Should we change up the exhaust on this one to make it sound a little more rowdy for the new engine?

as much as i love an LS engine, nothing beats the sound of a big block chevy, by far the best sounding engine of all time. love the build can't wait to see it wedged in that truck

LT, as an engineer I can tell you the extreme level of detail you paid to the dimensioning and tolerances to get your bearing clearances perfect and verified will save you more than the cost of the micrometer and caliper. With the level of horsepower your running, you can’t afford not to.

It's not OCD to check clearances on expensive block,crank,rods,mains etc,its smart. Much cheaper to catch any problems early than eat a bunch of high dollar parts up. I commend you on the block cleaning,most people miss this important thing! When using a micrometer, let the tools acclimate to the shop temps,and when holding it don't wrap your hand around the frame of the mic,the heat from you hand alone can change the readings you get. When you check everything,you know its right in your mind and gives confidence in what you build. Excellent build and appreciate how many details you give on this build.

I Really don't care what color it is, I just want to see a 5000+ lb. pickup run in the 8's. That would be impressive!

Match the color of the engine with the color of the short bed you have. It’d tie the trucks together in a cool way!

I used to build engines of all sizes! Old Cadillac in the 60s that were 535 cu inches. Stuck a billet crank in the 535, made the engine breath, and the stuck it in an off-road road truck!

Great video LT! A person can go old school and read about how this is done orrr, the way I prefer, to watch, listen & ask questions on your channel! Really informative and can't wait to see the results!

thank you LT, your content is always a great watch. loved you on truck tech, keep going sir!

Another great video LT !! Honestly can't wait to see how this monster performs!! My only questions is..... does your HOA harass you about your oil stained drive way?? 😆🤣

I did like the all black motor. Dare to be different glad you are doing the Gen VII block

I've been building and machining engines for 30+ years. I ALWAYS check all piston and bearing clearances plus ring gap. If you want things to work right, you have to make sure they're right the 1st time.

LS Killer, I like the sound of that! I like how you paid attention to detail! Gives you a better piece of.mind. I had to do the same on mine

For the engine color, consider having a metallic. If you want a bright color, yellow goes well with black, or a super-bright blue, or maybe even the iridescent pearl white. Of those 3, that's the one that would pop but still be understated. I'd top 'em off with satin black valve covers with the pearl white for any raised lettering or edges, or go white for the body and black for the raised. No matter what you choose to do, it's gonna rock!

Measure twice cut once. Nice work LT

That satin black engine looked killer

This is going to be one strong motor and for the colors the chevy orange would look good but to be honest I like the way it looks now, if you left it the colors like they are now they it would stand out as soon as the hood is opened. Can't wait to see this run!! Nice work!!

Glad to see the channel grow. Great content, thanks!

I absolutely love watching these builds. You can't go wrong checking clearances. At least you'll sleep better knowing your good. That's too much money not to be sure. Can't wait to see it on the track 👌🏁

On the engine color, the orange-chrome-orange combo looks good (it could also be orange-black-orange), but instead of the regular "chevy orange" do the Stepside orange; it will be more personalized to your trucks. Whatever you decide, this engine's gonna be a beast!!!🤙

No spiders were harmed in the making of this video…only after lol. I like the 572 style of color scheme the best with similar valve covers with correct displacement

That Raylar intake is GORGEOUS, and watching the care you take in assembling this motor makes me think "LT totally deserves that gem." Also, paint the whole thing Oldsmobile Blue just to screw with people.

HEY LT.... "pour and restore" worked great for getting spots and stains out of a customers concrete driveway. Also, dawn dish soap straight on the stains, rubbed in to the stain, then let sit and get rained on / reapplied / powerwashed

The way this or your sleek black looks freaking amazing!

I ran up on an 8.1 out of a generator recently and am planning to build it. Been using a lot of your videos as advice as there’s not a ton of 8.1 info out there. At least when compared to LS and older generation big blocks

Mitchell Stapleton's Cadillac LSX Escalade @Stapleton42 weighs 5,800 lb and it's all wheel drive he's has1800 rear wheel horsepower with a twin turbos Texas Speed 427 and his goal is to run eight seconds too, it runs mid- 9's now. So it's very plausible👍🏻

Black all black 🖤. Easier to keep clean than orange. And I like blacked out trucks.

Go with black and fire engine red for engine color! Maybe the bottom end in black and the top end in red or mix it up! Red valve covers red intake black cylinder heads and red block let alone timing cover etc. Can't wait to see what you decide on brother! ... Or if you win the lottery and make sure that turbo is red anodized! 😁

This brings me back to my teen and young adult years. I spent them with my grandparents on mom's side. Gramps is an old school mechanic so I learned all the old school tricks. I can remember building many engines with him and using tools like these for bearing clearances. We also used plastigauge but as you experienced it was not always accurate. Thankfully we were doing stock style rebuilds of old Ford engines (mostly the FE class) so clearances being off by .001 did not matter in most cases. Need a distributor and carburetor equipped engine tuned? I can do it by ear. Once you adjust a distributor and carb jets enough you learn what sounds are good and bad.

I'd do something wild with the flock color! Full on neon highlighter green or something along those lines. Something almost hard to look at being so bright. That would really set off this Diamond inside the "turd" so to speak. Love this build BTW, and the Copo truck ROCKS!

That was cool watching it go together this far. Definitely the low key satin black look on the motor

LT you doing great dont worry about the haters this is how the real old school engine builders would have done it and it WORKS!!!

I wouldnt consider ocd an issue when building engines🤣🤣 I'd say it more of a benefit

Awesome video, great content! My vote is for a bright color, like the lime green! Pretty sure it adds like 100hp

Got a suburban with an 8.1. This channel helped with that purchase. Love the torque. Use it to pull a trl loaded with tools. Thx LT for inspiration and tech.

Checking bearing clearances isn’t ocd , it’s part of building an engine . Even if it’s been done already it’s always practice to recheck your clearances .

If I remember correctly, you haven’t been spinning the 8.1 engine very high. The 535 should make power to well above 6000, I would think, which should mean an easy 700 hp NA at sea level. That and 15-20 psi of boost puts you at 1500 hp, just as you’ve planned. Just wondering if that changes your gearing at all. If you’re running a 28” tire, that’s about 720 revolutions per mile. At 6000 rpm I think third gear (1:1) should give you about 146 mph, a little low for 8s. Your shortblock could turn faster though…

Love the motor , would love to see it in orange. And how cool would it be to have some custom 535 valve covers that look like the 572

Ol Action Hank's putting in work on this one.

Bright color under the hood all day !

I still don’t understand why you would put all that into an extended cab. It’s so much bigger and heavier! 😂

I subscribe to about 20 channels, more than half are Silverado or LS engine based stuff, this has become my favorite. I never miss a vid 👍

Been running that similar combo for over 10 year's in my chevy truck. Ran a 5.09 at 134mph witha 1.16 60 ft. 450 shot of nitrous. Love those combo's stock block works great

The attention to detail and precision measuring for clearances is so nice to see. I love the vids!

Great video. While your waiting for your valve train be a man and polish that intake. Your OCD will love you for it. Thank you for your time.

Lime green engine would look great with that black exterior! The hulk..

I like how the quality of these videos and the finsih has continued to improve. Music, video, cuts, visuals, etc, etc. 👍👍

I LOVE IT!!!! VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE!!!! GREAT VIDEO AND BUILD!!!! THANKS FOR SHARING!!!

Nice engine build, attention to detail is paramount to peace of mind. Paint your eng black with aluminum parts showing, you can protect the bare aluminum with shark hide metal protectant. Keep up the great content.

I like the 572 look. However, the all blacked out engine with the black truck might be awesome.

Really like how you are building out of your home garage. Keeping it realistic. 💯

All black sounds sick

IMO the satin black is as clean as you can get and looks great, but that you mentioned a lime green I think that would be pretty sick! Like Monster green and black theme would look really cool and unique 👌🏼

Old school color all the way for the win!!

We love these. It's the best of both worlds. L.s. and big block. The gen 7 is the best street rpm engine ever made. Color....keep in mind the heat it will create. The less paint the better the heat can get out. Not black!! Gold color with titanium heat wrap, really looks good! In reality...1500 hp will be achieved with 8lbs of boost. At 15 you will be at 2000.

Building it right the first time!! Excellent

Nice 👍 definitely can't go wrong with chevy orange.

Stoked on this build LT! Old school Chevy orange would be sick

Buying the tools and learning how to make sure it's perfect is nothing to be ashamed about. You need to know it's right and the one time I didn't check the machine shop was accurate it cost me the full rebuild. It spun every bearing within seconds.

Satin Black, all day brother. Stainless steel lines. Can’t beat it!

I have a thing for attention to detail and preparation when it comes to building any motor. You tick all the boxes LT. Can't wait to see the new turbo to suit, Great work.

I like how your paying attention to almost the details I just picked up a 496 and been thinking what type of build I should do with it to

Cool build. $0.02 I wouldn't use WD40 as your final post-wash protective light oil. It actually attracts moisture to itself and will cause everything to rust. Need a heavier oil to protect the surfaces.

Old school chevy orange! Love the old look with new stuff

Blacked out motor would look awesome!

I think you are doing an awesome job on this 8.1, the satin black looks really good in my opinion, great video LT

Your doing great LT never mind the haters. Your doing it the Old school way the engine builders would do it…Red White and Blue!!!! Paint

Old school paint ftw!!!! 🤌👏

Bright green and call it low key lime pie lol. It's gonna be sweet regardless of color choice.

Lawrence, I think a great color would be metalflake ROOTBEER. Go for it !!

Alright, Pat Topolinski approves of this video. 😉 Nice work.

For clean and organized, the Nelson Racing Engines look is sweet.

I like the 572 look but I think the Blacked out would be so dope

BRIGHT RED!!!! build looks awesome! keep up the good work brotha

Your videos are very professional and the editing is fantastic, keep up the good work!

So much of the precision measuring is feel and skill that gives consistent measurements. Props on you for doing it the right way. Plastigauge doesn’t show you the taper or out of round conditions. I would like to see .0025-.0028 on the mains. I like to run the ford Windsors around .003” on the mains and. .0026-.0028” on the rods. Loose is better than tight for racing. Also don’t forget to check the connecting rod clearance on the small end bushing and the wrist pin. You want .0008-.0012”

Awsome to see the truck coming together 👍 can't wait to see people get gapped by the motor they probably haven't heard of 🔥

I hope you have cool neighbors lol. If I was your neighbor you would hate me. I would be standing over your shoulder all the time! Lol Love the content. Thank you for all the videos

I really think this big block deserves aftermarket parts like the LS and I like all black everything but definitely Orange

Blacked out for sure 👍

Paint the block and intake, etc. to match the heads so that everything looks like the matte aluminum color.

Love the build. I think lime green or chevy orange would look awesome

As much as I enjoy meetings with Rod Knock Rodney, I truly hope he passes over your build. Excellent work LT.

I love the satin black motors, such a clean look.

Black looked awesome

Like the build it’s cool don’t see many big blocks in anything anymore !

I like the orange look or maybe a sublime green color

Thank you for thinking outside the block (box).

I like how you brake from tradition and not do the LS, so when painting the engine don’t go with everyone else with black and or orange… Pick something no one would expect. Gun metal, bronze… put some study time into it and see what and how creative you can be. Give your gen7 a reason to be, an LT7 theme. I wish you were close by, I have a 2012 Sierra with 50k miles. It needs LT’s touch with a twin turbo. I’m 60 and have never had a chance to build a toy like you have. I’m completing my 30x40 workshop and hope to build a like you before I get to old. Sorry long winded. Dig your videos buddy, great job.

Satin gunmetal gray, clean and beautiful

Awesome build. I thinking of doing this on a 1980 firebird.

Lime green for the win!

a satin black and gold theme would look SO good in that truck imo. Bright colors look best when you can carry them through the whole build, but when only talking engine bay I think dark colors with bright clean color pops looks more sophisticated

I'm extremely OCD. Mine vice playing and building guitars. Not quite as tight on those tolerances,....😆,....but I to analyze to death things. Very satisfying watching this go together. Love your refusal to compromise.

Never seen the masking tape head gasket replacement trick before😁

Now that’s badass!

I really like the way the 572 looks also!

I'm a Mopar fan, but glad that someone is stepping up their goal with horsepower!

First, I want to thank your wife for supporting you on this adventure, keep up the hard work and 100,000 subscribers are coming soon. I vote to use the Nissan Forklift Orange on the engine. I like that shade of Orange and it's a heavy-duty paint to withstand some abuse. I also like the color green of your welder.

Awesome build. Definitely go bold with the paint color. Something like an anodized color shift like a red to black or a teal to gold would be wild. I wish I would've been more bold when I put my stuff together. I usually stick with chevy orange but when I see the stuff creative stuff being done, I get a little jealous