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Old Mar 28, 2012 | 06:22 PM
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Good decision.
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Old Mar 28, 2012 | 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by matt92extcab
Im just gonna save my money and do a 5.3 or 6.0 swap. In Cali you can get it bar'd by a smog referee so it will pass emissions
You can never go wrong with a 6.0. That being said, on a budget, there are some pretty cheap mods you can do to the tbi to make it run fairly respectable. Unlike the LS engines, there are a lot of bolt ons that free up a good amount of power.

If that truck were mine and wanted to keep the sbc, I'd do the following things w/o any internal mods...

-Clean up the tbi base with a dremel, or buy one already worked over
-tbi spacer, injector pod spacer, maybe some flow matched injectors
-Get a set of free flowing, smog headers and ypipe. A good flowing si/so muffler
*I ran edelbrock TES headers, they came with a ypipe.
-convert the fuel pressure regulator to adjustable - then bump the fuel pressure. Or you could buy one that is adjustable.
-Being its a 92, it would probably benefit from a billet distributor and an upgraded coil.
-bump the timing a few degrees
-4.3li torque converter
-bigger servo
-mail order chip from Wester's or PCMforless

Those mods wouldn't make it touch a gmt-400 xcab with a 6.0. But, it will be a nice running truck. And those mods are all do-able by someone who is mechanically inclined with a decent set of tools. And those mods would probably set you back less than $1,000.
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Old Mar 28, 2012 | 08:56 PM
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I see people talking about servos what kind and where can I buy it
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