so i tried to clean up the walls tonight, didn't work out as well as i hoped.
good side

bad side

the reason i need another short block


so here are my options,
1) find a 5.3 or ls1 shortblock in good condition.
2) tear this down the rest of the way and see if it can be bored to a 5.7 and get forged pistons and rods and make a mild 5.7 that can handle ALOT of n20.

I'm leaning toward the forged setup, but I got my cam to work with a 5.3, and the 5.3 would be far cheaper to get and build then the forged 5.7 and would get back togather faster, and would still be able to take a 100+ shot.

i'm trying to get the engine pulled tomorrow or at least in the next few days, the notch need to be cleaned up, the ac box needs to be patched, i want to build a bracket to relocate the coils. and just clean up the engine bay.
should have some time this weekend.

 

I dont want to clog up your project thread, but I have never seen a thread or actually seen anyone tell what was involved in the blazer tank swap. Is fairly simple or pretty much modifying a tank to sit somewhere and making it work? I dont know if that makes sense or not.
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perfect time to ge a 6.0 liter.i got mine for a grand and love it with a 224 cam in it

 

oh and take a look at the pistons, looks like I got a 4.8 under the hood right now and not a 5.3...

 

its taking a blazer tank and making a cross member for it to sit in. You have to relocate the spare tire or remove it, and get some mounts made for the tank along with extending the fuel lines. Its not too difficult if you or someone you know can cut and weld and do simple fabrication. i'll try and dig up a thread from another site later, and hopefully will do the swap myself depending on if my buddy gets here before I have to leave again for school. I can fabricate, but I dont have a welder and am not great at welding, I can but my buddy is great at it and he has a few welders.

 

those are a pain to find and 500 for another 5.3 sounds better then a 6.0 for a G. but I would love one

 

Ive been wondering what I want to build, Built 4.3 with syclone set-up(turbo setup would be on stock motor til it blew) or cammed 6.0. Both would be cool in different ways
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I like NA setups the most, and if I ever went fi i would get a supercharger, but I have seen alot of cool turbo builds and they can be fast as hell. v8's are common in our trucks, and turbo's are not so if you want something different you might go with that. however the potential is limited with the v6.

check out s10forum in the blowers and bottles section, also look for a thread in the projects section for a twin turbo syclone.

 

Were are you located and Were do you plan on getting the 5.3L from??? LMK if you need one. I have one posted for sale in the classified ads. I will even pull the cylinder heads off if you just want the short block or want to make sure it is what I say it is.

Don't want to throw another wrench in the works but you may want to do some reading up on casting numbers and cylinder heads. I know on the last 5.3L truck I did a cylinder head job we found out that the Heads with the little Battery Logo cast in to them are prone to having defects in the casting and are likly to crack. GM has a TSB on this Issue.

Any way cool build!!! Thought about doing one my self with the long block I have, But I have to many other unfinshed projects to mess with at the moment.

 

there are a ton in phx az which is only an hour from me. I found 3 now for under 500 ranging from 20,000-50,000. i actually found a 6.0 for 500 with low miles but someone else is in line before me to see it.

i have ported 243 heads to go on the shortblock, are the bad castings 706 by any chance? thats what i pulled off the 4.8.