This was a running 5.7 in the donor van,but suffer from a high idle issue.The donor van's owner told me he had put on cop car 65lb injectors lifted.I tried to address the high idle while the engine was still in the donor van and couldn't get the computer to communicate with a snap-on scanner.We swapped out the cop car injectors and for a short while it acted normal,but then crept back to where it was before.Time running short on space in my friend's lift I decided to pull the stuff out of the donor van.I knew from the engine casting numbers it was a 1995 two or four bolt main and that given 1995 was a Gm transitional yr it could be either a roller hyro cam or a flat tappet cam.The donor van's owner told me he resealed the oil pan before putting in the engine in and told me it was a four bolt main.I really don't put much value in a street driven four bolt main in most cases,but atleast I knew that part about the engine.Because I couldn't get the ECM to communicate with a scanner,I figured it had to do with the wire harness and the swap done wasn't done correctly.Still I wanted to confirm if it was a roller cam or not because my plan is to do a cam swap for a GM roller cam that is nick named the "383" roller cam.One of the guys on the Astro web site I spoke of had used that cam in a 5.7 and just raved about how much torque it make and then sold the van to another member and he too spoke about how much low end torque the van has with a smooth idle.So I pulled the intake off to confirm if it was a roller or not.While doing that I found a number of intake bolts very loose and now think it is the reason behind the high idle.Humm,we even sprayed the heck out the intake with carb cleaner and never saw a difference.Might have been the fact the vac leak was that bad at it wouldn't have.





So now I know it isn't a roller,but as you can see it does have the bosses drilled and taped for it.Should be a easy conversion to a roller because of that.

The donor van had a tilt steering and Ole Yellar didn't.So I swapped it into Ole Yellar.The donor steer also has cruise control on the steering column and delay wipers which I will swap the delay relays and cruise conrols into Yellar while I do the V8 swap.







You can see where the column bolts into the firewall and the dumb GM design of just using self tapping bolts.When I go back to do the the V8 swap I will elf aleast 1/4 20's nuts to the firewall engine side and run 1/4 20's bolts threw there for a more secure mount.The cruise control I feel is more to get better gas mileage than a convenience item.

Still more to add...............LOL hang in there guys.