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we have been having some fun with the car. 2 weeks ago we had a little mishap, i left the lock up on after playing on the dyno and our first trip down the track in shifted and locked up at the same time which the motor did not like at all. ended up with 2 bent rods. for a fix we just replaced the 2 bent rods with stock rods and did stock head gaskets and stock tty held bolts. i am still calling this motor 100% stock. it has stock ring gap, dod, vvt, stock cam and valve springs...
2 days ago we made it back to the track and worked on our 60' all night. we got a small wheelie one pass and were all excited. next pass had a moderate wheelie. pretty soon we had too much and it was slowing us down. after some adjustments we were getting good 60's without any wheelie. next would be more power off the line and try and knock that 60' down more but we were losing oil pressure on the launch. this time slip was at 18psi.
we have a holley swap pan on the car. i didn't realize they have a drag version of this pan with extra baffles. we are going to try that and see if it fixes our issue.
we are gather parts for a drop in rod and piston 6.2 with a cam and stock heads from a 6.6. much of this we have laying around. we want to break the 100% stock 5.3 properly before stepping up. anyone want to guess how far the stock l83 is going to go before giving up?
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