Thread: So it starts...Gen III 5.3 Vortec into 51 Chevy

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Fuel injectors arrived today!!!

WHOOO!!!!!!

Yeah, it was definitely those injectors, put those new/used ones I got and she fired right up

Oh yeah and vids will be posted either this evening or tomorrow morning, depending how work treats me tonight.

And she runs, now to fix the header leaks, so far thats all that seems to be leaking

Hopefully she can be road ready by this weekend

Can't turn left


This is as far left as I can go:


Open to any and all opinions on how to make this work. I did run headers when I had the old SB 350 so there must be a way to make them work

Alright well I guess the vids I promised are on hold.

I pulled the headers off and am going to tow the car down to the exhaust shop to get the header work done right, so I guess you could say they are now going to turn into custom headers...

sweet nice work

Originally Posted by Geronimo

sweet nice work

Thanks

Here's the first vid, also took her out for a test drive and she drives great
and she'll lay the rubber down too Still got to clean the wiring up some to make it look better and fix a broken header bolt, but there it is

MySpaceTV Videos: 5.3 beast is alive by Steve

Sounds great, nice throaty sound. When you reved it I heard a rattle, sounded like lose sheetmetal somewhere?
Also prime that baby! Don't want it to get rusty like my old truck! Looks great, now time to video some modest/safe pealouts!

Steve, Congratulations!! I know you gotta be pumped. You will love that combination in your Chebbie!

Pat

Congratulations on the swap. Couple of suggestions though. First, run the intake air duct out to ambient air. The motor is taking in air that has been through the radiator.....read HOT. For each 10* drop in air temperature, the motor will pick up 1% power, so if you drop 100*, you pick up 10%. Other thing is, think about a shroud around the fan.

Those are actually both in work. I'm still deciding on a good spot where I could put the filter though and then I need to make shroud

Originally Posted by stovens

Sounds great, nice throaty sound. When you reved it I heard a rattle, sounded like lose sheetmetal somewhere?
Also prime that baby! Don't want it to get rusty like my old truck! Looks great, now time to video some modest/safe pealouts!

Oh that rattling is the flanges on the back of the header where there supposed to bolt to the exhaust, there just sort of sitting there loosely right now, so they move around.

Don't worry I was looking for that noise too when I first started her up and thats what it was

I'll get some more vids on here too

Sounds great, Steve! How about a burnout video?

Originally Posted by falconvan

Sounds great, Steve! How about a burnout video?

I'm workin on it, I just need to get someone to film it, I did more today

Its so addicting, she'll even spin'em from a driving slow and gettin on it