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Topic: LS4 Swap?

https://ls1tech.com/forums/attachments/conversions-swaps/636105d1501450570-saturn-ls4-swap-sleeper-project-20150830_131250_zpshtea4cch.jpg

I'm hardly one to advocate for LS swaps, BUT...I'm at least a little surprised no one has thrown the front-wheel drive version (LS4) into a little heap for Lemons. For example, a few years ago, someone built a street car by tossing an LS4 into a Saturn with a Getrag five-speed:

https://ls1tech.com/forums/conversions- … oject.html

So as long as we're bench racing: If an LS4 ended up on a pallet in your garage/shop, what would you do with it?

I think a lowered Buick Rendezvous would be on the money, personally, but I'm sure someone out there thinks an LS4 Fiero cpuld be a world-beater.

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2 Reply by chaase (edited by chaase 2024-04-19 05:38 AM)

  • chaase
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Re: LS4 Swap?

I've tried to get Manny to do it to our Saturn but he claims he doesn't want to die on the racetrack in a Saturn.

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Re: LS4 Swap?

chaase wrote:

I've tried to get Manny to do it to our Saturn but he claims he doesn't want to die on the racetrack in a Saturn.


smile  Funny .... Glad to see some self preservation is still active with your group...

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Re: LS4 Swap?

Will it fit in a Gen1 MINI?

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  • From: Olympia, WA
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Re: LS4 Swap?

Hmm, I forgot about the transverse LS. I wonder if it'd fit in an X1/9.

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  • chaase
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Re: LS4 Swap?

rozap_ wrote:

Hmm, I forgot about the transverse LS. I wonder if it'd fit in an X1/9.

Make it a mid-engine swap

1992 Saturn SL2 (retired) - Elmo's Revenge -  Class B winner, Heroic Fix winner x2
1969 Rover P6B 3500S(sold) - Super G-Rover - I.O.E Winner, Class C Winner
1996 Saturn SW2 - Elmo's Revenge (reborn!), Saturn SL1  Dazzleshipm Class C x2 and IOE winner
1974 AMC Javelin - Oscar's Trash heap - IOE,”Organizer's Choice" and "I got Screwed" award winner
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Re: LS4 Swap?

It's possibly cheating, because these are already basically W-bodies up front, but, 'This is the Way':

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cultur … 6-ls-swap/

Make mine a SWB though, for max dorkyness.  I even already have a set of front coilovers for it sitting in my carport.

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Re: LS4 Swap?

Chevy Lumina APV+LS4 swap+Cheaty suspension bits+fuel cell=overall win in class C

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