I saw it in a truck mag when i was at the grocery store. I was kinda in a hurry so I didnt read it - just looked at pics. It caught my eye at first b/c the engine had an aluminum intake manifold. So I looked at the caption under the pic and it was an 8.1L! Holy #%@* good luck hooking up... <img src="gr_grin.gif" border="0">

 

Yep, pretty cool how the guy put it together.

 

It looked like a pretty expensive conversion. It is running hte 8.1L and the 4L80E from the HD truck they stole the stuff out of. I wonder if they put the 'lil 5.3 back in the HD? Beware if you are buying a used HD. hehehe

 

iread that article and what he did was buy HD and just the half ton frame and short box strait from GM

 

he had to replace the rear end also and the front suspension i think. or he did that to get rid of the 8 lug.

 

Found a pic of it:

 

What mag. was the article in? Could somebody that has the article possibly scan it and send it to me?

I'm mainly interested in what they had to do to put the 4L80E in the 1500.

That is a sweet looking truck. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

I'm going to have to get under my dad's '99 2500HD Silverado and start measuring. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

Johnnie