About Todd Grasse - FullSizeChevy.com

I run FullSizeChevy.com. I’m a Red Seal journeyman electrician in Red Deer, Alberta, I’ve got five old Chevys in the driveway, and I’ve been on this site since before I owned it.

The trucks

I was wrenching on my first OBS at 15, after I bought my late grandfather’s dark toreador metallic ’98 Z71. That truck ended up with a 0411 swap, a Whipple charger, a marine intake off a boat, headers, e-fans, a built 4L60E and an Escalade cluster. I was on the original FSC forum constantly while I built it — reading other people’s threads, asking the same beginner questions everybody asks, and slowly figuring out which answers were worth trusting.

The five Chevys in the driveway are my collection — and any repair or modification that needs to happen on them will be documented and put out there as such. Real trucks, real problems, real repairs, filmed and written up as they actually happen. The goal is to produce content that is actually helpful — no fluff or filler. You can see some of my work on our YouTube channel. You’ll also find some other cool things there, like antique Massey Harris tractors, Cub Cadets, and a custom 10ft aluminum jet boat.

The electrical side

My day job is the trade. I hold a Red Seal journeyman electrician ticket and I operate as a licensed electrical contractor in Alberta.

Here’s what that actually means, because it’s a Canadian credential and most of the people reading this site are American:

Red Seal is Canada’s national trades certification. It’s earned by examination against a published national occupational standard, after a full apprenticeship, and it’s administered by the Canadian Council of Directors of Apprenticeship. It’s the closest Canadian equivalent to a journeyman electrician’s licence in the US.

It does not licence me to work in the United States, and I don’t do electrical work there. I’m also not a Master Electrician — journeyman is journeyman, and I’m not going to inflate it.

What it means for the wiring content on this site is simple: the person writing it does this for a living, and was examined against a national standard on exactly this math. When I tell you a 12-volt circuit is voltage-drop-limited rather than ampacity-limited over the length of a truck, that’s not something I read on another website.

How I handle the numbers

What goes up here is what I’ve measured, what I’ve installed, and what the physics says. Where a figure comes from a standard or a manufacturer, the source gets named and linked.

Torque specs, fluid capacities and tow ratings are verified against reliable technical sources before publication, and against more than one when the information is unclear. Those numbers have consequences on the ground — the wrong one costs you a part or a knuckle. When a figure matters and I can’t source it properly, I’ll say so rather than fill the gap.

And on the electrical tools specifically: they’re calculators, not permission. They show their assumptions and their formulas on the page. If your device’s manufacturer specifies a wire size or a fuse rating, theirs wins over mine.

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Why the site exists

Like a lot of people, I drifted over to Facebook for build content after the old forum went down — and then watched good information disappear into a feed nobody can search. Threads that used to last for years turned into posts nobody could find a week later, and the same five questions got asked over and over with nobody able to point at a good answer.

So FSC is being rebuilt around the opposite idea: write it once, write it properly, and leave it somewhere people can find it. The forum is where the conversation happens. The articles and the tools are the part that’s supposed to still be useful in five years.

The real goal is preserving this information for the next generation of Chevy truck lovers. These trucks keep getting older, and so do the people who know them best. A lot of what they figured out only exists in somebody’s head, or in a post that’s already unfindable. I bought my grandfather’s ’98 Z71 at 15 with no idea where to start, and what got me through it was other people writing their work down. Doing that properly, and leaving it somewhere it can still be found in twenty years, is the point of this whole thing.

Where to find me

If something on this site is wrong, tell me. How corrections get handled is written down in the editorial policy.

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