howdy from mesa

[bangbangskeetskeet]

Hey ya'll I'm Travis. Im from Mesa, AZ. I drive a 99 GMC ecsb with a 5.3....soon enough it will be an ls1....its pretty sick to find this many people who have similar trucks.....yet none exactly like the next...and can give some advice on what to do and not to do.

T-RAV

[rutroe]

Welcome to the site! Post up some pics when you get a chance.

[txarkitekt]

Whassup mayne--welcome to LS1truck!

Yeah, there are a few of us "Truck Guys" out there...just get ready, cause you are about to start moddin the crap out of your truck!

So, you're doing an LS1..how'd you come across it? Any planned mods for it before you drop it in? I would suggest doing as many mods as you can to to it before you install it...

[bangbangskeetskeet]

Yeah ill try and get some pics up tonight when I get home to my comp...at work now....

As for the LS1...my cousin has a guy "on the inside" at the local chevy dealership and he's getting me an awesome deal on a block, heads, and internals...im really going with the swap cuz my poor baby has damn near 200000 miles on her and she's just tired.
I was lookin at the flex-fuel...better mpg's...but as for mods...the biggest thing im looking at doing would be a totally custom STS twin turbo setup. But other than that just smaller things from the start like maybe an LS6 intake manifold, a mild cam other than things of that nature...not too sure. I mean im dont really know what i can do while keeping it a daily driver with decent mpg's...i drive 40 mi round trip to work on a daily basis. Im some what newer to this wide wide wide world of performance...that's why I joined so I could get people to help me out.

T-RAV

[txarkitekt]

Whatever. We don;t wanna help you out.

J/K man...anyways, I guess since you got you plans for FI in your future, I guess we could eliminate LT headers and a huge, lopey cam. And you are still contemplating the twin STS setup? and even with these mods, you still need some decent mpgs out of it? Hmmm...FI and good mpgs just don't mix. You can do either one or the other.

[thunder550]

Welcome, from another AZ guy! There's a few of us around the Phoenix area, everyone once in a blue moon we get together and hang out or something.

[bangbangskeetskeet]

Whatever. We don;t wanna help you out.

J/K man...anyways, I guess since you got you plans for FI in your future, I guess we could eliminate LT headers and a huge, lopey cam. And you are still contemplating the twin STS setup? and even with these mods, you still need some decent mpgs out of it? Hmmm...FI and good mpgs just don't mix. You can do either one or the other.

Yeah I know...I mean i wouldnt do the twins till i got some little mpg car so i can have my toy
but I do see that you have the pacesetter lt headers...how do you like those??? Im looking into getting a set of them. did you get the painted or the ceramic?

T-RAV
not to be confussed with B-RAD from malibus most wanted.......

[bangbangskeetskeet]

Welcome, from another AZ guy! There's a few of us around the Phoenix area, everyone once in a blue moon we get together and hang out or something.

That would be pretty sick. What part of Phoenix are you from??

T-RAV

[txarkitekt]

Yeah I know...I mean i wouldnt do the twins till i got some little mpg car so i can have my toy

but I do see that you have the pacesetter lt headers...how do you like those??? Im looking into getting a set of them. did you get the painted or the ceramic?

T-RAV
not to be confussed with B-RAD from malibus most wanted.......

Yeah, I did the same as you--I got an Accord 2dr. as a daily driver a couple years ago. It allows me to keep the truck in the garage and let it retain it's name as the "Garage Queen." A lot of people do not agree with the notion of spending thousands of dollars to buy a DD when they could use that to buy gas for their V8. True, it would probably take years to offset the expenditure, but I see it as not only saving gas, but it keeps miles and wear and tear off the truck. To everyone their own...

[size=2]I got the ceramic coated Pacesetters with the 3" ORY. You can find some really good deals on them
http://www.ls1truck.com/forums/racer...l-headers.html
]online. I know that there has been a thread started that talks about finding Pacesetters at the cheapest price. I had 3 bolt flanges welded onto the ends of the collectors of the headers and at the front of the ORY so that if I needed to take them on and off again, it wouldn't be as hard as trying to disconnect them at the joints. After thousands of hot and cold cycles, the exhaust plumbing almost kind of welds itself together, making it a PITA to get off.

[skeet]

welcome to ls1truck!!!