Re: 1992 Isuzu pickup Turbo 5.0 build [UPDATE: AOD in, and Track times]

back from the dead.

The truck ran great with the old 5.0, went 11.7x at 117 with the setup leaving with no boot. Started pushing water when I raised the boost. So started its transformation.

old combo out
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New hardware
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It fits!
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Mounts
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Tight fit
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Starting the hotside
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downpipe
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new radiator
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ebay air to water
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Flipped intake and cut firewall
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Cage work
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Painted engine bay
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Finishing the body work, will be painted by Christmas.

 

Awesome!!!

 

This was one of its last runs on the old setup.

 

nice!!! LSX and borg warner ftmfw

 

You're gonna make just a little bit more power.

 

Thanks guys. Sure hope it makes more power 8)

Some motor specs.

'04 LQ4
Ported 317s
9:1 JE forged pistons
Ls3 floating pin rods with ARP bolts
Ls9 cam (211/230 .558/.552 122.5 LSA)
Ls9 head gaskets and ARP studs

 

Well had some setbacks with the paint but the cab, bed and doors are done.
Paint is #2106 Anthracite Gray Pearl base clear from TCPGlobal
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Beautiful color, looks great!

 

Been a while. Long story short, tried to save a few dollars on machine work and it took about 6 month too long. Everything got side tracked and nothing got worked on for a year.

I shortened the axle and narrowed the leaf springs in the rear to make room for 275s. Front lower control arms got shortened to pull the front wheels in. Motor is in, turbo stuff is done, exhaust is 95%. Just need to finish up some wiring and fuel before it can run.
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wow, what a change! It's gonna move out for sure.

 

Pretty sweet. Like the color and all the work ya did to it. Gonna do some sort of caltracs?

 

cool.

 

Yep, I have slapper bars for it now but I plan on building some caltracs.

 

Awesome, subscribing. So was it still not cooling well with the bigger radiator in the back? Or did you just move it up front to make things easier to work with?

 

Bad ass truck. I'll have to keep an eye out for it at OSW

 

It cooled fine with the larger radiator. It was difficult to get all the air out of the system, looking back now I should have jacked up the rear of the truck to bleed it all out. I moved it back up front for the weight savings. It was quite a bit of 1.25" steel piping and extra water to carry around. Having it in the back was great for the extra room, I was able to mount the LS lower and further back this time and made it work.

I'm glad it didn't close before I got to run the truck there! Hoping to make some major progress in the next few weeks and have it out ASAP. I'm pretty sure I have seen your truck run there, according to your signature.

 

I'm just glad they've reopened it haha. I'm interested to see how yours runs when you get it back out there. And you may have seen it out there, sadly now its back to stock and sitting under a cover until I graduate and can have some time to start working on it again

 

School has slowed my project down waaayyy more than I would have liked... Cant wait to be done in the fall

 

Congrats on being done in the fall! I'm done in a week lol. Final projects are killing me haha

 

What all as involved with flipping the intake manifold 180*? I haven't seen that one before, I like it.