Ls2???
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Ls2???
So I'm deployed. So I have lots of time to dream up weird stuff.
I keep looking at this https://sdparts.com/details/gm-perfo...parts/12568950
Seems like a great price if everything fits so easily.
Tell me if I'm wrong. Could I just buy some nice new 4.00 pistons/rings, have my 5.3 rods and crank cleaned up/balanced, new bearings/seals, and have a nice semi budget (even lighter weight) 6.0L block?
Does this block bolt up in a truck? What does the reconditioning and assembly work at an engine shop cost?
I keep looking at this https://sdparts.com/details/gm-perfo...parts/12568950
Seems like a great price if everything fits so easily.
Tell me if I'm wrong. Could I just buy some nice new 4.00 pistons/rings, have my 5.3 rods and crank cleaned up/balanced, new bearings/seals, and have a nice semi budget (even lighter weight) 6.0L block?
Does this block bolt up in a truck? What does the reconditioning and assembly work at an engine shop cost?
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Thanks for replying. I'm actually considering the LS2 block with forged pistons and the 5.3 rods, crank and anything else worth swapping. A lot of my curiousity was about how the aluminum blocks bolt up in a truck. And any other reason not to use one. The new block is only a few hundred more than a new LQ9 block.
I have been thinking about the LS3 style heads and intake though. So I'd love to hear more about using that hardware in the older truck.
I have been thinking about the LS3 style heads and intake though. So I'd love to hear more about using that hardware in the older truck.
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Of course till I'm home and settling in, this is all speculation...
I'm thinking an LS2 block, forged flat tops, reconditioned rods/crank (possibly from my 5.3), GMPP LS3 heads (they're a deal), and whatever rectangle port intake suits me at that point.
Also thinking maybe a BTR truck cam, stage 3 or 4.
I have a new Yank TT3000 an some low mile LS7 lifters at the house.
I'm thinking an LS2 block, forged flat tops, reconditioned rods/crank (possibly from my 5.3), GMPP LS3 heads (they're a deal), and whatever rectangle port intake suits me at that point.
Also thinking maybe a BTR truck cam, stage 3 or 4.
I have a new Yank TT3000 an some low mile LS7 lifters at the house.
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The block will fall right into place like its iron twin..... If I were going to build and aluminum LS2 I would search around for an LQ9 rotating assembly, it is the same hard parts used in an LS2 and if you top the motor off with a set of 243 heads your comp ratio will be somewhere like 10.9-11.0:1. Why look for lq9 rotating assembly over stock 5.3 rods is the lq's are stronger and they use bushes wrist pins, which free up friction on the rod/piston giving you better longevity and the bushes pins allow the end user to remove/install Pistons with out the need of a machine shop or a press...... FWIW, my motor is an Iron LS2, rotating assembly and all, it started life as a brand new GM crate LQ9, then I ditched the stock 317's bc I wasn't running boost any more and I wanted a better N/A setup and I sourced a top end from a 2006 tbss, I did do internal work to the motor but you get the idea