I dug through some pictures and found it, it was 5 years ago in 2020
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1982 C/K 6.0L Caitlyn Mall Crawler (Interior time)
- Thread starter Babaganoosh
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Sorry, they told me it would take 3 weeks from Vortech, unfortunately my drop ship price is more than my discount, so all I can do is match Summit's price on that one of $663.
Well that stinks, I'll just have to fork up the money then for it.
See what it would cost direct on their website? Maybe the shipping cost makes it even more, not sure...
I'll gladly order it if you want, let me know.
I'll gladly order it if you want, let me know.
December 23rd was the last time it ran, hooked the battery up turned the key to prime the pump then it fired to life without even trying.
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Here is another thing on my mind that I think I need to put some attention to. I have factory rocker arms with the needle bearings, should I replace them or do the upgraded trunnions? Currently it has .600 lift springs and it's not uncommon for me to hit 7k rpm's with it. 
@folkenheath
@folkenheath
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No way that bend tweaked the spring. Probably just time for sliders, I bet they're worn quite a bit. The money sucks for the AGM sliders, but their nice. You'll have to see if the springs stay away from the body after that. With that said king did have some springs that were a bit funky way back in the day. Maybe put coils on it too.
Depends on your budget, with under .550 lift you can use the factory rockers with out a problem if yuo do the trunion upgrade for reliability. Or you can just replace them with full roller rockers and be done.Here is another thing on my mind that I think I need to put some attention to. I have factory rocker arms with the needle bearings, should I replace them or do the upgraded trunnions? Currently it has .600 lift springs and it's not uncommon for me to hit 7k rpm's with it.
@folkenheath
You could wait and see what you do with the heads? If you do anything with the heads (porting or upgrading) then it may be beneficial at that point to get 1.8 rockers for more lift with the same cam.
If that is not happening, just do the trunnions for peace of mind.
You can also trying clocking the springs, sometimes just rotating how the bottom spring is contacting vs the top spring will make them sit straighter. I try it in quarter turns and put it to the one that is the straightest.
New sliders could definitely help if they are worn and sitting more crooked.
I want some new heads, maybe we can get some that would work with a stroker kit someday…
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the downside is I don’t really want to swap the cam so it won’t really live up to the potential of the heads.I am just adding more thumbs up since I can't add two to your post...
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the downside is I don’t really want to swap the cam so it won’t really live up to the potential of the heads.
I think with the new heads and the supercharger it would work fine with that cam or maybe 1.8 rockers for more lift to work with the new heads. Wouldn't be perfect but it would still run very well with the supercharger. You don't need a huge cam with a supercharger on the street/dirt anyway as too much overlap just wastes boost out the tailpipe.
A stroker kit will make more power everywhere because of cubes (and maybe compression), and with everything else the same will shift the power and torque peak a little lower in the RPM range.
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Ohhh I like the sounds of that, I always wanted a low rpm torque LS. Even though I know that's a little far stretched for a LS engine.
Ordered the bracket, summit had a deal and ended up getting it free of tax and no shipping. Health I got some more plans that I will contact you in the future, thanks for looking.
Debating about getting it powder coated or just engine paint it.
Debating about getting it powder coated or just engine paint it.
Just realized with this new bracket it flips the supercharger around spinning it differently. How is this going to work now?
@folkenheath
How is this going to work now?@folkenheath
OK, I think my brain is functioning properly now this morning... It shouldn't matter if the air inlet is facing forward or backwards on the engine cause its going to spin the direction of the crankshaft goes?
Someone that is smarter then me set me straight, I'm overthinking this and freaking out....
Someone that is smarter then me set me straight, I'm overthinking this and freaking out....
Correct, as long as the charger is designed to spin in that direction everything is fine.
You just need to figure out how you hook up the air filter
That's what I was thinking, the supercharger won't know the difference because it's still being spun in the correct direction cause the crankshaft is moving it. The air filter will be easy it's putting a intercooler in that will be tricky.
Thanks, I'm not sure why that was so hard for me to figure out, I need a vacation.
