A Real World Junkyard 5.3 LS Truck Turbo Build

[MCPerformance]

We all see the articles in the top muscle car and hot rod magazines where they take a junk yard engine, slap a turbo on it, and make a crazy amount of horsepower. Well we decided to put those stories to the test.



With a limited budget and with parts available from our store, we are going to take a junk yard 5.3L GM LS truck motor and boost it! Not everyone has a dyno to modify their motor throughout the build like they seem to have at the shops that do these tests so… Let’s do it the way the back yard mechanic would. Get a motor, do what needs to get done, install it, and off we go to the chassis dyno. We will see if all these articles on junk yard LS builds are true!

There is a more detailed write up of this ongoing project here on our blog: 5.3 LS Truck Turbo Build - Muscle Car Performance

Has anyone else attempted something like this yet?