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ok so ive been procrastinating doing a build thread so here it goes.
my dad built this car a few years back, it had a sbc 408 th400 but the motor was tired, my dad who is retired didnt want to put the money into it gave me the car. deal is he gets to use it when he wants....lol. basicly i pay for it he drives it still lol. so 2 years ago when i took the car over i sold the 408 and bought a crate motor ( blueprint 383 sbc/430hp) ,while it went ok at about the same time i finished my nova which has a 365" ls / s475....turbo bug bit and now the 56 feels like a sled.
So this spring a friend made me a decent offer for the 383 and the turbo story begins...
heres the car before with 383

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pic of old 383 thats i sold.
hoping that sale of this covers most the build

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o5 tahoe l59 5.3, has gen v rods ,

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so jumped right in to it, the 56 still had its original front engine mounts, i had already purchased new side mounts , so i just had to buy the adapter plates

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motor set in....funnyy thing is with the engine as far back as i could go before heads hit the fire wall the trnas ended uo abot 2 " forward of previous position

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Your Pops has a good plan, lol. Nice looking '56!

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ebay turbo headers( gonna have to mod) and a On3 7875 turbo

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start of hot side mock up....

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i decided i didnt like the look or performace limits of the 3" down pipe....so swapped that for a 4"..

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dynomax 16" bullet and fender dump for exhaust.

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so the 56 has a10bolt rear knowing it is on borrowed time i sold it.
i have a whole 9" center ( strange 3rd, trutrac,350 gear) and a set of 31 spline moser axles left o er from my nova . so i called quick performance and they sent me a bolt in housing and rear brakes

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next....i had to move radiator forward of rad support (which meant new radiator) and mount the on3 4" intercoer, and mock the cold side.....which was cake compared what i had to do to stuff that stuff in my nova!

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next......time to yank it and do fnall engine tear down and clean up.

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so when i bought this engine i was told it was a "great running 146k 5.3"
well started tear down and found this....uhg

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