James720's OBS Build Thread

This weekend will be full of some good ole money spending...

Tonight - Picking up a 5.3
Tomorrow - Cam, Schoenfeld Headers, Motor mounts, and some other odds and ends
 
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Not a huge update but a good one for me. I'm pretty excited and really close to having all the swap parts I need...

Picked up a clean 96k mile 5.3...


Got my swap headers along with a bunch of misc parts like MAF sensors, ECUs, electric fans


Also picked up my cam from Jeff this weekend. Specs are...
227/227 .640" 114+4 lsa

Ordered my Dual Titanium springs and 7.400 pushrods from TSP today

Should have my stall by the end of the week, going with a 4k. Should work good.
 
Honestly, money and my goals weren't really to build a full blown racetruck. I also got a good deal on this motor, way less than I could find 90-100k 6.ohhs for.
 
I can understand that. My reasoning was for the extra $3-500 you get an extra 50 horse. Which you'd easily have into a cam/headers on a 5.3 just to make it equal
 
Yeah somewhat, except around here people think 6.0s are gold. Dude had one with 300k for $800... I'll pass on that lol.

If I ever get that deep into it I'll buy a 6.0 later. I plan on trying to give this 5.3 all the hell I can so I may need another motor later anyways lol.
 
Ordered some stuff today... Should be buying the stall on Saturday

1. Granatelli fuel pump GM722-2
2. B&M Sport shifter 80776

Also, I'm in a HUGE need of stock 350 motor mount buckets.. I will buy new rubber at O'reilly but I need the bucket and bolts. I have some solid mounts for sale if anyone is interested.

I also need a stock 350 truck radiator.

Those are the ONLY 2 parts I have left to buy... I hope... Got hit with about $600 in stuff I forgot about this week so hopefully after the radiator and mounts I'll be sailing soon.
 
I'll let Jeff do that if he thinks I should. I should be dropping it off to him not this weekend, but next. So motor should be done near the end of the month! Pretty stoked.
 
i would take the head and oil pan off that thing and make sure everything is good, it looks like it sat outside for a while with the rust.
 
It has, it sat outside under a covered carport for a while. Everything is good to go though. If something does happen to be wrong I'd be extremely surprised because everything on it is nice and clean other than a few rusty items. Motor is pretty low mileage too.
 
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What website are you using to order all your parts like bumpers and interior pieces. I use lmc truck and buy local at certifit but maybe I'm missing out on some good deals.
 
Yeah Chris I sold it a long time ago. Motor ended up freshened up and in another truck.

I order pretty much everything from eBay.
 
Thanks. I just made a build thread for my truck if you'd like to check it out. Your truck is coming along at a good pace
 
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