Well I just bought a SS truck and its pretty awesome. Seems strong. I was wondering if someone can give me some links to performance parts for the truck. Im not familiar with the truck, so please help me out. Planning on doing heads, cam, forged everything, 3500 Stall, and a big shot of N02.

Thanks in advance for any help.
J

 

Check out Edelbrock for heads, cam and Intake (Gen. V/VI parts will work), the truck has a non-adjustable valvetrain so keep that in mind when looking for parts. You can look at www.turbocity.com (as soon as the new site is up) for a bored throttle body that has been ported and shaved. And alomost EVERY major header maker has a set of headers for it

Good Luck

 

ahhh, thanks for the advice. I'll be looking out for my first parts. How to see 11's on spray.

 

11's on the bottle !!!
if that's your goal the FIRST thing I would be thinking about is lighter rotaing parts (the crank in that thing alone weighs like 80lbs), go with forged aluminum pistons, have a forged crank cut WAY down and rebalanced and go with forged and shot-peened I-beam rods (lighter AND stronger), also think about extruded aluminum rocker arms (the more weight you can shave off the rotaing mass the better in a big block)

That generation of big-block was never known as a real performance motor (4500rpm redline....230hp/360tq stock) so it REALLY takes ALOT of work to get them to perform. The TBI fuel system is one of the biggest hinderences to performance....if you can afford to swap it out to the Edelbrock Pro-Flo MPFI system DO IT...that swap alone will extend the redline and increase horsepower and torque immensly

Also consider having the block gone over thorughly...those engines in my experience tend to oil-starve at higher-rpms...have the oil passages worked over a little to improve oil-flow and buy a GOOD high-volumn oil pump

 

To get it in the 11's with keeping the stock bottem end, you should get huge cam and ported heads, and tuning on a 200 first stage and 100 2nd stage. And E/T streets
Matt

 

11's on stock bottom end Good luck
I would yank the 454 out and start over.

 

www.454ss.com

 

yea those 454ss werent that fast back then i think there about as fast as a 4.8. but nice stump pullers
really nice when you throw in a 502 or better yet a 572 with tuneport efi.

 

what did you pay for that thing if you don't mind me asking?

 

welcome to the 454SS crew SNAXS! yeah, www.454ss.com is the best site i have found for these trucks. good luck on your plans. gonna do a stout 496 with a huge shot in mine one of thes days.