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My case If I could just be happy with a nice daily driver ad one nice car my 71 GTO would not be in the shop torn apart like it has been for 5 years and I wouldnt have gone thru my foxbody nightmare. lol maybe after the truck is done The GTO will get some love it will be bone stock only has 81,xxx miles HO455 car canyon copper with sandlewood interior, only 412 were made with ho455 engine and an auto.
yep...it was a beast even with a mild tune from allen just to get it going...lolQuote:
Originally Posted by RedHeartbeat
I'd still want my truck, but I wouldn't have dicked around so much trying to make a NVG3500 work with a aluminum LS6 block. Think I have the solution now but won't know til a few more weeks when I can get it towed back down to work to try it. Didn't know about the different starter offset. Tried LS6 flywheel/4.3 NVG3500 clutch at first, starter worked good, but flywheel was too thin so the clutch wouldn't release. Put the 4.8 flywheel/4.8 clutch in it and now clutch releases but the damn starter hits the flywheel. Gonna use the 4L80e flexplate spacer which is 3/8" thick and what I need to put behind the setup I have now and it should be fine. If I had of known ahead of time of all this BS I would have just did a T-56 swap at the same time. Still gonna do that in the future though!
If i could sell it I would just get a CTS-V and throw on a pulley, tune exhaust and headers and be done.
For my lifted truck, I would have started with a dent/rust free truck and used more new parts, and done an 80E from the get-go.
Might as well talk about my Camaro since that is one of my biggest regrets. It was a 16th b-day present, and of course I wanted a totally non-streetable drag car. :sigh: I wish I chose a streetable 70-73 Camaro and built it up to be a cruiser. Turbo'd LSx, 80E or 6spd, AC, sound system, etc...
I would have kept all that money and not modded the truck at all.
Haha, all these regrets from building up your trucks and I bet everyone scans the classifieds looking for that next bump in power :lol:
The only thing I would change was to not originally buy a new truck with a warranty- what a waste. I should have gotten one like my current 05' two years ago. Everyone wants a fast DD, but I seem to think my DD needs to go fast offroad.... I have three times as much cash tied up in prerunner parts on order as all my engine mods combined. I plan on building this up and getting a NNBS later to DD. I originally caught some flack over building a crewcab prerunner but there's nothing like sharing a near death experience with four of your closest friends :lol:
I would have started with a truck that didnt weigh 6000 lbs.
Never would have modded my TBI truck, alot of mods and still slow
I would have bought a NBS when I was in High School like I really wanted and not spent money on several other vehicles first. I would have got it looking nice with a tune exhaust and intake and let her be maybe other than gears and a locker when the G80 kicked the bucket and an 80e and small stall when the 60 kicked the bucket and then a cam kit when the lifters went bad........ ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh who am I kidding I can't help myself. GM was the closest factory to building the right truck, but they couldn't do it either :lol: