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Hello everyone,
Just heard about this site from a gmcsierra site I recently joined. I recently bought a 2012 Sierra 1500 SLE 4x4 z71 (not sure in what order I'm supposed to type all that lol) with about 117k miles. This is my first truck I've bought since a 1989 F150 I had while in the Marines. I'm just going to use the truck sporadically, mainly to haul some stuff as needed. I may take it on longer leisurely rides because I'm finding it much more interesting than my 2017 Santa Fe lol.
I have a ton of questions/plans for the truck but just reading this site for a few minutes broke my heart several times. I have a 2004 CTS-V sitting in my garage (been there for almost a year). I'm going to call a junk car place and get rid of it but will probably pull the LS6 engine out of it. The engine has about 145k miles on it but never gave me any issues that I remember. I was planning on either selling it (since I've heard it's relatively rare) or was hoping I could put it into the '12 Sierra. Guess the Gen III engine to Gen IV vehicle will require a ton of work though so that killed the LS6 dream. Plus not sure the LS6 would be ideal since it seems like it's more of a high revving engine.
Guess the best course of action will probably be to sell the LS6 and just modify the existing engine in the truck, buy the Summit Racing Gen III 5.3 450hp engine (if it will work in my truck), or try to get a junk yard/used Gen IV 5.3. Forgot to mention, I know basically nothing about this stuff lol. I've only done basic maintenance stuff on vehicles but always wanted to dive into engine rebuilding/swapping and performance upgrades. I have no idea what's been done performance wise to my truck already by previous owners so hopefully I'm not trying to upgrade a vehicle with redundant parts. Would love to get around 450 hp with a nice increase in torque, that would be my dream. Anyway, pic of the truck (I'm hoping the previous owner is a member so he/she can tell me what they've done lol):
Just heard about this site from a gmcsierra site I recently joined. I recently bought a 2012 Sierra 1500 SLE 4x4 z71 (not sure in what order I'm supposed to type all that lol) with about 117k miles. This is my first truck I've bought since a 1989 F150 I had while in the Marines. I'm just going to use the truck sporadically, mainly to haul some stuff as needed. I may take it on longer leisurely rides because I'm finding it much more interesting than my 2017 Santa Fe lol.
I have a ton of questions/plans for the truck but just reading this site for a few minutes broke my heart several times. I have a 2004 CTS-V sitting in my garage (been there for almost a year). I'm going to call a junk car place and get rid of it but will probably pull the LS6 engine out of it. The engine has about 145k miles on it but never gave me any issues that I remember. I was planning on either selling it (since I've heard it's relatively rare) or was hoping I could put it into the '12 Sierra. Guess the Gen III engine to Gen IV vehicle will require a ton of work though so that killed the LS6 dream. Plus not sure the LS6 would be ideal since it seems like it's more of a high revving engine.
Guess the best course of action will probably be to sell the LS6 and just modify the existing engine in the truck, buy the Summit Racing Gen III 5.3 450hp engine (if it will work in my truck), or try to get a junk yard/used Gen IV 5.3. Forgot to mention, I know basically nothing about this stuff lol. I've only done basic maintenance stuff on vehicles but always wanted to dive into engine rebuilding/swapping and performance upgrades. I have no idea what's been done performance wise to my truck already by previous owners so hopefully I'm not trying to upgrade a vehicle with redundant parts. Would love to get around 450 hp with a nice increase in torque, that would be my dream. Anyway, pic of the truck (I'm hoping the previous owner is a member so he/she can tell me what they've done lol):
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Genschmitz88 (05-03-2021)
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would love a supercharger but not sure I want to go extreme like that especially on an engine with 117k miles. Although I’ve heard these 5.3 motors are really reliable
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Don`t let 117K worry you, I boosted my 5.3 at 100k and it now has 286k, boost it and enjoy.
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Superchargers are so expensive though. But damn I would love to have one.
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