Should I Motor Swap my Bronco?
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- Join us on an exciting journey as we team up with the renowned experts at Dave's Auto to explore the possibilities of motor swapping for our beloved vintage Ford Bronco! 🚗💨
In this episode, we delve into the world of automotive restoration and modification, as we seek to breathe new life into our classic ride. Dave's Auto, known for their expertise and passion for all things automotive, brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table as we discuss the potential upgrades and enhancements for our Bronco.
Whether you're a seasoned gear head or just have a love for vintage vehicles, this is one episode you won't want to miss! So buckle up and join us as we embark on this exhilarating adventure with Dave's Auto, where the past meets the future on four wheels.
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I put a crate. 460 in my 79 bronco there is an engine mount kit that you can buy, and it went in as slick as butter and bolted right up to the transmission.
gettin a little lotta totally disgruntled at all the LS's gettin stuffed into FORDS.... just saying out to the MULTIVERSE that is...... ;)
Had to cost at least 50k
No, he did not cost that much. My wife worked at the Ford dealership and I was good friends with the mechanics for discontinued. The 460 and I picked it up for $1200. That is a killer deal. The conversion kit was $1600 and the mechanic installed it for 1000.
When someone gives you an outrageous quote, just know he doesn't want the work and you won't be happy with his service. I could tell he didn't want this job immediately
It cracks me up seeing UA-camrs say "this thing is shot there's no saving it" with something that's complete and still has paint on it. you flick to the right channel and a guy will drag something out of the trees you can't even distinguish as a vehicle and drive it home after it sat for 70 years.
Yea, like the pic of the first gen bronco for free? Where is it, I will travel from coast to coast to pick up a decent shape first gen for free, Last one I ran across was $7k and it was a rust bucket. This bronco in that shape is likely worth $12-15k. Most of those rigs were beat to death and ran into the ground, then left to rust to death, so its getting harder and harder to find em.
Im the guy that's not a mechanic that has mechanical skills that resurrected one from the grave. A
79 bronco. It had sat for 23 years in the hot Utah sun and weather. It was definitely a task but a worthy one! Now both my sons have old broncos they've bought and are working on. It's an awesome thing to see. Remember its not always about the cost its about making memories and life lesson's that's priceless! Learning life skill's! I tell them be persistent and little by little things will come together! Sometimes beauty is in the eyes of the beholder 😂
If someone quotes you 50k for an LS swap on anything.... ANYTHING!!! Don't walk, run away...
If they tell you to put a LS in a bronco, run away!!
I can LS swap a wood shed for $50k..... Don't lie you're interested now
@@minter_fab_mafiafactual
Yes more dave we all love dave 😊
Even if you don't know how to a lot of the work, learn, and do it yourself. It'll always be cheaper.
And take your time. Do it right and get the knowledge.
So cool!
I hear alot of motor talk but didn't see a single motor in the video. I see a couple engines.
If a mechanic calls your engine a motor. Run! He ain't worth a dime.
Thanks. I had to quit watching the video a couple times because "motor" this and "motor" that. DAMN!!!
Blah blah blah. Electric has always been motor, but in casual chat people call engines motors. Don’t get hung up on such a common thing. There was a magazine called motor trend….. did you write the editor there?
your miserable
My husband is a mechanic that has a drag car. I laughed when they said that engine did wheelies. I’m not a mechanic just a wife with a crazy husband that loves his race car, that does wheelies. Well we won’t talk about how much its cost him to do that. New Elngine being built currently. Ugg 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️. Glad he work hard to support that habit. Great video guys, I hope people really understand what you telling them. ❤❤❤❤❤
Dude is a wealth of knowledge
that f1 crash at the end on the tv is crazy
You guys put a lot of trust in Dave,He had a hard time getting a simple old school Chevy small block running on your show not long ago .l remember.!!
LMAO 🤣😂. I was thinking the same thing. I'm still in shock over that video. I mean everyone has their days and brain farts but that was crazy.
Like Dave's Auto, woulda liked to see him wrench/do sumpthin` to it. Learned a lot, YES, but. Did the rig get offa the trailer?
Great video, A lot of people need to hear these things. I see some people don't like the prices he was throwing out, and what they don't understand is it takes A LONG TIME to build a great reputation, and once someone builds that reputation, it is going to cost you more to get things done by them because why would they spend say 100 hrs working on your vehicle for half the amount they could be making doing other things for other people? Your time is worth a certain amount of money per hour, so why waste it doing work for half your worth when you can book other work in that time slot that's going to pay you twice as much?
A lot of people don't get that. So if they don't want to pay for that reputation of doing perfect work, then they need to take their stuff to someone who may do an okay job, or who may not do a good job at all and now they're out their money and stuck with a screwed up vehicle/house/boat, or whatever it is they have.
Thanks Calvin! You are right. You have to pick and choose the jobs and what is appropriate
How is it 50g to ls swap something? I can get a junkyard ls put it in a old school Camaro with a 4l80e. $6000 for the combo then all you have to do is make motor mounts get drive shaft length corrected and a Holley ecu… it’s definitely a lot of work but not 50000 unless you go all out and have the best of the best shop do it
great points and well understood. I think your last sentence is correct. If you aren't going to have the best shop do it it may be cheaper. But they may not do it correctly either. Speaking from a lot of experience on this.
@@SparksMotorsCo yes sir! You get what you pay for lol
Unless you buy a $30k ls7/trans combo to start with. Most people doing restorations spend a shit ton of money.
@@kramnahillac I agree but just the way the dude said it was like that’s the minimum but more like a minimum for resto
You absolutely should 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Why is a engine swap so much. Well peeps you just got all the knowledge you need on the cost. Great vid guys. Miss ya all.
I think they should spend all that dough on this build because eventually one day one of us will win it and be super happy.
Whatever happened to the cement truck that y’all were building?
Motor swap is for an electric vehicle. In a Bronco its called an engine swap, FYI mate!
50k for an LS Bro co swap, my guy here is higher the Jesus.
Its been 50 years since I pulled a motor.
I swear all these UA-camrs know either other
A whole video on what we are going to make a video about?
Hell yes brother coyote all the way
Or 7.3 Godzilla swap.
The timing chain diagram was of a OHC engine. Not a pushrod type ..
i say, just make the swap yourselfs. Its always a gamble with used stuff. Shure, it may take x10hours by you, but a project like this, half of the thing is doing it yourself.
If the motor runs and is complete….I would run it. I think lots of people want a motor swap because everyone is use to updated engines along with EFI nowadays. I still appreciate having an older vehicle with the original engine.
Do a crate motor, keep it old school
That was the wrong schematic for that motor for sure, doing the timing on a pushrod ford is way easier than a modular ford
Nice! We were wondering who would be first to notice 😅
Please don’t kill older steel vehicles. I’m not a Ford fan. Though I see the value in this Bronco. I’d rather it be given to a follower of the channel once it running. #saveoldervehicles. I was 9. My moms Cherokee chief had a water pump failure. She bought me a chiltons manual. A basic craftsman toolbox and the water pump. I replaced that water pump and my career was born. Love you mom. RIP.
Shut up Steve.
@@gregorholmes1837 I’m not the Steve your DDE fans are looking at.
I doubt anybody is concerned with what you’d rather happen with the Bronco. When you own something, you can do whatever you want with it.
Hey what’s up bros how y’all doing much love
Where are they getting parts from and how much a hour, $100-$150k to do body/mechanical work. Not knocking the quality or time but Jesus. I bought 1985 Chevy blazer and replaced 75% of the body, complete restoration (I did the body work, 25 yrs experience). I had a 400 small block built by certified wyo-tech mechanic (cousin). The interior was mint so saved on that, I had maybe $3k in parts and labor in the motor and maybe $2500 in body work/paint. With cost of vehicle I had $8k out of pocket, it was before pandemic (2018) when everyone wasnt insane on prices
That Was A WHOLE LOT OF GOOD INFORMATION!!!
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Yeah why not.
Your lucky Utah will let you swap a motor , you try that in Cali they probably will slap a tampering notice on your vehicle!!!
If you had not dry raced the engine when you picked it up, That's destructive on a oil dry engine.Never ever do that .!!!! From Crank& Bearings on up to the Valve train & TIMING CHAIN.!!!
Whats up with the Hummer build???
Since you asked we made our next video for you. Go watch it.
The mini is awesome! Should check out his burnout vids on youtube! And he is a good dude!
This bloke Gives Asprin a Headache! 😢
Most of them came with the 351M which was a real piece of crap so you might wanna swap it!
And the one that I own, the ECU crapped out on us and that cost us $2000
And I only had a two barrel which came with the bronco never had a four barrel.
I kinda feel like Dave says a lot of words, but doesn’t actually say much 🤔
😂😂 cleetus spoiled them with gas cars 😂.😂
Srry to say this guys..i used tobwatch every video ..now i feel like the channel has went in a different direction..not a big fan as i was
How much do you want the Bronco as is?
They are looking for a minimum of $6500 or they will just play with it.
Surprised no check on sparkplugs or compression.
You can have all the gas in the world but no compression. You got much bigger problems.
Swap it out with a 460 out of a pickup truck. 9:40
$500 for a diagnostic.!!???
Put A Diesel In It!!
GODZILLA
like
6.2l swap.
Why no diesels anymore ,?
Put a 5 9 Cummins in it a smoker😂
You guys need to learn about better microphone placement.
That's not the 4 door bronco lol
lol yall are way overthinking on price. On things
Big Block ed
Engine* runs on fuel not a battery.
Should have put that engine on the Dyno, Would have proved and shown everything, And shut that 700hp guy up...
You gotta pay to get it running first.
@@alanhinkel420 The content from the video and exposure for the shop will pay for it.
I shouldn't be giving out free ideas for content either. Mybad.
@@MichaelSmith-jv7zm I’d rather put that money in my pocket instead of a engine. You charge people for content ideas?
@@alanhinkel420 Yes, and it wouldn't be your money paying for the engine. It's not yours why would you pay for it.
@@MichaelSmith-jv7zm I’m saying, if I were Dave, I wouldn’t put money into an engine just to prove it can’t hit 750 HP. The mechanic said it wouldn’t without upgrades. Why not just take his word for it instead of blowing up a good engine. I don’t even remember what engine it is. A 460?
Ill buy that bronco as is so you dont spend 50k to swap that LS crap into that bronco!!! Ill take it as it is and run it down any trail.
nice not seeing Hanns trying to be funny
Just throw a Holy E.F.I. on it and be done, man.
Not that old😂
Wow. I never thought I’d say I don’t like what you guys are doing. But I don’t like what you’ve got going on here!!!! The second question that should have been asked after determining the condition of the original engine is… Do the numbers match? Then if so… rebuild it to original spec!! STOP destroying these old vehicles to something admittedly cool, but just dumb considering what you have here. Show some class and restore and preserve some of these. There are less and less of them as time passes by.
Dave is out to lunch with those prices and labor dude is doing too much
personally, *I* think peeps should LOOOZE COOL DUDE/DUDE-ETTE POINTS IF ONE SWAPS AN LS into a FORD!!! ;) even if yo talkin the 32 roadsters and watnot.... FLATHEADS OR COYOTEEs!!! :) actauully there is that smaller faster one now right? with the turbos? eh...
gettin a little tired of everyone droppin LS's in 'EVERYTHING' even when they are FORDS TO START OUT WITH and the peeps even LIKE FORDS but they still doin an LS SWAP INTO QA FORD JUST CUZ THE WEBz PEEPS ARE HALLERING FOR IT..... sigh.....
how about a ''WHAT FITS THAT IS STILL FORD BLU TO REMAIN TRU kind of episodes??? fo go into the different engine types and add like a turbo and holly digitikals on a BUYILT UP STRAIGHT 6 !!!!!!!!!! ;) or something ... ;) I could spit a few other ideas... BUT..... 302's why ain't there a ''GAMARA'' (the turtle lol snikker) VERSION OF ENGINE THAT IS SMALLER THAN A coyotee, lol codename BEEPBURD or something lol hahaha
anyhow.... is this another LS GOES INTO A BRONCO ??? why didn't/couldnt you get a BLAZER ???? sigh...
WAIT THIS IS DAVE SPARKES AND PEEPS>.... you gotta do the CUMMINS SWAP or DEESELL into the BRONCO then it don't matter, but if this is just another LS GOES INTO A BRONCO ... blah I am ...still gunna watch but I am gunna be GRUMBLIN BUMBLIN MUMBLIN THE WHOLE WAY THRU!!! just saying
"HAVE AN AWESOME EVERY THING !!!
LOVE JOY COMPASSION
Wow! Mechanic Dave is a bit of a negative Nelly now isn’t he?
I would say he is a realistic shop owner/mechanic of over 35 years. So he just gets to the point.
With all due respect, I wouldn’t let the guy work on my lawnmower.
I don’t think he would ask.
Please don’t put a Chevy LS motor in this Ford. Coyote
I wouldn’t take my car to this mechanic, even if he works for free he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He just spouts off information like it every other bullshitting mechanic 351 w 2 barrel make 200 t 220 hp and 50000 k to le swap I just put one n a cutlass charged 7000
Engine Swaps are getting a Tad Boring on UA-cam. Great when Skid Factory and Mighty Car Mods started. Now Boring.. SleeperDude has already done one too many..
"This thing isn't worth body work." 😂😅 That tells me this guy isn't the mechanic for this Bronco. This guys is a f'n crook. I run a shop and do LS swaps, this shop owner guy should stick to head gaskets on subarus. Find somebody that is a technician not a Body guy posing as a technician.
This Dave guy is a grade A 🤡
You’re atleast $1000 out of pocket if you use this goons shop!!! 🤦🏽♂️
Dave seems sketchy as hell . Alot of talkin out his ass . Thowing out crazy numbers .
U guys teaching yrselves common-sense or whats the Go here......... ?
Yes, 50k atleast for a ls swap. Unless your uncle Hank does it in his backyard for 15 years then yes, sure, maybe 24k and never gets done right and runs like crap. ls7 alone is 12k, tranny is another 10-12, if you dont do it yourself another 5-10k atleast, and if you think thats all your going to need for the swap you are sadly mistaken lol. Soooo yes 50k for a LS swap done the CORRECT way
This video really left a bad taste. I hear alot of excuses of why a mechanic who decides to be a mechanic can't and won't work on a classic iconic vehicle and will charge an arm and a leg. I lost any respect for "dave".
351W??? BARF! Crap motor!
You need to get off the crap.
That guy is a joke and don't know what he is talking about
If it was someone that has not been in business for over 35 years working on motors and now building their own I could give this comment merit. However, that isn’t the case. He very much so knows what he is talking about.
Cringe