Parkers Garage

[phantom405]

Well I'm going to start my build thread. My truck has gone through a few changes over the past couple years.

It started out its life as a 2007 classic RCSB Regency with a 5.3, jba shorty headers, 4L60E, and G80 w/3.73s.

The shorties were quickly sold and a set of Mac midlengths were installed and a custom dirt_track_racer81 y-pipe was fabbed up. The first nitrous kit was installed somewhere around this time with a comp 212/218 .522/529 114LSA cam. This setup lasted a while then I changed things up completely.


I installed a set of AEM lts with 2.5" true duals into moroso spiral flow mufflers and an MTI T1 cam and a different nitrous kit. This setup was good for 435rwhp on a 75 shot and a 12.86 @ 107mph...and 22mpg
YouTube - 2007 Silverado Classic 5.3 212/218 new exhaust
Well the nitrous never got used and was sold and eventually so was the cam...in favor a bigger one. We installed a lunati 232/237 .600 112LSA. Never dynoed or made it to the track, but it was strong.

Now to the new setup...TURBO
The lunati cam has been sold, aem lts are going to their new owner soon and the turbo build will be commence. Initial setup will consist of:
"New"(to me) 5.3L
04 LS6 cam
Truck intake
29X9X4 intercooler
Decent sized turbo
Custom dirt_track racer81 front mount turbo kit
4L60E w/shift kit
2800 stall
3.73s w/auburn diff








While the truck is down I'm going to try and clean it up a little. There will changes in the future, I.e. Bigger turbo, bigger motor, trans etc...pics will be posted along the way!!

[phantom405]

just a little update...finally took the cam out of the packaging...wrong one...got the motor cleaned up and painted...i'll get better pics tomorrow. painted the block, front and rear covers, valve covers, coils and brackets, water pump and pulleys.

[phantom405]

UPDATE

This is my 2007 Chevy silverado. It's been an ongoing project since I bought it new in 2007. It started out life as a "base model" Regency conversion.

This is the best picture I can find of it when I bought it


Its been through so many changes its not even funny. One of the last that I posted here was my turbo build
Turbo Build

My buddy did an awesome job, we made great power, but took the kit off and sold it to gather some money for a future project.

I kinda lost interest in the truck for awhile and the looks kinda went to.


Well some of my buddies started playing with their trucks and that got me interested in mine again. We put a junk motor together with parts from atleast 3 different engines, and it ran awesome.

5.3liter with flaptop pistons
241 heads milled .040 with some p&p work
Patriot .660 springs
231/239 .612/.609 113LSA cam
Pacesetter LT's
Dual 3" exhaust merged with a Flowmaster y into Magnaflow Race Series 4" muffler
Well built 4L60E
Circle D 278mm converter
Auburn pro series diff w/4.56
100shot of nitrous just to top things off

It made ~360rwhp N/A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX2XgusQtkA

I also made some visual improvements along the way. I think it looks pretty good right now, just needs an altitude adjustment, which we'll take care of this winter.




I have literally drove the outa this thing this year. I beat on it every weekend, whether it be roll racing or diggin with the slicks. I ran a best of 12.34 @ 110 with the lil 5.3 and won a lot of races on the street.




She also gets used as a truck as well...


Well we tore the 5.3 down to replace a bad lifter and when we got the heads off, I seen some pistons that I didn't feel 100% comfortable with, so we sent the 6.0 block that I had laying around to the machine shop for a .005 bore and I ordered some pistons to work with stock rods and some total seal rings. I also decided to change heads and order a cam spec'd for some nitrous.

So now the combo consists of
365c.i.
799 heads milled .030
Lunati .660 springs
LS7 lifters
COMP pushrods
Pat G nitrous cam
Nitrous Outlet 78mm plate
Induction Solutions Solenoids
Circle D 278mm converter
Auburn Pro Series diff w/4.56 gears

We got it finished up around 2:30am Saturday morning 11-20-10, filled with fluid, started, seated the rings and I drove it home. I took it to the track later that day and decided to do some index racing. I suck at a .400 pro tree so I got put out first round.

Here's some slips from qualifying and my first round loss...The first slip was all out, second and third I was trying to run the index.


I wasn't going to run it on the bottle, but I really wanted to see what it would do. So I heated the bottle up and made a solo. I was shocked at what I seen when I got my slip...


That was on Old beat up slicks
100 shot
-7 plugs
8* pulled out
controller set at 80% for .5 second
No tuning!!!

I'm pretty pumped and we haven't even started yet! I have a new Circle D converter to install, adjustable shocks and lots of tuning to do. I think with the new converter, tuning, and the 100 shot it will run 11.40's. I think with a 175-200 10's are very doable

[danger_ranger83]

Almost 2 seconds on a 100 shot?? yea right

[phantom405]

53n 29f...

Everything about the truck is built for nitrous. Big ring gaps, cam spec'd specifically for nitrous, really tight converter...it's built to pick up a bunch on nitrous, not to run great on motor...if you're going to dismiss any of mine or my friends work, why not make fun of the fact that I only ran 13.40 with a 6.0...I'm not here to impress anyone, just to have fun

[pl4yboy]

53n 29f...

Everything about the truck is built for nitrous. Big ring gaps, cam spec'd specifically for nitrous, really tight converter...it's built to pick up a bunch on nitrous, not to run great on motor...if you're going to dismiss any of mine or my friends work, why not make fun of the fact that I only ran 13.40 with a 6.0...I'm not here to impress anyone, just to have fun

Personally, I was wondering why the NA time was so slow with the mods you had until you mentioned the cam specced for nitrous. I really didn't pay attention to the cam specs.

[Crazy Blu]

just a little update...finally took the cam out of the packaging...wrong one...got the motor cleaned up and painted...i'll get better pics tomorrow. painted the block, front and rear covers, valve covers, coils and brackets, water pump and pulleys.

Ya here^

[phantom405]

Hahaha ya never know what's gonna happen with the truck. I think we're gonna ride this nitrous ls1 truck for a little while longer though. Its a never ending battle. You reach one goal and another one seems attainable with a little more work

[phantom405]

Got it all finished up this weekend

The new trans is BADASS

The new FTI converter is BADASS

The Smith Racecraft bars are BADASS

The racepak is BADASS!

It was kind of a rough weekend getting everything done by myself but it all came together in the end.

I couldn't have got it finished without the help of my buddy Tyler, my girlfriend(who actually had to help lift the 60e off the tranny jack and help lift the 80e on the jack) and my buddy Shawn for lettin me use his shop all weekend

New smith Racecraft bars




Racepak

[DBRODS]

Looks good!!! you still got the big shot plate laying around?