- Mar 16, 2013
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Is this too old of a truck to post here? 
Well...if it is, it's still getting a later model engine, so there!
I bought this '82 C10 from a friend of mine. I had my eye on it for a while and when I found out he was selling it I jumped on it. I just think it looks cool! It came with a carbureted 305 (watch out now, she's fast!) and a turbo 350.
I added some different wheels to it, but I don't really like the way it looks so I'll likely go back to what it had.
Here's the engine bay currently,
Aaaand here's what's going in it's place
It's a stock 2008 5.3L out of a junkyard. I don't plan on making it anything crazy (I already have three other supercharged rides!). This one's getting our Attitude V2 Cam, LS3 car intake/throttle body, and I'll be milling the heads just a bit. We plan to run a 6l80e automatic transmission, which should be really fun! That's kind of why I wanted a truck for this swap, the 6L80e's are pretty big, and I knew with a truck we would have a lot more room in the trans tunnel to play around with. I picked up a 3000 Circle D stall as well. I didn't want anything too big as I do daily drive this.
I plan to get it up and running with the 5.3/6L80e probably around July/Aug or so. Then I'd like to go back and add A/C probably using the set up off of a late model camaro. I've been toying with updating the interior/dash as well, but I don't know if I will have the energy for for that after doing the rest of it, lol. It would be really sweet to retrofit a 2008+ silverado dash...but we will see!
Well...if it is, it's still getting a later model engine, so there!I bought this '82 C10 from a friend of mine. I had my eye on it for a while and when I found out he was selling it I jumped on it. I just think it looks cool! It came with a carbureted 305 (watch out now, she's fast!) and a turbo 350.
I added some different wheels to it, but I don't really like the way it looks so I'll likely go back to what it had.
Here's the engine bay currently,
Aaaand here's what's going in it's place
It's a stock 2008 5.3L out of a junkyard. I don't plan on making it anything crazy (I already have three other supercharged rides!). This one's getting our Attitude V2 Cam, LS3 car intake/throttle body, and I'll be milling the heads just a bit. We plan to run a 6l80e automatic transmission, which should be really fun! That's kind of why I wanted a truck for this swap, the 6L80e's are pretty big, and I knew with a truck we would have a lot more room in the trans tunnel to play around with. I picked up a 3000 Circle D stall as well. I didn't want anything too big as I do daily drive this.
I plan to get it up and running with the 5.3/6L80e probably around July/Aug or so. Then I'd like to go back and add A/C probably using the set up off of a late model camaro. I've been toying with updating the interior/dash as well, but I don't know if I will have the energy for for that after doing the rest of it, lol. It would be really sweet to retrofit a 2008+ silverado dash...but we will see!
