Going to be a nice build
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Going to be a nice build
Thanks man! Ya I cant wait to get it on the streets this spring. Should be a bit of an upgrade from the 4.3 tbi. Lol
Well I got a call from Northern Cylinder Head today, he said they were starting on the teardown of the lq9, he said he took the headers off and I guess a mouse or two had made there way up the header this winter and made himself a little home, so I have my fingers crossed there were no exhaust valves open, hopefully from here on out it will be nothing but good news from the guys at Northern from here on out.
Well picked up my lq9 from my engine shop today, super pumped now, brand new lq9 ready to install. Whole motor tore down and gone through all new seals throughout and rebuilt and ported the heads to help out that magic stick ms4 a bit. Bout damn time!! Trans has been to my trans guy and he ran it through all the gears and were good to go, now its time to get the motor cleaned up and ready for paint. Got my rear end narrowed, custom axles cut, 4.10s with eaton locker as well as my rear drum to disc conversion done, should look good behind the 24" raceline billets. Hopefully have it all in and frame finished in the next month or two, then its time to hit the streets!
Sounds like a pretty bad build man, im new ti this site too, doing an ls1 swap into an 89. Good luck! Post some pics of the truck man!
This will be badass! Get some pics up in here!
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here's a few shots of the truck, currently the truck is getting assembled for the first time, the frame is about complete, rear end with wilwood disc swap is done, motor is built but still needs to be torn down again for paint and actual accessories that will be on the motor, next on the list is to build the 3" stainless magnaflow exhaust, button up the frame, finish the fuel cell, smooth the firewall, and trans tunnel, then tear it all apart again, paint everything and piece the truck back together and get it wired up and tuned and we will be ready to roll!
Are you running LT's or shorties?
Long tubes straight back with a crossover pipe to dual 3" magnaflows dumped before the rear axle.