Wednesday, Jun 11, 2008 at 19:30
Look at the figures Bill, the 6lt LS2 is only (said very loosely) getting what I am getting at the back wheels out of my 4.2 diesel. Absolutely no justification to going this route unless you did the blower at the same time. This would at least give you something for your bucks. I used this same justification against the 6.5 chev conversion and we are talking very similar dollars between the two conversions.
Turns out my old 4.2 has passed a compression
test with flying colours and I will now address the "lost" torque that I am experiencing at the moment via a pump rebuild and if the missing torque is not there then it is onto the turbo as they think I may have dropped an exhaust blade on the turbo, something that has been known to occur in others with similarly modified turbo's. Add it all up if I need to do the lot, and I was 1/2 way to a new 6lt LS2 but without the 360 000 km on the crank.
Anyway, I will see what happens and keep the above link for "research purposes" only hehehe.
Cheers, Trevor.
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