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5.3L N 2 2004 2dr Blazer Ls Updated 01/10/2023

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2004 Chevy Blazer Ls 2dr
. I am putting a 5.3L (L59) from a 03 GMC Yukon drive by wire with the summit racing Pistons Chevy performance head gaskets and 243 heads Mill down to 62 CC my compression will be 10.6.1 CR. Should work well with the 2004 LS6 Corvette camshaft I'm going to be using. And a 2006 4L60E C/N 6CPD C-Police Truck transmission from a retired NYPD fleet Chevrolet Tahoe.

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Parts list.
5.3L L59 from 2003 GMC Yukon SLT.
159K Miles on it when pulled.
New GM Performance Camshaft from 2004 LS6 Corvette P/N 12565308.
Gen 3 243 64cc Heads milled down to 62cc.
DELPHI 12613412 50lb Ev6 injectors.
Chevrolet Performance Head Gaskets -12575329 Compressed Thickness 0.052 in.
Chevrolet performance valve springs P/N 19420455.
Brian Tooley Racing Rocker Arm Trunnion Upgrade Kit BTRTK001NB.
Gen IV Rods P/N 19209286.
ARP 134-3609 Performance Series Cylinder Head Bolt Kit.
ARP 134-6006 Connecting Rod Stud Kit.
Current performance Motor mounts & Blazer 2WD transmission crossmember RCS10B-700 .
GM 302-1 muscle oil pan
GM PERFORMANCE Dipstick Tube P/N 12570787
GM PERFORMANCE Dipstick P/N 12570788
Holly Blackheart
exhaust manifold P/N 7122 30 26 HKR.
2006 C/N 6CPD C-Police Truck 4L60e transmission from a retired NYPD fleet Chevrolet Tahoe with TransGo shift kit HD-GM92 TMBX torque converter for now.
Also with Sonnax heavy duty 3-4 clutch plate kit with 7 clutch pack I'm using Raybestos GPZ105 clutch set and upgraded to AC-Delco P/N (24241244) rear heavy duty 5 - pinion planetary and I order a Sonnax 77284-K front six pinion planetary it will change first and second gear ratio. First Gear Ratio: 2.84: 1, Second Gear Ratio: 1.55:1.

Holly Blackhart AC evaporator side cover P/N 71223028HKR.
Speedway motors 4130 chromoly steel Upper Control Arm P/N 91605012
LS1 Camaro / GTO water pump with LS1 Camaro / GTO harmonic balancer. With modified alternator / power steering bracket to line up with GTO harmonic balancer and water pump.
Melling M295HV High Volume Oil Pump with 60 PSI spring.
Melling BD417-DBRKT - Melling Timing Chain Dampener Bracket
Dirty Dingo DD-LS-AC-LM-CMV lower passenger side mount A/C bracket kit with Sanden SD7B10 mini compressor.
Quantum-340lph-direct-drop-in-performance-fuel-pump-assembly for 2dr 2wd Blazer P/N QFS-A822HV.
AEM
(30-4110) UEGO Air/Fuel Ratio Gauge
Summit Racing SUM-326943780-2F Forged Pistons + 2cc dome Bore 3.780.
My compression will be 10.6.1 CR.

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Suspension
Front
Belltech spindles P/N.2102 and 2/3-in drop springs P/N.23228.
Rear
Belltech 3-in drop leaf springs P/N.5964. with 1-in lowering block with2 Degree Taper P/N 6002.
Sitting on Vision-Torque 20x8.5 & 235/35/R20 Tires.
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I thought the drive by wire was going to be hard I'm so wrong that was the easiest part so far power ground and two serial data wires. I guess I'm teaching myself a lesson decided to make my own harness and so far it's not fun.
I would think on an 04 since your already wired for a P59 PCM (which is the same as an 0411 just a tad faster) that about all you'd need to do is rework your injector and coil wiring. All the other sensors are nearly the same. KS will need another wire. Just remove the old KS wiring. Might need to extend a few others. then have your PCM programmed for your engine. I had Brendan at lt1swap.com do mine. He was charging $75. He can add fans, and delete what you want.
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I built my own for a 99. Those had the black box PCMs. It was a big project. I found I was referring to the 03-04 S10 wiring diagram a lot. If you use the LS harness to start with everything will be on the wrong side of the truck. I'm actually thinking of redoing mine by getting an 03-04 S10 harness to start with. To clean it up a bit.
I started out soldering all my splices, but about mid way I bought a pair of serious crimping pliers and crimped most of the rest of it. You need a pair of pliers where the crimp is done on the opposite side of the pivot as the handles. The old standby cutting, stripping crimping pliers don't get it. A bunch of good marine grade 3 to1 shrink wrap with the adhesive/sealant inside both weatherproofs the splice and strengthens it. About wore out my HF heat gun.
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I would think on an 04 since your already wired for a P59 PCM (which is the same as an 0411 just a tad faster) that about all you'd need to do is rework your injector and coil wiring. All the other sensors are nearly the same. KS will need another wire. Just remove the old KS wiring. Might need to extend a few others. then have your PCM programmed for your engine. I had Brendan at lt1swap.com do mine. He was charging $75. He can add fans, and delete what you want.
Check out his website. LT1 Swap
I built my own for a 99. Those had the black box PCMs. It was a big project. I found I was referring to the 03-04 S10 wiring diagram a lot. If you use the LS harness to start with everything will be on the wrong side of the truck. I'm actually thinking of redoing mine by getting an 03-04 S10 harness to start with. To clean it up a bit.
I started out soldering all my splices, but about mid way I bought a pair of serious crimping pliers and crimped most of the rest of it. You need a pair of pliers where the crimp is done on the opposite side of the pivot as the handles. The old standby cutting, stripping crimping pliers don't get it. A bunch of good marine grade 3 to1 shrink wrap with the adhesive/sealant inside both weatherproofs the splice and strengthens it. About wore out my HF heat gun.
Yes I'm running the p59 PCM I'm using one out of a 05 Chevy avalanche (flex fuel) And I also using HP tuners. I am using a eBay swap harness as my base to start with since it's pretty much set up for passenger side installation. Only thing nice about it, It has most of the plugs I need but China really needs to pay those 8-year-old kids more to make them better more then half of the pins were wired wrong. Example the two front O2 sensors were wired to ignition power not to the PCM so the heaters would have been on all the time when the vehicle was running. Why it's such a pain for me on this is because I am tucking it along the firewall up by the original OEM harness give it a nice neat look instead of just stringing it behind the motor and adding all the sensors that are missing from that swap harness plus cleaning up the donor harness as I'm going along. I've been doing automotive wiring since 1988 in the car audio video security & GPS field. I guess I developed a little bit of OCD over the 30+ years making my wiring look OEM and blending to the vehicle like I was not even there.
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Still working on wiring harness just added second speed sensor wiring to harness for the eventual changeover to a 4l80e down the road. So when I do put a 4l80e in wiring will be at the bottom of the worry list. Also just ordered the male side of the cruise control plug for my Blazer so I don't have to cut the plug to connect my cruise control to the Tac module. Trying to do all plug and Play.
You don't use your old cruise control. Your remove it. The 4 wires from the column plug into the TAC and the DBW does the job of the Cruise control. I put the TAC where the CC was on the firewall. I did add a Metri-Pack 4 pin connector into the 4 wires on the engine side of the firewall so I could remove the TAC w/o unpinning those wires from TAC. The ends on them would have just snapped into the TAC because the terminals used on the TAC and old CC are the same style.
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You don't use your old cruise control. Your remove it. The 4 wires from the column plug into the TAC and the DBW does the job of the Cruise control. I put the TAC where the CC was on the firewall. I did add a Metri-Pack 4 pin connector into the 4 wires on the engine side of the firewall so I could remove the TAC w/o unpinning those wires from TAC. The ends on them would have just snapped into the TAC because the terminals used on the TAC and old CC are the same style.
I'm not using the old cruise control I'm just plugging into the wiring. I found the mail side plug for I don't have to cut that one off. The four wires I need are in that plug.

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Just pick a set of Delphi 12613412 50lb @ 58psi injectors. I was going to run the 36lb flex fuel injectors that came with the p-59 But these Delphi 50lb injectors were too good of a deal to pass up. I picked up the whole intake with injectors and fuel rail at my local U pull it for just under a hundred bucks. It came from a 2020 Express 2500 the intake of the square port so I sell that on EBay and make some money back. Make it an even better deal for the injectors.
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Update. 04/23/22
2004 Chevy Blazer Ls 2dr
. I am putting a 5.3L (L59) from a 03 GMC Yukon drive by wire with 4L60E . So far have parts on order from current performance and Holly just waiting for them to come in so I can start fitting the 5.3 into the Blazer . With the summit racing Pistons Chevy performance head gaskets and 243 heads Mill down to 62 CC my compression will be 10.6.1 CR. Should work well with the 2004 LS6 Corvette camshaft I'm going to be using.

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Parts list.
5.3L L59 from 2003 GMC Yukon SLT.
159K Miles on it when pulled.
New GM Performance Camshaft from 2004 LS6 Corvette P/N 12565308.
Gen 3 243 64cc Heads milled down to 62cc.
DELPHI 12613412 50lb Ev6 injectors.
Chevrolet Performance Head Gaskets -12575329 Compressed Thickness 0.052 in.
Chevrolet performance valve springs P/N 19420455.
Brian Tooley Racing Rocker Arm Trunnion Upgrade Kit BTRTK001NB.
Gen IV Rods P/N 12607475.
ARP 134-3609 Performance Series Cylinder Head Bolt Kit.
ARP 134-6006 Connecting Rod Stud Kit.
Current performance Motor mounts & Blazer 2WD transmission crossmember RCS10B-700 .
GM 302-1 muscle oil pan
GM PERFORMANCE Dipstick Tube P/N 12570787
GM PERFORMANCE Dipstick P/N 12570788
Holly Blackheart
exhaust manifold P/N 7122 30 26 HKR.
Holly Blackhart
AC evaporator side cover P/N 71223028HKR.
2005 4L60e with TransGo shift kit. HD-GM92 TMBX torque converter
LS1 Camaro / GTO water pump with LS1 Camaro / GTO harmonic balancer. With modified alternator / power steering bracket to line up with GTO harmonic balancer and water pump.
Melling M295HV High Volume Oil Pump with 60 PSI spring.
Melling BD417-DBRKT - Melling Timing Chain Dampener Bracket
Dirty Dingo DD-LS-AC-LM-CMV lower passenger side mount A/C bracket kit with Sanden SD7B10 mini compressor.
Quantum-340lph-direct-drop-in-performance-fuel-pump-assembly for 2dr 2wd Blazer P/N QFS-A822HV.
AEM
(30-4110) UEGO Air/Fuel Ratio Gauge
Summit Racing SUM-326943780-2F Forged Pistons + 2cc dome Bore 3.780.
My compression will be 10.6.1 CR.
And new vortec cover and retainer for the truck intake since the one from the Yukon was missing.
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Suspension
Front
Belltech spindles P/N.2102 and 2/3-in drop springs P/N.23228.
Rear
Belltech 3-in drop leaf springs P/N.5964. with 1-in lowering block with2 Degree Taper P/N 6002.
Sitting on Vision-Torque 20x8.5 & 235/35/R20 Tires.
Ya, never keep track of what any mod costs or how long it takes . You'll only scare yourself and others from attempting or finishing any similar. Plus family members won't be kind either . Jus say not much and not long when axed.
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A cousin asked me $$ not to long ago. I asked him how much his truck payment was... He said $600 a month, why?
I said your 5 year old used truck is $7200 a year for 5 years plus insurance, tabs & etc. Mine is fully funded with a new motor, transmission, rear end, brakes, tires, wheels, suspension & fresh paint for 9K, insurance is $42 month.
He said not bad when you put it that way!! When do I get a ride?? I said as soon as your son gets the paint work done & I can put it together. How about you call him and stoke the fire!!!
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Working with relatives can be such fun. Asked my son in law if he and his son could help me last weekend to get som heavy timbers across a creek for building an ATV bridge. He said sure. They showed up at 6 AM Sat already to deer hunt the entire weekend.
Actually did get it done. Both my son in law and my grandson are twice my size, so it didn't take long.
They didn't see any deer so Monday I emailed them a pic of the 10 point I've been watching. A big old mature buck. Might have to dust off my bow.
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Ya, never keep track of what any mod costs or how long it takes . You'll only scare yourself and others from attempting or finishing any similar. Plus family members won't be kind either . Jus say not much and not long when axed.
I'm not keeping track of how much I'm spending I know I said it somewhere in this thread it's better that way. Just looking forward to getting it done. But I'm glad I picked up these injectors because I'm going to be running e85. I know I won't run out of injectors on E85 and it will keep the injector duty cycle low.
Just ordered a complete cathedral port Trailblazer SS intake manifold when it comes in a post some pictures.
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Just ordered a complete cathedral port Trailblazer SS intake manifold when it comes in a post some pictures.
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I was bored so I decided to browse around good old eBay and found a complete TrailBlazer SS intake. Picked it up for $275 shipped.

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I was bored so I decided to browse around good old eBay and found a complete TrailBlazer SS intake. Picked it up for $275 shipped.

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That's what I did to my purge valve set up. I wanted that hose set up on yours but couldn't find it and didn't want to wait on it.
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That's what I did to my purge valve set up. I wanted that hose set up on yours but couldn't find it and didn't want to wait on it.
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Here you go, purge valve hoes GM 12574897

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What is the part number to your top radiator hose that you are using?

I decided to go with the trailblazer SS intake because I'm running the LS6 Corvette Cam with the 243 heads with the higher compression pistons. I saw a video put out by SDPC where they did a test between the standard truck intake and the trailblazer SS. The trailblazer SS had a gain of 20+ horsepower on a stock with cam LM4 5.3L.

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Here you go, purge valve hoes GM 12574897

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What is the part number to your top radiator hose that you are using?

I decided to go with the trailblazer SS intake because I'm running the LS6 Corvette Cam with the 243 heads with the higher compression pistons. I saw a video put out by SDPC where they did a test between the standard truck intake and the trailblazer SS. The trailblazer SS had a gain of 20+ horsepower on a stock with cam LM4 5.3L.

I used a Dayco 71994 upper hose for 2000 Neon. I opted to not add any additional low end torque or hp and just kept the OE 2004m TB intake. A 250-300HP improvement over the stock 110 4-banger will be plenty.
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I used a Dayco 71994 upper hose for 2000 Neon. I opted to not add any additional low end torque or hp and just kept the OE 2004m TB intake. A 250-300HP improvement over the stock 110 4-banger will be plenty.
I decided to use the LS6 Corvette Cam because it has less torque but excellent top end. With my blazer being such a short wheelbase some loss of torque would not really matter. That's why I wanted the trailblazer SS intake to help with the top end. Hoping to get everything done and running by March or April next year because I really want to do Rocky mountain race week. Not trying to win anything, just going to have some fun but I don't want to be the turtle at the track either.
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I decided to go with a LQ9 cam so I would not loose the bottom-end torque but gain some hp. My objective is more of a daily driver. I picked up this cam from a guy on market place.He had bought a new LQ9 and upgraded to an after market cam. So the cam was basically just a breakin hrs cam. It came with lifters seals all for $20 plus shipping.
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