LS1NOVA

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Lucky! PQC always told me to teardown and inspect.

468BIGBLOCK

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01 5.3 lm7 339k miles ran fine $150.00 for the complete engine (missing coil packs)

denmah

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at 80dollars its usually the cheapest part for me

RedRocketZ28

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You and your $80 motors.

JK, wish I could find deals like that. I did find a 5.3 with 120k on it for $250 the other day on the local craigslist. Was thinking about picking it up but I don't really have any use for it right now other than to sit in the garage as a backup.

js2fst

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I got one for $60 87k miles I think Skinnies beats that!

Freeman83

2008 L33 5.3 w/183k $500 complete

468BIGBLOCK

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yes i know that the $150.00 5.3 is out and the $80.00 4.8 is in. this stuff is nuts. i am a old school drag racer with built 427,468 and 502 big block chevys this chinese turbo racing has me looking hard at it. you guys are going stupid fast for what a set of heads cost on a bbc.

silversweetZ

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I'm in the process of tearing down a 01 5.3 with 30k miles now. It's been sitting around for about 5-7 years so I'm having it hot tanked and throwing all the stuff back in with a Z06 cam and running a stage III incon kit. It should drive 12-14 psi all day long.

dean85gt

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I grabbed an LM7 with full accessories for 300 with 60,000km on the clock. Not bad for around here..

stangtrader

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Picked up my lq4 for $700 with 113k on the clock. Been running#10 on stock valvetrain.
Gonna do springs and gurn it up to 18ish psi

30th t/a

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I guess ill reply to my own thread. I ended up buying a 2004 LQ9 out of an Escalade. 77k on it for $1000. I was happy to find out that its got the better rods in it also. Im installing a LS6 cam & Springs.

SSZ

My next door neighbour picked one up for me out of michigan. 5.3L of unknown year but if the pcm is from the same truck its an 01. Unknown mileage but trust me it cant be much at all. Looks like close to new. Spare intake and a/c compressor and all accessories. Pcm was already programmed to run no emissions and setup for a manual trans. Egr delete exhaust manifolds too. Runs perfect with no engine light on. Just have to figure out what i am gonna do for a turbo but the setup so far is $700 bucks. With a turbo setup i think i will make alot more power then my 383 gen1 which cost me about 5000 to build. And i figure i can have this thing boosted and making more power than the 383 for around $3500. I think that is a smoking deal for the driveability and power which will hopefully be around 600 at the wheel.

quik67

I was a die hard BBC guy myself, its hard to wrap my brain around the fact that
my twin turbo 5.3 runs WAY better than my old nitroused 502.

alexcoreas

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Here is my 5.3 with 2 hours of love.



And when I took the heads off

silversweetZ

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wow! that came out good! I actually dropped mine off at the local machine shop. hopefully i'll get it back this week.

alexcoreas

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It was really easy and I had a blast. Took a little more then half a can of Carb cleaner and a wire brush. How much is the machine shop charging?

FAST LS1

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My 04' $500 5.3L had about 78-80k miles.

I8UR4RD

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2- 5.3 motors. both just ticked over 100k, one even came with the harness, the alternator and starter.....got it for 350.

If your sending them to the machine shop, then it matters not.

When AES sent me my estimate a while back and the lq9 iron block was 550 (used core)

a4ls2goat

Is that a cast block? Because if it is that's a 4.8 not 5.3

alexcoreas

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Yea its cast. It has 862 heads and its from a avalanche, I thought avalanches only came with 5.3? I could be wrong but if its a 4.8 im going to.be pissed because a Guy was selling a 4.8 for 250 complete it look better then this 5.3 or 4.8 I paid 750. Dammit