Thought I'd show you guys my truck that I completely built up from the ground up. Started off as a free project truck off craigslist (short bed frame, cab, vin and title). I then completely restored it over the last almost 3 years basically and drove it to my graduation May 2009! Started off with a Straight six and granny gear 4 speed with a 3.73 posi trac. I decided to get rid of the six and the 4 speed and go with a 5.3L out of a 2002 chevy truck with a 4l60e. Redid the wiring harness and wired it all up. Did all the body work myself and my dad painted it in the carport homemade paint booth. Then last winter I installed a comp cam's LSR series cam 215/223 duration 604/610 lift on a 112 lsa. That really woke it up! But I plan on pulling the 5.3 this winter and building a 6.0 for it.
Anyway here's the pics!

 

Here's what it looked like when I got it!


It looked like that except with the engine and it the rockers cut off.

 

wow great work!!! love the colour too

 

Your '69 looks great! Nice choice for the wheels.

 

Thanks man! Any ideas for making it faster?

 

What heads are you running now? Torque converter? lol, I'm full of ideas....

 

You have one nice c10!!!!!!

 

Well the 5.3's got stock heads (918 springs and 7.4 hardened pushrods) and stock converter lol......but I was thinking of going to a LQ9....with a cam and maybe put on some L92 heads with LS3 intake, but I'm not sure where that would get it and while the motor is out put in a converter. Also this is sort of low budget... lol send some more ideas my way if you can think of different build...

 

If you find a 6.0 cheap, go for it! Before you do that, get a good converter in there. You'll be surprised what the 5.3 can do.

 

I was looking at Circle D's 3000-3200 converters, since there a pretty good deal. Also for some reason my 5.3 is developing a rear main oil seal leak I think which is annoying because it only has about 50k miles from the original truck it came out of. But yes I know where I can get a LQ9 6.0 for a pretty good deal so I might jump on that and see where it goes from there.