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Old 03-17-2013, 07:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Z06vette View Post
You can do the FI tank but will need a good regulator to get fuel pressure down to friendly 5-7 psi for a carb. For what you would spend to fuel inject your current setup you can buy an lq4 with money left over or with the OD trans for about the same amount. I think you'd be way ahead of the game. Then sell your motor/trans to offset the cost. I'm kind of biased because I put LS motors in every first gen i do now. I can't ever go back. going 5.3 gets the price down even more. There are, as im sure you know, more associated costs for doing the swap other than the tank. Mounts, headers, oil pan, modified harness, computer tune, PS lines, coolant lines and/or new rad/fan setup, driveshaft shortened if going OD, intake/acc brackets if using a truck motor, fuel lines/regulator, etc. I like buying LS1 f-bodies since you can use so much off them on the swap. Then I part out what im not using. It is time consuming but usually you make out well on the money side. I think you rear gears would be perfect with auto OD, as thats what I usually run with an auto. If you race the car a lot you may want to go 3.73. What type suspension do you have planned?
Not really sure about the suspension yet I'm doing comp engineering shocks right now just to replace my shot original stock shocks, I figured drivetrain first

Can you point me in the right direction for the tank and regulator ? My current filler neck has a crack in it, also is setting up the regulator hard ? Sorry new to ls swaps thnx so much
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