Dunno who built it!'s 01 silverado short bed 2wd ls2 swap

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This to me seems like way more corrosion than even possible from one rain storm and only 2 months of being out of the package...I guess it is what it is and I payed the 250 to get things back under way...was just glad to be done with that customer service department...anyone buying fast products be prepared for that end of those guys....

 

Next I was on to the alt. And power steering bracket off of the 5.3 as I decided to keep all of the 5.3 accessories for ease of install...the factory belt idler pulley location was cut off of the bracket like so..

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This section of the bracket was removed to clear the lower throttle body position of the 6.0 intake....the idler pulley was then moved to the right pretty much right under the alt pulley...I used one of the bracket mounting holes for the new location of the pulley...what I did was I found a larger bolt and I threaded the bracket hole...I had to enlarge the bushing to the pulley to except the larger bolt...I then threaded the alt bracket hole to accept the larger bolt...correct spacing was then the next issue... I have a lathe so made my own spacer...

 

 

The pulley was then installed and the bracket mated to the block...

 

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The water pump from the 5.3 was used and the water outlet had to be flattened toward the t-body to allow clearance for the throttle arm... the top of the pump had to be shaved slightly as well to clear the bottom of the t-body... then it was on to mounting ac bracket and pump from the 5.3....that stuff bolts right on...also had to use the 5.3 balancer as the 6.0 balancer is much shorter...

 

In this time I received the new ecm from fast and proceeded to install them inside the cab due to them not being water proof like they said they were...

 

I then took a piece of steel my customer had and cut out slots for the wires to pass through..then installed the plate over the factory 5spd shifter hole...

 

 

Soon we will be ordering a automatic truck replacement carpet to cover the ugly steel plate that looks like a 8 year old painted...

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The truck was then taken to a local exhaust shop to have the exhaust made up...we opted to go with 3" daul front to back and had him install some 3" spun cats and single chamber flowmaster mufflers....

 

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After the truck was back from exhaust shop I proceeded to make a throttle bracket...

 

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After that was done it was on to making the gto covers fit the engine again...this was a time consuming task...more so on the driver side because of the 5.3 alt and bracket being mounted so high... but they came out excellent...

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Then I installed the gto electric fans..the housing needed to be slightly modified to sit flush against the silverado radiator..I then started making the fan harness and putting together relay pigtails...the fast ecm has negative output to control fan 1 and 2...the rest of the pigtails were hard wired to 12 volt switched and 12 volt constant with the use of some 40 amp fuses and holders on the 12 volt hot side..all of the silverado radiator hoses were reinstalled as well..

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At this point I was back to a little wiring...both the fast ecm and the truck bcm require a temp sensor to operate the dash and fast ecm...after many hours of contiplation on how to piggy back the wiring it became so blatantly obvious I was way over thinking this... the easy solution I came up with was purchased another temp sensor and installed it in the passenger side head...it was so obvious and I over looked it...oh well...lol... so the fast ecm is controlled by the sensor in the passenger head and the dash is controlled from its factory located sensor....

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It was now time to find a nice place for the fast handheld/programmer.... the kit came with a bracket like a GPS that clips to the handheld and suction cups to the windshield... I was not particularly fond of this idea for the simple fact when it's not Hung on the windshield being tuned it leaves this ugly data cable and connector on the dash making it look just hacked!.... I then realized I found my mounting spot...right where the passenger airbag bag switch is in the dash...the hole is slightly smaller than the screen of the handheld but leaps and bounds nicer looking than the windshield mounted way....I proceeded to pull the dash apart and remove the airbag switch...I pulled the wires for the switch back and routed them to the glove box...the switch will be mounted inside the glove box door so it can still be used....the handheld wiring was routed up into the dash to the stock airbag switch location and the handheld was then place in the hole...the dash was then reassembled....

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The last step of the build was to address the steering column mating bolt and nut...the kooks headers are 1 7/8" primary tunes and the way they were built one of the primaries was so close to the steering shaft that I could not use the factory bolt and nut for the silverado.. so I was off to improvise.... after many ideas later I came up with cutting the shank of a bolt and using that...

 

 

As you can see I cut a section out of the shank of the bolt...the column is 1" thick..I went with .950" so it's. 050" shorter.... as you can see I then drilled and tapped the piece on each end to accept 6mmx1.00 button head allens to allow for clearance...I then used 2 fender washers and cut them on each side to make them just thinner than the flat sides of the column...

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I then held the shank in the vise.. put some red loctite on my Allen bolt and snagged her up....this will be the permanent side of part....then I simply slid the part on the hole of the column and installed my other modified washer and my other button head allen... I put loctite on this bolt as well but lesser strength blue...

 

 

As you can see I didn't have much room to work with so this idea was by far the best solution... the shank was made .950 thou. To allow a crush effect when tightened just like the factory bolt... some might be thinking wow that's small how tight could it actually get...well the bolts are stainless, and the shank was obviously a hardened bolt so I can lean on it pretty well....