5.7 vs 6.0 swap towing

I have a 1988 one ton the stock transmission is the turbo 400. I currently live in az and plan on moving to south Georgia would it be better to swap a 6.0 into it or leave the 5.7 I plan on towing a Lexus ls430 to Georgia with me

if it was me and the 350 was not enough I would do a stroker or a big block before I did a 6.0 I would even do a 8.1 before I did a 6.0

5.7 can tow a car on a trailer just fine, that's how both of my current rides arrived at my place.

Komet said:

5.7 can tow a car on a trailer just fine, that's how both of my current rides arrived at my place.

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I concur all of mine are 5.7 and tow with all of them. They perform almost better than my wifes V10 F350.

HotrodZ06 said:

They perform way better than my wifes V10 F350.

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fixed it what a disaster the 6.8l triton v10 is for your sake I hope it is a 2 valve and not a 3 valve

All the trucks we've towed with, except for the '06 Denali (6.0 AWD) were 5.7 powered. Mostly stock engines too. The '81 GMC Sierra was a 305 and we hauled 17 cars on a borrowed car hauler trailer over 4 days. Those cars included a 66 Riviera other fullsize cars. The '90 R2500 Burb hauled Uhaul trailers and a car hauler with a big block 25 series square body Burb on it. Our '78 Sierra towed a 23' travel trailer, a heavy one from the 70s, with no problem to DFW and back, and its only mods were headers and dual exhaust with glass packs, and a Corvette open air cleaner stop the Quadrajet. Rawhide has a Vortec 5.7 with a 4L80E and 4.10 G80 and it tows a Uhaul trailer like it's barely there. Same truck has moved a couple of large bumper pull trailers in the RV park, no problem. Small blocks have a lot of low end torque and that's exactly what you need to tow. The Denali did fine towing, it just gets the max torque at a higher RPM point. And sucks the gas too, worse than when empty.

99xcss4 said:

fixed it what a disaster the 6.8l triton v10 is for your sake I hope it is a 2 valve and not a 3 valve

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Lol almost was including the 1500's with 4l60e and 3.42s, my 2500 with Nv4500 and 3.73's with out tow the F350 while getting better fuel mileage.