Tirefryr

The Ryobi tools I've used have been shit.

Parent company is meaningless. Black and Decker owns DeWalt, Porter Cable, Stanley, Facom, and many others. They also make all Craftsman power tools, Makita, Delta, and Hitachi.

YES please!

Off to move some snow. Fuck it.

No idea about the exhaust pattern. You asked about the intake and I know that changed in 96 when they changed to the Vortec heads.

It's been snowing like mad for 24 hours, so this morning all my roads but one were unplowed on the way into work. I turned the traction control off and drive sideways to work on every road but one. It was a FUCKING BLAST!

No, the Vortec heads are different and the Typhoon intake had an integrated intercooler.

20b or death!

What if we actually owe money? Do we get a special discount?

Of course it doesn't help I work in a freezer all day.

I'm so done with this cold and snow. I'm also extremely tired of these idiots that can't drive for shit.

Actually, I was making reference to their current marketing campaign with him.

BTW, that was a planned run-on sentence, and not too superbly executed either. The grammar ninja inside of me is totally disgusted at this point, so I must turn in for the night.

I can't tell you what is easy for you. I don't know your skill level, will power, budget, etc. . . People often get ideas and start builds and they stall when they realize easy is not as easy in reality. Ask me about my F150 that's been sitting since 2010 needing a simple head gasket that turned into a broken valve that turned into an engine swap that turned into thousands of dollars in new parts, that turned into a rusted out cab that was previously rust free, but spending several years in the same spot on dirt exposed to weather and oh yeah, let's not forget work and being a parent override everything else in life then you get sick and your parents are getting older and. . . .

I'm heading out to buy a Lincoln right now.

Honestly, I think they were overpriced for what they were. $10K cheaper and they'd have sold like hot cakes. Just my opinion. Think of it as the blue collar CTS-V. They're ugly, but the performance can not be denied. Of course when you look at it that way, it makes you wonder how Lincoln sells any of their "dressed up" Fords. It must be all Matthew McConaughey. Yes, that's it.

This is a blanket statement though. It's application dependent. We can't just say T4 or T5 or T6, or anything for that matter. We don't have any information on turbine or compressor mapping, cam specs, mounting, etc. We can all do dyno tests and make the results read any way we want. I'm going to assume here that you've seen some where they did basically a swap of a kit from a 4.8 to 5.3 and did pulls on each. All that indicates is the turbine and compressor are not proper for the application (5.3), or was best suited for the 4.8 application.

Yes, my fault for misreading that. I apologize.

An Ecotec can easily drive a T4. Hell that little Chinese 3 cylinder they make could spin one given the proper turbine and header. You know there's no replacement for displacement. Use as large as possible. You make more power on less boost and break less stuff.

You're not running 10s on $500. I'll provide you $500 and a car. Let me know when you have it running 10s. Granted, you can find an engine and a turbo for $500, but that's it.

That means they are not in stock or available for purchase at the moment.

I LOL when I see you type about budget builds. $5K is not a budget build for me.

Way too many variables to make this a valid statement.

The Impala SS is no more and hasn't been for several years now. The car in the CHiPs movie was just a Chevy SS. It is RWD and actually just recently ceased production. It did not sell well. Actually, it was nearly impossible to sell. The Impalas are still FWD, and the V8 cars with the 5.3 used the LS4 and someone indicated on the previous page. It is not like the 5.3 Vortec. The block, intake, and several other things are bespoke to it for FWD use. I think they use a weird starter or mount or something.

Small engine in a small production application. Scale it up to an auto which is driven tens of thousands of miles a year and needs to start every time you turn the key in every condition you can think of every day of the year.