4.8 T/A vs. 4.6 GT

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09-17-2008, 05:18 PM

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4.8 T/A vs. 4.6 GT

So a buddy of mine slung 2 rods threw the side of his LS1 and used a 4.8 truck motor and tranny and threw it all together and here are the results lol!

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/9...The_184779.htm

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09-17-2008, 05:20 PM

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Hahaha there goes the displacement arguement

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09-17-2008, 05:24 PM

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wow that t/a runs pretty good! any track times/dyno numbers with that motor?

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09-17-2008, 05:40 PM

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wow that t/a runs pretty good! any track times/dyno numbers with that motor?

No dyno numbers and I'm not to sure of the bolt on's, but the car ran a 13.5x or 13.6x on motor and on 120 shot of spray went 12.59 lol!

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09-17-2008, 05:47 PM

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What mods does he have?

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09-17-2008, 06:00 PM

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damn thats not bad! what vehicle did the motor come out of?

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09-17-2008, 06:00 PM

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Sounds really good actually.

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09-17-2008, 06:34 PM

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damn thats not bad! what vehicle did the motor come out of?

4.8L iron block/alum heads LSx based truck motor. Most likely came out of a Sierra or a Tahoe.

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09-17-2008, 09:16 PM

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What mods does he have?

The car has Pacesetter Headers into x-pipe and dynomax bullets, granatelli (however it's spelled) air lid, 4.10 gears and that's all I honestly know of. And of course Nitrous, but it wasn't on the car when the video was done.

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09-21-2008, 01:11 AM

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a local camaro last year ran a 4.8 with a 230s cam, LTs, LS6 intake, t56, 456 gears, Kmember, stepped edlebrock headers and it clocked off a 12.2 with a mph of around 112.