New to gm stuff

My 383 crank showed up today. I'm stoked! Looking for rods and pistons now

Welcome aboard. As evidenced by my screen name I am a mopar muscle car guy. I love em all as long as they arent foreign cars or trucks. I have quite the collection. 3 chevys, 2 fords, and 3 mopars. I buy what I like, and what fits my needs/wants. As different as all these vehicles are, they are still pretty much the same IMHO. That's a clean Yukon for living in the great white north. Road salt ravages these things badly. Good to see you storing it away for the winter. Thank God I live in west Texas where its dry all the time. No rust, but warped, cracked, and dry plastics abound here. Aaah I guess I traded having rust free sheetmetal for that lol.

I love the GMT400s. Easy to work on, timeless good looking styling. The only ones I stay away from are the spider injection setups with the plastic tubing. With high miles, they seem to be more trouble than they are worth. IMHO when it eventually $crews up, you are better off pulling that off, and tossing it in the trash can, stick a 4bbl manifold on it and a FAST EFI setup with an HEI vac advance distributor.

My pops had an older dodge pickup. Nice truck 81 model with the prospectors package, but it came with Chryslers awful "lean burn" computer controlled distributor and carburetor. Damn thing never ran right. Once it was out of warranty, I went to work. I put a regular carter 2 barrel carb on it, de wired the lean burn completely out, and put in a regular distributor with vacuum advance, he asked me if we were keeping the parts I pulled off. I said nope, and tossed all that B.S. right in the trash can. Anyhoo, glad you found this place and joined. Lots of great members, lots of great ideas, and just a super bunch of people here.

HawkDsl said:

But the real kicker... We only have ONE firing order!

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Not true any more.

LS and 8.1L use the "other" firing order. I don't know what the DOHC Lotus/Mercury Marine "Corvette" engine used, or the flat-plane crank 'Vette engine is using now.

GM didn't even stick to one firing order back in the day. Big Caddys used 1-5-6-3-4-2-7-8.

The front end is stripped down and fitted the hidden winch up for alterations. Doing some research on intake manifold and top end set ups while I save some money for machine work to build the 383. Have y'all found much out there on 4x4 gmt 400 rack and pinion set ups? I figured while I have it torn down I would look at the possibilities of building one.
Still looking for an NV4500 and 205 t case........ Might just buy some cases and fill them as I go, we'll see. I'll keep y'all posted on the progress

No reason to waste time, money, effort, and enthusiasm on a rack 'n' pinion system when the stock system is perfectly adequate when in good condition, and outright superb with a fast-ratio steering box.

This generally involves replacing the rag joint with a U-jointed shaft assembly, and of course verifying/replacing/upgrading all the wear parts in the suspension 'n' steering.

Even so, it'd be 1/10 the trouble of cramming a rack under there.

I like the challenge, and it's an idea I've had for a while now. The geometry of the lift would lend a better outcome than stock steering. It's less about should I and more about could I. Thank you for the input, it's much appreciated.

She's out and on the ground. Ready to install in another flip. Lots of parts for sale so I can continue the build.

Another Yukon almost done.

New engine and trans installed. Time to repair all the interior issues, multi function switch, blower motor, and a bunch of other crap.