Figured I might as well throw up a build thread. This is largely just gonna be a place for me to record my build, and I'm happy to answer any questions I can that anyone may have about the build. It's a very slow moving project.
The day I bought the car: typical project car shell. No motor or transmission, several bits and parts taken off the car and sold before I got my hands on it.
In the shop, getting cleaned out, and stripped of most of the interior.
The interior after being stripped clean; I left the padding and sound deadening material in there for now.
I guess you could say I got lucky on the motor find; the guy I bought it from was storing it at the shop he owned, and his employees failed to bring it inside before a storm, so it outside getting rained on all night long. He sold it to me for $150, but I'd planned on rebuilding it anyway, so that worked out well enough. It's a 5.3L Vortec motor out of a Chevy Silverado, similar in a lot of ways to the LS1.
Pulling it apart, and there was hardly any damage from the water sitting in it at all. Nasty oil/water mix though. (This valley cover took me forever to get off... I'm still kind of learning my way around things.)
Now with it fully pulled apart, I find myself at an impasse. I'm going to have the whole block dipped and cleaned, but I'm not sure if I want to do that, clean all of the internals, and start the rebuild, or have it bored out to 5.7 (LS1 specs) and rebuild it using LS1 internals. Being that you guys are mostly into 7M/1JZ/2JZ builds, I don't know how much input y'all will have, but I'm open to everyone's opinion.
That's all I've got for now, I'll update this thread as the build progresses, but as I said, it's gonna be a slow build. Sorry for the long post and bunch of pictures, future post should be more condensed. Thanks for taking the time to look!
The day I bought the car: typical project car shell. No motor or transmission, several bits and parts taken off the car and sold before I got my hands on it.
In the shop, getting cleaned out, and stripped of most of the interior.
The interior after being stripped clean; I left the padding and sound deadening material in there for now.
I guess you could say I got lucky on the motor find; the guy I bought it from was storing it at the shop he owned, and his employees failed to bring it inside before a storm, so it outside getting rained on all night long. He sold it to me for $150, but I'd planned on rebuilding it anyway, so that worked out well enough. It's a 5.3L Vortec motor out of a Chevy Silverado, similar in a lot of ways to the LS1.
Pulling it apart, and there was hardly any damage from the water sitting in it at all. Nasty oil/water mix though. (This valley cover took me forever to get off... I'm still kind of learning my way around things.)
Now with it fully pulled apart, I find myself at an impasse. I'm going to have the whole block dipped and cleaned, but I'm not sure if I want to do that, clean all of the internals, and start the rebuild, or have it bored out to 5.7 (LS1 specs) and rebuild it using LS1 internals. Being that you guys are mostly into 7M/1JZ/2JZ builds, I don't know how much input y'all will have, but I'm open to everyone's opinion.
That's all I've got for now, I'll update this thread as the build progresses, but as I said, it's gonna be a slow build. Sorry for the long post and bunch of pictures, future post should be more condensed. Thanks for taking the time to look!
