LS1 Swap on a '67 Camaro | Part 1

LS1 swap on this ’67 Camaro — but this one’s got a story 🔧 This isn’t just any project… this is my old boss’s car. And if you know him, you know he’s deep into first-gen Camaros — ’69, ’68 convertible, this ’67 hardtop… he’s got a whole lineup. This one rolled in with a pretty basic small block setup — nothing crazy, just a Vortec-style 350 doing its thing. But we’re changing that. The plan? Take the LS1 that came out of his ’68 (it just got an LT4 👀) and drop it into this car. So yeah — this is basically a hand-me-down drivetrain… but a serious upgrade. We’ve already got parts stacking up — PSI harness, AutoMeter gauges, a whole list of supporting mods to make this thing actually work the way it should. Goal is simple: clean install, reliable setup, and something that’ll move when you get into it. That LS1 should be sitting right around 400hp, freshly rebuilt, so it’s got plenty to give. Started where it always starts — pulled the motor and trans. From there, dropped the tank and started reworking the fuel system. New lines, better routing, built for injection instead of the old carb life. Not the flashy part, but this is the stuff that makes or breaks a swap. We’re running a Turbo 350 behind it, figuring out fitment as we go, and keeping things like A/C — just switching over to a more compact Sanden setup to make everything play nice. This isn’t a throw-parts-at-it build. It’s one of those “figure it out, make it clean, make it work” kind of swaps — showing you don’t need a crazy budget to do it right. Gonna take a couple weeks to get everything dialed… but when it’s done, this thing should *move*. Stay tuned — a lot more coming on this one 👀