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thanks man! those bed hole LEDs would fit in the curl overs on my bed. im thinking of replacing the bed floor with wood kit like you suggested, and the straps but im not sure on color, thinking of paint instead of a finish on the wood, painting it neon green on the wood, with john deere blizt black (satin) on the straps. liking that look, especially the way it made cubbers 383 engine look with gloss black, imagine it with satin. Oh god i just cant get over the look of how green and black go well together

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UPDATE! THANKS FOR REPLYING EVERYONE! Remember how i said itd be awhile before i updated this again? ;) well i lied sorta. i didnt know my brother inlaw would be paying me the money for the 400 sbc project and pieces for it, got me LS1 5.3 liter to pick up tomorrow! Im Exstactic! my brother inlaw is also giving me a 4L80E ;) out of a 2001 2500 van that has been totalled, for helping him rip it apart i get driveshaft, throttle cables, he got it all for a steal for $350 im also getting wiring harness from the salvage yard with the engine, accersory brackets and starter. :devil: ill also grab the ABS unit and proportioning valves, im not taking anything really serious like axles though. :smoke:

maybe i can keep this updated but we can still chat while im ripping apart this van :)

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yes better gas milege and take off that way! ;)

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sounds suuuuuuhwwwwweeeeeet!!!!!!! Glad to know you got an engine and stuff sooner than you thought. Keep us updated take pictures of the van your going to take apart too.

So what's your plan with the motor dont know if we've discussed that before?

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Hey Jealousy!!!! What does it have in it now? lol

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didnt get pictures yet of the van. its a GMC cargo van that does have the 4l80e in it. dangit my truck broke down in another town where i suppose to pick the engine up, they still had it but didnt have the wiring harness, accesorys... i had to change a starter in a cold parking lot. oh yea merry christmas. on chrismas night or the early morning after (today) i poked my eye with a flat tip screw driver,, talk about the pain the surgery took to seal my eye globe up. the trannys still in the van/ attempted to grab the engine 5 times over the holidays, but they were closed due to storms and other stuff. i just got the engine today as i mentioned earlier in the post. the 5.3 liter was a steal, had to have my close family pick it up for me earler. $250 bucks well spent but took to long to get it since it now doesnt have the starter, wiring harness, and the good stuff. they just hacked it and gave it to me
right now it has the 350 stilll in it, intil i can type right again i dont think ill be able to do anything it sucks. the van had a vortec 350 in it, took Mass air flow and grabed the pcm out of it as well with wiring harness. still getting the tranny but its not gonna be me pulling it. sorry for not responding earlier :smoke: hopefully my eye heals fine

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Wow, Hope you get better soon bro!

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Yeah man take care of yourself!! But again congrats on the buy, might suck to have to get certain things but at least you got your tranny and motor you want that's what counts!
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Thanks alot guys. really looking forward to having these nice pieces sit in the truck by January. still need a wiring harness... :smoke: il post a pic of the engine tomorrow, my brother in law has it at his bros house sitting till i find a place to set it without it getting the block cracked. i wander what you guys have gotten done

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did some research and my engine isnt a LS1. Its the 5300 vortec engine. only difference is the LS is all aluminum, and mines all iron except the cylinder heads.

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some more pics of it. :)
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looks pretty nice

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very nice! looks like a good powerplant to use if you ask me.

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your telling me! i either have the 5300 vortec with flat tops and a compression ratio of 10 to 1 or one with dish pistons with 9.0:1 which i dont mind since in the future ill be running a turbo charger. Idk bout you guys but those look like aluminum cylinder heads and im truely stoked :c2:
tomorrow im going to pick up a computer for a 6.0 liter, AOD and its for $50. im gonna pull a smart one and make my own harness. those guys better have the plug ins for the computer other wise im going somewhere else!:cuss:

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That they do man!! Good luck man coming along great, slow and steady wins the race, although if your a guy slow isn't exactly in our dictionary of words because we love speed. But sounds awesome man keep us updated!!

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You're going to be amazed at what that 5.3 can do! And man, I hope that eye heals up and gets back to normal!

Two words: Safety glasses!

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^^^^ Yup....I got shards of metal in my eye last DEC 2011...Wear safety glasses constantly now

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Lol hey guess what, got an update. i pulled the 5.7 liters wiring harness from the van. the trans is out and says 4l80E right on the passenger side with turbohydramatic stamped over that also into the casting. it looks as long as my long tail th350 and will be a direct fit. all i need to do is get the yoke off the old drive shaft and switch em.

yea ive been setting examples lol

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Nice good news to hear, I got to find a shorter drive shaft for when I drop mine. But sounds very very nice, for sure now doubt man safety first, I don't mean this in a bad way but I'm on a safety team and I'm going to school to be a safety manager, so please be safe man!
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haha yea im normally telling people around me to watch out for this and watch out for that. I was taught safety first in school, and i pounded it in my own head. Just gotta be more organized next time so i know where this guy stores his safety glasses. And speaking about drive shafts. Take a peak at your tail housing on your TH350. If its a 9 inch long tail shaft like mine, you shouldnt have to worry about switching drive shafts, just the yokes which the U joints are easy. Only thing i have to do with my truck is mover the crossmember back to where they put extra bolt holes in the frame for the TH400s or other types of trannys. :) pretty versitile.
One other thing i forgot to mention. I just seen the transmission earlier and the torque convertor had six bolts. Freaky set up but i like it :metal:
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Well when you do a flip kit it's hard to notice unless you look really close but the back rear wheels some how go back a little bit further, and a lot of people have to get shorter ones in order to make it sit in the middle. Sounds pretty sweet man!!! I'm about to post my productive day on my page so gotta go check it out show it some love lol
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definatley will. saw a couple days ago you guys got some pretty sucky weather, lets hope you didnt have to put up with it.

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I got the pictures of the computer and computer hold down for under the hood, i didnt get to grab much from the van like the ABS cause that would have been a task plus more time.. Ill stick with regular disk brakes. I also bought a bunch of butt connectors, and vacuum line since im doing this one wire at a time. Not intill i have my fuse box and pigtails for the computer will i be doing anything with wiring...
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nice!!!! looking better and better man! I put a tach on mine last night, I'll most likely have the pictures uploaded on friday along with saturday should have some pictures of the beast all back together and what not.

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thats good let us know what all you gott going on... i havent been on because alot has been happening like eye doctor appointments and such. ill post the pictures of the engine and trans
i have them side by side in the back of my truck. if you get the 4L90E what does it come out of?

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I believe the zr1 has it, my co worker told me about it. It's pretty much the stronger tranny that gm makes.

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thats good. hopefully you can grab the computer for it.. at least i think it takes a computer to operate

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on another note id like to say with full confidence my eye is healing good and i shall beable to see with out these stictes in my eye.

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Yeah I think thats how its ran but a lot will depend on how much power I end up wanting, if I just want 500ish I'll stick with a 4l80E, but if i want BIG power 90E is what i'm going to go with lol

Man you must be able to read my mind i was just about to ask how you eye is doing.

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Heres the pics i promised. Been helping my brother inlaw with his vehicle so i havent had time to get on here. But heres the engine and trans next to eachother
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Nice nice, they look like a match made in heaven haha

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lol yea, there is a few things that bug me. the transmission doesnt have a kick down so i believe the computer controls that. well i hope to have them both in the truck by spring time. the original doors are still in the back because i dont have a vin plate on the dash. its a sticker on my door...

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ahh!!! well good luck on it man, hope your able to get the transplate done soon, just dont rush yourself remember that one step at a time. Remember babysteps

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also havent been up to tearing out and putting in the passenger side door window into the new door. so im keeping that one around also. a bunch of junk laying around :smoke:

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yeah, see it would be much better if we ALL lived in like a general neutral area we could always have work days help days and what not oh well part of life can't have everything you want, well unless your a millionaire then you might be able to achieve that pretty easy haha.

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lol itd be great to have some helping hands, and to give a helping hand. I even like giving advise, my thought process is more of an idealist. more like a philosopher, open minded and pretty simple processes on how to fix this and how to fix that. i wont go into it. talking crazy now, were suppose to be talking bout trucks :smoke:

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Hey our trucks are part of a life so go speak your mind bro!

Yeah it would be nice of course we all have our own 2 cents worth and so on and so forth but end of the day our way to connect is this board give each other advice help out so and so on.

Do we have any progress on the truck my good man?

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Lets talk cars lol...I want this and im going to try to go look at her Sat and maybe the guy will take $2500 cash money
http://nashville.craigslist.org/cto/3553145462.html

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I got the other $500 saying he takes it hahaha! jk

Looks sweet!!! MY dream was a chevelle SS but most are restored and running for about 70k so yeah no fly with me haha. I'm thinking maybe if I can afford it later on in life and what not I want to restore a 1957 Bel-Air for my dad.

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Ay long time no chat you guys miss me? :smoke: did you get the chevelle????
That sounds sweet i say go for it man the only thing i say about the 57s is no power steering other than that there beautiful and reliable