Look I know there’s easier ways to have gone about this but I’m too dumb to look that far ahead. This started as I want to do a dont bs me build for burnouts and ice cream. Also, I’m going to post this over a couple days because man is this a PITA on my phone.
I work at a wholesale plant nursery and from time to time our mechanic shop deems a vehicle not worth repairing and it gets drug off to the bone yard and that’s where this started. It’s a nbs 99 single cab Silverado 4.3 short bed that was finally deemed not worth fixing so I offered $200 for it and $200 for a 99 2500 Silverado doomed to the same fate. So for $400 I had a decent looking single cab Silverado and a 4l80e out of a 2500. I’d later sell the v6 4l60 for $150, the seats for $90, and the 2500 (after the vortec heads and 4l80 were pulled) for $200 putting me in the green off the rip. Don’t worry, I fuck that up later.
I found a 4.8 and 4l60e combo off Facebook marketplace I picked up for $800. It was for convenience sake but it wasn’t even that convenient. Dude was super sketch and I was just ready to get the hell out of there from the moment we pulled up. Guy tells me he guarantees it to run. And it probably would have but while throwing the SS2 cam in I noticed the loves on the stock cam had some issues so it cost me a set of lifters and head gaskets.
So full disclosure I could have wrapped this thing up quicker if I could keep focus on one thing at a time but I can’t. I found an 05 Escalade to pull the interior out of and did that before I slammed the engine in but I did get around to that.
I found out that while putting the engine in that I needed engine mounts from a 99-03. For some reason gm decided to change the drivers side mount in 04 and of course the first set I grabbed from the pull a part was from an 04+ so I had to spend another half a day switching them out.
I chose to run Holley terminator x max for ease of use and to get it up and running quicker. I tried to save the v6 pcm and wiring harness to use my factory gauges and have. It does a couple things but not everything I need it to so I’ll be integrating an ls harness and pcm from an 05 Denali. There’s still a ton of unanswered questions surrounding this so im still unsure of how well it will all work. I have a current performance crank signal splitter and it works to get power to the gauges and fuel pump but not much else.
Imma leave it here for tonight.
I work at a wholesale plant nursery and from time to time our mechanic shop deems a vehicle not worth repairing and it gets drug off to the bone yard and that’s where this started. It’s a nbs 99 single cab Silverado 4.3 short bed that was finally deemed not worth fixing so I offered $200 for it and $200 for a 99 2500 Silverado doomed to the same fate. So for $400 I had a decent looking single cab Silverado and a 4l80e out of a 2500. I’d later sell the v6 4l60 for $150, the seats for $90, and the 2500 (after the vortec heads and 4l80 were pulled) for $200 putting me in the green off the rip. Don’t worry, I fuck that up later.
I found a 4.8 and 4l60e combo off Facebook marketplace I picked up for $800. It was for convenience sake but it wasn’t even that convenient. Dude was super sketch and I was just ready to get the hell out of there from the moment we pulled up. Guy tells me he guarantees it to run. And it probably would have but while throwing the SS2 cam in I noticed the loves on the stock cam had some issues so it cost me a set of lifters and head gaskets.
So full disclosure I could have wrapped this thing up quicker if I could keep focus on one thing at a time but I can’t. I found an 05 Escalade to pull the interior out of and did that before I slammed the engine in but I did get around to that.
I found out that while putting the engine in that I needed engine mounts from a 99-03. For some reason gm decided to change the drivers side mount in 04 and of course the first set I grabbed from the pull a part was from an 04+ so I had to spend another half a day switching them out.
I chose to run Holley terminator x max for ease of use and to get it up and running quicker. I tried to save the v6 pcm and wiring harness to use my factory gauges and have. It does a couple things but not everything I need it to so I’ll be integrating an ls harness and pcm from an 05 Denali. There’s still a ton of unanswered questions surrounding this so im still unsure of how well it will all work. I have a current performance crank signal splitter and it works to get power to the gauges and fuel pump but not much else.
Imma leave it here for tonight.
