Mark has asked me to do a piece for street times problem is I am not sure where to start. Well by now I assume my s10 blazer is a familiar sight within the show scene mostly by it being used to video and photograph the cruises we have at Drayton Manor and the Nats.

I have owned this SUV for over 6yrs now and within a couple of weeks of buying it off my friend at Wisbech. The wheels were changed and it was suitably slammed on the floor using a drop kit.

After years of just driving it around and not doing much else to it I finally decided the mid part of last year it was high time it got updated in some way. Being a very popular choice of sport truck for modifications by our friends across the pond the choices are endless as to what can actually be done to it.

I opted after some extensive research to go for a v8 swap. Being that the blazer was already a 4.3 v6 I felt the conversion would be fairly straight forward, and found out it wasn’t going to be but I wanted to retain the fuel injection set up on the truck and felt running a carbed smallblock was going backwards.

Like any project it turns out more expensive and more time consuming than you had originally budgeted for so after finding an engine all the other bits and pieces required for the swap it was all systems go so between John Pryor (Nasc Secretary), Alan Mcsweeney (North London Rep) Paul Hurley (Vice Chairman) and myself the conversion was underway. Taking into consideration what I said earlier what slowed the job down more than anything was needing more parts the further we got into the swap and of course Paul Hurley not keeping up with the demands of endless tea making. The truck was back on the road 3 months later the hardest parts being wiring and ecu,s and trying not to believe some of things I'd discovered in research prior to swap. After doing the swap it was decided to source a steel cowl hood for it and changed the exhaust system, problem is I've started now and don’t know at what stage to stop. Ive just fitted American racing rims as well it seems my original to do list is getting bigger.

Watch this space.

Thanks go to Alan, John, Paul, Chris and James from Wisbech American street performance 01945 588091, www.waspspeedshop.com Tyre king mobile