The way it seems to me from your link pig, is that it is a 4.3 but the difference other than the obvious turbo and what not is it came out with the multi-port fuel injection, which the other vortec motors didn't until later years......?....... what did you come up with? Try postin' this over at DS and see if anyone has a more def. answer.....
looks like it comes with diff. pistons, a bigger throtle body, amd other internal, and bolt ons, i think it was the same principle, just now it is updated, and not beefed up?
sorry pig rig but you can't bolt a vortec intake on to a regular tbi 4.3. you have to get vortec heads to put the intake on. i think regular heads are 19 degree heads and vortec heads are 23 degree heads or the opposite of that. also, a typhoon eginge is tune port/direct port since they have an injector per cylinder and they are running lower compression since they have a turbo.
well now you got me thinking
because the engine that I put in last fall is a 91 (non vortec) but the head on the driver side is off my old vortec engine
it runs great but it falls off on the top end
but the casting numbers were the same on all four heads
hot dog chilly dog I'm still developing a problem
I think that engine is tearing it's self apart
"when in dout stick your toes in the carpet tell she makes a mess"