hey im considering the idea of forging my lq9 but i dont know where to start can anyone recommend me to someone near san diego, ca. and can someone give me some advice on what to look for its going into a crew cab sierra with tricks turbo kit, t76. any advice is helpful thanks...here are a couple questions that i have can i just buy new forged piston and reuse my stock crank? what the best piston and rods that i can put in without boring out the block?

 

A lot of vendors sell forged rotating assemblies for a 6.0.

What kind of power are you looking to make? You can go from there to figure out if you need a forged crank.

A lot of people are making good power with boost and stock long blocks.

 

Both of these things.

Check out foose running 20# of boost on a stock internal motor.

If you're wanting to go forged. The Texas speed kits are hard to beat.

 

Please refer to this thread: https://www.performancetrucks.net/fo...ck-lq4-499280/

If you still want to most likely waste money building a forged motor for a 76mm turbo, after reading that, then Texas Speed will gladly take less of your money than many of their competitors.