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Just picked this beast up last night. Its a 1990 Chevy as Silverado. It has a 5.3 swap with 706 heads. The motor is all stock except for valve spring. It has a gt45 turbo mounted to it running 10 psi. It made 590 at 10 psi on pump gas with the old motor at APS auto works. The old motor had a came and different heads. The truck needs some work to be perfect in my eyes. I need to fix a couple things before bringing it in to get retuned. I am hoping I can break 600whp this year with it. I would like to clean up some of the wiring, fix exhaust stuff, cooling fan, install a trans temp gauge, waste gate dump tube, and some other small stuff.

5.3 swap
Gt45 turbo
80lb injector
Big fuel pump
Built th350 tranny reverse shift
2800 stall
Trans brake

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hoo hoo hooo, daddy like.

There are a few fast trucks around already. I was with a friend last year and ran a 600whp truck on low boost makes over 900whp turned up.
Things fucking scooT!

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Thanks. I am not a truck person but this thing puts a smile on my face. The turbo is loud. I missed having something boosted.

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I bet it's reliable, sweet looking truck though

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That thing is clean!

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Badass! Where's the engine pic?

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I forgot to get them this morning. I will get some when I get home in an hour

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Don't you have a stingray too? My wife likes those.

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Yes I have a stringray too.

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Damn, that's one fine looking setup!

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So Simpo!!!

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Love the air filter! I say go FarmTruck 2.0 with it! Topper and pizza delivery sign FTW!

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I would like to find an air filter but that's on the back burner for now till I fix everything else.

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Probably want to hook up the MAS and pipe as well. :D

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I took that coupler off to do some measuring...

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Gt45 and only 10psi do not compute in my feeble dsmer brain lol

Bad ass truck! Should be tons of fun!

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Nice man! Need an EGT gauge for it, lol?

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I wish I had that kind of room.

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Please put a wastegate dump tube on it... I have no clue why Jeff's dumbass couldn't do that..

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Well I been busy this weekend working on the truck. I fixed the exhaust cross over pipe this weekend. It was way to close to the radiator fan and they had a flex pipe on the cross over pipe. I ran out of exhaust wipe and energy to finish it today. I have a new turbo on its way. Hopefully by the 4th of july I will have the truck up and running again.

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Nice!

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Looks good!

What did you get?

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Another ebay gt45 turbo for now. Over winter I am going to buy big cam, better valve springs and a real turbo. I would like to get the truck tuned soon so I can go play before summer is over. I need to find some sticky tires for it.

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Big turbos are cheap.

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Well I got the bitch running again. Runs alot better still needs a tune. I can only boost in 3rd gear. 1st gear it goes into boost then hits a wall. It does the same thing in 2nd gear. But in 3rd you can just floor it and spools up and goes.

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weird.

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Well yesterday I was driving the truck and everything was going just fine. I figured out my 1st and 2nd gear problem. But after I did a couple pulls I brake boosted from a dead stop and boom. Iam hoping the torque converter broke. So I will be pulling the tranny out today. Feel free to swing by. I am going to have the tranny looked at before putting it back together. The converter that's in the truck I am pretty sure its not built for a turbo application

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Shitty!

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Well it only took a couple hours to get the transmission out. Now am looking for a place or person that can inspect the transmission before I order a new converter. Hopefully I will have it back together in a couple of weeks. If anybody knows of a good place/person that can inspect my transmission send me a pm. Here's a pic.

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Well the transmission is getting rebuilt. Pulled the pan off and it didn't look good. Lots of metal shavings.... Took the pump out and started taking the clutches out. We gout done to the 1st clutch pack and it was smoked. Here's a pic. I am sure you can tell what ones are bad. I should have the transmission back Saturday and hopefully if I have help I could have the truck done Saturday night. I did some research and found out I am really pushing this transmission to the limit. So maybe over winter if I decide to build this truck up I will buy a fully built th400 which will be good for 900hp. Shipped to my door for 1750.

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hmm 900hp truck

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A gt45 and a v8 should easily be able to do 900hp

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Fix.t :sport017:

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What trans is it, TH350?

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TH400

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I have a th350 right now. Going to switch to a th400 over winter. I do have a 4l80 at work but I would need a new converter a new shifter and some other shift to make it work. I am kinda wishing I just bought a new transmission instead of getting this one rebuilt. But I can always swap this into the vette.

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Ha, just watched Street Outlaws last night and they swapped a 4L80 in place of the TH400 on the Farmtruck. He did have to do the shifter and such as well. Overdrive rules.

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That farm truck is pretty badass. He's running a lot of juice on that motor.

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Lets put nitrous on this thing too!

v8 + turbo + nitrous = win?!

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TH350's can be built halfway decent I thought, but for 900hp yeah might as well go 400. Sounds like you got a good plan!