LSx nova project
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Staging Lane
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Blew the 6.o the first time out, got it daily drivable now, here's a mass pic upload.
New '02 5.3 low miles
Space made for -6an trans cooler lines
Stainless headers and shaved intake
Ebay headers need some bending
Old motor out
Hole in the block from #7 rod snapping in half
Revmax 3200 converter
Emissions stuff blocked on the intake
Modified Stock truck TB to open the throttle blade 100%
Ready to go in
Replaced the stock oil sender with a oil plug
New '02 5.3 low miles
Space made for -6an trans cooler lines
Stainless headers and shaved intake
Ebay headers need some bending
Old motor out
Hole in the block from #7 rod snapping in half
Revmax 3200 converter
Emissions stuff blocked on the intake
Modified Stock truck TB to open the throttle blade 100%
Ready to go in
Replaced the stock oil sender with a oil plug
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Staging Lane
Joined: Jul 2011
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Headers in
CAI in
Finally outside
Exhaust done and painted
3" Moroso spiral flows
Alumn Airbox I made, I later added foam to seal everything up.
First drive
HAd an issue with my fuel prefilter, this is from aeromotives website, explains it..
Access panels made out of alumn
External filter set-up
Exhaust clearance
Drove it 60mi home and this is what it read the whole time!
Ok uncle give me the damn keys!
Daily driver certified
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Staging Lane
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#7 Injector stuck open, hydrolocked and when it tried to compress..Bang! it snapped back!
Basically I was out on the first test drive, blew a tranny cooler line (Hence the AN lines now) and had to stop, When I went to restart the engine, it turned over and BAM! metal on metal sounds.
Now If i knew better I would have noticed an injector stuck open because pressure at the rail wouldn't hold, this is my first FI car so I figured that was normal.
Double checked everything with my new motor and it now holds pressure at the rail after priming so I know none are stuck open.
A mistake that could have been avoided if I had more experience, But This is how ppl get experience, right! I'd say it went pretty smooth the 2nd time around and I got to add some go fast goodies i didnt have the the 6.0 like the stainless headers/exhaust, better CAI, and the convertor
Here's some vids!
Basically I was out on the first test drive, blew a tranny cooler line (Hence the AN lines now) and had to stop, When I went to restart the engine, it turned over and BAM! metal on metal sounds.
Now If i knew better I would have noticed an injector stuck open because pressure at the rail wouldn't hold, this is my first FI car so I figured that was normal.
Double checked everything with my new motor and it now holds pressure at the rail after priming so I know none are stuck open.
A mistake that could have been avoided if I had more experience, But This is how ppl get experience, right! I'd say it went pretty smooth the 2nd time around and I got to add some go fast goodies i didnt have the the 6.0 like the stainless headers/exhaust, better CAI, and the convertor
Here's some vids!
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Staging Lane
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Staging Lane
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From: michigan
that's good, buddy of mine was conflicted between the 5.3 and 6.0, he didn't think the 5.3 would have any power. I tried to tell him, there really isn't a big difference, maybe 25-35 horses that you could make up with intake, tune and exhaust.
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Staging Lane
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Thats how I feel, I think I broke even or maybe a little more hp over the 6.0 with my new setup
