Apparently some cheap harbor freight wire wheels and spray paint can work miracles.

@Str8upstoopid

2 жыл бұрын

Looks top notch my man!! 👍🏻

@Michael-mj8ix

2 жыл бұрын

You are a Vary sick man , in a good sickness to have mad respect keep up the great channel 👍

Always a fan of third gen content. The time you take to balance showing the work being done and the explanations is spot on man. Love the videos, can’t wait for the next one.

I really like that you spend time cleaning and painting rather than just tossing dirty stuff in the car nice work!

Again, your 80s synth music is killer, especially the tune while doing the engine cleanup!! Your car content is cool too👍🏻 Your T/A and Camaro really makes me want a 3rd gen again!!!

@TheFXofRobbRee

2 жыл бұрын

Felt like I was watching a movie from my childhood and he is preparing to go on some epic save the world type mission in that Trans-am. Lol.

how does the 3rd gen have so much more engine room than the 4th gen? I'm jealous! Great work! fun fact: GM had to change the name to AFM because the Department of Defense told them to.

I'm very interested in seeing the header clearance on a gen V. And the tune for the direct injection to run on all 8. I did a LS1 swap in a 86 Trans Am I unfortunately sold on eBay. I'm looking to do a gen V swap in my 88 Formula so all these awesome videos help a fellow 3rd gen guy out!

@andrewlintz9639

2 жыл бұрын

I'm working on my lq4 swap into my 88 GTA and these are really helpful

I'm a GM tech, spray some penetrating oil into the lower section of the injector holes. Let it soak for a couple of hours and they should work out with the pry bars.

@lsXmatt

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks I’ll try that

@michaeldavis3430

2 жыл бұрын

@@lsXmatt Yeah, the tools for the injector rails rarely work. Just be patient and keep working the injectors. I promise they will come out. 👍

@johnstriffler

2 жыл бұрын

Michael Davis. I've used the GM green top engine cleaner. A small amount on each of the injectors and let it soak for an hour or so to soften up the carbon and they come right out.

@michaeldavis3430

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnstriffler I'm going to try that next time, thanks! 😁👍

The valve covers need a deep red Matt LSX logo on them.

@Tiovergudo

2 жыл бұрын

LTX

Thank you for the content you produce, man! I'm learning so much from watching the Camaro and Trans Am vids, and the soundtracks are really cool! Keep up the good work, and God bless!

Please leave those valve covers off. I've never seen a stock engine look soooo good! You did a phenomenal amount of work rehab'ing that baby beast of an engine and it shows. You have literally inspired me to go the same route one day instead of painting an engine in the typical chevy colors, ect. Way to go Matt!

I'm wondering about how well DOD would work in a vehicle a thousand pounds lighter than a Tahoe or a Silverado, with good aerodynamics. Would you consider taking a road trip with the DOD in place to show what kind of economy (I know, totally not the mission of the car) it does over 5-600 miles of limited hooning? I'm thinking you could do between 35-40 mpg at a steady 65-70, with all the power you want any time you want it.

@moemoe48210

2 жыл бұрын

It is when I drove a charger the mds kicks on at 80 my ram barely can keep it 70

@myoneblackfriend3151

Жыл бұрын

Please do this test.

@myoneblackfriend3151

Жыл бұрын

@@moemoe48210 Could your gearing need to be changed? I put a 5.3L in my 1957 truck and Quick Performance asked me how I would use the truck. MPG was the goal - not power. They suggested a 3.5 rear gear since 80 would be the fastest I would go in the truck.

I’ve now binged this entire T/A series in 3 days… love it man!! Inspired me to go pick my TA back up! Can’t wait to get cranking on it!

Ive been watching your vids for a while now and Im totally envious of your ability to do all the work. Even the interior work. Just remarkable. Your vids are a pleasure to watch !

Wow that was awesome I would had find high temperature clear coat paint and painted all that beautiful polish aluminum you clean and polish for long term against aluminum rusting wow beautiful keep them coming .👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Awesome story telling/editing! Thank you for doing this. 👍

Outstanding work / video... My 2 cents on that pass side harness , possibly loom it up tightly and pass it along the manifold passing through the fuel rail then down behind the a.c. compressor. Whatever you do I'm sure will kick ass ✊💯

I feel like I was watching Crockett from Miami Vice prepping his new engine for the big takedown (it was the music - lol)

I think you can spray a hi-temp clear coat on the engine to protect it.

@lsXmatt

2 жыл бұрын

I was going to but didn’t want to risk it yellowing.

Great job on that engine Matt. She looks mint! Wonderful to see another T/A vid.

Nice looking engine Matt. That would look good in my Silverado. Lol

Quite the transformation for that mill. Nice work there Matt. Too bad about those fuel rails. Hopefully some heat will rectify the matter for you. Good work on the wiring too. Cleaned that mess up nicely. The beard trim looks "more gooder" too. LOL

Man I love the progress you have made! It motivates me to get to work on my own projects

Nice job! You rtv applying skills are on point.

That cleaned up engine is gorgeous! Love this channel.

Incredible job Matt!

I had to replace a failed injector on my L83 at 61k miles, took me 2-3 days of intermittent prying to get one side out. That’s just the struggle.

Can’t wait to see it finished.

Enjoying the content. Cant wait to see the finished product! That bird is gonna be sick!

I love watching this stuff, but if you get more of the dancing mullet lol. 25:00 minute mark. You definitely have my wife’s attention too.

Looks awesome! Thanks for the knowledge.

Engine looks great! Editing is on point also.

Matt your videos are freaking awesome. I’m a fan!!

Outstanding content, lsxmat keep up the great work

You make it look so easy. Love the 3rd Gens.

Looking great man!!

Looks great! Nice job!

I came for the T/A video, but I stayed for Matt’s humor.

Im jealous of your meticulous attention to detail. I know it's a gift and a curse but I wish I had the patience. Excellent work as usual.

WoW, the amount of knowledge in the last video and this one is out of this world, i like the clean shaven matt( no homo), the bearded matt was depressed and always grumpy. Id recommend to remove the transmission stock hard lines and run -6 AN, they look better and flow more.

Those lifters suck. My parents 2021 Tahoe broke with 4K miles on it. Ironically I was in the car after my dad picked me up at the airport in Providence and on the ride back to their city in MA the lights lit up the dash like a christmas tree. Lifters went bad and thankfully didn't ruin the engine. It was at the dealer for 3 weeks waiting on new lifters and pushrods.

Awesome LS build

Matt, You have gotten very good at these "build" videos, clear and concise. Like mine, I am VERY curious how you will address the fuel lines as mine was a carb car as well. Thanks

Great job, looks great

Great video, I find myself saving a few of them for later.

Great work and great video construction skills..

That LT looks really good in there! Catch you on the next one.

Hey Matt love the content. I'm about to start an ls swap on my 87 iroc z so the information has been awesome. I just wanted to chime in on removing those injectors. Poor a small amount of GM top engine cleaner (green) onto each injector where it goes into the head and let it soak for an hour or so and use a pry bar to pull the rails and injectors out. That j tool from GM is junk and bends easily. Good luck and look forward to more videos.

Nice job on the cleanup. Pretty cool to see someone else make a gasket from scratch using the oldschool ball peen hammer method. I've done so on things ranging from a Mazda 20B throttle body and turbos in 2013 (Unobtanium, don't ask...lol) to a BMW transmission pan gasket since the OE ones leak as soon as you look at them. My go-to is Fel-Pro 3157 or 3137 for bigger stuff. It compresses quite a bit compared to a paper gasket, so increase your torque about 10%, and use anti-seize, and you'll never have a leak.

Engine looks beautiful, nice job 👍

Matt the car and the progress is awesome! Can’t wait for the next video! I just bought a new aeromotive tank with baffles and 300 liter pump. How do you plan to fuel that engine?

Damn dude! You got a lot done in this vid. Looks great !

Nice work!

This is great Ive been wonder how to get that particular scaling off.

Great content. Youre giving me the confidence to do a L83/l86 swap to my 1931 hot rod. The old warnout 327 sbc has seen better days haha 😄

Great job! Wasn't sure how to address mine thank y'all

Man i wish you do a gbody because you are a blessing and i learn some much and am doing my build in a gbody 6.0 and i want my OG guages to work and save money and you helped

I fabricate those fuel rails at my plant. They are conveyed through a 2000°f braze oven. The joints soldered with metallic braze made out of nichol and copper. The entire process take 1 hr.

Nice work.

You have to love how GM cheaped out on literally everything on those direct injected messes. You went from reusable silicone impregnated aluminum gaskets to just beads of RTV..... And they leak all the time...gee I wonder why lol. With a good tune and the 6L80e I would not be surprised with sub 5 second 0 to 60's. Adding like 3 degrees of ignition timing over stock takes them from feeling lazy to ripping tires in the trucks haha. I like now since the L8T came out in the HD trucks they went away from that goofy water pump to a normal central mount one and utilize a hydraulic power steering pump again. I think all the aftermarket power steering bracket setups get you to install an LS3 waterpump.

Really a nice looking engine when it's all cleaned up

Two words…vapor blasting!

I wish I had the ability to do these types of projects. I want to build an early 2000's camaro build. V6 to ls6.0 but the task is so daunting to an hvac tech.

@jasonhull5712

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a HVAC-R tech and I'm in the process of putting a 2013 LS3 into my 1970 Camaro, there is so much information out there on it that no matter what hiccups you run into someone else has surely been there and probably has a video about it. But it is definitely a huge task. But hopefully it will be worth it !

If you have the interest you can find lt4 blowers for decently cheap. Kinda do a 5.3 lsa vs 5.3 lt4 comparison as well

👍🏾👍🏾 get rid of the DOD ASAP…. bad thing is a cam kit is $1,000 🤦🏾‍♂️ but totally worth it…..

I love the KIX shirt!

I like the coilpack cover, keep it.

I’ll be cool to see how you hook up your C 100 harness to the psi standalone harness

Awesome video

A Lsa supercharger would fit well 👌 lol 😆. Nice work sir. Be safe team !

I have that firehouse shirt! Good job

Trans Am! About time!

That’s an awesome Kix shirt you were wearing.

That engine is popping

Firehouse!! Oh yeah.

Matt I bought the tool to pull fuel injectors and still bent the fuel tube . I soaked them with PB Penetrating. It took me awhile the tool was Absolutely no help! Probably a good three days.

Any 5.3+ id remove afm and dod. For that matter I would do that on any engine

What I noticed on the third gens is Gm used the pink with black stripe wires and bridged them together alot.

You could paint the intake and valve covers to match the color of the trans am would probably look really good

Did you happen to make that ac wire harness for your car? I have all my old wiring for the ac but I’m curious how you wired it for a base map of a how to would be awesome!

Quality.

On LS engines the weight savings of aluminum vs iron is also about 80 pounds

Do you think a smaller idler may have prevented you from grinding the locator off? Or a corvette tensioner?

Just got a 5.3l avalanche wondering what mods you would recommend for both reliability and fuel efficiency?

Nice work on the clean up! looks great. My 5.3 in my 08 GMC has 250K on it. Still has DOD. I really want to find someone local with HP tuners to just turn it off and I will let it live out the rest of its time in truck until it won't run any more. I told myself if the truck hits 250.... Its likely to see 500 with me! The only reason I'd ditch it is for a larger truck if I got a travel trailer or gas prices get so high I snag up cheap 4 banger beater and a open trailer to haul my dirt bikes.

@mitchgriffin

2 жыл бұрын

Well, 9 months later are gas prices high enough that you got a 4 banger? 😂

@Danman1972

2 жыл бұрын

@@mitchgriffin Dam near! I do have a small open trailer, but no beater yet. Keeping my eyes open and looking for a smaller SUV (cheaper). Might end up with a high down and picking up a tote your note SUV, but the are usually pretty beat and expensive. Currently a day ride at the place I like to ride on the dirt bikes cost a full tank and then some in the guzzler. Round trip its 350 mile. 110 bucks for my last tank (at current prices) + entry fee (15 bucks) and 5 hrs of driving for a 4 hour ride. The dirt bike gets premium non-ethonal gas. Thankfully it sips the fuel. Then when I get back the tank is on empty so you can figure another full tank for the week. Its costly! You can see a small beater will pay for its self quickly. That said, I've been riding closer to home at a place I'm not super fond of, but only takes a little over a 1/4 tank or another that cost more and is a little farther out. That one is just over half a tank. The temps are well into the hundreds and with full gear its super hot, so early mornings to beat the heat start at close to 80 degrees if not right at 80 by the time you get in and dressed to ride. I've been pretty busy on the weekends so not a bunch of riding. Will be looking for someone to share so gas that is near me. Buddy has a TDI jetta he pulls a converted jet ski trailer with so I maybe sharing some gas with him and my open trailer, but we live pretty far apart.

Remove the rocker arms and fill the cylinders with Berryman for a day or 2. That will break down and penatrate the carbon that is holding the injectors in.

You forgot to put sealant around the oil pan oil ports.

Man u made that look easy . Ill still fuck it up tho lol

i have a question if you dont mind me askin, do you use blue locktite on the adapter plates that go to the block? i never see people use locktite but i would think that would be something youd wanna use em on . have you or do you sir?

I recommend a drip pan.

So many questions.... Here is a couple .... Power steering plans? Are you able to bypass the freekin RVC for the voltage regulation with that stock alternator?

@lsXmatt

2 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure the rvc won’t be a thing being there is no body control module. For the power steering I’m either going with a hydraulic pump that I’ll mount below the water pump, or an electric volvo unit.

Matt, is it just an optical illusion or does the motor lean to the driver side a little?

What is your opinion on current GM quality?

yeah the vlome solenoids get in the way

Awesome engine but I thought you were going to put a 6.0 in it. What happened to that engine?? Either way that engine will be a huge improvement. Really like the shine of it!!! 😇

@lsXmatt

2 жыл бұрын

The 6.0 went in my Camaro

Where did you get the wire diagram worksheet from?

That’s normal for them injectors not to come out, nope them special tools never work, only low mileage ones will come out with ease, what I highly recommend is soaking them injector bores with a ton of wd-40 for a couple of days or at least over night, make sure you blow out the stuff before you go at it again so it doesn’t fall into the cylinders if your successful

@lsXmatt

2 жыл бұрын

Ok I’ll try that thanks

No to the plastic vovers

Tahoe has rock music Trans am has 80s montage music

What year Trans Am is it and what engine came out of the car ??

Cool shit