Building the ULTIMATE factory muscle truck in 28 minutes

this is a 2000 chevy silverado that i rescued from the parking lot of a plumbing supply company exactly one year ago and over the last 12 months we've completely transformed it from a worn out neglected and bone stock silverado into the all-wheel drive supercharged bright orange monster that it is today now we just finished up the transmission swap going from a 60 to an 80e which means this portion of the build is 100 complete so i wanted to take some time to give you guys a condensed look at the entire build process start to finish from one year ago until today just to kind of give you an idea of what it took to build this truck and in addition since we did finish up the transmission swap we need to find out if we made it slower or possibly faster [Music] now i'll admit that building a somewhat heavy pickup truck into a performance vehicle it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense on the surface but i'm obsessed with pickup trucks i'm obsessed with going fast and i kind of like a challenge of doing something that doesn't make a whole lot of sense on the surface and when you put that all together into a package like this i'll tell you there is nothing like the feeling of pulling up next to a fancy looking muscle car and just blowing his doors off as you take off from a stoplight [Applause] that feeling right there makes it worth every dollar that i spent on parts and every minute that i spent out in the shop in the heat in the cold you know late at night working to build this creation now because we are trying to go fast i do take data measurements along every step of the way and sometimes we find out that the mods that we did they work out pretty good and other times it doesn't go according to plan [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foodie quarter mile so after we took our baseline performance test it was pretty clear that we needed to make a little bit more horsepower and i could have just started out by bolting a big old massive 80 millimeter turbo onto the 4.8 but i wanted to build this thing up in stages and the first goal or the first mile post i wanted to make as much horsepower as my 8.1 swap did back when it was naturally aspirated while spending the exact same amount of money that the swap cost so that meant i wanted to make 300 horsepower at the wheels from a naturally aspirated 4.8 all for 3 000 which means we had to gain another 100 horses [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i did wind up blowing my original budget of 3 000 bucks but at the time i didn't really care because i had a truck that did not leak any more oil i had a nice aggressive sounding exhaust it had gapped rings for boost and i was confident that we were going to blow away my original 300 horse goal in fact i was even thinking we can make like 310 or 320 but unfortunately the dyno is the ultimate lie detector [Applause] after the first round of upgrades we made an impressive 275 horsepower and 279 pounds of torque that means a gain of 67 horsepower and only 50 pounds of torque totally missed the mark but we continued to press on anyway and we took it out on the road to see how fast it was or was not now i got to admit to you guys at this point in the build process i was pretty bummed with how the truck was performing especially given the amount of effort and money that we spent on this thing to get to that point the results just were not spectacular i kind of even started second guessing myself thinking like man maybe i should have put a 5'3 or 60 in here or maybe i should take that 48 and put it into something that weighs 2000 pounds less but i had a plan i wanted to stick to it and i knew with the right combination of parts we could get where we wanted to be [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] phase two of the build is what i call the quit messing around stage and we finally got serious about adding some power to this 4.8 so the ls8 blower originally made about 14 sorry 13 pounds of boost with the 255 upper pulley that we used to have on here we've since upgraded even more but the combination of the instant torque of the lsa blower and the 430 gears out back did prove to be a bit of a handful so after a few failed attempts we wound up doing a 0-60 run of 6.4 seconds and we covered the 8th mile in 9.3 seconds at 80 miles an hour [Music] now at this point in the build process it was early spring time and ls fest west was just around the corner and i signed up for the grand champion class but i knew the truck just wasn't going to perform in its current state so i decided to make the two single biggest upgrades that this truck has ever had and they made a significant improvement with how it performed but before we did that while the truck was still in two wheel drive we had to have a little bit of fun me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh yeah i like the 85 [Music] oh 12-1 yes oh that is quick [Music] [Applause] oh out there [Music] uh so after ls fest i was ecstatic with how well this truck performed we did a best quarter mile of 1210 it ran 770 in the eighth and we even managed to beat a handful of muscle cars at the drag strip and even in the speed stop challenge which was like my absolute favorite event that i have ever competed in we got first place in the grand champion truck class with this at the time stock suspension all-wheel drive supercharged truck it was a blast now to top it all off we put the truck on the dyno shortly after where with only 50 ethanol content fuel in the tank we made 530 horsepower at the wheels 550 pounds of torque which was a gain of something like 255 horsepower over our baseline and a runs now it is important to note that up until this point all the runs that we've been doing and all the abuse that we've put this truck through has been with the 4.8 with the lsa supercharger and the stock 4l60 transmission which honestly had me scratched my head like how is this transmission holding up i wanted to do the ade swap before ls fest i ran out of time but it performed amazingly like i did countless 0-60 runs countless launches like over and over and over again that 60 e it kept clicking off those shifts exactly when it was supposed to and it never complained once but i didn't know that was an anomaly and it would not last forever [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] with the transmission installed and the coilovers up front we now have what i would consider to be the ultimate sport truck and it has a drivetrain that's pretty much bulletproof and it's going to hold up to just about any modification that we could throw under the hood but the one question that everybody has is will the heavier 4l80 slow the truck down now luckily we have some baseline data i can't use the quarter mile pass from las vegas because that was at about 2000 feet lower of elevation than where i am right now but i did happen to get a baseline pass at my local drag strip with the 4l60. [Music] and we also just did a test session with the 4l80 so it is worth noting that both of these tests were done in the exact same way where i just kind of foot braked it to kind of get up against the converter that yielded the best results in both different cases um and there's two different ways this could have gone either the heavier 4l80 could have absorbed more horsepower and made the truck a little bit slower or the better torque converter that we installed could have offset some of that increased mass as well as the less than ideal gear ratio that the 4l80 has compared to 60. so anyway believe it or not we actually made the truck ever so slightly quicker it absolutely did not slow down here's the data side by side the 60 foot time is identical the 0 to 60 time is ever so slightly quicker on the ade um the eighth mile time is also identical but at a faster mile an hour to the ade and then the quarter mile time is 200 of a second quicker with the ade at almost a full mile an hour faster so definitely a win in my book i am really pumped with how the copo truck turned out and this is kind of a good close to the first chapter of this build we do have some more things in store for this truck um we're not going to get into that right now but i want to say thank you guys for watching i appreciate it if you want to find out more information on this build i've got a whole playlist i'll link down below showing every single step in detail but thank you guys for watching come back soon for more cool truck content [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Lawrence LT Tolman

Views: 290,788

Keywords: full build, ls fest, awd truck, nv149, 4l60 to 4l80 swap, 4l80 swap silverado, 4wd launch, supercharged silverado, supercharged awd, 0-60, silverado vs, turbo truck, all wheel drive, 4x4 launch, lt, lt tolman, complete build, supercharged, silverado build, race truck, supercharger

Id: N7vQMu1SsJw

Length: 28min 10sec (1690 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 19 2022