Your first experience with LS platform

Thought there may be a few stories to enjoy from everyone. Most members on this site were already driving when the LS platform was introduced. Something sold you on building one up surely. Of course for some it will just happen to be a truck they bought.
For me. Two events sold me on a LS truck. First one was when I was a senior in high school and I had a 95 bolt-on Ram v8 Single cab. Being from a small town with very few people that race in it I thought it was pretty quick. Well a girl I was seeing at the time had a near new Silverado. This was around 02 and I believe the truck was a 01 with a 5.3 in it. Her parents would go down to the local strip with a mustang they raced and she always raced her truck. But me being cocky as the day is long thought my Dodge would hang with it. Well we took them out the to BFE where we keep a 1/4 marked off. (I think every town has one of those) And she smoked me so bad I believe she was hitting her brakes at the 1/4 mile when i was just about at the 1/8th. I knew right then... My truck was slow. Second was the first time I took my white truck out for a test drive. I had a little turbo import and my girlfriend and I were thinking the truck would be a slug in comparison.I was running around 45 and stobbed it and it broke loose and got a little side ways on the highway. From that moment the truck was bought and I havent looked back.

i bought a rcsb with the 4.3 in it because i couldnt find one with a v8, drove it like that for 2yrs, came across this website and the rest is history...

I was completely ignorant of them until I googled 2006 Silverado V8 swap.

Got my first LS1 in '98, bought a brand new fbody, thought I was the sh!t lol. Felt sorry for those '97 buyers, lol, uhh no I didn't.
From there, it's been nothing but...

i got my truck used and wanted to but some sub woofers in it and a flowmaster muffler because it was my first V8. now i wish i stuck with that plan lol.

always been a chevy fan drove a 93 ESLB 6.5 all through high school (slow as gravy but my favorite truck) graduated bought my truck brand new in 06 (half my money saved up half gradutation present), then moved to go to college in town where 3/4s of the of kids drive diesels with a stack and a chip and think they are fast so added a few things on shut a few of them up and got the mod bug haha but im just a broke college kid so im slowly building on it

I've also always been a Chevy fan. I got introduced to the LS platform by a good friend of mine who had an 01 Camaro SS that he raced. He introduced the idea of dropping a 5.3 into my truck, and after some google searching, I was hooked. Then I picked up a 6.0, found this site, and hopefully will have the engine into the truck by the end of the year.

I built my 69 and saw all the guys around town being cool and such. When I built it in the beginning I was on the 67-72chevytrucks forum. Saw a couple of guys do the LS swap and it looked cool. Then bought my 07 and wished I would have done it.

My brother was looking to get a truck and we were checking out basically any GM truck. He almost got a '95 GMC with 200k with a rebuilt engine/trans. He passed on that, then I found my current truck online. We went to look at it and bought it the same day. He put about 20k miles on it and beat the crap out of it. New trans, rear, smashed both bumpers, let a kid driving it smash the bedside. I acquired it from him my senior year high school, lifted it, found this damn site, and now I want to be the fastest lifted LSX truck...

back in 99' my buddys dad owns the local gmc dealership ...and well my buddy always sported the new trucks off the lots lol....we would spank gt mustangs in a brand new 99' sierra ext cab 5.3! thing would burn at 30rolls easy.then thats when i got me a 2000 silverado ext cab 5.3..did the hypertech and full bolt ons lol...got a 03' yukon 5.3...got the 08'rcsb 6.0 and 09' sierra denali

I always disliked v8's because i never saw the point of displacement. later a friend in the class finished his sbc 383 truck build and gave me a ride in it at night. he put it in 4 wheel drive and i thought it was slow....until the next day when i saw the 4 wheel traction "problems" he had. i was hooked on chevy after that and when it was time for a new vehicle i wanted a rcsb with a chevy v8....that's when i started with ls motors

So I was stationed in japan, came home on leave cus pops was havin surgery well while home I bought a dodgw dakota quad cab, well I grew up chevy and all my friends drove chevys but it was all I could afford, my dream was an ext cab chevy, I went to iraq and when I came home and gave the dodge to my parents, and bought an 03 arrival blue ext cab had a tb spacer cai hypertech and true dual flowmasters 2 12 jl audio w3v2s poundin under the seats woth tvs in the headreats sittin on 20s and thought I was the shiznit, so I had it all scheduled to have it bagged and decided to take a road trip before and I hit an elk and totalled it, so I bought my black truck which was a joe gibbs with no sc I got out of the service and came home I thought I was king shiznit I called out a modded lightning now mind you im in a stock 5.3 well he raped me so I did gears and a hypertech once again I thought I was badass raced an SSS and got beat by a truck length and was devastated, my buddy chick said chech out this website ls1truck well 2 months goes by and he says you really should go to this site so finally I logged in and became friends with tyler, jon, kurt, ricky, greg, moze and virgil and boy did they open my eyes, well after a month me and chick went to virgils and helped with moze' engine swap met greg there too, a month later we went to tylers house and me chick, tyler, and dale
Did the build on my truck, needless to say I didnt have a problem with lightnings anymore :lol: and the rest is history.