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    5.3 or 5.7, which would you do?

    For anyone following and for my own personal future reference, Joker Z71 (he seems to love these cams) spat this out on another forum. I guess that answers my question. Straight up on stock.
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    5.3 or 5.7, which would you do?

    LOL! We've all done "custom quick fixes" before. I just went through and checked what Mitchell had on the subject. This is what I got. Rotate engine until timing marks are aligned and Cylinder #1 is at TDC of compression stroke (firing position). Adjust exhaust valves at cylinders 1,3,4 and 8...
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    5.3 or 5.7, which would you do?

    LOL! I never thought they could possibly come up with a more wacky way of adjusting rockers than they had in the previous engines. Now all this jazz. So we want a "half and half" of what a flat tappet engine was. Still finding the "sweet spot at full relaxation, but then bottoming out the lifter...
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    5.3 or 5.7, which would you do?

    Ok guys, I'm in the middle of all this now and I have some questions. The cam, Water pump, Oil pan gaskets, Timing cover, Rear main, Header gaskets and everything I would want to check when freshening up an engine are all here. I went out back and started kicking around in the pine needles. Sure...
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    5.3 or 5.7, which would you do?

    LOL! Sewlow understands me. Remember, "you're not always going to have a calculator with you in the real world". I look around from where I sit. You know what I have within arms reach? A cell phone. What I don't have is a pencil.... or a piece of paper. Truthfully, this is my flashlight but it...
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    5.3 or 5.7, which would you do?

    I saw pics of the two side by side on google. Didn't take long to find. Okay, so if we stray from the term "back pressure" and put on this new sexy sounding term "optomized velocity", the point is still there. A pipe too large will adversely effect the engine torque number. I don't care to get...
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    5.3 or 5.7, which would you do?

    I just remembered where it came from. One of my duramax forums. The exhaust starts out of the engine extremely hot. With such heat, you have extreme expansion of air... and thus pressure. Long tube headers can start the cooling process, but if the flow isn't excessive, shorty's with a large Y...
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    5.3 or 5.7, which would you do?

    Lol, yea. I've seen a few other posts from you offering advice. The $75 dollar rockers are Comp Cams. He used them for a dyno run and pulled em off. I also found some aluminum narrow body from summit for 100, but I like the name on the first set. :D Can anyone tell me if the 395WB cam is the...
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    5.3 or 5.7, which would you do?

    LOL, Kind of. I just went hunting for it, but he only has 5 of the 13 that were here when the pic was taken. The Ricer is his obviously. Now it's a mix of 400's and 800's. Almost all of the 400's are still here though.
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    1994 K1500 - Rough Idle, Help!

    I can't speak for the whipple side as I've never played with one, but there are certain things that engines do which can be replicated using a scan tool. If I cracked open the EGR (provided you have one) it would do what you describe. 94's can't really see what's happening there because the OBD...
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    5.3 or 5.7, which would you do?

    I kind of figured. Tharf took some pictures of my yard once while he was tuning my brother's tahoe. I don't remember where he put em, but it looks like a FSC parking lot. The 350 seemed like the better choice to me as well, but sometimes you need to ask because "You don't know what you don't...
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    Post Your Long Beds!!!

    The 92 that's stuck in time. If anyone has a frame for this truck (2500HD) that isn't rotted around MA, let me know. She's just rotting in the backyard now. Frame got crusty, then one day I moved for a wash and the control arm ripped apart like string cheese. It's dad's old truck. Mom calls it...
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    5.3 or 5.7, which would you do?

    I kind of figured as much. I have a duramax on the bleeding edge of imploding the allison and a Tercel 1.5L 5spd that I use in the summer, and the sierra and escalade for winter. As I call them "Race truck", "Little car", "poopy truck" and "dinner date" respectively. Dumping money in to a 99...
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    5.3 or 5.7, which would you do?

    Okay guys, I have a few questions from those that have been there and what they've found during personal experience. I have two options right now. It stems from the blown up 5.7 in my escalade. No, not toasted, but it was a parts truck pull just to get it moving with 250k on her already, and at...
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    won't lock into 4low

    Okay, so nobody responded, but that doesn't mean someone else won't have this problem one day and I know what my issue was so I'm going to share. After another encoder motor, a TCCM, and a switch, I started testing wires which I usually never have to do. The orange wire had 12v as necessary, but...
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