[83GMCK2500]

Originally Posted by OutlawDrifter

My wife was giving me grief the other day that I've had this pickup for over a year, "shouldn't you be looking for another one?". I have a bad habit of buying and selling at a profit, especially when I get bored with a vehicle. Well, at this point, I'm in this pickup pretty deep, enough that it would take the right particular buyer to pay my asking price...just to come out even.

I'd been eyeing GMT800 1500HD's but have come to the conclusion that I still don't like the interiors in those pickups. I don't pull a trailer often enough to need the heavier 3/4t parts ALL the time, and the 6.0l may have 360ft/lbs of torque, but it does it at 4000 rpm, not like the 2800rpm @ 330 for the L31.

I'm in the process of building a new 36x40x14 shop. When it is done, we are going to build this pickup into something I won't be able to get rid of. 14b sf axle, air helper springs, 4L65E or 4L80E, worked over SBC with true multiport injection(TPI, ProFlo, RamJet, etc). Why spend $4-5k on a pickup that I have to start over on, I'll just build the one I have! This will give me a few months to plan and budget. I wanted this pickup when I graduated high school, why not keep it now and put one in the win column, haha.

I'll still be doing the interior and exterior upgrades planned, and I'll build the drive train up and install in one big shot.

Sounds like a good plan. I'm always reading, planning, considering options for my truck(s) if I were to come across the right parts. You mention a 14SF, have you considered the factory disc brake one from the Vortec Max/Sierra Denali/?Silverado SS?/*maybe something else* GMT800 trucks? They also went into GMT-900 but I don't know what the WMS-WMS is on them, I had some notes somewhere where I'd read the -800 rear matched -400 front, but I can't find them now.

Something else I just came across...already familiar with the MPFI spider conversion kit to get rid of the poppet style assembly example I was REALLY surprised to come across a high flow mpfi spider assembly. I can't tell who is who, they use same/close part numbering, but it's either Wynjammer or AUS Injector:
Wyn: http://www.wynjammer.com/Vortec_Fuel...on_System.html
AUS: http://www.ebay.com/itm/AUS-injectio...-/251232921475 (unable to find them on their site, just ebay listings for the upgraded parts.)

Speaking of performance upgrades...have you come across the 12200411 PCM swap?


P.S. I started to read this thread and got as far as "looking at 1500HDs" and I thought, HE BETTER NOT BE GETTING RID OF THIS TRUCK!