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  1. Nicholson72

    HELP! LS1 to SM465 Headers

    I wanted speed engineer headers but they said they won’t sale to California people even tho the company is a few hours away, but I kinda wish I went with a mid length header the long tubes are a little long and put them in a weird area to build the rest of the exhaust off of
  2. Nicholson72

    HELP! LS1 to SM465 Headers

    Looks good, I bought a 87 3/4ton and pulled all the stuff and swap it into my truck and put my auto back in the 87 and sold it and made my money back, so it’s all factory looking
  3. Nicholson72

    HELP! LS1 to SM465 Headers

    Another guy in these forms is running speed Engineer headers his clears, I have schoenfeld headers on my truck, I have the hydraulic slave cylinder and they clear it with a lot of room
  4. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    Yeah it’s weird trying to do timing, my timing seems to never match any of the tables, must be all the other adders, on my 02 Silverado timing seems to always be below low octane and I always run the highest grade I can get and I seem to get knock in around 2000 to 2400, so I thought about...
  5. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    I just bought another Ls motor to put in my 72 camaro, I might get crazy on this motor and do some more work to it, a stroker kit would be sweet
  6. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    I put some timing in off the start it seem to help out on the take offs since with the manual it’s not much of a load, that’s nice you got some friends to help out, I like goat rope garage that guy has helped me out a lot, there is another guy got some good info it’s low buck Ls I think he’s...
  7. Nicholson72

    Another 5.3 Question!

    I put a btr stage 3 truck cam in my truck, it’s probably little to aggressive for what your looking for, I’m running 33’s with 4:11 gears and the sm465 but been really reliable
  8. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    Nice, it’s fun to do, I started messing with all kinds of settings to just see what it would do lol I stay away from the throttle settings now, I had mine go wide open twice, next you need to get your self a cam
  9. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    One thing you want to log is your knock sensors that way you know if you are pushing your timing to far
  10. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    I got the AEM 30-0300, so far I like it, I Have it kinda set up so I can plug it onto the cigarette lighter deal so I can swap it from truck to truck
  11. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    I got my wideband logging into my hptuners threw a serial data port connector, really cheap way of doing it instead of doing the pro version
  12. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    It’s pretty easy, wideband is definitely the way to go for tuning, look up goat rope garage on YouTube, he’s got some really good videos on tuning and he’s always down to help out a bit
  13. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    Oh dang I try to order that one a while ago but since I live in California amazon won’t send it lol so I was thinking of doing an eBay one, definitely get it tuned you’ll be surprised the difference, I bought hp tuners and just been playing with my tune
  14. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    You get the cold air off eBay?
  15. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    Just got my 5.3 back in my truck changed the cam bearings and put the new cam in sounds amazing
  16. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    I’m thinking about doing the same with my drive shaft, I got s slight vibration, drives me nuts everyone that rides with me doesn’t feel it lol
  17. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    Today I went to cam swap my ls and nothing but bad news lol got the cam out and one lobe has bad wear and the bearing and a push rod and rocker on another cylinder looks like someone did a quick fix and reground the ball, the crazy thing is the motor doesn’t make any noise and runs great
  18. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    I have the same problem with mine, hard to get a good pinion angle on these short beds, I had an add a leaf in the rear of mine I pulled it out it help a bit but still there
  19. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    How’s the ac working for you?
  20. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    I was surprised to but not like it matter to much the truck is pretty loud as it is, but eventually I’ll do the duel tanks with pumps in them this was a cheap get it going
  21. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    Interesting,when I first started the system was bone dry and had no troubles
  22. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    I have a frame mount fuel pump and so far working great, really quiet to
  23. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    Any of you guys have the vss hooked up on the older trannies? I thought about getting the Dakota gauges adapter
  24. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    Just got one off amazon it will be here Sunday
  25. Nicholson72

    77 K10 LS Swap

    Oh cool that’s what I was thinking of finding, you just made it easier for me lol thanks

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