It does pretty well, as long as I don't over-drive it.
My name is Matt, here at the tenth anniversary of LS Fest.
This is a '68 C10, step side obviously, got an LS1 from a '02 Camaro but it's got a set
of forged pistons, AFR heads, custom-built cam, Holley EFI system, pushing 530 horse,
475 torque.
It does pretty well, as long as I don't over-drive it.
I bought the truck in May of 2000, I bought it in Knoxville, Tennessee and bought it with
a 6 cylinder, black with a bright red interior, almost orange interior, it was pretty bad,
but I drove the truck that way for about a year, a daily driver, and then after about
a year I pulled the 6 cylinder out and put just a stock 350 in and drove it with the
350 in it for a while, and then in 2012, I blew up the engine, so I said, well I got
to do something, might as well go LS and I found this LS1, found it off a guy for $1000
for 40,000 mile original engine so I said yeah, I've got to jump on that so I put the
LS1 in it, at the time I carbureted it, just kind of went clean and simple with it, put
a carburetor in it, 700 transmission and drove it for a while and started autocrossing and
I thought this is where it's at.
I'm from East Tennessee and we have a lot of nice curvy backroads so the spirt of curving
and driving, that's just where it's at, so I'm kind of used to it, kind of my thing,
the straight-line stuff, I did it for a while and it's pretty fun, but once I hit my first
autocross I said that's where it's at.
This is what I want to do, this is the stuff, so yeah, that's where I've geared, that's
where I went with it.
If we stopped working on it, there's a problem.
I finally got it to where it's pretty dependable, pretty easy to drive, it's actually, it's
got the factory ECM, but it's got some Holley EFI components on it, got the single plane
intake with the fuel rails, 4150 throttle body, I'll probably look into changing to
the Holley ECM, probably the Dominator.
I carbureted it before and I loved the way that it looked carbureted so I thought that
if I go EFI I might as well keep the same look and keep the old school look, just update
it.
Definitely better throttle response seems to hold RPMs better.
Unfortunately, I had to miss out, I didn't get to do the drag racing part last year and
in the process with the weather and a lot of stuff going on, I missed the speed stop
challenge as well so as long as Hurricane Dorian stays away we should have everything
covered.