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Please forgive me in advance for this..... I have already had my 383 stroker brought home and, I have been sitting here over a couple of Pepsi's ( I don't drink liquor) wondering if I really want to swap engines. Personally, I want to go another way. The engine I have in is an Isuzu, That's confirmed, says so on the valve cover. All the pictures I have seen of the Luv truck are not even close. My valve cover is an aluminum 2 piece. The valve cover bolts down to the head and it has a bolt on cover just above the timing chain. Anybody got an idea of what this engine is??

Probly just an older luv engine

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What year is your truck? I think 75/76 was when Isuzu went with an eng. change. Sounds like you have the early model. The intake and exhaust are on the same side, right?

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OK, I'm over it. Where's the beer?

Truck is a 1975.The carb is on the left (drivers) side. Exhaust on the other. I was just thinkinking of polishing the head and valve cover rather than engine swap. think it will look nicer. If memory serves me right this was the engine that came with the 72.

thats strange o.0 i thought the early model luv engines were a non cross flow head. intake/exhaust on the same side. a pic of the engine would help a lot in figuring out what it may be

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Luvless
1980 Mikado-Sold.

1993 Lexus SC400 my Daily
2004 Yamaha WR250F my new love in life
2016 Toyota Camry my girls ride

I found the engine on youtube!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJYfLU2RnHY
I hope this helps. I was mistaken about the exhaust. Just been looking at to many engines lately.

Yea, that's just the early model LUV motor. Nothing wrong with it, unless you wanna go fast.

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Is it a 1.8?If I did my research correctly It's a whopping 75h.p. Looks like I'm going to get a lot of speeding tickets They don't perform well? Were they dependable at least? I was going to install 383 stroker but, just think this would look amazing all polished up. I couldn't get a magnet to stick to the block. Aluminum??

I've never played with one of those. So I've told you all I know about them already. Someone else will need to pipe in now.

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OK, I'm over it. Where's the beer?

try asking ctmandu he loves isuzu cars/trucks im sure he has some insight

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Luvless
1980 Mikado-Sold.

1993 Lexus SC400 my Daily
2004 Yamaha WR250F my new love in life
2016 Toyota Camry my girls ride

The blocks are steal, try it again.

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Who stole a block???

Your right, My bad!! block was steel, My magnet is the extendable kind, as it turns out the magnet fell out

Bummer hate when that happens

At least you tried before asking us to do all the work for you. Many newbies here want us to basically go to their house and do everything for them.

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Yeah, I got all excited thinking how nice a polished aluminum block would look and then, after I read it had steal, I went back and tried the magnet again still it wouldn't stick. My 4 year old told me " Daddy, that broke" I looked in the end and sure enough the magnet was gone

ooops, nothing to see here

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i would leave the stocker in there a while and run it till it dies or you get bored of it then throw that 383 in

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Luvless
1980 Mikado-Sold.

1993 Lexus SC400 my Daily
2004 Yamaha WR250F my new love in life
2016 Toyota Camry my girls ride

That's the new plan......

It's a 1875. I have one in my truck