You painted the motor nice and black and left the janky water pump?
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1989 Crew Cab Tow Rig Build
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beags86
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Really ? more power the an L-71? LS6, or LS5?
Just busting your balls. I know you were referring to the truck stuff.
Personally I had a hard time spending over $1k with Howell for harness work and a reworked PCM that would still need an additional investment for tuning later. I thought about going FiTech since I have plenty of experience with it but it’s hard to beat the sequential EFI option that comes with the manifold and distributor for $2k.
Oh dang. This was in the truck. Might just be the way to go.
beags86
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Got the hard parts. That could be fun. Who's manifold is it?
Might be alot to get it working. Or not.
Let me know if you want to sell it!
I would love to see if I could bring that thing back for my 489 build.
beags86
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X2.
Water pump got replaced, so left old one on to paint, then replaced with new one
Really ? more power the an L-71? LS6, or LS5?
Just busting your balls. I know you were referring to the truck stuff.
Haha, yes, was referring to truck stuff
I'm sure that works real well, but in the end with buying the carb intake, HEI distributor, and then if I go with the Summit Racing 500 kit (my brother has that one two different builds with really good results..one is a very healthy 383) that goes for $750, that saves me about $800 that can then be used on fuel delivery and steering on this thing. So that's probably going to be the way I go, plus that kit should handle the power I want to add to the motor later on.
I will say, it's so cool to see all the options for bolt on EFI on the market nowadays. I remember when I swapped FI onto my blazer 7 years ago or so, there were really only two companies doing bolt on EFI stuff, and they were pretty expensive (that's why I bought a wrecked TBI blazer and swapped everything over back then to get FI). Cool to have so much more affordable options these days.
beags86
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Can't you use ls1 injectors for an upgrade?
It seems to me that the ls1/ls2/ls6 injectors are all higher fuel rates.
It was a long time ago I did the research on that, but I seem to remember reading that the Vortec 454 injectors are they're own breed. And really you only have two options which are factory replacements (which aren't cheap by themselves) or IIRC Bosch made upgraded injectors that could handle more power, but I remember when I priced them out, I almost had a heart attack looking at the price of them.
Again, it was a long time ago that I did that research, so maybe things have changed since then, or maybe I missed if you could use LS1 injectors, but my memory is telling me it was a no. In the case of that L29 I put in that green crew, I wanted to go carb intake/HEI distributor the whole time for simplicity and least amount of wires as possible, so it was a really easy choice on that one.
beags86
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I have been doing some digging and I haven't verified it yet. I found a l29 for my k30 but I want to know before I buy it. Now granted it doesn't matter as its still a l29 I should grab regardless , but it would nice to know.
I actually was just curious so googled, and it looks like the price has come down a bit for these:
https://www.fiveomotorsport.com/bosch-oem-454-j-code-884-black-knight/
Which makes sense cause that was 7 or 8 years ago I replaced those injectors on that old truck I had. Back then for some reason the price of $900 comes to mind, so looks like they've come down quite a bit.
I think the factory L29 intake is actually pretty good (kinda weird design, but flows well enough) and with those upgraded injectors, I bet @beags86 you could get the numbers you were wanting outta building an L29
https://www.fiveomotorsport.com/bosch-oem-454-j-code-884-black-knight/
Which makes sense cause that was 7 or 8 years ago I replaced those injectors on that old truck I had. Back then for some reason the price of $900 comes to mind, so looks like they've come down quite a bit.
I think the factory L29 intake is actually pretty good (kinda weird design, but flows well enough) and with those upgraded injectors, I bet @beags86 you could get the numbers you were wanting outta building an L29
beags86
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The crew cab got a small upgrade this week. My father in law had a brand new, never opened CD player he bought for his motorhome but he sold it before he could install the CD player. He just gave it to me for free, so figured why not as I still had the factory stereo system throughout the whole vehicle. Of course, I had to made a custom bracket to hold it in the dash while not looking terrible. At the same time I bought some replacement rear 4x10’s for pretty cheap off amazon.
I’m not a big stereo guy and rarely spend any money to make it better on my vehicles, but since the CD player was free, and 1 of the rear speakers was blown, I figured why not. It for sure sounds better. Front speakers are still stock, but both fronts are still working, so why fix something that ain’t broke? Haha
I’m not a big stereo guy and rarely spend any money to make it better on my vehicles, but since the CD player was free, and 1 of the rear speakers was blown, I figured why not. It for sure sounds better. Front speakers are still stock, but both fronts are still working, so why fix something that ain’t broke? Haha
I'm the same way. I've always wanted a nice stereo with subs and such but it's wayyyyyyyy down on the budget list always. My K5 has stock everything still and usually works for one local station so it just stays there all the time and as long as I don't turn it up too much the 38 year old speakers still work. My crew cab has nothing but the sound of the big block to enjoy.
I like having decent tunes. But being a cheap sob it's always low price. My Blazer has an older Kenwood deck with usb/aux inputs and bluetooth I picked up at a swap meet for $15. 20 year old 200watt little alpine amp my buddy was the tossing out of garage was picked up for nothing. Only new items were the Kenwood 6x9's and enclosures for the rear and Kenwood's in the dash. All bought on amazon. I might have $100 in the entire system but it sounds good to me. I can hear it at 80mph with the windows open at least.
I'll usually spend most of my money on the amp. I've been buying the media receivers that don't have disc players; those can be found for around $100.
I bought a Bazooka Bass tube for the crew cab and it works awesome. Points into the rear passenger corner.
I bought a Bazooka Bass tube for the crew cab and it works awesome. Points into the rear passenger corner.
Used the crew cab to tow the blazer to Idaho Tuff Truck Challenge. Worked great as usual. The thing I’m thinking of changing next on this is the exhaust. I bought really cheap BBC headers when I did the swap cause it fit in the budget at the time, but now it needs addressed. I have the factory manifolds still and am contemplating putting those back on and and redoing the exhaust all the way out the back again. We’ll see what I do
Quite a few thumbs up for sure
