Hoooper
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Hayward, CA
Im running stock gauges. They all work except tach. I have the solution for the tach, I have just been too lazy and sidetracked with other projects to program it and install it.
I think you made the right choice using the F body pan. The LS gets block rigidity from the pan, so if you replace the stock pan with a stamped steel pan you are losing some of the rigidity for the motor. As long as you dont plan on bashing the pan into rocks there is not really a downside to the cast pan. Personally I have never hit my stock 4.0L pan on any rocks so I dont see a reason for me to start doing it with my 5.3.
If you get a car intake are you going to swap to an F body water pump with spacers or try to modify the truck water pump outlet to work?
I think you made the right choice using the F body pan. The LS gets block rigidity from the pan, so if you replace the stock pan with a stamped steel pan you are losing some of the rigidity for the motor. As long as you dont plan on bashing the pan into rocks there is not really a downside to the cast pan. Personally I have never hit my stock 4.0L pan on any rocks so I dont see a reason for me to start doing it with my 5.3.
If you get a car intake are you going to swap to an F body water pump with spacers or try to modify the truck water pump outlet to work?