RCSB LQ4/80E swap... Take two
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RCSB LQ4/80E swap... Take two
This will be chronicling my swap the second time around. I installed this engine and transmission in my 2000 RCSS in the fall of 2014. Had a mishap last April, truck was totalled. I bought my current truck 10 days later, and have been slowly swapping over parts and making improvements. My 60E took a dump last night, so no time like the present...
My old set up was:
2004 LQ4/80E (approx 50K -ish miles)
TPiS ZL10 camshaft with LS9 springs (202/216 .525)
LS9 head gaskets and ARP head bolts
87 octane street tune
8.1L 31# injectors
Magnaflow muffler in the stock cat back, factory manifolds and cats
Airraid MIT
F-body efans
Factory 3.73s and G80 gov bomb
This go around, I am upgrading a few things:
EPS cam (214/220 .604) and BTR dual springs
BTR trunion upgrade
2011 4.8/5.3 intake manifold and NW 92mm TB
Speed Engineering 1.75" LTs
2.5" mandrel bent lead pipes into 2.5 dynomax race bullets
DI/SI Magnaflow CB off of my old 96' (dual 2.5" in, single 3.5" out)
I have already installed 4.10 gears and a Yukon duragrip in the rear axle.
Hoping that the changes will be drastic enough to convince myself to stop modding my daily driver.
My old set up was:
2004 LQ4/80E (approx 50K -ish miles)
TPiS ZL10 camshaft with LS9 springs (202/216 .525)
LS9 head gaskets and ARP head bolts
87 octane street tune
8.1L 31# injectors
Magnaflow muffler in the stock cat back, factory manifolds and cats
Airraid MIT
F-body efans
Factory 3.73s and G80 gov bomb
This go around, I am upgrading a few things:
EPS cam (214/220 .604) and BTR dual springs
BTR trunion upgrade
2011 4.8/5.3 intake manifold and NW 92mm TB
Speed Engineering 1.75" LTs
2.5" mandrel bent lead pipes into 2.5 dynomax race bullets
DI/SI Magnaflow CB off of my old 96' (dual 2.5" in, single 3.5" out)
I have already installed 4.10 gears and a Yukon duragrip in the rear axle.
Hoping that the changes will be drastic enough to convince myself to stop modding my daily driver.
Last edited by Bluecollar Hotrods; 06-26-2016 at 04:18 PM.
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Worked on the intake manifold this afternoon. I'll have to go back over the intake manifold swap threads to find a solution for the evap line. The 8.1L injectors fit the fuel rails just fine. Need to work out a bracket for the Corvette fuel line and filter as well.
It started raining, so no deconstruction today.
It started raining, so no deconstruction today.
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Get the evap purge line bad solenoid from an nnbs intake they bolt right in and mate right up, as far as the bracket for the vette filter, i used the ground bracket deal it had on it and wanna say bolted it to fuel rail bolt, but i also have an ly6 intake so fuel rail bolts are on outside of the rail whereas the cathedral port is inboard of the rail....
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