Assembling the 5.3 + first start with the TSP CHOPACABRA cam in my Silverado!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มี.ค. 2023
- It’s finally time to re-assemble my 230k mile 5.3 and get it back in the truck! Stay till the end to hear how the chopacabra cam from Texas speed sound’s through those shiny new speed engineering headers! Hope you enjoy!
PARTS LIST
Texas speed chopacabra camshaft
Speed engineering shorty headers
Comp cams lifters
OEM intake
All new everything else - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
This series has been exactly right. Nothing beats nasty-assed cateye chopping beautiful exhaust into the world.
Glad someone thinks like me!
From watching you get this truck in highschool and seeing how much love and care you’ve put into this truck I wouldn’t expect anything less. It’s nasty brotha, congrats
Thank you bro! That means a lot
Hell yes harley! I’m proud of you for taking that on and finishing it!
Atta boy! It keeps getting better and better. Ur the man harley
I wish I knew someone I could trust to do this for me. I have a 2007 1500 classic LT 4x4 with a 4.8l. It has 213,000 miles on it and its starting to struggle. My wife bought it for me in 2008 from Carmax with 14,000 on it for $15,000. It looked like it had just came off the assembly line. Carmax did a great job on the detail. Not a speck of dust or oil anywhere. Im looking at a 2023 GMC for $60,000 but id rather put some of that money into rebuilding like what you. Either way love what you did for her.
Thank you sir! Yeah it’s hard to find a shop you can trust. That’s why I decided to do it. Definitely sounds like you have one worth keeping around
You can do it yourself ! It’s not that hard. Tons of videos on “how to install” don’t be a pussy and do it
Beautiful sound
Dude I’m following you because of you music. Finally something nice playing 👊🏻
I assume you mean the bizkit🥹 hell yeah man thank you!
Nice work gentleman!
sick ride
subscribed homie, keep it up!! its funny- I looked up how to fix low oil pressure-bam there you were. I looked up how to pull the engine- bam there you were with the same train of thought haha!!!
Haha thank you! I love that😂😂
Great bud good job
Yesssir I Gotta Make This Happen Asap💪🏼💪🏼
Fuking sweet. Doing mine this weekend💪💪
Hell yeah!😎
What are the Torque specs on a 6.0 lq4 try to do my own cam swap push rod spring Lifters
Clears gas mirrors would looks so good
It’s got clears now😎 good call, way cleaner
Did you consider rings and a hone job on the cylinders with that many miles? How did bottom end bearings look?
I didn’t even consider it. Even though I know I should’ve done it. Cam bearings looked really good. Didn’t even look at the bottom end. Just closed my eyes and sent it. It’s got 12k miles on it running better than ever👍🏻
Mint
bro i love your truck i have the stage 2 cam with longtubes on my lifted silverado . we should definitly do truck pics and what not if your close
Appreciate it man!! I’m in central Illinois where ya at?
@harleystillwell7519 I love by the old Chicago bears training grounds but ya I got a 6nch lift on 35s and they would look sick together
Got a 2007 5.3 Tahoe I’m doing this right now. How will I know if I should mess with my rings and pistons?? It wasent smoking before I tore it down
Mine has 230k when I pulled it. I didn’t touch any bearings and left the pistons in and everything’s great. Mine wasn’t smoking either so I just took the risk. You could pull a bearing cap off the crankshaft and inspect them and look for deep scoring on the piston walls. Other than that I’m not sure what else you could do. You could do a compression test if you wanted too I guess that would tell you
Hey man currently putting this cam in my lq4, were you happy with the mail order tune? Did you have to send it back for touch ups at all?
I was happy enough I guess haha, the truck runs great and hasn’t given my any problems but make sure you check the box to lower the temp to turn your fans on if you have electric fans. I didn’t know what that meant so my fans don’t come out till 225 and the truck is heat soaked by then that’s way too hot. And if I want it changed I have to pay and send it all the way back to him. But the tune itself has been great
Did you need to change the valve springs or can you run them with stock springs???
Yes sir they came with the came though. I believe they were LS6 beehive springs?
Dude that sounds insane. What was the cost for machining the heads and for the parts you got into the rebuild. Looking to do similiar on my 04 5.3. Thnks
I’ll have a full video out soon about it! I saved every receipt and am adding everything up👍🏻 I can tell you right now I was less than 2k into it
What lift cam?
those 37's gotta be mega heavy... with stock gears its gotta be a big difference and hard to turn those giant meats
Yes definitely and my truck has 3.42s not 3.73s😂 pulling a trailer 70 mph down the interstate on a hot day actually had the truck running way to hot. It’s that bad
Planning on doing the same cam kit on my 09 Silverado... Yours looks and sounds AWSOME Man!! How maney miles on the truck when you did this to it?? Jus wundering if I shud with 181k, still runs great an engine is strong, i take great care of it, I'm thinking it will fresh'n it up and miles wont matter but not sure? Thoughts... Jon
You’re 100% correct. My truck had 230k when I pulled the motor out. It now has 240k with the cam and everything and it freshened it up a lot. The thing runs like a new motor even though my block and pistons and bearings all have 240k😂
I think your truck has a single bolt cam. I did a cam on my nephews 2010 and it did. I highly recommend you spend a little extra and get a 3 bolt cam conversion kit when you do it. It’s worth it. It took me 2 days to line up that stupid single bolt cam with the dowel pin. Just look into it!
@@harleystillwell7519 Will do thanks for answering, and I seen urs had 230k on it so I'm feeling good about it. I've watched a ton of videos on the 5.3 looks pretty strait forward and I like that chupacabra kit for the $ and do the DOD AFM delete, right now I've got a Diablo obd chip plugged in so it stays in V8 mode RC leveling shocks n N3s and RC intake.. has better throttle response but cant wait to here it Chopp'n. Work in progress. Thnkx and Again Sick Truck Man!!
No problem! Good luck and have fun it’s worth it in the end
How does it tow? Wanting to cam my truck just worried about pulling a car trailer
About the same as stock honestly. My truck has 3.42 gears so it always has sucked towing to be honest. And after the tuner messed with my trans it feels a little worse. But I pull a trailer multiple times a week and it’s not a huge change by any means!
Did you have to change the stall?
No I didn’t, the cam is supposed to be factory converted friendly so I left it and it’s perfect honestly
What’s the final verdict on the oil pressure
Oil pick up tube O-ring fell apart in my hands
What's ur head size
Can you run stock push rods?
Yes. I ran stock
How much did it cost to rebuild the engine
I have a whole going through everything check it out👍🏻 it was like 2k ish
Can I do this to a suburban 2005?
Absolutely! Everything will be exactly the same as my Silverado
What lift ya running ???
3 inch body lift, and a 6 inch rough country set as low as possible on the bumpstops so it’s at 4 inches
What’s the music @3:27 ???
Limp bizkit
that f*cker choppin
How much for tune?
$300 from mail order tuner
Swear I could hear a lifter tick or something in the beginning of the video when it first started. 😢
Yeah once they pumped up it was gone
Take the tow mirrors off and it will look 10x better
All hear is tapping lifters
Nice
Doing my first LS rebuild stacking the parts needed now, last one is the same cam you have..great video.
@cdshawnsshop
nasty
Nice video but all that work and u did not replace piston rings and rod bearings 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲
Yeah yeah I agree it wasn’t my best idea😂 12k miles and she’s still happy just trying not to think about it
@@harleystillwell7519 i did a similar but full rebuild on my 5.3 , un running nice and can tow uphills my 24ft boat but it has a little oil consumption . I will make some test later to see whats was wrong with the rebuild.
Absolutely sick man! 🫡 Hudson putting in the hours 🤝