My Turbo, 4l80e, 14 Bolt Sf And 370 Build Thread

[ZZebes]

Admins move if necessary

 

This is a direct rip of my PT.net thread so pardon any repeats

 

Alright as some people have figured out i am turboing my big bitch cause i think I have always wanted to and because I am crazy haha so here is the rundown of what i am gonna do at the moment, most of this is concrete but some is tentative depending on parts availability and my pocket book

 

Motor:

Iron Block 370 (Rex Built )

Stock 317 Heads

Synergy Custom Cam

Stock Rockers with Harland Sharp Upgrade

9.0 Compression (Undecided)

 

Transmission:

4l80e (Maybe FLT Lvl 3)

Stock Converter

 

Rear End: (Not an Immediate Change)

14 Bolt Semi Floater (AxisT6 Built)

Tru-Trac

3.73's

 

Turbo kit:

KbRacing Manifold

eBay Intercooler

TIAL 44mm Wastegate

OBX BOV

Innovative Turbo T-72 .96AR

 

Tuning:

3Bar Wheatley Tune

 

 

Now here is the Big Question, i am thinking about how much boost i want to run 15-19 lbs on the 370 at the track, what would be the best compression ratio to go with on the motor

 

I will keep this updated as i go with pictures

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Truck at home in the garage for surgery

 

Intercooler (31x12x3)

 

Wastegate (TIAL 44mm)

 

Nifty Little AN Turbo Flanges

 

Motor after Long tube removal

[ZZebes]

Alright a quick update, been in the garage since this morning so i figure i'd put up a few pics

 

My baby sitting in the garage, I have to push it in and out everyday since there isn't enough room in the garage haha

Beginning of Front end Removal

 

Tranny Out, Rockers Loosened, Top end loosened

 

The beer can they call a Driveshaft

 

Thats not good

 

More to come later after i get the short block ready for removal

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I was tired of my garage looking like a cluttered parts bin

 

SO I went to lowes and picked up this

 

 

No more Clutter

 

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Alright picture time

 

Heres what i started with for my ideal intercooler mounting area

 

So i tried dropping the I/C straight in with the inlets up and the cold side routing just wouldnt work so that was out

 

Second attempt was flipping it over and putting the inlets down, this worked for routing but when i put the Grill shell on it i ran into a problem, the 3" thick core of the I/C would not allow for the bottom of the grill shell to clip in, so that was out

 

So the third time was indeed the charm, i removed the trans cooler from the core support and tried testing it again and sure enough the bastard fits and looks sick through the grill

 

More tommorow but it's 3:30 AM and i'm going to bed

[ZZebes]

Alright a little update, Ready to pull the shortblock if it sells haha, as well as organizing my parts and bolts, tank is coming down this evening but i have to do some stuff today.

 

 

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Update

 

LS2 is out and sold, and i finally broke down and bought my own engine hoist, No one rents them on easter sunday haha

 

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LS2 Powered Yukon FTW

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Gifts From the Fed-Ex Man

 

 

More pics tonight, i am gonna finish the intercooler tonight so that should be fun

[ZZebes]

hmmm whats this we have here

 

[ZZebes]

Looks Right to me

 

[Genuinefine409]

wow. looking nice man!!!

[omegafiler]

Great pics, that's gonna be one awesome truck when it's all done! We'll expect many videos involving lots of smoking tires fairly soon.