Killawatts

Greetings,

I've searched and searched, I can't seem to find a concrete answer as to whether an 05 6 port manual is the same engine as an 08 6 port automatic. A friend of mine plans to ls swap, and bought an 08 auto with paddle shifters, so 6 port, but I don't know if it would be a one for one swap with an 05 6 sport manual. I'd like to purchase the motor off of him to rebuild as a spare, but only if it's not going to need modification to mate up to the 6 speed transmission.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

diggyd357

I'm with ya....no really clear answers that I've been able to find, but im in a similar pickle.. I found a bare bones short block that was pulled from an 06 automatic which is a 6 port and the guy is asking $100 (negotiable) for it. I wanna grab it to rebuild just to have an extra one lying around for my 04 manual, but I can't find anything online about it. So I'm gonna jump in the backseat of this thread and see where it goes.

Loki

iTrader: (1)

It is, but you will need all of your engine's manifolds, sensors, etc. So just the keg swaps over.

But it's not a great idea to buy a motor to rebuild. If you're lucky the housing are OK, if you're unlucky they're not and you have to buy new housings. Better to buy a rebuilt engine.

Killawatts

If you can test it for compression first and get it cheaply, I see no reason not to grab up a sub $500 set of housings.