Long time no see ! Life...
So i received some part for my trucks, they are not the one going first, but hey, parts is parts.
So today i went and changed the windshield and wipers. Shiny new.
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For those who look attentively, they can notice my second mod of the day, mid engine conversion .....
In fact i've made my first 350km with my truck to go grab an LM7, aka sierra 2002, V8 5.2L complete with everything..... more than i need as i will mostly keep 4 or 5 parts in total (if you exclude some bolt)
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Yeah the brake pedal is horrible and braking is weak ( i have the parts....)
Mirrors, if not tighten enough they move, i spend all my trips with the conductor mirror looking at anything interesting, One of the last owner totally deconnected or killed the rear lights, i knew that i didn't had a license plate light (ordered) but no brakes no flasher, yup not, at least i already orderer them + more.
Until 90km/h )55/50 it's ok, after there is mostly nothing, down shift for 2 secs then upshift in 4th, and then nothing, maintaining 60mph 100km/h on the highway here, was a challenge, empty or with the engine, yeah verified before, brake fluid is new, oil too, did top of a little, but no trace of leak, air filter is new and clean (that make us go to a question later), i feel a lot of engine brake in 4th, if i lift my speed goes down fast. until it reach the 3rd gear. in 1st i'm doing burnout , and when on with an idle at 800, it goes like crazy if i don't handle the brake, never had a car like that.
For sure there is some gremlins there, but i don't care for engine and trans, before engine transplant an trans (another question) i will do just 5 6 km to my home depot for working on the house and garden.
So yeah concerning engines,
Yeah the lm7 will be totally disassembled, by yours truly. to keep the block, the head 862, would have prefer 706, he, for 400$ CAD i will not complain. So block, heads and crankshaft the rest i don't need. maybe flexplate. all that goes to a machine shop (6 secs car machine shop) near me for cleanup, make sure that the cylinders are clean, little this and that, port the heads, balance the cranckshaft, and give it to me or not, so i can buy the proper set of internals fitting my machined block to be balanced also, so i will have to keep the order or each part per cylinder as it was balanced when putting back the engine together, ls3 at around 530 all motors, with "cheap" part , not breaking the bank to get this or that, i may add a supercharger for the sound, low psi, as i already have enough hp (yeah i know, but don't forget i have to spend 5 months a year under snow in canada). and it's my daily.
And concerning the old one.... My GMC have a Chevy's badge front grid and headlight from something, my 90 have at least the interior door of a 95+ from what i see, not sure about the dash yet. And today i went to change the airfilter, went to the airfilter shop (silly of me) asked for a V6 90 gmc 4.3l k1500 air filter, show me on the computer, open the hood, look at my filter, that's not good, and again it's strange.
So V6 from 90 seems to have the donut one, mine have the cylinder one, on the left i don't really care as i will remove everything, but that puzzle me, like i have abs ! there is an abs module installed poorly in the car. so that change the type of front disk i spindle etcc
as i need the abs version in the hub i think. and now i'm afraid about by read disk conversion kit i bought.
for the dash i need to check because i will need to replace it for the same year ;p
I may want to do the power window conversion, and yeah my car doesn't have ac. when we are not under snow it's 36c (86/97) here.
Would have to redo it with the new engine, but there i have missing part ;p
So question about the 4L80 that we have in our models, i know i can bring it to a shop and have it rebuild to handle 800 hp it will cost me at minimum 1500 2000$cad i think, or should i buy a stage3 good for 950 from a trans builder for 3200USD ?
