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Old Mar 22, 2017 | 09:09 AM
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I'm an old retired aircraft tech and my goal is to turn my 54 150 chevy 2dr sedan with a warmed over 5.3L and 4l65e trans into a a sleeper. Sort of like what Smokey Yunic used to do to street cars.
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Old Mar 22, 2017 | 04:10 PM
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Welcome, sounds like a fun project
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Old Mar 23, 2017 | 08:44 AM
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I am in the parts gathering process, i have a set of 243 heads and new LS3 valve springs. the cam will be a BT stage 3 truck cam. When I remove the heads I'll know if I need to change the pistons. I would like to raise the compression to 10.5/1 and a 90mm T/B plus a GTO MAF and a new tune. Anyone have any suggestions or recomendations? I know the 243 heads are 64.45cc's and will need milled to get my target compression ratio.
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You'd be better off posting those questions in the Gen III or Gen IV internal engine sections as they get more traffic.

You can dig around in there and the conversions/hybrids section and find a ton of good info.
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Thanks Will do!
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