85 lwb turbo 5.3 build

[85burb]

After i get mine tuned and set in i may get hptuner. It will ne nice to have. Makes it easyer to troubleshot issues and make adjustments if i change anything.

[Wasted Income]

Originally Posted by clinebarger

The stock Gen III engine management system is one of the greatest EFI systems ever developed. GM could buy Holley with the money they spent developing their EFI.

We don't agree on a lot of subjects, but we are on the same page with this. Gave me a chuckle, too.

[68GMCCustom]

Holley has a new 4150 style throttle body efi....the Terminator. Now where have I heard that name before?




as does FAST...the ez-efi 2.0

[Wasted Income]

Originally Posted by 68GMCCustom

Holley has a new ...efi....the Terminator.

I'm waiting for them to come out with the "Shocker EFI"

[68GMCCustom]

Now yall can add GM genIII/IV efi!

[Kainedogg]

It will be fine brother, snags are the norm. If its any consolation, I got a mouth full of gas while pulling my gas tank this morning and have been burping 87 all day....lol.

[85burb]

Well the money came of my bank but is not in paypal yet. So to get my mind off of my money floating around in cyberspace i removed some stuff from the engine bay and labled wire harness. Hope i get paypal figured out monday.

[85burb]

Originally Posted by Kainedogg

It will be fine brother, snags are the norm. If its any consolation, I got a mouth full of gas while pulling my gas tank this morning and have been burping 87 all day....lol.

You should try to light the burps!!!

[85burb]

Well looks like i got my paypal all straitened out. Only took 6 days. Just sent payment for motor. Cant wait to get it.

[85burb]

I just put an order in for the motor mount plates. Went with the dirtydingo ones like i have in my burb. I really didnt want them but i know they work so i bought them. I didnt want to chance it with other ones and not have them work. Got free powder coat cause of black friday sale!

[Hart_Rod]

Originally Posted by 85burb

I just put an order in for the motor mount plates. Went with the dirtydingo ones like i have in my burb. I really didnt want them but i know they work so i bought them. I didnt want to chance it with other ones and not have them work. Got free powder coat cause of black friday sale!

Why didn't you want the Dirty Dingo mounts?
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[Mr. 250r]

Which ones did you have in your suburban? I had the sliders meant for 4wd and had no problems

[85burb]

I have the sliders that I am sure are for 4x4 and they are a pain in the rear to get bolted to frame mounts. I could be my burb. 50/50 chance that is why I went with them on the truck. I am sure they will work
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[85burb]

This is the issue of the mount.

[85burb]

YAY!!! Our motor came in today. Looks pretty nice. It has all the stuff it says it came with. Very fast shipping too. Missed my motor mounts today hope i am here when they delever them tomorrow.

[85burb]

Got 90% of the harness removed. I could not get the rest out beacuse the motor is kinda sitting on the pallet funny and trapping it. Should be able to get motor stand next week. I removed one valve cover and the intake to take a peek. Valve cover area looks real nice. The valves are nasty. I am thinking of removing the heads to clean them up and maybe put head studs in. May have them ported someware. Not sure yet. When i get the pan off i will make up my mind about removing the heads. That is atleast 500 bucks for gaskets and studs i did not want to spend.

[softballnrd27]

What year motor did you get?
If you don't mind where did you get it and how much?

[85burb]

It's a 2002 and I paid 800
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[85burb]

I think i have my turbo selected. It is a tc78 from turbonetics. Have not made my mind up about ball bearing or not. I had a good conversation with a dealer and he says it is not nessary at this time. Would only help spool buy a few hundred rpm. But it will cost almost 370 more bucks. So i may skip it. I should be able to order it in a few weeks. Untell them my mouts came in and as soon as i get my poly mounts for the frame i will install motor for moc up of turbo exhaust pipes.

[85burb]

Got my frame mount inserts installed. May drop the motor in tomorrow if rain will let me.

[85burb]

I got the motor in and it went very smooth. No mount issues like my burb had. Only issue i had was i did not notice my converter slid out and i tryed to bolt motor to trans and converter stopped spinning easy. Good thing i checked that when i was bolting motor to trans. So i had to loosen the motor and push the converter back. After i got that figured out motor bolted up perfect. I have lots of room under the pan between the crossmember. But my origanl plan with turning the manifolds around and pipeing them to turbo is not going to work. There is no room between the motor and the frame. So it looks like i will have to use a log type manifold on passenger side and stock maniflod on driver side in normall possition and run it down and to the driver side log. Any ways here is the pics so far. The air filter is just temporary.

[chevy-fun]

Looking good. I have a 84lwb an can't decided if turbo or tvs1900. Ill be watching your build. I know nolimit, cpp an there is also a user on here who makes gas tanks for rear under bed. Tomorrow I can get the links when at home. On my phone an work nights
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[85burb]

I would prefer a under bed one but have not found any for a 73-87. I went with a turbo cause they can be cheaper. Let me say Easyier to buy cause I only have to buy one thing at a time. Not 5-6 k all at onece
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[Mr. 250r]

I want a turbo..... lol but for mudding i would rather have a supercharger but they are ungodly amounts more expensive as far as yours goes what boost are you planning on running? i might've missed it somewhere

[85burb]

I will be running 15 or less pounds. That's the plan anyways.
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