I ended up ordering the summit pro ls piston and rod kit. Its just more peace of mind for me and I know ill probably want to push it when the time comes anyhow. Im still a little tossed up on the crank but I most likely get the crank as well and just start fresh. I opted for the ones with compression ratio just over 10:1. Ill just make a low street tune if I want to cruise it. The more I work on the car the more it becomes a racecar then driver anyhow.

 

Nothing wrong with piece of mind. Factory cranks do handle upwards of 1000hp. I’ve read around the 1200 mark is there they start flexing.

 

Yeah thats what I had read as well. Why im tossed up about it. I was also reading that the stock waterpumps work fine at 1000-1200hp as well which I was not expecting. I had ordered an ATI damper for f body spacing and considering just using a stock style waterpump. Wont have to mess with a inline thermostat plus its way cheaper which is nice. I think I can fit it. Im gonna be building hotside from scratch again anyway.

 

Unless you are going stroker, just use the stock crank. Imho. Hell, coyote cranks are good to 1000+ hp too, so that's all I use is stock.

 

No stroker. I dont plan to hit 1000hp anytime soon either. Guess ill stick with the stocker. Be nice to put that money towards other stuff as well.

 

Well decided Id like to go twins this time around. Considering the normal s366’s. See summit has a twin turbo cam thats a step up from your typical stage 2 turbo cams everyone offers. Cant seem to find anyone running it or feedback anywhere but kind of want to try it.

 

Which one are you looking at specifically?

 

Its stage 3 pro ls twin-turbo cam. 234/238dur 115+5 .625/.605 is the specs. I watched one of there product videos the other night and it said that there “turbo” cams were designed mostly around t4 turbos? They claim the twin turbo cam is good for larger t6 single or twin setups. Although like most already know, people have made plenty of power with the average stage 2 cam from any company just about with either setup.

 

That's a pretty rowdy spec cam, It should sound really nasty on a smaller ci motor. They put 5 degrees advance in it try and bring the peak down a bit I guess? Should be fun and hard to beat that line of cams for the price.

 

Yeah it seems a little excessive for a 5.3 but I guess on a all out build it would be good. Im willing to try it though seeing as I chose to have a little bit higher compression and running twins right off headers with not much exhaust length should spool fairly decent I would think.

 

Why do you guys keep deleting your small block chevys?

 

I'd say cost, I'd like to build a SB for mine but after doing a little pricing of parts I decided to go LS.

 

For a mild setup, an LS swap with a cam and valve springs gets you a lot of bang for your buck. Boost it a little or keep it NA, for a junkyard engine it saves a lot of money trying to build up a sbc.

 

Id agree its cheaper to make more power with the LS. Aside from that I had other reasons I wanted to switch. One being the engine I had was kind of sentimental and realized id hate to blow it up if I would decide to push it.

 

One day I’ll have my BBC

 

That's a lot of cam, how many RPMs do you plan on turning it?

 

Im thinking around 7200-7300 Maybe shift at 7400-7500.