Has anyone attempted to do a 5.0 Coyote Swap on their 60 or 80 series? My 91 is finally dying after 420k miles and was thinking of doing an LS swap but as a Bronco and F150 owner… im more of a Ford guy than a Chevy guy. Figured id check if its been done before.
Coyote 5.0 Swap - 80 Series
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Is there some kit you guys are buying to swap to an LS motor? Or do you have to piece everything together yourself?
That is my first thought.
I believe you can use a bellhousing adapter to make a coyote go to a nv4500. You will have modify the firewall a lot. Once that's done it should be downhill from their. The coyote is a nice engine but it's expensive. It's also bulky. Everything has pros and cons though. I think their might be a ford 10 speed adapter to the toyota tcase out their somewhere.
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Here's a good start that I've been eying for the LS swap...
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I'm going to bet you haven't verified that width is prohibitive to the swap.
In fact, there's very few engine bays that will accommodate a pushrod small block that won't accommodate a Coyote.
The narrow engine bay cars of the '20-40's are the biggest problem swaps.
Looky here, it appears they fit with ease in a 60-series.
Why is that everyone just knee jerks "too wide" without doing any verification at all?
Why is that everyone just knee jerks "too wide" without doing any verification at all?
Because LSs are basic and overrated
For most basic is good. The land cruiser is designed to be in harsh environments miles away into the wilderness for camping, exploring etc. In that scenario the LS is really nice for that. The wide heads are going to be more challenging. The coyote has more complexity. It's not a bad motor. However it's time consuming to do a well integrated swap from another make. Having a simple engine makes it a bit easier to do that and do any field repairs. But if the additional complexity doesn't scare you it would be a cool build thread to watch. When are you planning on installing a coyote into your 80?
I've not been intimate with any of the newer Ford pushrod engines, but I have developed aftermarket products for both the GM LS engines and the late model Dodge Hemi engines. Been pretty intimate with both. And while I'm not much of a Dodge fan, but I gotta say, the Hemi sure strikes me as a much better built engine that the LS. It's such a cleaner, simpler design from top to bottom.
So to me, I get that the reason to go LS is "because everyone else does it", but if I chose a V8 swap powerplant for reasons other than that it would not be an LS.
If I was gonna swap a GM powerplant in an 80 series I'd choose the 4.2 Atlas over an LS. What a superbly underrated little beast those buggers are!
By basic, I don't mean technically simple.
I mean basic in the urban dictionary sense.
LS/LT; the engines themselves, aren't particularly "field repair" friendly either, IMO.
I've built many LS engines, and replacing lifters or repairing a rattled loose crankshaft reluctor wheel rattle is way more labor intensive than it should be.
So when are you starting your coyote swap? Have you done a coyote swap before?
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Yes, but not in a Land Cruiser
Cool. Look forward to seeing you put one in a land cruiser.
