Still curious as I now have a blown head gasket in my original motor. I do have a spare complete motor (minus turbo) with a cracked piston, and a spare block with messed up main caps. Obviously replacing with a complete LBZ or long block LBZ would be "easiest", but I'm willing to be guinea pig as the L5P shortblock should exceed ALL my needs (stock turbo) utilizing my top end with head studs and a few custom parts to mate them.
I'm willing to be a guinea pig over the winter (start lining up parts now) if those "in the know" think it can be done, to see if a L5P shortblock can be used as a replacement for earlier engines (in my case an LBZ).
The things I've come up with for hurdles that should be easily fixed with people like Guy and ProFab and others:
Longer pushrods due to increased deck height, unless lifters have changed too (should be easy when lengths are known and compared)
Modified Y bridge due to the taller deck height (or spacers like we used on tall deck BBC's)
CP3 hard line to rail as rail will sit higher and farther out (not sure if there is enough flexibility of the stock one)
Rail to rail line (can't remember if it's a hard line or not)...
Verifying LBZ CP3 will work within the L5P block???
and the hardest would be getting the reluctor to work as it's in the rear of the block vs front and not sure of tooth count/orientation on L5P (??tooth) vs LBZ (58 tooth). Not sure of connector differences or what if anything needs to be done physically to make it work.
thoughts??
Does anyone know the tooth count on L5P reluctor?
Does anyone know if the reluctor connector is the same or not as on previous models?
