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Originally Posted by gearhead1186
Im building a 69 camaro with a max-g chassis frame. Its going to be a road course/street car. My goals is ~1000fwhp using and ls platform and twin turbos backed by a paddle shifted 4l80e.
Here is the pickle Im in. At that power level I have 3 choices of blocks..
1) GMPP Iron LSX --$2g ---- about 215lbs after machining
2) ERL prepped LS2 http://www.erlperformance.com/ -- $5200g ready for crank ----about 115 lbs after machining
3) LQ9/LQ4 6.0 liter truck block -- about $600 --- about 175lbs after machining
I would love to have an aluminum block since the tt setup will add even more weight but the price is a little extreme. Figuring a machined lsx block will be around 2600, the ERL prepped block is twice as much, another 2600.
Afer maching the LQ9/LQ4 will be about 1g and the ERL prepped block will cost me 4200 more.
Whats your opinion? I dont need to break any records, but I would like to be competitive in the road course. Iron or aluminum over the nose of the car? |
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The TT's are going to cost some bucks. Look at the engines Schwartz manufacturing makes. They are biult right, but your also looking at $22K worth of greenbacks. They have the power and are priced fairly.
1) The money that it will take to build the beast you want right, I think might be considerably higher than what your budgeting. (This does not include the Magicians who can build these on their own, and make them work right.)
2) If you really want a good road racing car, spend 80% of your money on the suspension and 20% on the engine. Recently I have found that a well sorted out car with 250 hp to the ground, can play hell with someone with 500 hp to the ground, and that doesn't even come near the 1000hp you are speaking of. With that hp, Drag Racing or Bonneville would be the right place for those types of engines.
What do the rest think, does this sound correct?
Ty
I think you might have one other issue to deal with.