| On November 20th 2005 I had my fill of NOS problems. My wife said I would never be happy with a restored Suburban. She was right. I was trying to go against my grain again. I have always been a hot-rodder at heart. I rolled the Suburban out to my home shop and got 'stubborn!' I suspended the entire body from the rafters of the shop and lifted away. I rolled the stock frame out from under the Suburban. WARNING: This was stupid and unsafe! As I said, 'stubborn!' |
| Stupid is suspending a very rare vehicle from rafters that could let go and collapse the whole shop roof, as well as destroy the Suburban. Unsafe is doing it all by yourself!! Oh yeah, that part is stupid also!! |
| The motto of my shop at home is "I ALWAYS WIN!" And win I did. Within four hours of walking out to the shop, I had removed the stock frame, did a four wheel swap from a spare frame and swapped in a rolling S10 frame with some of our S10 frame swap kit installed. This one still had a 350 mockup motor and TH350 tranny installed. |
| The next weekend was engine swap time. I borrowed my wife's 2005 5.3 liter Displacement on Demand aluminum V8 and set that baby into place. I built the engine and transmission mounts and got ready for steering and brake fabrication. |
| By mid-March I had the engine back out and all the steering, foot brakes, parking brakes and electronic throttle engineered. I installed a set of two-inch billet wheel adapters to go from the S10 5x4.75" bolt pattern to the stock Suburban 6x5.50" bolt pattern. I did this because I decided to go with a completely stock look, inside and out, with a totally late model running gear and drivetrain. |
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Robert Hertz
Owner - A.D.E.
55.1 GMC Suburban
Sonora, CA, USA
Owner - A.D.E.
55.1 GMC Suburban
Sonora, CA, USA