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Old 02-20-2007, 04:32 PM
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Default I have $4-5k to spend. Please help me out.

What would you do with $4-5k? Also take into account the parts I currently have. I would greatly appreciate sponsor feedback too I would like to get my car back on the road soon. It has been down since November and I'm getting tired of seeing it on jackstands in my friends garage. Right now I am pretty much set on getting a TSP 402 ls2 shortblock w/ Diamond -28cc boost pistons and a new cam for about $4500. Another thing that has been on my mind is the fact that I am wanting to sell/trade this car and get a pewter frc and throw some fikse fm5's on it.

Well anyway here's the car and the performance parts I have:

98 c5 coupe 6spd, 60kmiles
ls1 stock shortblock, chipped piston, everything else looks good
ls6 mti forged 383 shortblock, bad piston, cracked sleeve
a&a disc procharger kit
dewitt's radiator, 160* thermostat
afr 205's, milled, 59cc chambers
224/228 581/588 114lsa cam
ls6 intake manifold, shaner ported tb
kooks longtubes, kooks catted x-pipe, b&b catback
hardened output shafts, spec 3 clutch
kenne bell boost-a-pump, 60lb mototron fuel injectors

if anybody is interested in a car trade of sort (pewter frc), here is more stuff that it has:

chrome ccw 505's, 19x10 fronts, 19x11 rears
drilled/slotted rotors, bilstein shocks
kenwood head unit, jl audio 5 channel amp running all factory speakers and the 10" jl audio sub, chrome soundstream spider speaker grill
autometer boost gauge, aem air/fuel ratio guage w/ wideband o2's

Here's a walk around vid of my car idling. This was the day I brought it home.
Old 02-20-2007, 06:14 PM
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prob with some kind of FI system, you're already set up for it....... might as well.
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so are you saying you have stuff thats broke?....if so take care of that piston and sleeve problem, or....that money can help you get a rearend...
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dude drop a ****** sts turbo on that bitch or get a procharger...your soooo lucky dude. i wish i had that kind of money to spend on my car
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Originally Posted by staringback05
so are you saying you have stuff thats broke?....if so take care of that piston and sleeve problem, or....that money can help you get a rearend...
yep i have broke parts. i was gonna have the 383 lunati crank and rods thrown in my ls1 block and have some -28cc diamond pistons installed, but i haven't found anybody that can get on a motor for about a month. tsp didn't recommend me having that ls6 block resleeved if i was considering running high boost. they recommended me using the ls1 block if anything since it isnt damaged. they said they could have that ls2 ready in 2 weeks. a&a had one that i could use, but it was $5400 shipped and the compression would be 10:1.
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Originally Posted by mycamaroSS
dude drop a ****** sts turbo on that bitch or get a procharger...your soooo lucky dude. i wish i had that kind of money to spend on my car
it have a procharger d1sc. i have been interested in turbos though.
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you could give me the money.....lol
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Originally Posted by mycamaroSS
dude drop a ****** sts turbo on that bitch or get a procharger...your soooo lucky dude. i wish i had that kind of money to spend on my car
if its a corvette like in the pics, its gonna have to have the twins and thats 2x as much then the single. they dont make single STS kits for the corvettes if im not mistaken

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take some of that and buy a beater. Woot!
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I have a beater, 91 accord... it's in the shop right now
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I have a beater, it's in the shop too




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