This headache of a truck has had me in a choke hold for 4yrs, after sending
@hayleefortney to go pick it up for me in Phx while I was working in Denver, because I wanted a truck like
@tanner_crupper lol, she ended up cooking the stock 4L60E, so I called upon my local guru (before he moved to Phx 😡)
@jerimiahgranito to do a 4L80E swap and bigger stall converter, I used it as my daily for about a year, Met
@turbo_zach and bought this motor from him, then I found
@deanracing955 and started buying parts from him to turn my truck into a little street truck, I had a local shop “try” and do the motor swap even though they both were 5.3s they didn’t feel confident enough with a turbo motor, and with everything in my town, no one wants to work on custom stuff, so I hauled it to
@vikingfabrications505 in Albuquerque and let him go to town on it, once he finished it went to another shop in Albq where it sat for 8mo “waiting” outside while I had all the parts to finish it, so I decided to go pick it up and bring it to Denver where a local LS guru was going to get it knocked out for me in no time… well he charged me 10hrs to go through part box’s and never did anything to the truck, then I decided to reach back out to
@turbozach and see if he wanted a side project well he opened up his own shop
@altitudespeedandfab and was eager to get the truck, called a tow truck and off she went to round 4 shop, once all together we hauled it to the dyno, I definitely wasn’t impressed with the tuning skills as the truck only put down 4XX on a fully built motor… and had 3 injectors stick open and flood the motor, so time to rebuild again!! After talking with
@masters824 and who he used for tuning we went with
@dinosaurjuicetuning and mannn what a difference in a tuner!!! Truck is 10x faster then we had anticipated on pump gas, don’t always go to the shops with the high IG followers cause those shops just want your money, go to the blue collar guys that love to go fast and build cool shit!!! I can’t think everyone enough from all the DMs to txt to calls about this damn truck, but she’s done and ready to get abused…. Finally!