^^^ Looks OEM, very nice!

 

That was what I was after... I wanted it to look like a mini silverado when you popped the hood. I just finished all the rear suspension I replaced it all and added caltracs. I have a set of 13/4" longtubes and a ton of mandral bent 304SS tubing to fab all new exhaust. I'm also going more aggressive with the cam and converter. all new front suspension and a few other goodies. The little truck has just turned 10 years old and still under 90K miles and it is driven everyday by the wife. Since the swap we have put about 15K on it.

 

Wow that's extremely impressive!! Makes me think more n more about doing a 5.3 swap. Bad thing is that its my.daily and I don't have another truck thats exactly road worthy lol.

 

Auto, 3:42's, 245/50/16's. All hour plus highway driving no stop and go with cruise and a/c and a light foot. If you start getting into it heavy though playing the gas gauge will chase the speedometer.

 

Sprayed99 I am after the same thing. I want someone to look under the hood and think to themselves did that come like that? I think you pulled your truck off vary nice! Are you on s10forum?

 

Thank you.... Yes unfortunately I am same name.

 

Your not anywhere in Missouri are you? I would love to check out your truck sometime.

 

no I'm not but I was up in Hannibal just a few months ago to help a fellow member and good friend finish his SSS. In fact his thread was in the builds section. I can send you pics of whatever you may need. I have about 12 years of expoierence working on LS based vehicles (mainly trucks). On brians truck I did the fuel system, all the painted under hood items, hard charge piping for the blower, spec'd the cam, stand alone and all the nitrous and a bunch of other ****... Trucks runs hard at 13.5 PSI

Heres the link the Brians truck...

https://www.performancetrucks.net/fo...d.php?t=483523

 

So I will be building a 6.0 at some point in the future but for now I found a deal I cant pass up. It's a long story so bare with me. lol About a 1.5 years ago I did an LS1 swap in to my Silverado, and pulled my running 5.3L. When I pulled the 5.3L I was going to keep it for a project (like this) but decided to liquidate all my LS parts. I sold all my LS parts and this running longblock with all the covers and pan for $300 to a real good buddy. I wanted to clean up the garage and he wanted this 5.3L for a first gen S10 swap. Now he never got to it and wanted to make room in his shop so he told me to bring $100 over and pick up the longblock, all the LS parts and the motorstand. After I asked him to let me pay what he payed me I brought home my old 5.3 for $100!

After I checked the baring clearances, installed ARP2000 rod bolts and did a little cleaning/painting.

Here she is:

 

Wow that's great man!