new dd/ new plans for the truck

well got a 2001 gmc safari for a new dd, grandpa was selling it for like 500 bucks so i bought it. its clean and has low miles so i thought why not. with that being the case its time to take a whole new route with the truck. ive decided im turning it into a complete costume pro touring street truck. ive already talked to my buddy that restores cars and im dropping the truck off there tomorrow to begin work. plan list of what to be done to the truck will consist of

*full build on the 4.8 ( yes im keeping the small motor because i like the idea of huge numbers on small motors)
* twin turbo kit
* 6 speed manuel trans
* complete suspension upgrade
* body work, shave handles and tub the back
* built 12 bolt rear end with 411's ( 12 bolt because its going to be tubbed out and im doing all this work anyways so might as well go all out)
* willwood 4 wheel disc brakes
* costume interior

im looking to make around 600 to 650 wrhp when all done. this build is probably going to take me a couple years to complete but i think will be bad a** when done.

do you plan on running it at the track? bc most tracks around here wont let you run with shaved door handles

Might want to check out piston's form Wiesco. they now wake a forged. 4.8/5.3 bore psiton.

nah i dont plan on doing much track use, never really got into it. most the ones around my area got shut down. Thanks SLO TRUCK i did not know that. any info on good parts to use for the engine build would be great. always useful to hear information from people who have person experience with stuff.

ah man, thats crazy cool! I saw a show on HD Theatre, dont remember what the show was called. But 2 custom shops went head to head on a custom Chevy Astro build. They made sweet modvans out of em. Keep us posted!

Heck yea that will be BA!

gonna be badass,goodluck

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ah man, thats crazy cool! I saw a show on HD Theatre, dont remember what the show was called. But 2 custom shops went head to head on a custom Chevy Astro build. They made sweet modvans out of em. Keep us posted!

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I think it was this one: http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/ultimate-car-build-off/ Lou Santiago from Musclecar is a co-host.

When did they start putting a 4.8 in the Astro/Safari?

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When did they start putting a 4.8 in the Astro/Safari?

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The date... look at it...

To answer your question, he is building his NNBS (07-11) TRUCK, not the van which he picked up to use as a daily driver. To answer your other question, to my knowledge the Astro/Safari has always come with a 4.3, but the Express/Savana has had about every LS motor combination at some point (4.3,4.8,5.3,6.0,8.1, and even a D-Max I believe).

Sounds like a cool build, Why not use a factory 14 bolt rear end setup? instead of the 12 bolt... 14 bolts are very strong and will basically swap right in..

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http://lolwut.com/layout/lolwut.jpg

The date... look at it...

To answer your question, he is building his NNBS (07-11) TRUCK, not the van which he picked up to use as a daily driver. To answer your other question, to my knowledge the Astro/Safari has always come with a 4.3, but the Express/Savana has had about every LS motor combination at some point (4.3,4.8,5.3,6.0,8.1, and even a D-Max I believe).

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As a GM parts guy I was pretty sure that they never put a 4.8 in a M van. Guess I just didnt read close enough....

u should really take ur truck down to santa paula on sunday around 9pm im getting 3 other guys on the forum to roll to maybe we can show the rice out her what power really is as a weekly accurance

have you thought about boreing the 4.8 to a ls1 bore but keeping the 4.8 crank? this way you get some extra cubes and can still spin the piss out of it. im thinking of doing this to my back up motor instead of a iron 5.7. you also get alot bigger piston selection although idk where you can find a forged 4.8 rod... unless you want to keep stock

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have you thought about boreing the 4.8 to a ls1 bore but keeping the 4.8 crank? this way you get some extra cubes and can still spin the piss out of it. im thinking of doing this to my back up motor instead of a iron 5.7. you also get alot bigger piston selection although idk where you can find a forged 4.8 rod... unless you want to keep stock

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A 313! I've thought about this one too.