....been almost 8 years

[bk2life]

New intake came in, and seems to fit pretty nicely.
About 1.5 inchges from the hood.

this was the last piece needed to start forming the sheet metal for the firewall and shock towers.

The current truck accessories need to go, as the alt sits way to high. Eventually I'll end up with the holley system, just not looking for drop the $3200 right now on it. So, ill order a dirty dingo bracket and just move the alt over to fit in the meantime.

So much work to do coming up.

I want to hit this one first before i get heavy on the scout. This one is real close to driving and I'd like to make that happen as a 'dead' car is a dumb car..

[camcojb]

Close...

[AMSOILGUY]

Always fun to pull a solid car out to work on!

[bk2life]

was a bit sad the wheels i bought dont fit 'big' brakes..

seems im stuck with LT1 stuff.

thats ok, this isnt a track car, and well i dont see too many 140 mph blasts going on anytime soon.

but that is what doing hours of research does..lets you know when you spent money in the right or wrong places.

[WSSix]

Sorry to hear the misfortune. Don't let it stop you though.

[bk2life]

Big white box arrived, and even though i have been fighting a cold and have no energy, i was determined to put some pieces together to see how it'll look and fit...

[WSSix]

Holley's midmount drive is fantastic looking. Totally worth the cost.

[bk2life]

So this past weekend I woke up about 0200 and for some reason my brain said, take that old rusty 6.0 and put it into the trans am, and then put some lower compression pistons in the 5.3 and put into the scout.. This way you can have 2 engines ready to go for much cheaper than machining an entire new engine..
Insomnia sucks sometimes, but, I think this time it worked in my favor.
The 6.0 was picked up for a friend, but he never ended up using it. I tore it down, cleaned it, derusted it, installed new cam bearings, flex honed the cylinders, new rings, new rod/main bearings and put it back together. Since this is not a race car, just a few occasional burnouts and stuff like that, all the gen 3 parts will work perfectly fine, I'm just adding more cubic inches..
It’ll get the heads and camshaft from the 5.3 (pictured above) which will boost compression ratio, and other than that, it’ll be a nice cruiser for the trans am.
Since the 5.3 was built and I have all the specs, ill order up some dished pistons, and drop off a crank, gen 4 rods and the pistons to the machine shop for balancing. Then I can keep the 5.3 rotating kit on the shelf for another engine, and drop in the new rotating assembly.
I have a new cam spec’d for the turbos, I will need to get a set of heads readied for that engine.
It’s a bit of work to swap parts around, but, in my head it’s a bit of a win-win to get both vehicles running..

[Spiffav8]

It will be nice having both vehicles running. Even if you're not using them, it just seems to annoy and become an issue to have them just sitting around.