LQ9 project
10-23-2011, 04:16 PM
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LQ9 project hello everybody!! i had posted in a other forum but no request yet..
well am redoing my 81 malibu, i know is not a f-body but still in the GM family, so i install a 06 LQ9 SS silverado engine with like 20k miles, the car has power but i want more.. i was looking at Intake Manifolds,Injectors, TB, and Cams, but since am in a lil budget those parts are pricy.. any ideas or suggestions?
well am redoing my 81 malibu, i know is not a f-body but still in the GM family, so i install a 06 LQ9 SS silverado engine with like 20k miles, the car has power but i want more.. i was looking at Intake Manifolds,Injectors, TB, and Cams, but since am in a lil budget those parts are pricy.. any ideas or suggestions?
10-23-2011, 04:32 PM
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hello everybody!! i had posted in a other forum but no request yet..
well am redoing my 81 malibu, i know is not a f-body but still in the GM family, so i install a 06 LQ9 SS silverado engine with like 20k miles, the car has power but i want more.. i was looking at Intake Manifolds,Injectors, TB, and Cams, but since am in a lil budget those parts are pricy.. any ideas or suggestions?
well am redoing my 81 malibu, i know is not a f-body but still in the GM family, so i install a 06 LQ9 SS silverado engine with like 20k miles, the car has power but i want more.. i was looking at Intake Manifolds,Injectors, TB, and Cams, but since am in a lil budget those parts are pricy.. any ideas or suggestions?
LS6 intake should be your first mod IMO. If you plan to stay under 450 rwhp, you can most likely get by with the stock injectors.
When you go with a cam, you will need to upgrade the valve springs & pushrods as well.
Last edited by Ironembraced; 10-23-2011 at 08:44 PM.
10-23-2011, 07:35 PM
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The truck intake gives up less than 10 horse to a LS6 intake and the $300
bucks or so needed to get a used LS6 manifold could get you a good used
TR224 or TSP228 cam and some hardened pushrods. Then $200 for some PAC
or PSI beehive springs and a tune and you'll pickup in the neighborhood of 45-
50 rwhp. Your oil pump and timing chain should be in perfect order since such
low mileage....Nice swap BTW...love the G bodies
IIRC the LQ9 has 36 or 42 lb injectors...big enough that I dry-shot my 03SS
with a .070 jet and no issues except the 16mph 1/4mi increase.
bucks or so needed to get a used LS6 manifold could get you a good used
TR224 or TSP228 cam and some hardened pushrods. Then $200 for some PAC
or PSI beehive springs and a tune and you'll pickup in the neighborhood of 45-
50 rwhp. Your oil pump and timing chain should be in perfect order since such
low mileage....Nice swap BTW...love the G bodies
IIRC the LQ9 has 36 or 42 lb injectors...big enough that I dry-shot my 03SS
with a .070 jet and no issues except the 16mph 1/4mi increase.
Last edited by A.R. Shale Targa; 10-23-2011 at 07:40 PM.
10-23-2011, 08:37 PM
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230 @.50 camshafts is where the LS6 starts seperating itself from the LS1 & truck intake.
On a tiny cam, the LS6 intake isn't going to do much. The truck intake actually outflows the LS1 at all RPM's. I never knew that.
On a tiny cam, the LS6 intake isn't going to do much. The truck intake actually outflows the LS1 at all RPM's. I never knew that.
