s10 money pit
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From: Lees summit mo
s10 money pit ok so i havent made a page in here, but i have used this site for alot of info! heres the story...
i had a 98 s-10 i drove to and from college that i loved, but it was a 4cyl 5-speed, one night on my drive home, a guy decided to plow me @ 55 i was at a stop...
so that truck was toast haha so i started searching for a s-10 i could pick up cheap since my motor and trans was still good along with alot of other parts i could salvage from the black truck, mind you im still in school at this point and trying to keep it cheap! so i end up finding a sonoma that was a roller for $1000
i had a 98 s-10 i drove to and from college that i loved, but it was a 4cyl 5-speed, one night on my drive home, a guy decided to plow me @ 55 i was at a stop...
so that truck was toast haha so i started searching for a s-10 i could pick up cheap since my motor and trans was still good along with alot of other parts i could salvage from the black truck, mind you im still in school at this point and trying to keep it cheap! so i end up finding a sonoma that was a roller for $1000
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From: Lees summit mo
when i drove it to my wedding the 4L60E was mild built with red clutches, beast sunshell, upgraded PROM, corvette servo, and a 3200 stall converter, the motor was a 07 5.3 flex fuel motor with a L33 cam, new rings, new bearings, honed, decked the block and heads, LS6 valve springs, LS1 intake, current performance wiring harness, trans am PCM with VATS removed, switched the open side differential with a torsen zexel carrier and richmond 3.42 gears, i drove it like this for a little over 700 miles, started to beat on it a bit and it was no where near fast enough, so the plans have changed a bit, and a daily driver has been thrown out the window and the wife just shakes her head........ its a slow project due to have bought our house and now have a baby on the way, let me know what you all think any feedback is appreciated!!!
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From: Lees summit mo
right now im going to use the 5.3 iron block. bore it to 3.80 weisco forged 10.6:1 pistons, callies forged 6.125 forged rods, speed inc. 1.5 cam, comp cams moly push rods, trunion upgrade, brian tooley 660 dual valve springs, 799 heads, ARP head studs, LS9 head gaskets, ARP main studs, edelbrock pro flo intake, pro flo fuel rails, holley 120 injectors, nick williams 92mm throttle body, holley HP efi with 5.7" touch screen,
i still need fuel pumps, to rewire the whole truck, two 6665 turbonetics billet wheel turbos, wastegates, blow off valves, hot and cold side piping, ford 9" rear with 3.08 gears,
ill be running E85 and play on the street and track, i will eventually cage it down the road when the turbos are done and its driving lol
i still need fuel pumps, to rewire the whole truck, two 6665 turbonetics billet wheel turbos, wastegates, blow off valves, hot and cold side piping, ford 9" rear with 3.08 gears,
ill be running E85 and play on the street and track, i will eventually cage it down the road when the turbos are done and its driving lol
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From: Lees summit mo
oh and to add to it, i know it dont mean much but it means alot to me, other than the exhaust shop routing the exhaust the first time, and the machine shop work on the motor, noone but myself has touched this truck the whole time, its my baby lol
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From: Lees summit mo
the powerglide is nothing special right now, 2800 stall, freshened up, new clutches and steels, new pump, tci manual valvebody, hughes dual ring servo, and thats about it lol hope it wont break for awhile but who knows
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From: Lees summit mo
it would have to be a manual valvebody on the 80 also, i hated my 60E ever since i put it in the truck, if i had the cash id honestly put a lenco drive in it and be done forever, when i was a kid my dad had a pro mod camaro, that ran 6.20's @ 220-230 mph and we used a 3 and 4 speed lenco depending if we were 1/8 or 1/4 mile tracks, we only spun a sprag once, cant beat them lol and what id give to have some polished levers sticking out the tunnel haha