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Old Jul 3, 2011 | 06:12 AM
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Congrats!! About time... and a good deal too! The lighter block will be nice; looking forward to following your swap
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Old Jul 3, 2011 | 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by dmelvin
Since I know you're on kinda a budget with this. I'd probably recommend this converter, just an opinion, nothing more.

http://www.circledspecialties.com/p-...converter.aspx

A lot of us are running this converter... Well, I haven't actually ran it yet, I'm still waiting for the transfer case speed sensor plugs that I ruined Nothing is worse than not having your truck for 3 weeks, and when you get everything put together, you have something dumb like a speedometer that doesn't work.
Haha how did you ruin it? Thats actually the one i have been looking at what stall did you want?

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Congrats!! About time... and a good deal too! The lighter block will be nice; looking forward to following your swap
I know that's what I said, it took me forever to find a motor, oh well i have it now and i didn't expect to get a H.O 5.3. I've read that i will be about 100lbs lighter than a LM7
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Old Jul 3, 2011 | 01:29 PM
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Yeah it should be at least 80 pounds lighter IIRC. Enough to notice the difference up front
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Old Jul 3, 2011 | 01:34 PM
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Are the 862 heads good? Thanks!
On an L33, you should have 243/799 heads. These are "better" than 862 heads.
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Old Jul 3, 2011 | 03:54 PM
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On an L33, you should have 243/799 heads. These are "better" than 862 heads.
I was gonna say, an L33 with 862 heads? Either they've been swapped or someone along the line is full of ****.
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Old Jul 3, 2011 | 03:54 PM
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Haha how did you ruin it? Thats actually the one i have been looking at what stall did you want?
Long story short, thought I could save some time and hook everything up to the transfer case before installing it, and it fell off the jack, pulling the pins from all of the 2 pin plugs (Input speed sensor, Vehicle speed sensor, output speed sensor) and I couldn't get the pins shoved back in the connectors, so I just ordered new pigtails and I'm going to splice them in.
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Old Jul 3, 2011 | 05:34 PM
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Congrats on a great deal on a kick *** engine,


Just ask trevor1t what these engines can do!
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Old Jul 3, 2011 | 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by rjwz28
Yeah it should be at least 80 pounds lighter IIRC. Enough to notice the difference up front
Sweettt

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On an L33, you should have 243/799 heads. These are "better" than 862 heads.
Hmmm i checked the heads on my 2005 4.8 tahoe and it has the 799 heads
? WTF?
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I was gonna say, an L33 with 862 heads? Either they've been swapped or someone along the line is full of ****.


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Long story short, thought I could save some time and hook everything up to the transfer case before installing it, and it fell off the jack, pulling the pins from all of the 2 pin plugs (Input speed sensor, Vehicle speed sensor, output speed sensor) and I couldn't get the pins shoved back in the connectors, so I just ordered new pigtails and I'm going to splice them in.
:/ that sucks

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Congrats on a great deal on a kick *** engine,


Just ask trevor1t what these engines can do!
Lol i hope soo
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Old Jul 3, 2011 | 10:44 PM
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L33 vs LM7 is easy, is the block aluminum or cast iron?
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Old Jul 4, 2011 | 12:51 AM
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Originally Posted by AKlowriderZ71
L33 vs LM7 is easy, is the block aluminum or cast iron?
looks aluminum
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