at this point I took my crank to the machine shop, wish I had a picture. lets just say it was junk, I put a offset grind we will call it in the crank lol at this point I had a ls1 crank and rods laying around. had the ls1 crank mains turned .010 and the rods .040. 4 of the ls1 rods were out of round, so I dropped off another set of rods, out of a lq4 tis time. they checked out. had the 4.8 pistons put on the lq4 rods and the pins fit. the ls1 crank over hauled and balanced for the new rod and piston combo and finally have my goodies. so I now have a flat top 5.3 made from three different engines. I'm running a speed master .040 compressed head gasket to bump comp and tighten my quench height up. if my pistons are .007 out of bore per the ls average then my quench height will be .033 and my comp with my ported 862s 10.94:1. I'm adding a brain tooley stage 3 truck cam this time around as well. I am putting the engine together this week and next and will be updating with more pictures and info. its been a hard year in a half with this truck and I hope to get to enjoy it soon!
also to note not sure what happened with the low tq numbers for the rod caps. but ill be triple checking everything this go around. thankfully all of the engines ive built the only two that have had issues belong to me. I havnt been good at picture taking with this process but will be better now. I have a lot of wiring clean up to do and other not engine repair stuff to complete. ill document the whole process and update here. heres the truck as is right now.
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