Just decided to do a swap

I just decided to do a ls1 swap into my 944 but I feel alone is there any one left doing this or have one already done

haha, I think there are plenty of people still working on theirs. This is a pretty active forum.

Welcome,

Luke

Welcome, best advice I can give you is before you start asking questions please learn how to do an advanced search then spend a few evenings looking at the wealth of information available on this site.
Most, if not all problems/procedures have been addressed and photographed.

Were is a good start. My motor is out.

I suppose it's different for everyone. I started by machining the bell housing and adapter plate so that I could bolt the engine to the torque tube. Then I mocked up the motor mounts and crossmember spacers. I think there is a nice tubular crossmember out there somewhere. You can get a lot of parts from texas performance concepts, I made mine, but I had some time on my hands.

Cheers

Luke714 how can I make my own motor mounts

I have a build thread for the early part of my swap.  I haven't kept it up to date very well recently.  If you look on page 5 I think I've got some stuff on uprights.

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Like Luke said, read through this site. You will learn a lot, get confused at some times, I don't think there are 2 swaps that are identical. Since I am not a machinist I bought the kit from TPC. It has everything you need to get the engine in. I have my engine in, but somehow I have the mounts a little crooked, so its time to drop the front suspension out again. Depending on your budget, think about buying a complete donor car from a salvage yard, so you can use what you need, and sell the rest on craigslist or ebay. Or if you are doing it on a budget like me just gather up the parts you need on craigslist or ebay. I am doing my swap on a 87 n/a, that was a stripped roller, rust free Florida then Oklahoma car. I am doing a "3 way" conversion. 4 cyl to 2000 Vette Ls1, automatic to manual, early suspension on late model car. By the way, the interior is 90% complete now , all the electrical on the car side works now, and the body work is almost all done. Hope to be driving by summer time.

Congrats on making the decision! I think that's the hardest part - the rest of the build is just frustration.
Read up on what you need and just follow what others have done. Lots of swaps out there and the knowledge base is huge. Where you located and what is your plan for the car? Street/track?

nateporchevy wrote:I just decided to do a ls1 swap into my 944 but I feel alone is there any one left doing this or have one already done

I really appreciate all your responses. I cant wait to get in to it I already pulled my engine and right now I looking for a ls1 for my swap. how are these cars after the fact. I would expect to have seen videos of them killing grand nationals and lambos but not much on youtube.

either go thru the posts and save diagrams and pix that can be used as reference. or as each item u start to do look up the stuff and then save and print so u dont have to keep running back to look it up. a pic is worth a lot on how people get these done.

I somewhere a tubular cross member used in one of these swaps any info on were I can find this part. Admin are you selling this bro how much