Ferm 6.0 motor question

[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by Skools Out

that's what the tag says and what i was told not 100% sure no. the dealership put a new oil pump in it and replaced the cooling lines even the drysump was replaced. nothing fixed it. the dealership said it needed new main bearings and that would fix it.

There is no 6.0L dry sump engine that I'm aware of either, only the 7.0L LS engine was a dry sump engine. Pull the pan and take a look see at it. Also put up a picture of it as it sounds like you have a truck engine. Not a real big deal as the truck engine can make some real serious HP with the right mods. The only real drawback is the truck engine's iron blocks are HEAVY! I believe they say the iron block weighs about 140-170 pounds more than the aluminum blocked car engines.

[Skools Out]

a friend of mine said to bore it to the 427 motor. he has a 427 out of a 2011 vette in his 57 chevy, but it has a ton of motor work in it too. his dynoed at 863 hp at the rear tires. it's a strong car. it has the 6 speed auto though.

[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by Skools Out

a friend of mine said to bore it to the 427 motor. he has a 427 out of a 2011 vette in his 57 chevy, but it has a ton of motor work in it too. his dynoed at 863 hp at the rear tires. it's a strong car. it has the 6 speed auto though.

Not sure howe far you can bore the iron blocks, but 125 thousands oversized bore probably isn't going to happen. Also keep in mind the 7.0L LS7 is a completely differrent animal all together from teh iron block 6.0L. You need to figure out what you have first as the iron block screams truck engine as only trucks were supposed to ever get iron blocks.

Heres a WIKI link I found that seems to have some good info and mostly correct. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_LS_engine

[RidgeRunner]

Dry sump?? If it is on a crate it should be easy to recognize the dry-sump. Are all of the accessories still on the motor? Including the external pump? Otherwise, I'm thinking truck engine too but who knows. Diamond in the rough?

[Skools Out]

ok found out by running the vin tag on the side of the block. it came out of a 2005 Box truck 4500 series, the miles are right though has 69k. it had ext oil cooler and extra oil cap reservoir with an ext oil pump. it has the reg oil pump internal too odd motor huh. it says the motor rating is 365 Hp and 435 ft tq. guess i have a good base to build a monster.

[RidgeRunner]

Yup, that should make a good starting point.
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