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Written by Jake Stumph
The Colorado SS that never was, and likely never should have been.We recently found this truck on Craigslist in Orange County, California that has had an LS V8 swapped into it, and quite a few other modifications; it"s basically a mashup of a Trailblazer SS and a Colorado regular cab truck. The ad calls it a Colorado SS, but that isn"t really a thing, except for a show truck or two. It appears mostly together, but is on a salvage title and the transmission isn"t just toast, it"s AWOL.From the look of it in the pictures, this truck had front end damage and had the grille, headlights and bumper cover from the Trailblazer grafted on, though not well. Fitting the headlights in at all must have been the hardest part, because the Colorado and Trailblazer share no body parts. The interior looks to have used Trailblazer SS parts too, and the wheels and rear differential are from that SUV as well. It really begs the question of what happened to that Trailblazer"s 6.0 liter motor?The seller doesn"t indicate, so we have no idea if the motor is an iron block 5.3 liter out of a junkyard Chevy van, or the aluminum version out of the Trailblazer and its ilk. One this for sure though, you have at least 300hp under the hood now. Chances are, all that power, and the sticky tires, plus drag racing are the reason the transmission is no longer around. These trucks used the 4L60 transmission, which features a modular bell housing, so the 4 cylinder transmission may have been bolted to the V8. A few hard launches with those slapper bars at the drag strip may have been enough to kill it. #gallery-3 { margin: auto; } #gallery-3 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-3 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-3 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ <br style="clear: both" />
Date written: March 23, 2017
More of this article on the LS1 Tech website
ID: 7185
The Colorado SS that never was, and likely never should have been.We recently found this truck on Craigslist in Orange County, California that has had an LS V8 swapped into it, and quite a few other modifications; it"s basically a mashup of a Trailblazer SS and a Colorado regular cab truck. The ad calls it a Colorado SS, but that isn"t really a thing, except for a show truck or two. It appears mostly together, but is on a salvage title and the transmission isn"t just toast, it"s AWOL.From the look of it in the pictures, this truck had front end damage and had the grille, headlights and bumper cover from the Trailblazer grafted on, though not well. Fitting the headlights in at all must have been the hardest part, because the Colorado and Trailblazer share no body parts. The interior looks to have used Trailblazer SS parts too, and the wheels and rear differential are from that SUV as well. It really begs the question of what happened to that Trailblazer"s 6.0 liter motor?The seller doesn"t indicate, so we have no idea if the motor is an iron block 5.3 liter out of a junkyard Chevy van, or the aluminum version out of the Trailblazer and its ilk. One this for sure though, you have at least 300hp under the hood now. Chances are, all that power, and the sticky tires, plus drag racing are the reason the transmission is no longer around. These trucks used the 4L60 transmission, which features a modular bell housing, so the 4 cylinder transmission may have been bolted to the V8. A few hard launches with those slapper bars at the drag strip may have been enough to kill it. #gallery-3 { margin: auto; } #gallery-3 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-3 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-3 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ <br style="clear: both" />
Date written: March 23, 2017
More of this article on the LS1 Tech website
ID: 7185
