Guess it's been a while, eh fellas? I was reminded of this the other day and figured I should actually get on here and bring things somewhat up to speed.
Since my last post I put new leaf springs in from ORD, fixed the broken output on my transfer case, pulled the big block out of the blazer to put in the vette, put a 6.0 LS in the blazer, bought a camper to get ourselves and our 3 dogs and two cats across the country, moved to Washington state, shipped the blazer vette and subie out here, had the top on the blazer ruined by the truck driver, sold the subie, bought an 84 CJ7 with sbc in it, bought a house, built a deck and signed up for welding school. That's all
I was super busy in Alabama working at Ford (go figure), and worked on either the blazer or the vette on the weekends.
Figured I'd just photodump and go from there. These should be somewhat in order.
The three doggos in question
aforementioned camper
Vette as it sits currently. Not sure if we'll paint it or anything. It's a fuel injected big block driver at the moment. Little rough around the edges, but it's nasty with the 468 in there.
Built some sliders for the blazer in Alabama. Stiffened the thing up a TON! Still need a cage really badly. Hopefully that's soon.
Heep
New welding helmet
I need to look through and find pictures of the LS swap. I didn't take many...I was in the zone working and realized after most of it was done. Runs great though. It's a 2003 LQ9 that's been rebuilt with a small cam in it. ~420 hp at the crank. LS3 throttle body. Throttle response is stupid. Overall I'm really happy with it. The big block used to use 1/8 tank minimum any time I'd start it, but this LS gets crazy good mileage. Unsure on numbers, but it's pretty darn efficient for a truck on 40's. Oh yeah, I sold the swampers and steelies and bought a set of h2's from Greg and put some pro comp 40's on it. The radials are so nice, I can't believe how smooth and quiet this thing drives now. And no more death wobble!
Since my last post I put new leaf springs in from ORD, fixed the broken output on my transfer case, pulled the big block out of the blazer to put in the vette, put a 6.0 LS in the blazer, bought a camper to get ourselves and our 3 dogs and two cats across the country, moved to Washington state, shipped the blazer vette and subie out here, had the top on the blazer ruined by the truck driver, sold the subie, bought an 84 CJ7 with sbc in it, bought a house, built a deck and signed up for welding school. That's all
I was super busy in Alabama working at Ford (go figure), and worked on either the blazer or the vette on the weekends.Figured I'd just photodump and go from there. These should be somewhat in order.
The three doggos in question
aforementioned camper
Vette as it sits currently. Not sure if we'll paint it or anything. It's a fuel injected big block driver at the moment. Little rough around the edges, but it's nasty with the 468 in there.
Built some sliders for the blazer in Alabama. Stiffened the thing up a TON! Still need a cage really badly. Hopefully that's soon.
Heep
New welding helmet
I need to look through and find pictures of the LS swap. I didn't take many...I was in the zone working and realized after most of it was done. Runs great though. It's a 2003 LQ9 that's been rebuilt with a small cam in it. ~420 hp at the crank. LS3 throttle body. Throttle response is stupid. Overall I'm really happy with it. The big block used to use 1/8 tank minimum any time I'd start it, but this LS gets crazy good mileage. Unsure on numbers, but it's pretty darn efficient for a truck on 40's. Oh yeah, I sold the swampers and steelies and bought a set of h2's from Greg and put some pro comp 40's on it. The radials are so nice, I can't believe how smooth and quiet this thing drives now. And no more death wobble!
It needs the tune cleaned up, and I'm pretty sure it's programmed for an automatic because it stalls when I engine brake, but it runs great.
