Biggest problem is the bearing caps which deflect under extreme stress and cause the bearing to go. A girdle is a must-have imo for high hp applications. I have a TA Performance girdle on mine. It has load bolts that keep the bearing caps from deflecting.
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OOooooooo do you have a link or part number for that? I'd love to put one on mine.
Wynjammer. It was sort of experimental on my part as well as Al Martin's. lol
I still have it and was considering modding the bracket to fit the LS accessory bracket and throwing it on the Tahoe. I'd have to study the compressor map and the 5.3's airflow dynamics, but the rough idea is that I could get 6-7 psi out of it with the pulley intended for 10 psi on the 4.3. The FlexFuel injectors would easily support it so it'd be a cheap little kick. I almost wanna bolt it up just to hear it.
I was looking at one for mine before finally admitted to myself that if I was going to continue driving as much as I had been, that a bigger vehicle would be a good idea. A Focus had pulled out in front of me at an intersection, and to quote Eminem, by the skin on my teeth/hair on my nuts I avoided the accident (and
of course the dash cam, while it was recording, the SD card was screwed up and i didn't have footage). I was also looking at the bigger injectors they have. That said, I
love how much better the LS platform is than the Vortec platform, just from an architecture standpoint! 6 bolt mains! No more distributors! Plastic intake manifolds rather than metal! Intake air temps within 3 or 4 degrees of outside air instead of 20+ with the intake on the s10!
