Have a Local Yokel Resleeve My LS1?
09-22-2004 | 10:01 PM
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Have a Local Yokel Resleeve My LS1?
Are all LS1 blocks all aluminum? I was talking with my local engine builder about resleeving an LS1 using Darton's M.I.D Sleeve kit and I mentioned that the LS1 was an all aluminum block. He asked if I was sure that it was all aluminum. I told him I was, but I'm just checking.
Would you guys trust a shop that had never done this procedure to an LT1 or LS1? He has done it 1000 times to regular SBCs, but he said he would do some research before working on my LS1. However, he said that if it were an all aluminum block the work would be very easy.
All the circle track guys love him. He built me a budget 383 and it was bad ***. Darton said that any machine shop could do it easily. So, I'm thinking I'll have him do it rather than some of the "experts" that I have found on the Internet if it will save me money.
You see, I can’t afford to make the shortblock all at once, and I know he wouldn’t mind me paying over a long period of time on a broken schedule. I can get the block and the kit, then the money to have him start on it, all within a few months from now. The rest will have to come one piece at a time until I have the shortblock.
Of course, I still need to find my black ram air T/A for under $14K...
Would you guys trust a shop that had never done this procedure to an LT1 or LS1? He has done it 1000 times to regular SBCs, but he said he would do some research before working on my LS1. However, he said that if it were an all aluminum block the work would be very easy.
All the circle track guys love him. He built me a budget 383 and it was bad ***. Darton said that any machine shop could do it easily. So, I'm thinking I'll have him do it rather than some of the "experts" that I have found on the Internet if it will save me money.
You see, I can’t afford to make the shortblock all at once, and I know he wouldn’t mind me paying over a long period of time on a broken schedule. I can get the block and the kit, then the money to have him start on it, all within a few months from now. The rest will have to come one piece at a time until I have the shortblock.
Of course, I still need to find my black ram air T/A for under $14K...
09-23-2004 | 12:38 AM
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Re: Have a Local Yokel Resleeve My LS1?
Circle track builder?
Then he's probably had a fair share of experience sleeving other aluminum blocks. Nothing so out of the ordinary about the LS1 in this regard.
-Mindgame
Then he's probably had a fair share of experience sleeving other aluminum blocks. Nothing so out of the ordinary about the LS1 in this regard.
-Mindgame
09-23-2004 | 01:09 AM
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Re: Have a Local Yokel Resleeve My LS1?
Was this guy just being a little pessimistic then you think?
He doesn't have a CNC machine. I thought CNC was just for heads anyway?
Unless your engine builder has a CNC machine, I wouldn't trust it. All of the LS-1 motors are aluminum, but they have iron sleeves. The Darton MID set-up is a very tedious process. It has been said by the man who helped design the kit, that the process needs to be done in a controlled climate and all in the same time frame. Personally, you should just save your dough and by the block already sleeved from MTI or one of the other vendors who has done the process many times. I think if your engine builder reads the instructions, he will tell you the same.
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