91slammins15’s 1991 GMC Jimmy

Time for the re-assembly of the motor. Here the heads are installed and we are just setting up the valve train for now. No pics of just the intake installed but here is a pic of the motor a little more complete headers and valve covers just put in place for the pic. Also the balancer was just put on to set up the valves before it was cleaned up and painted. Here is a couple pics of the motor completed and ready to be reinstalled in the truck. Notice the water pump and balancer painted to match the block. Time to drop the motor back where it belongs. Motor is bolted in now time to start cleaning up some of that wiring to relocate some of the sensors to the firewall out of site. Kinda messy looking now. Here it is cleaned up a little with the sensors that used to go over the valve cover moved. The old rad shroud was just a cut up part of the stock piece put in place to hold the rad I decided it was time to build my own out of a piece of flat aluminum. I drilled holes in the top at each end to use the stock rubber "feet" from the original shroud. Looks alot better than that crooked cut plastic piece of crap. I also built a little torque strap just because the parts to make it were readily available. Probably doesn't need it but it cost next to nothing to make. Finally a pic of the completed install. I removed the stock rad overflow tank so I could mount my 6AL in that spot and used a 1 liter dr pepper bottle for an overflow that I hid under the battery tray. It certainly doesn't have that stock look anymore but I am more than satisfied with how it looks now. With all the new parts and the new chip that came with the heads the motor runs perfect and has not thrown a code for 3 years. with the old install the ses light would come on daily. With the new mods came a desire to know what my engine is running like so I added a new a-pillar guage pod and guages.

Haven't been on here for a long time so figured it was time for some updates since I totally redid the motor 3 years ago. After the original swap there was a few issues nothing major just some little crap I wanted to take care of nothing throwing money at couldn't fix. First thing I did was pull out the motor to get ready for the upgrades. Here is the truck ready to have the heart removed Here it is just about out and ready for some cleanup and upgrades. After removal it was time to start cleaning up the block for some nice paint I decided to grind most of the casting #'s off the sides of the block and as much of the roughness as possible to get it ready for paint. Here is the start of the cleaning process. Here is the block after being painted with a nice coat of endura red. I decided to do some major upgrades that included aluminum heads aluminum intake edelbrock cam holley tbi and full msd ignition including billet distributor. I have since this upgrade decided to get rid of the chrome oilpan and change to a polished aluminum one more on that at a later date. I took my headers that were on the engine and sandblasted them and painted them with VHT paint and baked them at 450 for 30 minutes as the instructions said for a durable finish. This is one of my favorite pics as I used the pizza oven at a friends local restaurant. I also sandblasted the serpentine brackets and then sprayed them with clear coat. Here is a before and after pic of one of them.

These are my kick panels which hold my Phoenix Gold 6.5" zero point component speakers. Sorry for the dirty pic I will get a better one when I get my truck back from the engine swap.Also note the door panel cut out for when I build and install the panels which will hold a 8" Phoenix Gold XS sub woofer. This is an unfinished install that shows my 3 12" XS subwoofers and my M100 for the 8" door speakers and the M50 for the kick panels. The back off the box holds a Phoenix Gold MS2125 for the subs and a Coustic XM5E 3 way crossover and a Audio Control Esp-3.With this setup I was able too hit 149.8 decibels.Since then I have added a PG Powercore and an optima Yellow top battery. here is a pic of my powercore. since my truck was away I decided to redo the vinyl on the subbox cause it bubbled in one spot here is a couple pics of the box you can see where it bubbled.This is what the box looked like before I did the fiberglassing. Here is a pic of the box after sanding the fiberglass. Second shows the box after removing the old vinyl. Here is the pic of the box after being recovered with a new darker gray vinyl. This is the Alpine 7875 that heads up the system.The truck is protected by a DEI Python 550 and is always parked in a garage overnight.

This is a pic of my truck when I bought it in 1996 Here is a couple of pics of what it looks like now Here is a pic of the truck on the trailer ready for the 3 hour trip to get the motor swap done Another pic this was taken after the motor swap.Notice the addition of the flames on the windows. This picture is of the 4.3 motor that I replaced with the 5.7 The motor in my truck blew so I decided to swap in a TBI 350. more pics of the new motor. All of the brackets off of my 4.3 were used to keep it looking like a factory installed engine. Even the A/C was kept so I could cruise in comfort.The engine uses the stock ecm with the V6 chip the same TBI unit that was on the V6 and all of the sensors that were on the V6 too.The flywheel and starter were also used from the 4.3 and also the 700R4 transmission which was rebuilt to take the added torque.

Time for the re-assembly of the motor. Here the heads are installed and we are just setting up the valve train for now. No pics of just the intake installed but here is a pic of the motor a little more complete headers and valve covers just put in place for the pic. Also the balancer was just put on to set up the valves before it was cleaned up and painted. Here is a couple pics of the motor completed and ready to be reinstalled in the truck. Notice the water pump and balancer painted to match the block. Time to drop the motor back where it belongs. Motor is bolted in now time to start cleaning up some of that wiring to relocate some of the sensors to the firewall out of site. Kinda messy looking now. Here it is cleaned up a little with the sensors that used to go over the valve cover moved. The old rad shroud was just a cut up part of the stock piece put in place to hold the rad I decided it was time to build my own out of a piece of flat aluminum. I drilled holes in the top at each end to use the stock rubber "feet" from the original shroud. Looks alot better than that crooked cut plastic piece of crap. I also built a little torque strap just because the parts to make it were readily available. Probably doesn't need it but it cost next to nothing to make. Finally a pic of the completed install. I removed the stock rad overflow tank so I could mount my 6AL in that spot and used a 1 liter dr pepper bottle for an overflow that I hid under the battery tray. It certainly doesn't have that stock look anymore but I am more than satisfied with how it looks now. With all the new parts and the new chip that came with the heads the motor runs perfect and has not thrown a code for 3 years. with the old install the ses light would come on daily. With the new mods came a desire to know what my engine is running like so I added a new a-pillar guage pod and guages.

Haven't been on here for a long time so figured it was time for some updates since I totally redid the motor 3 years ago. After the original swap there was a few issues nothing major just some little crap I wanted to take care of nothing throwing money at couldn't fix. First thing I did was pull out the motor to get ready for the upgrades. Here is the truck ready to have the heart removed Here it is just about out and ready for some cleanup and upgrades. After removal it was time to start cleaning up the block for some nice paint I decided to grind most of the casting #'s off the sides of the block and as much of the roughness as possible to get it ready for paint. Here is the start of the cleaning process. Here is the block after being painted with a nice coat of endura red. I decided to do some major upgrades that included aluminum heads aluminum intake edelbrock cam holley tbi and full msd ignition including billet distributor. I have since this upgrade decided to get rid of the chrome oilpan and change to a polished aluminum one more on that at a later date. I took my headers that were on the engine and sandblasted them and painted them with VHT paint and baked them at 450 for 30 minutes as the instructions said for a durable finish. This is one of my favorite pics as I used the pizza oven at a friends local restaurant. I also sandblasted the serpentine brackets and then sprayed them with clear coat. Here is a before and after pic of one of them.

These are my kick panels which hold my Phoenix Gold 6.5" zero point component speakers. Sorry for the dirty pic I will get a better one when I get my truck back from the engine swap.Also note the door panel cut out for when I build and install the panels which will hold a 8" Phoenix Gold XS sub woofer. This is an unfinished install that shows my 3 12" XS subwoofers and my M100 for the 8" door speakers and the M50 for the kick panels. The back off the box holds a Phoenix Gold MS2125 for the subs and a Coustic XM5E 3 way crossover and a Audio Control Esp-3.With this setup I was able too hit 149.8 decibels.Since then I have added a PG Powercore and an optima Yellow top battery. here is a pic of my powercore. since my truck was away I decided to redo the vinyl on the subbox cause it bubbled in one spot here is a couple pics of the box you can see where it bubbled.This is what the box looked like before I did the fiberglassing. Here is a pic of the box after sanding the fiberglass. Second shows the box after removing the old vinyl. Here is the pic of the box after being recovered with a new darker gray vinyl. This is the Alpine 7875 that heads up the system.The truck is protected by a DEI Python 550 and is always parked in a garage overnight.

This is a pic of my truck when I bought it in 1996 Here is a couple of pics of what it looks like now Here is a pic of the truck on the trailer ready for the 3 hour trip to get the motor swap done Another pic this was taken after the motor swap.Notice the addition of the flames on the windows. This picture is of the 4.3 motor that I replaced with the 5.7 The motor in my truck blew so I decided to swap in a TBI 350. more pics of the new motor. All of the brackets off of my 4.3 were used to keep it looking like a factory installed engine. Even the A/C was kept so I could cruise in comfort.The engine uses the stock ecm with the V6 chip the same TBI unit that was on the V6 and all of the sensors that were on the V6 too.The flywheel and starter were also used from the 4.3 and also the 700R4 transmission which was rebuilt to take the added torque.

Time for the re-assembly of the motor. Here the heads are installed and we are just setting up the valve train for now. No pics of just the intake installed but here is a pic of the motor a little more complete headers and valve covers just put in place for the pic. Also the balancer was just put on to set up the valves before it was cleaned up and painted. Here is a couple pics of the motor completed and ready to be reinstalled in the truck. Notice the water pump and balancer painted to match the block. Time to drop the motor back where it belongs. Motor is bolted in now time to start cleaning up some of that wiring to relocate some of the sensors to the firewall out of site. Kinda messy looking now. Here it is cleaned up a little with the sensors that used to go over the valve cover moved. The old rad shroud was just a cut up part of the stock piece put in place to hold the rad I decided it was time to build my own out of a piece of flat aluminum. I drilled holes in the top at each end to use the stock rubber "feet" from the original shroud. Looks alot better than that crooked cut plastic piece of crap. I also built a little torque strap just because the parts to make it were readily available. Probably doesn't need it but it cost next to nothing to make. Finally a pic of the completed install. I removed the stock rad overflow tank so I could mount my 6AL in that spot and used a 1 liter dr pepper bottle for an overflow that I hid under the battery tray. It certainly doesn't have that stock look anymore but I am more than satisfied with how it looks now. With all the new parts and the new chip that came with the heads the motor runs perfect and has not thrown a code for 3 years. with the old install the ses light would come on daily. With the new mods came a desire to know what my engine is running like so I added a new a-pillar guage pod and guages.

Haven't been on here for a long time so figured it was time for some updates since I totally redid the motor 3 years ago. After the original swap there was a few issues nothing major just some little crap I wanted to take care of nothing throwing money at couldn't fix. First thing I did was pull out the motor to get ready for the upgrades. Here is the truck ready to have the heart removed Here it is just about out and ready for some cleanup and upgrades. After removal it was time to start cleaning up the block for some nice paint I decided to grind most of the casting #'s off the sides of the block and as much of the roughness as possible to get it ready for paint. Here is the start of the cleaning process. Here is the block after being painted with a nice coat of endura red. I decided to do some major upgrades that included aluminum heads aluminum intake edelbrock cam holley tbi and full msd ignition including billet distributor. I have since this upgrade decided to get rid of the chrome oilpan and change to a polished aluminum one more on that at a later date. I took my headers that were on the engine and sandblasted them and painted them with VHT paint and baked them at 450 for 30 minutes as the instructions said for a durable finish. This is one of my favorite pics as I used the pizza oven at a friends local restaurant. I also sandblasted the serpentine brackets and then sprayed them with clear coat. Here is a before and after pic of one of them.

These are my kick panels which hold my Phoenix Gold 6.5" zero point component speakers. Sorry for the dirty pic I will get a better one when I get my truck back from the engine swap.Also note the door panel cut out for when I build and install the panels which will hold a 8" Phoenix Gold XS sub woofer. This is an unfinished install that shows my 3 12" XS subwoofers and my M100 for the 8" door speakers and the M50 for the kick panels. The back off the box holds a Phoenix Gold MS2125 for the subs and a Coustic XM5E 3 way crossover and a Audio Control Esp-3.With this setup I was able too hit 149.8 decibels.Since then I have added a PG Powercore and an optima Yellow top battery. here is a pic of my powercore. since my truck was away I decided to redo the vinyl on the subbox cause it bubbled in one spot here is a couple pics of the box you can see where it bubbled.This is what the box looked like before I did the fiberglassing. Here is a pic of the box after sanding the fiberglass. Second shows the box after removing the old vinyl. Here is the pic of the box after being recovered with a new darker gray vinyl. This is the Alpine 7875 that heads up the system.The truck is protected by a DEI Python 550 and is always parked in a garage overnight.

This is a pic of my truck when I bought it in 1996 Here is a couple of pics of what it looks like now Here is a pic of the truck on the trailer ready for the 3 hour trip to get the motor swap done Another pic this was taken after the motor swap.Notice the addition of the flames on the windows. This picture is of the 4.3 motor that I replaced with the 5.7 The motor in my truck blew so I decided to swap in a TBI 350. more pics of the new motor. All of the brackets off of my 4.3 were used to keep it looking like a factory installed engine. Even the A/C was kept so I could cruise in comfort.The engine uses the stock ecm with the V6 chip the same TBI unit that was on the V6 and all of the sensors that were on the V6 too.The flywheel and starter were also used from the 4.3 and also the 700R4 transmission which was rebuilt to take the added torque.

Time for the re-assembly of the motor. Here the heads are installed and we are just setting up the valve train for now. No pics of just the intake installed but here is a pic of the motor a little more complete headers and valve covers just put in place for the pic. Also the balancer was just put on to set up the valves before it was cleaned up and painted. Here is a couple pics of the motor completed and ready to be reinstalled in the truck. Notice the water pump and balancer painted to match the block. Time to drop the motor back where it belongs. Motor is bolted in now time to start cleaning up some of that wiring to relocate some of the sensors to the firewall out of site. Kinda messy looking now. Here it is cleaned up a little with the sensors that used to go over the valve cover moved. The old rad shroud was just a cut up part of the stock piece put in place to hold the rad I decided it was time to build my own out of a piece of flat aluminum. I drilled holes in the top at each end to use the stock rubber "feet" from the original shroud. Looks alot better than that crooked cut plastic piece of crap. I also built a little torque strap just because the parts to make it were readily available. Probably doesn't need it but it cost next to nothing to make. Finally a pic of the completed install. I removed the stock rad overflow tank so I could mount my 6AL in that spot and used a 1 liter dr pepper bottle for an overflow that I hid under the battery tray. It certainly doesn't have that stock look anymore but I am more than satisfied with how it looks now. With all the new parts and the new chip that came with the heads the motor runs perfect and has not thrown a code for 3 years. with the old install the ses light would come on daily. With the new mods came a desire to know what my engine is running like so I added a new a-pillar guage pod and guages.

Haven't been on here for a long time so figured it was time for some updates since I totally redid the motor 3 years ago. After the original swap there was a few issues nothing major just some little crap I wanted to take care of nothing throwing money at couldn't fix. First thing I did was pull out the motor to get ready for the upgrades. Here is the truck ready to have the heart removed Here it is just about out and ready for some cleanup and upgrades. After removal it was time to start cleaning up the block for some nice paint I decided to grind most of the casting #'s off the sides of the block and as much of the roughness as possible to get it ready for paint. Here is the start of the cleaning process. Here is the block after being painted with a nice coat of endura red. I decided to do some major upgrades that included aluminum heads aluminum intake edelbrock cam holley tbi and full msd ignition including billet distributor. I have since this upgrade decided to get rid of the chrome oilpan and change to a polished aluminum one more on that at a later date. I took my headers that were on the engine and sandblasted them and painted them with VHT paint and baked them at 450 for 30 minutes as the instructions said for a durable finish. This is one of my favorite pics as I used the pizza oven at a friends local restaurant. I also sandblasted the serpentine brackets and then sprayed them with clear coat. Here is a before and after pic of one of them.

These are my kick panels which hold my Phoenix Gold 6.5" zero point component speakers. Sorry for the dirty pic I will get a better one when I get my truck back from the engine swap.Also note the door panel cut out for when I build and install the panels which will hold a 8" Phoenix Gold XS sub woofer. This is an unfinished install that shows my 3 12" XS subwoofers and my M100 for the 8" door speakers and the M50 for the kick panels. The back off the box holds a Phoenix Gold MS2125 for the subs and a Coustic XM5E 3 way crossover and a Audio Control Esp-3.With this setup I was able too hit 149.8 decibels.Since then I have added a PG Powercore and an optima Yellow top battery. here is a pic of my powercore. since my truck was away I decided to redo the vinyl on the subbox cause it bubbled in one spot here is a couple pics of the box you can see where it bubbled.This is what the box looked like before I did the fiberglassing. Here is a pic of the box after sanding the fiberglass. Second shows the box after removing the old vinyl. Here is the pic of the box after being recovered with a new darker gray vinyl. This is the Alpine 7875 that heads up the system.The truck is protected by a DEI Python 550 and is always parked in a garage overnight.

This is a pic of my truck when I bought it in 1996 Here is a couple of pics of what it looks like now Here is a pic of the truck on the trailer ready for the 3 hour trip to get the motor swap done Another pic this was taken after the motor swap.Notice the addition of the flames on the windows. This picture is of the 4.3 motor that I replaced with the 5.7 The motor in my truck blew so I decided to swap in a TBI 350. more pics of the new motor. All of the brackets off of my 4.3 were used to keep it looking like a factory installed engine. Even the A/C was kept so I could cruise in comfort.The engine uses the stock ecm with the V6 chip the same TBI unit that was on the V6 and all of the sensors that were on the V6 too.The flywheel and starter were also used from the 4.3 and also the 700R4 transmission which was rebuilt to take the added torque.

Time for the re-assembly of the motor. Here the heads are installed and we are just setting up the valve train for now. No pics of just the intake installed but here is a pic of the motor a little more complete headers and valve covers just put in place for the pic. Also the balancer was just put on to set up the valves before it was cleaned up and painted. Here is a couple pics of the motor completed and ready to be reinstalled in the truck. Notice the water pump and balancer painted to match the block. Time to drop the motor back where it belongs. Motor is bolted in now time to start cleaning up some of that wiring to relocate some of the sensors to the firewall out of site. Kinda messy looking now. Here it is cleaned up a little with the sensors that used to go over the valve cover moved. The old rad shroud was just a cut up part of the stock piece put in place to hold the rad I decided it was time to build my own out of a piece of flat aluminum. I drilled holes in the top at each end to use the stock rubber "feet" from the original shroud. Looks alot better than that crooked cut plastic piece of crap. I also built a little torque strap just because the parts to make it were readily available. Probably doesn't need it but it cost next to nothing to make. Finally a pic of the completed install. I removed the stock rad overflow tank so I could mount my 6AL in that spot and used a 1 liter dr pepper bottle for an overflow that I hid under the battery tray. It certainly doesn't have that stock look anymore but I am more than satisfied with how it looks now. With all the new parts and the new chip that came with the heads the motor runs perfect and has not thrown a code for 3 years. with the old install the ses light would come on daily. With the new mods came a desire to know what my engine is running like so I added a new a-pillar guage pod and guages.

Haven't been on here for a long time so figured it was time for some updates since I totally redid the motor 3 years ago. After the original swap there was a few issues nothing major just some little crap I wanted to take care of nothing throwing money at couldn't fix. First thing I did was pull out the motor to get ready for the upgrades. Here is the truck ready to have the heart removed Here it is just about out and ready for some cleanup and upgrades. After removal it was time to start cleaning up the block for some nice paint I decided to grind most of the casting #'s off the sides of the block and as much of the roughness as possible to get it ready for paint. Here is the start of the cleaning process. Here is the block after being painted with a nice coat of endura red. I decided to do some major upgrades that included aluminum heads aluminum intake edelbrock cam holley tbi and full msd ignition including billet distributor. I have since this upgrade decided to get rid of the chrome oilpan and change to a polished aluminum one more on that at a later date. I took my headers that were on the engine and sandblasted them and painted them with VHT paint and baked them at 450 for 30 minutes as the instructions said for a durable finish. This is one of my favorite pics as I used the pizza oven at a friends local restaurant. I also sandblasted the serpentine brackets and then sprayed them with clear coat. Here is a before and after pic of one of them.

These are my kick panels which hold my Phoenix Gold 6.5" zero point component speakers. Sorry for the dirty pic I will get a better one when I get my truck back from the engine swap.Also note the door panel cut out for when I build and install the panels which will hold a 8" Phoenix Gold XS sub woofer. This is an unfinished install that shows my 3 12" XS subwoofers and my M100 for the 8" door speakers and the M50 for the kick panels. The back off the box holds a Phoenix Gold MS2125 for the subs and a Coustic XM5E 3 way crossover and a Audio Control Esp-3.With this setup I was able too hit 149.8 decibels.Since then I have added a PG Powercore and an optima Yellow top battery. here is a pic of my powercore. since my truck was away I decided to redo the vinyl on the subbox cause it bubbled in one spot here is a couple pics of the box you can see where it bubbled.This is what the box looked like before I did the fiberglassing. Here is a pic of the box after sanding the fiberglass. Second shows the box after removing the old vinyl. Here is the pic of the box after being recovered with a new darker gray vinyl. This is the Alpine 7875 that heads up the system.The truck is protected by a DEI Python 550 and is always parked in a garage overnight.