Fairmont 2.0 (forged lq4, s480, 800whp, under new management)
11-20-2012, 10:30 PM
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yep! he will b flogging the fairmont while im building my hotside friday. Man i hope the sloppyguys give out a trophy for longest distance traveld for dynodays next year. I'm already trying to find a way to get there. But by then none of the tracks in PA are gana let any of us sloppy approved cars and trucks run into the low 9's without any safety equiptment..... i got sent home for only having 1 throttle return spring last year
11-21-2012, 11:37 AM
#1407
On The Tree
got my gen4 **** today, wich you can see is so ****** beast like its awesome...
they look like aftermarket rods and pistons.
full floating wrist pin instead of a pressed, and the rod is a H beam style instead of a I beam hopefully much stronger, as i know people with gen4 **** making more power than me and not bending anything.
gapped all my rings to 28-30 so its ready for some abuse.
i plan to hit it with 30lbs if the ignition system will let me.
motors built, reused the ls1 head gaskets, and slammed it all in and bolted up the trans and connected a few things, and thats where i am quitting for the day, think i might do a compression check tomorrow as soon as i get the converter tight and put the starter in, to see what kinda compression its at now, since it has flat top 5.3 pistons in it now, gunna have more squish
they look like aftermarket rods and pistons.
full floating wrist pin instead of a pressed, and the rod is a H beam style instead of a I beam hopefully much stronger, as i know people with gen4 **** making more power than me and not bending anything.
gapped all my rings to 28-30 so its ready for some abuse.
i plan to hit it with 30lbs if the ignition system will let me.
motors built, reused the ls1 head gaskets, and slammed it all in and bolted up the trans and connected a few things, and thats where i am quitting for the day, think i might do a compression check tomorrow as soon as i get the converter tight and put the starter in, to see what kinda compression its at now, since it has flat top 5.3 pistons in it now, gunna have more squish
This GEN 4 stuff here/pistons and rods, where/what motor did you source them from and are you putting these into your L33 block? If I understand it correctly thats what your doing!
11-21-2012, 10:49 PM
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when i had the big turbo on dmax i had 5 inch thru the hood and nos solenoid stuck lost a cyl and headgasket freaked me out had oil smoke and coolant blowing everywhere but she screamed at 62psi. i so understand the droan concern
11-23-2012, 04:05 PM
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TECH Resident
OK Denmah... got a question for ya... which would you choose... (Using your builds as a model).
A) 2003 5.3 motor with 165,000 miles or
B) 2005 4.8 motor with 86,000 miles
Better Rods & lower miles vs. higher displacement... what would you do? (Same price...)
A) 2003 5.3 motor with 165,000 miles or
B) 2005 4.8 motor with 86,000 miles
Better Rods & lower miles vs. higher displacement... what would you do? (Same price...)
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11-23-2012, 07:10 PM
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11-24-2012, 12:18 AM
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11-24-2012, 01:42 AM
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I drove home and it still has 20 inches of vac at idle. I'm gunna do a compression check on it soon not sure what happened but it got upset on high boost and I left out lol maybe I'm blowing out spark again. Not sure. I don't think I like these br7ef plugs think ill go back to tr6