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Old Feb 12, 2009 | 04:32 PM
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help me decide! leave any reasons y one would be better than the other, to keep the caps from walking or the motor from moving
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Old Feb 12, 2009 | 04:40 PM
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depending on what your doing,i wouldnt do either,pinning the main caps will help more than anything.What hp are you planning on making?
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Just pin the billet main caps and you will be fine.
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Girdled and pinned here but not billet.
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whats in my sig. just want the motor to last a while it is a ls2 block
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Originally Posted by Z06PSI
Girdled and pinned here but not billet.
where did you get the pins from?
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Old Feb 12, 2009 | 06:28 PM
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the block and caps have to be machined-i've seen over 1500 hp with pins only on stock caps with no problems

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if someone wanted to do this from home, would it be like pinning the crank on a procharger kit
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You *could* do it at home, I'd have a machine shop do it.
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Originally Posted by sevanseriesta
if someone wanted to do this from home, would it be like pinning the crank on a procharger kit
you need to be able to hold .001 tolerance or better
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This topic comes up ALL the time! Pin the stock caps! @ 900hp you probably dont NEED either to be honest. Girdles aren't worth a **** on these motors.2000hp lsx motors running around with no girdle.Pins are all you need.
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cool thanks
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Originally Posted by Shawn @ VA Speed
the block and caps have to be machined-i've seen over 1500 hp with pins only on stock caps with no problems

what do you think it would cost to just have them pin'ed its a new block
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I got both lol, Katech steel billet main caps and pinned, also have the engine girdle with custom studs, talk about over doing it lol

I did both cause I didnt want the engine to twist and I also didnt want the caps to walk on me. Its going to get resleeved by the way.


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how much was the main girdle if you don't mind me asking ?
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^^^i bought mine for 300. .
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Originally Posted by sr71bbjr
This topic comes up ALL the time! Pin the stock caps! @ 900hp you probably dont NEED either to be honest. Girdles aren't worth a **** on these motors.2000hp lsx motors running around with no girdle.Pins are all you need.
there are only 2 2000hp ls style engines that i know of-one is Paul Major's warhawk motor,the other is Jim Filipowski's lsx engine,i'm not sure if either one of these has a girdle or exactly what has been done in the bottom end.
everybody else has maybe 1800hp at best.

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what do you think it would cost to just have them pin'ed its a new block
I charge $650.00 for the pinning and line bore.
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Originally Posted by elias_799
how much was the main girdle if you don't mind me asking ?
girdle was like 330 , custom arp studs were 170
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Originally Posted by Shawn @ VA Speed
the block and caps have to be machined-i've seen over 1500 hp with pins only on stock caps with no problems


wonder who's piece of crap motor that is
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If you got the money??? LOL Theres no such thing as over kill on a high HP engine !I did neither for my APS build which should be about 750 HP on 14 to 15 PSi and my buddys running the same set up on both of his Incon TT setups for over 5 years now with no problems with the lower end with just stock caps and ARP studs
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