To me it's not wasted money, everyone builds chevy dodge and ford's so I wanted to do something different, NA to NA there was not a truck around that could touch mine, being street racing, not drag.
So here is where it is now,
I have a donor engine I got for 600 bux and I had a crank sent to the machine shop to have it machined down 20 thousandths to accept forged rods, this is not a normal setup as the rods for the vk56 are 2500 bux, I wasn't gonna spend 10k on an engine and still have sh*t bearings so we figured out a way to use chevy forged rods which cost 500 for a set of 8, a race bearing for it so we don't need to use stock, move the piston up on the rod to slow it down, compression around 1:1, valves to inconel to keep temps down, the engine will be capable of 1100 hp and 10k rpms but i will be around 600 as the trans will max out at 700 fully rebuilt, Here is a break down of parts I'm using on the truck.
New timing chain, slack guides, chain tensioners, oil pump, all new seals, water pump, head gaskets, timing gears
Nitrous express 90mm plate kit(it has a ls7 90mm tb on it) up to 400 shot(I will never shoot that) progressive controller, purge kit, bottle warmer.
C8 cams from jwt with new springs to allow to go into higher rpms
Trans temp water coolant temp and wideband 02 gauges to monitor
Custom built drop spindles
drop shackles in the rear
Level 10 rebuild trans with bigger trans pan
Custom trans and motor mounts,
There's more I'm sure, when it's done I'll post some vids and pics of it, gotta do break in on engine give it 2k miles or so before I go smashing on it, hopefully first week of december I'll have it back!
Well to make a long story short I broke my trac bar mount when I was on the dyno July 26th with my truck, took it to a local shop and they rewelded it, they also did other things like fry all my electrical components, abs control module, abs pressure sensors tcm/tcs, oil pressure sensors, 02 sensors, best part about it right after they welded it I told them about it said find out everything that's wrong with it, we will take care of it, cool. I plugged my computer in and got some of the codes but was worried not all were coming up so took it to nissan and had them use their can computer and about 50 came up, gave me an estimate of about 1800 bux to fix it but not totally, I had to replace abs control module first then was going to take it back to have it hooked up again, find out what codes were sticking in ecu, so I replaced about 700 worth of parts and was still getting a few codes, so 3 weeks of riding the harley rain or shine the one day i drove the truck thinking i fixed it, nope, it was shifting way off and just not acting like it was suppose to, so sunday on the way home from duty felt a boom in my pedal....this was my worst fear of what happened after.....forgot to add the shop was refusing to fix it, tried to be nice and work with them, nope they said they were not responsible....
