Memeing aside, how easy is it to LS swap a car? What does it cost?

>>15799951
About 500 dollars and an afternoon.

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Beyond your skill level
More than you can afford

>>15799951
Picked up my LS1 motor in trade for some brake pads. I had it dropped into my Renault Scenic and running in a few hours.

>>15799955
perkele

Around 10k give or take nowadays regardless of what internet mechanics will tell you. Swapping into cars like 240sxs and Rx7s are well documented at this point but will still require time and effort. You will need to source parts, find someone that can fabricate whatever is needed and you'll need a custom wiring harness if you want all the bells and whistles to work like a tach and spedometer.

Source: LS swapped S14 owner here.

Not OP but who's qualified to do it if I payed someone to do it?

>>15799951
Depends on the car. If you start with something that is popular for doing swaps you could probably buy a complete kit that has all the mounts and adapters you need, If not I hope are good at welding and fabrication. Cost will depend on what engine you start with. LS-based truck engines are cheaper except it can be expensive to buy the car intake/injectors/harness/rails/etc if the truck intake doesn't fit under the hood. Something like this takes a lot of research and planning to do it right.

>>15799961
Go to car meets and ask around for a local shop that does quality work. Keep in mind that professional work is expensive and you'll be looking at around $100/hour for labor alone not including parts.

A reputable tuner will already have experience with LS swaps and be able to handle whatever you need for youe specific car as long as you come in with a realistic platform and not a Fiat 500 or something lol

>>15799961
custom fabrication shops, but be prepared to pay 20k minimum. The average shop/mechanic either won't touch it or will still charge you a shit-load but they'll fuck it up every step of the way.

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>>15799959
>>15799971
>>15799979
RIP in peice my desire to buy a Jag XJ and engine swap it. Looks like there's no way to make them reliable.

>>15799951
LS3 V8 Miata Build - Project Thunderbolt!: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaeETZPdShsN8XtwhDKS-iVJZ38lKFKI9

This series details every little thing he had to do to swap an LS3 into his Miata, still took him months and he's a mechanic

>>15800015
>http://www.jaguarspecialties.com/Prices-V8Conversion.asp

Found you some parts famm, at least you don't have to fab everything. The real world of engine swapping is a far cry from video games.

>>15800039
>$495

i wouldn't budget less than $6000, even if you find a cheap junkyard engine you have to spruce it up and change the car you're swapping it into in tons of small ways

>>15800076
The memes are real

Well that jag already uses a Chevy transmission, that should make things a bit easier.

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>>15799959
I'm LS swapping my volvo 240 right now and it's no where near 10k tho, I'm about 2k in including the price of the car, already got the motor, trans, wiring harness and ecu and ford rear end.
You can use the stock wiring harness you just have to strip it down and re-flash the ecu, I stripped my harness it was easy.

>>15800320
>thinkpad
Based. Had an IBM x31 for quite some time. Thing was slow, but you could basically throw it off your desk or drop half a quarter of oil on it and it would be fine.

>>15799979
>20K
think I'll just fuckin do it myself

>>15800383
ayy thinkpad bro
got an x61 fur work, x200 and x220 fur home use
they are good fucking laptops fur sure.
the work laptop has fallen off the table and landed on concrete before, just chipped the corner, melted the keyboard with carb cleaner and covered it in paint overspray, oil and all kinds of shit.
Just keeps truckin on.

>>15799951
Engine swaps aren't easy. That's why LS swaps are so common. If you're spending the time and money to do an engine swap, you might as well be making assloads of power from a reliable engine when you're done.

>>15800490
>take old engine out
>put new engine in
WOW SO HARD

>>15800499
>have to accurately fabricate or rely on the availability of new motor mounts
>have to rely on the fitment of the transmission or the availability of a transmission adapter plate
>have to possibly adapt other parts of the drivetrain if you're swapping the transmission as well
>have to redo most of the car's wiring
>have to redo the suspension for the new weight distribution
And the list probably goes on further and everything will take twice as long as expected. Cars aren't fucking LEGO bricks.

>>15800490
LS swaps are common because theyre kits for nearly everything now

>>15800569
There are kits fur everything because it's a good cheap motor with lots of potential.

old fag /o/ proverb

>If you have to ask you probably can't do it / afford it

Look up sloppy mechanics on youtube. The guy builds a new 9 second car for 10K every year. Granted he's a professional tuner and he knows exactly what he's doing every build.

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so, to sum up:
>do a fuckton of research on the bits you need
>talk to people that put an LS into a jag
>get $5-6k and a beater
>take your time to find the right variant of the eninge fot the right price
>give bits and jaaag to a mechanic, preferably a shop specialised in modified cars or motorsports
>drive around in beater for a couple of months
>recieve LS powered jaaaag
>don't sell beater just yet, there are probably still some teething problems with the new combo
>rips skids

>>15800666
>$5-6k LS swap
Not if you're paying for labor. Not even close.

>>15800490
Engine swaps are generally in the middle of the scale of difficulty. Swapping a working stock engine into and existing car it was built for is fairly easy even for a first timer. Swapping a similar compatible engine is the more common thing - just look at any 240sx with an SR-20. But swapping an engine into a car it wouldn't normally ever see can be a nightmare if you aren't good with measurements on the fly and can't weld or cut stuff on your own. Its like doing reconstructive surgury on a car.

>>15800666
>demon trips

But anyway, what >>15800683 said. $5-6k will barely cover all the parts you'll have to gather. Labor charges will fuck you in the ass on top of the cost of the parts and that's IF you even live where there's a shop willing to do the work. Then you still run the risk of shoddy work, especially if you give the project to a non-specialist shop.

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>>15800666
If you're spending all that time and money on an engine swap why would you want a beater as a base?

https://youtu.be/OTAXykiqsGs

This guy did it right. LWB + gated shifter, too bad about the alloys.

>>15800865
>what's a sleeper?

Imagine having a fast car that civic don't rev at

>>15800882
I think your average Civic driver probably sees an XJ and just thinks it's some old guy in a Rover 75.

Plus a 500bhp+ XJ is still a sleeper, only the silly mid 2000's XJR's made upwards of 400bhp and were rare as shit. Jag XJ's are not fast cars.

>>15800037
this.

doesn't cover the cost but you'll get the feel for what you're doing

>>15800865
LWB sedans are completely worthless as driver's cars. There's no point to more rear legroom when you're not a rear passenger.

>>15799959
People do ls swaps in c10 trucks for half that all day.

>>15801404
Ye but will be maximally comfy due to the extended wheel base plus the extra size let's poor people know they should get out of the way.

I want to put the newest LS 7 engine in my 1985 Corvette C4.

Engine is 15 grand, so I'm looking at no less than 30 grand to have this done right?

>>15803795
There's something from the LS engine family already in there, right? That'd probably make it easier, maybe the factory mounting points will work. No custom engine mounts or transmission adapters, just the engine and all its anciliaries plus the control unit.

>>15800015
i promise you there are ls swapped jag xj out there

talk to multiple car salesmen at performance car dealerships they will know about this sort of thing