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Good to hear things are still going good. Throw us a pic of it at a car show or just a cool spot off the side of the road sometime. Keep on truckin!
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Hey Mike, what stroke do you have on your coil-overs and what's the free length of your coils? Oh, and how much did it squat with 1000 lbs? I'm curious how smooth/rough it rides without a load.
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The shocks are Bilstein 16" coil overs. The springs are 12" 300#. I believe it ia around a 3" travel to the bump.
It rode really nice with the load in the back. If you notice from the pictures of my rear suspension, the coil overs are quite a bit further outboard from the standard spring location. This has a lot to do with the stability of the ride. |
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Thanks! I'm currently looking into the Fatbar 4 link and it has the coil overs in a similar setup and was concerned about the coil-overs either being too soft and reducing the payload or being too stiff and killing the ride. Glad I found your build thread, I was about to just go with leaf springs.
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Here is the best shot I have of it with the lathe loaded in the back. It still rode pretty level
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To be honest with the updated rear suspension with 300# springs and the updated front suspension with the 1.125" sway bar, it handles like a slot car. My next improvement is going to be a rear sway bar.
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Very nice load you have in the picture! congrats:metal:
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just found this, awesome job, truck looks great
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Hi Jack,
The looms are either Summit or Jegs, I cannot remember now. But they are a standard internet item. As far as the wires go, I used a 1/4" rope and mocked up the length and then spent a lot of time at NAPA finding just the right fit. I cannot remember which application it ended up being but they were not custom they were form sealed on each end. |
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I have been driving the truck a lot lately and last week there was a horrible rubbing noise that I thought must be one of my side pipes loosening. Drove it home and checked every connection and all were tight. Checked my lug nuts, checked my hood hinges, checked my E-brake cable and pedal. nothing was to blame for the high pitched rubbing sound. I eventually found my lower front fender bolt where it connects to the front portion of the rocker pannel was hand tight.
Sometime the easiest fixes take the longest to find. |
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Have not posted in this thread for a while because my truck has been down for a while now. Around the beginning of 2016 the motor just shut off like the key was turned off. I spent some time trying to diagnose the issue. The issue turned out to be a slowly dicentigrating distributor gear. The motor only had 5000 on the clock since the rebuild and I was done rebuilding the small block. I picked up a low mileage LS1 and tranny thanks to C10 club member Jayson Pang. I just got it installed yesterday. I had to remake the top half of my custom motor mounts but it all fit in an bolted up without many issues.
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Very Nice! :metal:
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Do you have your fuel system and electrical planned out? I'd love to see how you're approaching this. My install is pretty far off but I like to be prepared -- I've got my fuel system put together ($300 all-in) and will probably re-work my harness but I'd like to flash my own ECU... and that doesn't really seem feasible without dropping several hundred dollars. I want to be able to tune my engine but maybe that's just because I've been tweaking carbs and distributors for 15 years :\
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Looking good.
That LS dropped right in there. |
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Bummer to read about your engine taking a crap. On the bright side, welcome to the LS dark side. You will love the start and go of this drivetrain. I have a little over 2700 miles on mine and it's still a blast to drive. Pretty good on gas too, even though I can't seem to keep my foot out of it...
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What is your gas mileage? I have heard mid 20's I got the 4L60E tranny and I have a 350 rear gear.
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It is official. I am now in the LS conversion crowd. I don't have any pictures of it yet because it I literally just got it done. I drove it to work to shake out the kinks and it really drives nice. The old 350/700R4 had a corvette shift kit in it and it really shifted hard. it was nice when you really wanted to nail it but just around town it was pretty jarring. This 5.3/4L60E combo is super smooth. I have driven about ten miles and I am very impressed. I learned a ton on this install and I am looking to get a WIFI enabled OBD2 scanner with an iPhone app so I can read all the vitals on the fly. I also converted my stock gauges to run with the new computer based platform so I have the best of both. Dialing in the tune is next, I hear that can make quite a difference.
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Yeah every vehicle is a bit different. It depends on transmission length of drive shaft, what gas tank, what pan, and intake is on the motor. Alt & PS pump are vastly different from LS to LS. The good news is that there are also millions of after market parts to help you out toward the swap.
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Well since Photo Bucket decided to be all kinds of lame, here is a quick synopsis of my build without the lame Photo Buckets help. I am not going to chronicle the entire build again but if you have read this far here are the pictures to support it.
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Some more of the build
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