Alright, I've been waiting forever to do this and it can finally happen. I'm doing this on as little money as possible.

Goals
5.3 swap
4l80e swap
Debating on a large single or twins, leaning towards large single
I will not give up until I get 800rwhp.
I want a high 9 second car

The car



Well I got rid of the mystery motor.



And picked up this little guy




A good amount of nasty smelling crap under the intake.




What happened here?



Needs a good old hone and she will be back up. After I order a few more parts of course..... A few.


Right now I have a few parts as well.

Ms3 Cam and trick flow dual valve springs. Slowly piecing it all together.



MS4 cam, 98 WS6, LS1, Borla cat-back reving - YouTube

 

Very cool!! Can't wait to see this build progress

 

Very nice! all said and done should be one hell of a beast!

 

Great project!

Seriously, if you're going to turbo that engine I'd do more than just hone the cylinders. I'd rip that short block apart and have a shop clean it and (at the very least) check the bore taper, deck surfaces and crank bore. Then I'd put it back together with fresh rings and bearings...possibly new pistons depending on the compression with the current pistons/head cc/gasket thickness. I'd also rip the heads apart, have them checked to make sure they're flat, have the seats touched up and new guides installed. You're going to be putting a lot of pressure in those cylinders with a turbo...I'd make sure the engine is going to handle it...especially if you want to push it into high 9s. It would be a shame to put all that time and money into it and have a premature failure. I realize it means more $$$ but (imo) it's better to do it right the first time rather then have it break and end up doing it over. It would be cheaper in the long run, too.

 

It's getting all new bearings, rings, etc. Most people who have got their 5.3 up to that stage have done nothing but stick them in the car and crank up the boost. I'm going to leave all of the pistons and rods the same, and I will be getting it all cleaned up and the heads checked out. I'll just get a valve job and do some home porting on them. If I wouldn't have got this motor so cheap I would have just found a more recently pulled 5.3 and just started bolting things to it haha.

 

Sounds like a cool build.

 

At first I thought this was gonna be your 6th gen.. but that didn't make sense

This is gonna be one hell of a machine when you are done! Good luck!

 

G Keep the the truck manifolds, and just flip them and build your turbo piping off that, a single turbo will be a lot easier to tune

Here is some insperational threads

71 Nova turbo LS version 2.0 - Page 4

LS1/Turbo swap 3rd gen build thread

1990 Mazda RX-7 TC76/L33 5.3L/8.8"/PowerGlide

71 Nova turbo 6.0 build thread

 

Haha thanks for the links. I've been stuck at home sick from work, so I've been sitting on ls1tech about 10 hours a day.

I also am selling my cam/springs I bought. I was doing some reading and people tend to say the ms3 cam is a bad set up for turbo. I also read its good, but I can skip it for now and put the money towards something I need.

 

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