Ok I'm sure there has been many people on here wanting to know about building a nice lil turbo build with a 5.3 liter so I guess I'll be another..

I have a 2000 z71 silvy and just picked up a nice 5.3 with 243's from a 2010 silvy with 80k for nearly free..

looking to build a nice lil turbo truck out of it. Nothing too extreme just a real strong DD

Looking for tips, directions, parts, etc.. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

My only tip is that you won't want to use that 2010 motor in your truck. Way too many things are different between the years to even make it worth your while to make it work.

Just snag the heads and maybe the intake to slap on your motor.

 

Really?? The only difference I see really is the throttle body.

 

Yeah, 24x crank to 58x crank, that motor has DoD/AFM. Your harness could not use the MAF, throttle body, maybe injectors, evap, knock sensors, cam/crank sensors maybe too as they are different.

 

Well I did get it complete with harness

 

You would most likely have to upgrade PCM/ECMs to be able to run it as well.

 

PCM/TCM/BCM functions all come into play, your truck is not wired like a new one. They might even be can bus vehicles. You couldnt get that harness to connect to and talk with your old 4l60e because it came with a 6L80e.

There are just too many things different to even make it worth your time.

 

Woah woah woah. Kind of a lot of Missinformation here. Lingenfelter makes a conversion box that's pretty plug and play for the 58x to 24x. Only other big issue is the knock sensors. The rest of the harness is basically plug and play. Lots of guys have done this. The newer motors are awesome. Delete the afm/dod BS during a cam swap anyways. Better heads, better rods, better intake manifold. All good reasons to keep said motor. Using the long block isn't that hard.

 

That's why I like input from everyone.

 

Most likely gonna be adding a 4l80e as well.