will 1989 350 swap into 2000 350. 1989 is a chevy Scottsdale 1/2 ton and the 2000 is a Tahoe Z71

Asked by motorer Sep 09, 2015 at 09:16 AM

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

motor in Tahoe is junk. motor in Scottsdale is good. Tahoe is Vortec and Scottsdale is TBI

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There is always a way to do this but requires changing the computer, wiring harness and such, a lot more little things, if you switched just the blocks, you would have to put the vortec heads & intake set-up on the older block, have to buy a different cam, lifters, and pushrods to make it work. It would be more feasible to just find another Vortec to put in.

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heads are warped and valves are burnt in the vortec. TBI engine has less miles and new trans. is switching electronics feasible or worth it.

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Yea, it would be since you have the trany also, because the ecm controls trany functions also. So you just take out the ecm (computer) & wire harness, and switch them, but that is a big project as it runs fuel pump also. You would need to have the 1989 ecm out of a truck to run that motor set-up. The computer in the 2000 is a ObdII ecm, which started in 1996, it will not run the 1989 motor the way it is set up. Unless you have one, I have seen ecm's on e-bay. Long as you got time and patients, & go threw some frustration, Yea...

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Was just thinking, since that is an older set-up, you could eliminate the ecm & put a carbureted 4-barrle on it. Also you really can do this if you live in a state that requires emissions test on your vehicle, because they would go by 2000 yr. standards. Not the 1989 yr.

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Thinking on this more... you would probably would be better off finding a Vortec motor for the Tahoe, I live in a state were it doesn't matter, and I like to modify things.

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