Turbo LS Truck 1000hp engine build out. intake to oil pan

so today we're working on the little green ripper my regular cab short bed silverado that we are building out into a turbo ls street truck all the creature comforts but with some power hopefully a lot of power so if you missed the last episode we went ahead and got the engine stripped down to a bare block we got it cleaned up we did a at home home job get some fresh cross hatching in the cylinders we threw in some texas speed forged rods and pistons this is their drop in six liter piston and rod combo we got all that done all the rings gap bearings checked et cetera et cetera so the rotating assembly minus the cam is complete now it's time to build out the rest of the engine i want to get this thing finished up from oil pan to intake manifold exhaust manifold turbo manifold everything on and have this thing ready to drop back in the truck so we've got the parts to do it we just got to get to it that rhymed all right i'm gonna quit jibber jabber and we're gonna get to work let's uh toss the cam in first this is the worst part of a cam install oh man we forgot to put our install our water pump bolts we need those so you take the water pump bolts from your water pump gives you a nice handle to hold on to once you get to the end of putting the cam in easy peasy i gotta clean all this off my hands i've got a new camshaft retainer plate i always replace these if i pull the cam out just because this seal on the old ones will become completely flat and this is an oil passage so this holds internal oil pressure it's not keeping oil from leaking out it's keeping oil under pressure so if that seal goes bad you're gonna have low oil pressure which obviously nobody wants low oil pressure we got a new timing chain to go on here just for kicks i don't often replace them but they're one of those things and just like that our ls is timed it's like gotta be the easiest engine in the world to put a timing chain on in time so under one top dead center line up two dots ain't no no tensioner or anything you just put the chain on boom put it on all right cool cam's done since i'm sure people will wonder i always forget when someone asks cam specs there we go also i'll make the parts list available so you should be able to just call texas speed and order you know exactly what i've got i'll let them know that it's okay because obviously they won't give out what what a customer ordered unless you tell them to because for obvious reasons so yeah i'll let them know and same with the miata 6.2 setup if anyone needs that info all right next up lifters so we've got some johnson race lifters and then just some new oem trays um these trays can over time get brittle and break and the tray is what's holding the lifter and the roller the correct orientation so if it does break and the lifter spins it's bad news bear so i like to replace them um and these are the same lifters that are running the miata bouncing off limiter for years on end now so so [Music] [Applause] all right well the block surface is cleaned so it's time for really the crown jewel of this engine the prc stage 2.5 cnc ported cylinder heads these things are sweet i have never actually had cnc ported heads or really any aftermarket head for an ls i've always just you know ran the good stock casting heads and done valve springs myself or had the machine shop clean them up and deck them or whatever just pretty basic stuff so i'm pretty hyped for my uh my first set of uh cnc ported heads so we got those to go on we've got arp head bolts and then we've got some factory gm head gaskets these are factory multi-layer steel they work great i brand these in literally every ls if you use oem parts it's the move most of the time that's what we've got to go on next i'm getting hyped to see this thing fully buttoned up it's going to be a snazzy little unit so i need to quit jibber-jabber about it and we need to get back to work let's get these heads on [Music] oh man this is exciting i've seen the only times when i could not find a friend [Music] who wanna head down one to go [Music] all right heads are on fully torqued down oh what a nice sight it would be nice if the block was fresh and brand new looking too but hey you can't want them all we got some fancy parts so what we need to do next is go ahead and get the oil pump on so we got a high pressure pump i think it's 10 295 is the part number 10295 yeah 10 295 i got it right so this is a high pressure standard volume you do not want a high volume oil pump because what it can do is suck your pan dry at high rpm all it's flowing so much volume that all the oil is elsewhere in the motor in the top end and it can't drain back fast enough um people have blown up their motors because of this so definitely high pressure not high volume we need to get this thing on we got to do some shimming and measuring to make sure that we get it centered but other than that pretty standard operation all right i gotta check that with some fewer gauges but that looks about right all right so for the front cover we have a brand new gm one um so these come with bolts gasket and a new main seal it's it i i always tell myself no i'm just going to use the gasket kit which i have one that i got from texas feed but it's really not that much more to do the whole cover it's hard uh it's hard to resist getting a brand new one so with the ls's the timing cover is centered by the crank pulley so it's not doweled or anything it can move around a ton on the bolts so basically you've got to put it on loosely put the crank pulley on and then tighten it down otherwise you know it might be offset to the crank pulley and you'll have massive front main steel leaks which nobody wants that all right moving on we got a tedious step ahead that i want to go ahead and get done so we can kind of seal this thing up all right so the next step is going to be a trunnion upgrade so here are stock ls rocker arms so these have basically loose needles inside this cap and then the cap is just pressed in so the only thing holding this cap in is the friction of the cap in the press fit uh so what we're going to do is replace that i have this one from text to speed i've used all different types this is a needle bearing type we've got these much beefier bearings much beefier center better bolts and then the biggest thing here where are they is that there's going to be c-clips that are going to go on the outside to keep this bearing cap from falling out because what can happen at high rpm is these caps can fall out uh one it toasts your rocker arm two uh little needle bearings go off through your engine so i do this to all the ls motors that i do it's just cheap insurance it's not that expensive it is a little time consuming though you can see see these are all the little needle bearings then they just go everywhere so you know empty rocker got to do this 16 more times all right we've got all of our rocker arms done with our trunnion upgrade get these in the engine and then we can just keep on trucking before we put the rocker arms back on i need to put our new push rods in so these are texas speed hardened push rods [Music] we have two pairs of holly valve covers i can't decide which color i want to use so we have black this is what i have on the miata then we have this really nice red i love red valve covers looks all racy but it's currently a green truck so kind of not the best truck to have red valve covers um man i don't know this is tough i want to do the red i just it's not a christmas themed truck so makes it a little you know what we're gonna do the red i like red we're gonna put the red ones on if it looks bad we'll swap the black ones in i really like these holley valve covers because one they come with really nice hardware come with a nice oil cap but they've got a built-in baffle here so you can run the oem style pcv setup with 3a tows what i do is i usually loop it and then put one fitting on one side depending on how much crankcase ventilation i really need i'm not exactly sure what i'm going to do with this truck but like an n a application these two ports baffled is perfect this might not be enough for uh how much power we're going to be pushing through this thing man that looks snazzy and i might have to put these on the miata and put the black ones on this these are good on the miata [Music] all right valve covers are on front cover is on and rear cover is on so she's about all sealed up with those covers on we can now put the oil pan on but before we can put the oil pan on we need to put a provision to drain our turbo into our turbo oil's got to go back to the pan so we have this 10 0rb port to weld into here and then we'll have a 10 am fitting that will screw into that this is most likely going to be very tricky so cast aluminum as some of you know it's tricky to weld i've had pretty decent luck with it it hasn't been as bad as people made it out to be but this is very dirty cast aluminum and oily cast aluminum so we got our work cut out for us trying to weld this fitting in [Applause] [Music] that welded worse than i thought but came out better than i expected so the problem with welding something cast like this is cast aluminum is porous so it's had oil in here for 20 years you know soaking into those pores so even though i cleaned this thoroughly and wiped it with acetone and ground down a layer it's once i start welding it's pulling that oil and dirt and grime out of those pores and into the weld so not the most fun thing but i would assume that'll seal all right so sweet oil pan done just gotta clean it up and uh then we can toss it on [Music] all right before we put the pickup tube in we're gonna fill up the oil pump with some gear oil the gear oil is thicker than you know regular oil and it'll help sit a little bit better than if we tried to use just regular oil there we go i still don't fully understand why the pump is designed to have two bolts and gm only uses one all right now we're ready to throw the pan on but before we throw the pan on i want to go ahead and get the crank pulley on that way it centers the cover uh before we put the pan on because we kind of want to level this out this this here where because the pan going gonna bolt to the cover that way we don't skew the cover with the pan first if that makes any sense all right time for a very controversial maneuver what we're gonna do is torch this hub to expand it boom pop it on the crank the crank is cold it'll shrink boom onto the crank it's a press-on deal there is a special tool for it but it relies on the threads this is a nice way to do it people freaked out the first time i did this but i've done it on every ls motor never had a problem you guys over here you don't get in my way yeah we don't torch it long we just heat it up a little bit to expand it some beautiful i think we're not fully all the way let's zip it in the rest of the way the whole easy peasy my favorite comment i got the first time i did it like this on video was uh someone was like the seal is gonna melt right out of your motor those seals melt at 200 degrees that sounds good in a comment right this guy knows what he's talking about your engine runs at like 200 degrees 220 230. tell me a seal is going to melt at 200 does that mean all the seals melt genji gets the operating temperature it moves to me that's just funny some people are so sure of themselves that thing's not gonna go five miles without pouring oil everywhere what do you know two years later totally fine never leak to drop all right front cover's on rear cover is bolted down uh now we put the fan on simple enough so one of the things i love about ls's is that they are a very minimal rtv engine they don't have freaking 100 rtv gaskets rtv gaskets work they do they work but i hate them i hate dealing with it um but since these covers meet here at the block we want to rtv this little gap just because it's not going to perfectly seal there so we'll put some silicone there but other than that we're about ready to go so we're going to use this stuff it's called hilomar blue so it's a really interesting deal it comes out like real wet it's got some sort of solvent in it and it doesn't set so it doesn't stick on there like normal rtv does i used it on the uh diff cover on the miata it seemed to work just fine but we don't need much might not be the best for this scenario but we'll give it a shot don't know till you try [Music] hmm an idiot put this on the wrong side i'm so used to front sump pans i forget that this is a rear sump in my head this was the passenger side because it'd be front some as i'm putting it on i'm remembering that it's rear sump yeah we're gonna have to abort mission on this uh luckily i have some weld on fittings so we'll plug that and then if we ever go twin turbo we'll have a drain on both sides you know i'll just there's no way i'm gonna run a drain drains are important drains have got to go straight [Music] all right well i'm gonna correct my mistake and then we'll get the pan on so we get the intake manifold on so we can get the exhaust manifolds on get the turbo on the exhaust manifolds and have this thing ready to drop in this disc all right got our new fitting welded on it was a little cleaner up here presumably because it wasn't so deep in the oil level like this one was i went ahead and put the adapter fitting i have to 10a in and a cap on it i'll probably try to find just a plug um but either way we got it capped off i went ahead and threw a cap on this one just that way uh while we're building out the engine we don't have a hole in the oil pan for uh junk to fall in and down into the oil pan so yeah anyway hold the oil pan is actually done now i'm gonna go ahead and clean this rail forgot to do that and then we'll toss it on do some more intake cleaning but i just want to get it on and kind of close the hole up so i wanted to get a holley high ram for this but i want to keep cruise control and all that stuff for now which has like a dual guide on the throttle body and the low end torque and like all the stock features so for now we're running the stock truck intake man i got to clean this thing off some more just put it on loosely for now just to close the ports up so nothing falls down in there i've also got to pull the fuel rails off anyway change the injectors so this is temporary yeah man i hate putting this ugly intake on here it bothers me my kind of game plan with this build at the moment i i built the motor to be able to handle going a little wild because if i want to do that i don't hopefully i don't have to pull the motor back out and build it for that but for now the goal is you know seven 800 horsepower street truck uh ac cruise control all the modern comfortable features and just see what i use it for like am i gonna just go do burnouts in it and start taking it to the drag strip and do pools and whatever or am i going to drive it around as like a daily driver a ton you know the what i end up using it for is really going to dictate the direction for v2 which i'm basically already planning there will be a v2 ie bigger turbo stuff like that so i just kind of want to see how it pans out if i'm like ah screw the street truck we can just make it rowdy you know then i can do like a holley intake with air to water intercooler and piping and a giant turbo and whatever but if i want to keep it street truck maybe i'll go with the upgraded truck intake manifold and there's different directions but i've got to see what i'm going to actually use the truck for in my mind i'm going to drive it around like every day but will i i don't know so i want to find that out before we go too crazy bench building you know you don't really know what you're going to use something for and what you're going to like and don't like and need and not need till you do it so yeah intake manifolds on enough to close up the ports let's get the uh the pretty stuff on the exhaust manifolds all right now for all we've all been waiting for the items to make the boost and the boost noises and the spoolies and the all the things right so what you know what this little build centered around the turbo stuff so this is a farther speed performance log manifold i love this design super well thought out he started building them like really nice tig welded stainless log manifolds but then he took the design and had it built cast and i mean for me especially a log style manifold you just can't beat a cast manifold one the durability of it two the look i mean it just looks like an oem piece it was a pretty tough decision because this tig welded one looks super nice too and it's just kinda you know but i went with the cast manifold we're gonna have a cast hooker on the other side that's gonna feed over into this boom up to the turbo we've got our wastegate ports so we'll just have to drill one of these out when we decide where we want to put our wastegate put it on a tube so on and so forth we'll figure that out when it's in the truck but that's the manifold and then here is the turbo so this is a vs racing next-gen 78 75 second gen gen 2 there's a lot of them it's a 7875 with a billet wheel so these turbos are really sweet because they're they're super affordable and they make great power um and they've proven to be really reliable so i'm pretty excited to see this i've this is my first time taking it out of the package exteuser wheel we got four inch downpipe t4 flange it's funny because this is honestly a relatively small turbo for this engine this will be really good for our current power goal seven eight hundred we can make 900 on it but one if we start pushing past that and try to get into the four digit numbers we are gonna have to go with a bigger turbo but for now this one will be super responsive super rowdy um good packaging so on and so forth probably wide off at like 2500 rpm maybe even less than that with a six liter but i'm gonna quit jibber-jabbering about it i'm just excited this is my first time taking all this stuff out of the packages and some nice pieces man and then super affordable too like this isn't this isn't fancy crazy like expensive stuff this is actually like really affordable stuff so i'm gonna go ahead and get the manifold on the engine then we can get the turbo on the manifold and take a look at the whole combo [Music] well i had to pull the intake off to uh get a good look at the whole combo without that freaking stock truck intake uglying it up oh it just kills it kills the everything we got going on here but man i'm i'm stoked on this combo i i cannot wait to get this thing in the truck uh that being said we're pretty much wrapped up with the engine built there's really not anything else to do besides put the accessories on and put it in the truck one thing we are waiting on still is transit converter but we can put the engine in the truck and start doing everything else obviously we got some work to do before we can put the engine in the truck because it's a little messy in here 20 years of road grime and and oil and lots of stuff so i'm going to get this cleaned up we got to do the holley terminator integration into the stock chassis harness so we can kind of let the stock ecu think it's running the show and have cruise control and all those functions easily and run the engine actually off the terminator because i i can't go back to running off a stock ecu after living the terminator life it's just it's so much easier so we got that to do we got a pro dash for it we got some more odds and ends but we're cruising right along and it shouldn't be long till we're doing burnouts with this thing barring any major complications and you know we've got trips and i gotta fix the miata and there's always other stuff to do but the engine is ready to go back in which is one of the biggest hurdles so i'm stoked to stick this slug in there started doing freaking burnouts and hearing turbo noises and all the little bits of fab work and oh it's going to be so much fun but for now that's going to be a wrap unfortunately i wish we keep going but we're kind of out of parts and time so that's going to be it for this one hope to see you guys next time but for now that's it why do i always do that thanks for watching thanks for subscribing goodbye

Channel: Taylor Ray

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Length: 27min 28sec (1648 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 07 2021