iamdub
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I can haz K5? Pretty please?
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Ilikemtb999
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It’s the smallest of the Buick big blocks, from a 69 GS. I think people say 500 is about max without a girdle. Stock pistons and rod bolts are also weak. By the time you do pistons, rods, cam, etc you’re in it a few grand.
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Ilikemtb999
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I’ve thought about selling it recently.....wife won’t have it though.
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Nice K5. That thing looks clean. I’m bias toward them because I have one that is kicking my butt. I hate dealing with rust so it’s been on the back burner.
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It’s not rust free but it’s not bad considering it’s previous history. Spent time in Alaska, overseas, Oklahoma then went to auction where a friend of a friend bought it. The passenger rocker is mostly gone on the back side and the drivers rear wheel well corner needs replacing. I just got patch panels for it, just need to make room in the garage for it. Also have a full weatherstrip kit and crossover steering to put on. After that it’s pretty much done. I’d like a 4l80 and I still have plans of adapting some 2500hd brakes on it front and rear. Dana 60 front calipers are such a terrible design.
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Well, you're probably right, I've been out of that game for a long long time. Those '68s and '69s had a certain look of class about them, inside and out. One of my uncles had one with the 400, he loved it.
Is that a 6BT 12-valve Cummins I see in there?
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Yes. Has 100 over injectors and I have fabbed up most of the compound setup. Using a 4L80e and np205 behind it.
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That’s some $$$$
I keep going back and forth on doing head gaskets/head studs on my 6.2 and turn up the boost a little to get more hp/be slightly more reliable or just ditch it and throw a 5.3 in it.
I keep going back and forth on doing head gaskets/head studs on my 6.2 and turn up the boost a little to get more hp/be slightly more reliable or just ditch it and throw a 5.3 in it.
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Nice. Sounds like you have a solid plan for it. Makes me want to get back at mine. My frame is completely boxed in, every hole is filled. I have the 60/14, crossover steering and a PSC steering box that’s tapped for hydraulic assist. I’ve already done so much rust repair and panel replacement but it seems the more I dug into it the more work I had to do. I hate body work, that’s why it’s sitting unfortunately. I really need a pole barn for all my projects and parts. Soon I hope. House is going on market this coming February and I’m finding a house with property and pole barn, then it’s back to the K5.
Also had a 91 that I sold 2 years ago. Just too many vehicles.
It was my plow truck and about this time of year I’m kicking myself that I sold it knowing I gonna have to shovel and use snowblower.
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