5.3 turbo
01-16-2017, 11:57 AM
#11
Launching!
Thread Starter
Hey hey hey I'm in the Bay Area 😎 Just haters cause I'm able to walk my dog outside and take my truck and cars and bikes for spins whatever I want year round. Idk where you're from but doesn't sound like west coast lol
now not so much,
01-16-2017, 12:20 PM
#12
He's from Texas and Texas doesn't like anywhere but Texas, lol. I lived there for 4 years and Loved it! But all my family lives in Oregon so that's where I live now. Sutherlin OR, just off I5 is where my shop is. I'd be happy to build you a set of hot pipes.
Turbo depends on how much power you want to make. But like I said, for a mild 5.3 and 8-10lbs of boost, you can't beat a BW s366. And they have an AWESOME whistle to them! lol Most performance turbos don't have a silencer ring in them. That's more of an OEM thing.
Turbo depends on how much power you want to make. But like I said, for a mild 5.3 and 8-10lbs of boost, you can't beat a BW s366. And they have an AWESOME whistle to them! lol Most performance turbos don't have a silencer ring in them. That's more of an OEM thing.
01-16-2017, 02:07 PM
#13
Launching!
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He's from Texas and Texas doesn't like anywhere but Texas, lol. I lived there for 4 years and Loved it! But all my family lives in Oregon so that's where I live now. Sutherlin OR, just off I5 is where my shop is. I'd be happy to build you a set of hot pipes.
Turbo depends on how much power you want to make. But like I said, for a mild 5.3 and 8-10lbs of boost, you can't beat a BW s366. And they have an AWESOME whistle to them! lol Most performance turbos don't have a silencer ring in them. That's more of an OEM thing.
Turbo depends on how much power you want to make. But like I said, for a mild 5.3 and 8-10lbs of boost, you can't beat a BW s366. And they have an AWESOME whistle to them! lol Most performance turbos don't have a silencer ring in them. That's more of an OEM thing.
01-18-2017, 02:46 PM
#16
I've been toying with the idea of throwing a turbo on my 01 Tahoe, 5.3. Since I read an junkyard turbo 5.3 build somewhere, even @ 200,000+ miles mine still runs hard and pulls great. Mostly highway miles though, but I feel it's going to give out sooner or later, may as well have some fun in the mean time. Lol. I should probably get a replacement first though.
01-19-2017, 10:44 PM
#17
With what you already have, a budget of that much seems tight but creative planning can work.
Def. go 4L80E, it's an easy swap on the 2008 even if you wanna do a 4L80E tune instead of adapter harness with 4L60E tune.
You can do a KB manifold only and fab your own stuff to keep costs low but blow off valves and wastegate, intercooler, etc. add up quick.
I'm running 15psi on a On3 78mm turbo on my flipped manifold kit and it starts spooling around 2k (It used to have a 68mm Precision before and that thing had much quicker response but ran out of steam at about 12psi on a older kit). It's all custom built at home. Running 80lb. injectors and haven't needed a high flow pump yet ... we just bumped up the fuel pwm in the controller and it seems to work. I know we'll start running out of fuel when it's time to turn it up and add methanol inj.
Def. go 4L80E, it's an easy swap on the 2008 even if you wanna do a 4L80E tune instead of adapter harness with 4L60E tune.
You can do a KB manifold only and fab your own stuff to keep costs low but blow off valves and wastegate, intercooler, etc. add up quick.
I'm running 15psi on a On3 78mm turbo on my flipped manifold kit and it starts spooling around 2k (It used to have a 68mm Precision before and that thing had much quicker response but ran out of steam at about 12psi on a older kit). It's all custom built at home. Running 80lb. injectors and haven't needed a high flow pump yet ... we just bumped up the fuel pwm in the controller and it seems to work. I know we'll start running out of fuel when it's time to turn it up and add methanol inj.
01-19-2017, 11:37 PM
#18
Launching!
Thread Starter
With what you already have, a budget of that much seems tight but creative planning can work.
Def. go 4L80E, it's an easy swap on the 2008 even if you wanna do a 4L80E tune instead of adapter harness with 4L60E tune.
You can do a KB manifold only and fab your own stuff to keep costs low but blow off valves and wastegate, intercooler, etc. add up quick.
I'm running 15psi on a On3 78mm turbo on my flipped manifold kit and it starts spooling around 2k (It used to have a 68mm Precision before and that thing had much quicker response but ran out of steam at about 12psi on a older kit). It's all custom built at home. Running 80lb. injectors and haven't needed a high flow pump yet ... we just bumped up the fuel pwm in the controller and it seems to work. I know we'll start running out of fuel when it's time to turn it up and add methanol inj.
Def. go 4L80E, it's an easy swap on the 2008 even if you wanna do a 4L80E tune instead of adapter harness with 4L60E tune.
You can do a KB manifold only and fab your own stuff to keep costs low but blow off valves and wastegate, intercooler, etc. add up quick.
I'm running 15psi on a On3 78mm turbo on my flipped manifold kit and it starts spooling around 2k (It used to have a 68mm Precision before and that thing had much quicker response but ran out of steam at about 12psi on a older kit). It's all custom built at home. Running 80lb. injectors and haven't needed a high flow pump yet ... we just bumped up the fuel pwm in the controller and it seems to work. I know we'll start running out of fuel when it's time to turn it up and add methanol inj.
kevin
01-21-2017, 02:05 PM
#19
that sounds like an idea but the pipe cost a bit. 80$ a 10' stock for aluminum I think or stainless I forget. (Called an exhaust shop) But that's a lot. I'm tossing around ideas I can do so its still in the works but it's not what you know it's who ya know. I don't understand what you mean by the 80e with 60e tune or the 60e with an 80e tune?probably going to get an 80e but I just need to get the 31 spline for my transfer case. Is the spline swap pretty basic just drop the case and unbolt it then remove the clips..blah blah blah replace the spline and slap it back in? Thanks for the info
kevin
kevin
Check out Mandrel Bending Solutions for your tubing. We've worked with them for a long time now and they're local to me, so it worked out great for me.
As for the trans/transfer case, not really sure. Maybe you could get a whole 4x4 setup and avoid having to deal with swapping stuff? Just no sure how the controls work.
01-21-2017, 10:31 PM
#20
Launching!
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"most" 4L80E swaps on these trucks are done by adding a conversion harness (Frost/Speartech/etc) and deleting a few codes. The 4L60E tune will control the 4L80E trans just fine if you can get all the bugs sorted (mostly in the tune, Frost does it for a fee). Some people however, like me, decided; after a lot of headaches trying to work out the bugs, decided to forgo the adapter harnesses/etc. and re-wire the factory harness to work with a native (as I call it) 4L80E tune. The tune was designed for it (mainly the torque converter lockup and diagnostics sections) and it only makes sense to take advantage of GM's work. You also don't have to deal with relays to invert the B-Solenoid signal and another for Torque converter lockup if you want any sort of PWM control (most go with plain on/off control and forgo the relay) ... again, another failure point anytime you add anything inline.
Check out Mandrel Bending Solutions for your tubing. We've worked with them for a long time now and they're local to me, so it worked out great for me.
As for the trans/transfer case, not really sure. Maybe you could get a whole 4x4 setup and avoid having to deal with swapping stuff? Just no sure how the controls work.
Check out Mandrel Bending Solutions for your tubing. We've worked with them for a long time now and they're local to me, so it worked out great for me.
As for the trans/transfer case, not really sure. Maybe you could get a whole 4x4 setup and avoid having to deal with swapping stuff? Just no sure how the controls work.