I have a 2004 gmc sierra, 5.3 ext cab 4x4 bought it about 4.5 years ago...

Here she is the first day i bought it


Shortly after i got it i decided to take a trip to Kansas and see my mom, needless to say tornado's suck


Had a tree fall on it....


After i got done fighting with the insurance i got it back with a custom metallic/cobalt paint job, And a leveling kit installed


I Ended up Getting a Intake, shortie headers, a super chips programmer, and a exhaust and a set of 20's


Heres a picture of the intake, i also got alittle paint crazy

 

While in welding class 2 years ago i made a custom box for my intake for a project, turned out pretty good...


I loved how the truck ran and looked but i wanted more, a few months after joining ls1truck i ditched the shorties, and grabbed me a nelsons tune and some new headers.


Heres a drivers side picture


While moving back home i had a headlight bite the dust so i decided to upgrade.


Heres a night picture.


I did alittle research over a year or so and decided i needed to look for a cam. i read and read but never could figure out what i wanted, i finally found a great deal on a used tr 220 cam with harden push rods.


With the cam swap i also decided to upgrade to ls& lifters

 

It took me about 3 months to get all the other parts together but finally did, with the help of my roomie we got the cam put in

I came home from work and my roomie already had it torn down





I installed the new ls7 springs and cleaned up the heads alittle




Not to long after we started putting the heads and intake manifold back on

 

We got the truck running and it sounded great


I also had my interment cluster go out so had to upgraded that as well


About 2 months after the cam swap my truck started smoking alot, we ran a bunch of test and couldn't come up with any other answer but a cracked head. So i did alot of saving and had a buddie hook me up with a set of custom heads and a ported to match intake






heres a picture of the flow chart...


Its been a long four years, but im making pretty decent progress, im currently trying to get a stall. and gears hopefully. future plans include boost. well see... stay tuned for more

 

looks real good, love the cluster.. heads look good to man truck gonna fly up top;.

 

Still slow lol.






No kidding about the tear down. He took everything off lol.
What made you get the LS7 springs over the 918s of similar?
Im loving the gauge cluster. Very nice.

 

Ya it was a project haha. Im learing as i go we've done all the work our selfs. But with the ls7 springs thats what thunder racing said would be the way to go due to the cam? So far it runs great. Need a stall tho haha. Stall and gears soon. Will posts pics

 

Love the truck, nice color as well! Ever thinking about upgrading to the 6.0? Could always get yourself a little project motor on the side! All those upgrades can move over as well... Course gas mileage will suffer some!

 

You have done all of this and not done a stall converter? Very backwards but atleast you are making some good power of stock. Once you get a decent stall you will have a pretty screaming truck.

Truck also looks great.

 

Some one got bit by the go fast bug