Truck to car intake swap belt tensioner

[badazmalibu]

I have replaced the intake on my 5.3 with the Camaro intake. I installed a Camaro water pump with a DD spacer kit. What do I need to use for a belt tensioner...The Camaro tensioner is inset too far and the truck tensioner is too far out. Should I just fab some spacers for the Camaro tensioner or is there a tensioner that spaces the pulley correctly?

What is everyone doing to connect the PCV system on this swap?

Thanks in advance, Brett

[SeTx67]

Which Camaro intake and water pump? 98-02 or 10-14? I thought the newer Camaro accessories had the same offset as the truck accessories. Some pics may help some of the more knowledgeable members guide you in the right direction

[badazmalibu]

If i did this correctly these are the photos

[SeTx67]

I wasn't even thinking about the 2010 and up intake wouldn't work since you said you have a 5.3 which has different heads. Other than swapping all the accessories over to the Camaro ones I'm not sure what you'll need to do to correct this.

[badazmalibu]

Originally Posted by SeTx67

I wasn't even thinking about the 2010 and up intake wouldn't work since you said you have a 5.3 which has different heads. Other than swapping all the accessories over to the Camaro ones I'm not sure what you'll need to do to correct this.

Actually thats the early camaro LS1 intake 98-02? Intake part # 12560688.
The intake seems to fit fine as does the Summit aftermarket water pump but the tensioner pulley alignment is off with either tensioner

[SeTx67]

I figured that out once I saw the pics. Here's some info that may help

http://www.trifive.com/forums/archiv.../t-102679.html

[dayj1]

The 4th gen Camaro tensioner should be what you need. Are you positive that is what you have? The difference between the 4th gen and truck offsets should be right at 3/4 inch. Your pictures make it look like much more than that. I suspect that you may actually have a truck tensioner and a Y-body (Corvette) tensioner which are 1.5 inch different from each other. You could verify with a tape measure or take the short tensioner you have to the parts store and compare it to an '02 F-Body tensioner.

[akdg87]

Im running the ls1 intake with camaro (ls1) waterpump and the dirty dingo spacers, as well as the truck accessory bracket. I did end up having to order the LS1 belt tensioner and it worked fine. But appears your waterpump isn't an ls1 pump (they have a pressed on pulley, where the one in your picture looks to be a bolt on pulley.

What acc bracket are you running?

[badazmalibu]

Originally Posted by akdg87

Im running the ls1 intake with camaro (ls1) waterpump and the dirty dingo spacers, as well as the truck accessory bracket. I did end up having to order the LS1 belt tensioner and it worked fine. But appears your waterpump isn't an ls1 pump (they have a pressed on pulley, where the one in your picture looks to be a bolt on pulley.

What acc bracket are you running?

You are correct, That is an LS water pump from Summit Racing which requires a bolt on pulley.
I am running the truck brackets

It appears that i have a Corvette tensioner which is a different offset than a Camaro tensioner....I am attempting to verify this