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Old 05-18-2023, 02:13 AM   #3
jeepmor
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Originally Posted by Rex1585 View Post
It totally depends on your goals or plans.

Are you tracking the car?
Do you have any rules that you need to abide by?
Is this more of a fun street car?


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Not tracking, just commuting, but want more and looking at the spend outlay pretty closely being I have to get my car back on the road.

Rules, I live in smog country, pretty sure that's a yes.

Yes, still a fun street car. LS3/T56 would be my top level entry, namely for aluminum block and the transmission. I'd prefer higher winding engine to match the current car rev range like a 5.3, but it becomes a big mix of parts after that. Prefer an aluminum short block over an iron one regardless of donor for weight.

Asking conversion outfitters what the best donors are and such. I understand there are some accessory format issues and I want to keep my air conditioning. Drive train change fitment parts are out there.

Engine/trans pkg before conversion parts, about 6-9k via corvette/camaro 2010-15 range seems to be the norm. Then conversion parts, 5-10k. Ball park looks so far. Looking at Sikky and Vorschlag for reference. Not much else out there I can find yet. And I haven't done the part by part detail yet either. Looking for the best donor material.

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