey drivway can you help me with this I am looking for a Corvette c6 wiring harness

No idea, eBay?

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Thank you for watching!

You keep watching and I'll keep shooting. It seems I'll need to add the new Terminator X to the mix shortly.

@@TheDrivewayEngineer As much as I like the stock GM stuff the Holley line is hard to argue with... Considering feature set and ease of use vs cost compared to the stock GM stuff..... Kinda looks like Holley just makes sense.

Malcom Johnson I’m wishing I would have done an LS swap on my 94 Z71 3.5 years ago instead of dropping stupid money in a traditional rebuilt SBC. So take it from me, you’re gonna be much happier in the with an LS swap. My rebuilt engine is putting out 350-360 horsepower and 370-380 torque. I have about $5,000 in it throttle body to oil pan, and it’s still not 100% right.

Low oil pressure is prob the oring on the oil pickup... I switched mine and got oil pressure back

@@MississippiDan1 Greatly appreciate the "confirmation" after a lot of reading and computer time, I have come to the conclusion that may very well be the case. As an update to my original post, I am now going to pull the running eng. from my van and pull front cover / oil pan and inspect O ring as well as oil pump assm. I always ran Amsoil, only highway miles, and Fingers Crossed I will be back in business.

Thanks so much! Man, I could go into so much more detail, but trying to strike a balance between getting the important stuff out there and keeping it short you know? Since I'm gearing the videos towards beginners and people who are unsure and overwhelmed, that's the reason I just say get everything and use it as is. As you've seen and pointed out, trying to mix and match is likely to cause some problems and cost some money.

@@TheDrivewayEngineer As an instructor for ACDelco for 7+ years, I held 30 different tech seminars for 4 hrs. for up to 100 techs, like "Advanced Charging Systems", but also held 2 day "Stand-up" classes at 13 tech colleges. Out of the 28 classes, 6 of them where focused on electrical. With EL-2, my focus was to make a service tech become comfortable with a DMM, how to use it, and voltage drop. We had bench-top table modules allowed us to build a series circuit complete from scratch. It was amazing how many techs, who worked on vehicles everyday, could not build a circuit without popping the fuse when turned on. They maybe very good at fixing an existing circuit in any given vehicle, but from scratch...Well I kept a bucket of fuses handy. Lap Scope was another thing. I told them they had lap scopes in their shops for years...it was the "Sun" engine analyzer that had a primary (Low voltage) input and the high voltage used for the ignition systems secondary. Using it or with an amp clamp, you could "See" the activity in the circuit, like a defective DC motor. Very scary, but some techs learned a lot. If I got to one, two or more...I had a good class. Learning is good!

All ls swaps run far better with a carb with electronic meter blocks. Install a wide band o2 sensor and your done. You can adjust in car while driving. Install a distributor( need a front mount timing cover and ford distributor.and your done. This set up is for intelligent people not idiots! This set up always beats computer set up on dymo due to rule cooling intake. If you can understand this stop reading! Your brain is a much better computer and cost nothing. Convert4l80e to manual drive and your done. Better is a 400 turbo with a gear vendors overdrive so you can split gears. If a large cooler is used and trans is machined for extra clutches(red altos and modified kolene steels) it will last forever no matter how it is abused! We have this setup in 3500hd with 800,00 miles so far. The LS is all after market with dart 6 bolt headsc4.130 b0re and 4.125 stroke. Extensively modified cathedral heads( not stock) with big valves and reshaped chambers. Custom ground cam and almost 12 to 1 compression. It runs on 87 octane and gets22 miles to gallon without 12,000 lb trailer. We run 3.42 gears and cruise is 1300 RPM at 80mph. Beats most diesels with far less matinence. We build about 40 of these a year in New chevy chassis (all4x4s) and factory motor and trans pays for new power train (almost). The dash is ripped out and manual gauges are installed( computer gauges are terribly in accurate and add wide band o2 sensor and vacumn gauge an fuel pressure gauge as well as other gauges. The 14 bolt free floater has real detroit locker and front diff has an e locker. We get 40,000 for conversion and you have a bullet proof truck with just routine maintenance. We build 75 gallon gas tanks, and usually dry sump oil systems and custom cast iron exhaust manifolds into a 5 in single pipe.. Suspension is mildly modified and .375 plate bumpers the front and rear 18,000 lb whinches are used. All computers are gone and anyone can fix it. This is how a real truck should be built, not the trash coming out of detroit!!! Relative to the climate the truck is shipped to many other mods are made. You can do the engine and trans combo many different ways but leave computers out!! They don't belong in real trucks!!

I see why you charge 40k 😂 Make everything the most complicated version of itself possible then double the price 😂

@@docm4118 please let us know how we can find your company if we'd like this done?

Gotta ask where you are from.. my last name is Clary as well

Thanks for watching!

I'm glad the videos help!

@@TheDrivewayEngineer yes, sir tremendously

I have a 4L80 on my bench, as soon as I get my bench set up for my transmission fixture I'll be tearing into it. I can definitely cover the manual shift option during that.

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That just has the solenoids shorted out for you so that you can manually shift up and down, full line pressure all the time. It's the same thing as what I'm talking about, already done for you.

If I wanted to beat on something and have it live without question, I'd want a 4l80

@@TheDrivewayEngineer thanks for the heads up and I will be looking forward to finding one for my truck.

Glad I could help

Holley is pretty easy to learn. The truth of all of them is you do have to learn them though

@Andy Elwood Do what I started doing after 39 years of marriage ...Listen to every third word and nod your head. It’s much shorter. The difference is, you can comeback and watch his video over to catch the information you need three weeks from now.

Good! I'm glad it helped!

Thanks for watching! You guys keep watching and I'll keep filming lol

I had a Quickfuel carb on my truck before I swapped an LS in, it was a fine carb. The issue is, 500 carb,+500 intake and driver for coils, and you've far surpased the cost of a harness and tune, and now you don't have trans control either.

HP Tuners is 300 plus credits

That would be an awesome swap!

That's it, VATs

I almost always just leave them whatever way they are. You have a DBC, run it that way

The factory stuff is always the move lol

PSI has good customer service and people who use them like them. I believe they are importing from China and they don't have much flexibility when I see people ask them for custom stuff, it's basically a one size fits all kind of harness. I personally like reworked stock harnesses, you can get them from people like Andy Bryant at LSX Specialties, John Kawaski at Johns Custom wiring, and Jason Richard on Facebook. They'll make them anyway you want, longer to hide the ecu in the cab, flip from side to side, whatever. Usually at a lower price than an all new harness from BP Automotive.

Every truck runs the same ecm for the year

@@TheDrivewayEngineer I was thinking so but I wanted a little confirmation. I stumbled upon your channel last night and subbed after watched half a doz videos. Great information your putting out for the public. 😎

Tough to get mileage without overdrive.

That's a bummer, another tuner might be able to unlock it, or you grab another PCM in the junkyard for 50 bucks or less.

I do not have a DOD video, as I do not have any Gen IV engines in the fleet. Cost and simplicity are the reasons for that. DOD can be taken care of with a cam and lifter swap, but the higher cost of the engines, along with all the extra DOD crap is why I avoid them A Gen III 5.3 is 500 or less loaded into your truck, Gen IV stuff is so expensive you may as well skip to Gen V. And once you add a cam and headers, the difference is negligible.

Yep, that's the way to do it

The Driveway Engineer do you or others have a “how to” trim/modify/clean up your factory harness?

The factory ecu will

Idk what you mean by plug and play, or by worth it... Watch more videos I guess, the engine and truck don't need to interact at all

The easiest harness to use will be one that matches your engine

You can just wire the plug, have full line pressure, and not spend anything.

@@TheDrivewayEngineer yea I was worried about temps it's going in a Ford bronco on 33s and the shock load on the axle

Sure, if it all matches

im in canada so thats km and cdn dollars

I generally will just run the factory PCM if it's available

@@TheDrivewayEngineer okay, I didn't get the fuse block with my pullout. Should I go back and try to get that?

@@tradinghouseoutdoors3114 it's worth having, you can use it if you want to

Nope

Sure

Why change from the ECU it has?

ok thanks ill use the stock one now to figer what i need for tuning it as i build ? hp tuners or what would u recomend and ill be pickin up a 02 cencer and gauge

HP Tuners is the way to go.

I can honestly say I have no idea, but it seems to me you're probably on the right track using a LS4. I'd try to find and entire smashed SS or GXP to use as a donor

I would say both being a GM vehicle see if the k frame will just bolt up unlikely but possible with GM.

Yep, just plug it all in

@@TheDrivewayEngineer Sweet! Thanks you very much!

The red/blue PCMs can do DBW or DBC. It's the standard 411, P01 PCM we all use, totally tunable

@@TheDrivewayEngineer thank you very much. I appreciate your time and help

You still have the red/blue P01 PCM, running a 5.3 is just a matter of programming it correctly. I'm not super sure what parts of the harness will be different, but probably not much. The coil packs come to mind though, and injectors. As far as the transmission, it will bolt up with 4 or 5 bolts, the pattern is different, but some still match, you'll need a spacer just like the one they use to put a TH350 behind an LS. Or you can just swap in a LS 4L60E and it'll fit and work fine.

@@TheDrivewayEngineer alright awesome thank you so much your videos have been big help. Ive already ordered hp tuner just to mess with on the 4.3 before I go to the v8 keep these videos going doing great. Guess one more question maybe you can add it to your series but how to pick which generation of "ls" pros cons or benefits be great

If you watch any HP Tuners vids, like mine for instance, my 8.1 reads as a 4.3 V6 lol, because that's the base model that uses the PCM, everything else is an option. I will keep that in mind, maybe I'll do a vid on the differences between the Gen III IV and V stuff, thanks for watching!

@@TheDrivewayEngineer oh really Haha I was wondering why it said that in your video and ya that'd be excellent I know it would help me allot with my motor choice an im sure others

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A Gen III engine won't run on a Gen IV pcm

@@TheDrivewayEngineer so what pcm would I need to make it work?

Not gonna work with a stock ECU

@@TheDrivewayEngineer so fitech or holley are my best options?

Microsquirt will work really well for you I think

@@TheDrivewayEngineer Thank you for the reply! Then you can buy an aftermarket pedal and use that right? And you wont have to buy different software (like hptuners) for a laptop to do any tuning right?

You'll have to use cable throttle with Microsquirt, just grab a cable TB from the boneyard. You can use Tunerstudio with the Micro for free, it's freeware.

Never mind. You answered the question. I have drive-by cable.

You can always get one from the same year as your donor harness. Chevy Performance, Lokar, and PSI all make aftermarket pedals as well.

Go to junk yards and find one for you application.

@@TheDrivewayEngineer I picked up a LM4 from a '03 Envoy XL complete with harness and fuse box. However, the pedal and pigtail where missing. I did pick up a drive by wire pedal, harness and module from a '05 avalanche. Will they it work with my envoy harness and pcm?

It's a minimum of 1300 for the X Max with trans control though. You do get a wideband, but for most guys who just want to build a driver/weekend warrior, it's just too much.

Good info bro i have the stock ecu and harness

The Driveway Engineer so in all actuality what you’re spending is about a 1000 using stock ecu with buying wiring harness and getting it tuned etc....

Yeah, no, not even close

If you can 411 swap your project, it's a very versatile PCM.

@@TheDrivewayEngineer 12200411? And then I'd have OBDII? I've got a top end from a 2006 3500 V6 (Malibu, G6) that will bolt to this block, might be a good overall move

There's no reason a stock ECU can't meet your needs, and it's easier to tune, in my opinion

@@TheDrivewayEngineer thanks

That's the answer, add 2 injectors and 2 coil packs.

Thanx

The two aren't at all compatible

@@TheDrivewayEngineer okay, thanks for the reply

@@TheDrivewayEngineer so I guess it is a cam swap, could you recommend a decent cam for it, upgraded trans, but not the converter, and I'd probably change out the valve springs since I'm already there. Thanks again for the knowledge

What do you need for a transmission? Probably not anything factory right? And then I'd assume it's never going to run in freezing temps either. So with all that, I'd probably throw a Microsquirt in it and be done, sell everything else from the donor but the engine.

@@TheDrivewayEngineer there's just a mechanical geardrive and prop. it's gonna be in Florida in hot and moderate cold weather it will need o2 sensors but nothing as far as transmission the engine load will increase as the rpm increases

Yeah, I'd microsquirt it, sell your factory harness and PCM to get the cost back.

@@TheDrivewayEngineer cool thanks

Nope

Yes it's not a problem

Thanks man. Do you think I will have to shorten or lengthen my driveshaft.

Depends if you move the trans or not, you don't have to

What do you suggest as far as motor mounts to keep from having to change change my driveshaft. Thanks alot.

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The only difference in truck stuff is DBW to DBC

@@TheDrivewayEngineer but the dbw throttle bodies are different. Mine is 02 and it changes in 03 I believe. I'm curious if it would work if I just got a 03+ and plugged it in. I'm assuming it uses a different pedal box too

Yes, 99-02 is one kind, 03-07 is the other kind

@@TheDrivewayEngineer I ordered the wrong harness twice, I had no idea there was different tb lol. Now I have to adapt to the newer one

Is there by any chance an adapter pigtail that works?