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Old 12-19-2012, 11:29 PM
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Default First time out with my 5.3 forged setup

Finally got to finish my truck up after several months in the making. Setup consist of NA setup with aluminum 5.3 forged, RK custom cam, RK STG 3 243's, Holley's new ram intake, morel lifters, 72# injectors, nick Williams 102mm fly by wire TB, pacesetter long tubes with Y pipe, circle D 5000 Multi disc stall, JR built 4L65E with T-break, 4.56 gears, 29.5x13.5 Mickey Thompson tires, 4 link, qa1's all around. First time out it ran a 11.23 @ 118 MPH with a 1.53 60's. will be changing exhaust and gears out and going for a 10 sec pass. Here is the video of the run. Enjoy.

Here is a picture of the engine bay.
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Video of 11.23 run
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Hell of a truck..
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killer pass...do you by change know the weight of that rocket ship?

Looks like its gotta be making great high rpm power!
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Hell of a truck..
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killer pass...do you by change know the weight of that rocket ship?

Looks like its gotta be making great high rpm power!
Thanks. No I haven't had a chance to weigh the truck but planning on doing so next time out at the track. Hopefully they fixed the damn scale by then. Truck still has AC and full interior other than the racing seats I installed. Haven't taken any weigh off of it other than the leaf springs when I went to the 4 link. I also installed wilwood 4 piston caliper break system all around as well. I'm estimating around 4000-4200 with me in it. Truck dyno to the wheels 480 Hp and 398 TQ on our loaded mustang dyno. I stopped the pull right at 7600 and power was still going up
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480 hp from na 5.3!! wow...so what helps the most with 7000+ rpm power lifters/springs? Or that ram intake?

I wonder what the power curve would look like with a 6.0 under that top end
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Wow thats some good rpm
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Originally Posted by silverz28camaro
480 hp from na 5.3!! wow...so what helps the most with 7000+ rpm power lifters/springs? Or that ram intake?

I wonder what the power curve would look like with a 6.0 under that top end
Running a pretty big cam 247/255 with .700 lift. Compression is at 12.3:1 so with this cam and the head setup combined with that intake runner size it will make crazy power up top. I'm shifting 1st to sec at 7800 and will be going up to 8000. She pulls like a bat out of hell up top. Once done playing with this 5.3 I will be building a 6.0 with similar topend to see how much I can get out of it. I'm sure with this 5.3 I can go 10.80's no problem.
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Badass setup!!Whats the specs on the bottom end build? stock crank with aftermarket rods and pistons??
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Originally Posted by schino
Badass setup!!Whats the specs on the bottom end build? stock crank with aftermarket rods and pistons??
Stock crank with callies rods and wiseco pistons.
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Damn, looks good. Love those shift points.


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