anyone with a trashed lt1 block I need caps
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anyone with a trashed lt1 block I need caps I need a couple of main caps off of a lt1, I bought a couple from someone, but am yet to recive them, I need them to reassamble my engine and get it running again, any help would be great. I know some one has to have a good set of caps on a trashed block.
I don't know where else to get them, because gm said they only want to sell them in a crank kit, with all five caps (at $80 apiece) and a new crank.
I don't know where else to get them, because gm said they only want to sell them in a crank kit, with all five caps (at $80 apiece) and a new crank.
I dont know about the lt1's, but on the gen 1 motors, main caps arent universal. They are specific to the block. You might get lucky and have some pop in right but odds are they wont be exact.
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I bought the splayed mains, and it only came with the three center caps, and someone cleaned out all my parts I had stored, which the caps were with them, so now I need #1 & #5. and they must not be block specific, because gm will sell them. as well as with the gen 1, you can have the used ones machined by shaving a little off the mating surface and then having them line bored to make them work as well.
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that might be true in some cases, but with how accurate some newer pieces of equiptment are I am sure it has cut down on that in the last 30 years. but if not, does anyone know where to buy a full set, I haven't drilled the splays yet, so if there are full sets, I could even go with them. it would be better anyway having all five mains splayed, are there any?
