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And on to other things did some talking with several ls performance shops about the 6.0 engine before I started dumping money into it. Come to find out it was not going to work for the Allison without a large chunk of money for a turbo or supercharger 11:1 compression etc so I sold it off at a slight profit and got something with both factory capability and enormous build potential after doing some reading on a nice build thread on performance trucks forums hehehehe. Enter the vortec 8100 496 cubes picked up one cheap at a local salvage yard. The heads are in the shop right now since GM thought 8 mm exhaust studs would be quite fine in the head NOT!!!! 3 of the broke flush in the block lol. So they are getting repaired as we speak. Going to go back with a set of arp head studs and get it all back together next week. Got the short block and Allison in the truck and it fits decently had to pull the engine forward on to the 6 cylinder mounts on the frame and may have to do alil radiator relocation but will know more when its assembled and in completely and the nose is back on. I am going to have a friend section the trans cross member a slight bit to get the Allison mounted in the rear which will give me 1/2" clearance on the floor pan. the bell housing on the Allison wasn't going to clear the floor hence the 6 cylinder mounting spot. and it cleared just find from that point back. Also the truck blocks have both traditional and the duramax style engine mounting bolt holes to work with

Sean