First gen 3 truck build stage fright
I’ve been working the last almost two-three months straight and have been planning to do this build the entire time from front to back. Stacking up parts throughout all the time I was working and bought a truck right after I got off for the summer. Got a borla muffler, long tube headers, chopocabra with the full head kit/ lifters, melling hp oil pump, injectors, aem wide and, and even bought hp tuners, just trying to give you scope on how deep into this I’ve gotten in a matter of weeks and not a damn thing is installled yet performance wise lmao.
Just been doing repairs to make it sound enough to throw parts at while I fix my sleep schedule, nothing engine-wise all suspension & brake stuff ( it’s a rust bucket I’ve been having to do some grinder intervention ) and I have to paint it & do body work.
Been doing literally nothing but studying the process of tuning with hp tuners inside and out from as found file to smoothing out SD for weeks (which I won’t be doing because I’m NA).
Really to encapsulate all of this I need someone experienced to tell me what order in which to do all of this in. Should I pull an as found file before I start giving it parts? How do I start it for the first time after rebuild and how quickly do I have to tune it before it sends a valve to meet the piston? It’s getting all the ones I have at once it’s really just an exhaust, cam kit, hp oil pump, wideband and full exhaust + 50 lb gm injectors. Kinda realized I’ve overwhelmed myself for my first tuning venture having so many mods I’ve added
Honestly I don’t even care what power it makes anymore I just want to put it together and see it run lol, please send hate
Edit: it’s a 2000 single cab Silverado 5.3 with 0 engine codes except for vapor purge wiring harness or something along those lines I haven’t gotten to yet