woodwright

Those of you that are doing LS engine swaps for a living, where are you sourcing your engines? They are apparently gold plated here. Its hard to find one with under 100K for less than $3000.

Blue89Bird

Where is "here"? There are plenty on ebay for a decent price. I paid 4k for my ls1/t56 with wiring harness and pcm.

Mike@Diablosport

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We had to replace a 5.3 in a buddy's Tahoe, got a complete motor from a salvage yard/parts house for less than $1K.

superdave84

Bow Auto in New Hampshire. LKQ nationwide. Ebay. Got a 5.3 from Bow Auto with everything for $750 (140k) and an LS2 from LKQ for $3200. LS2 came with headers that I was able to sell for $700, so I got very lucky. Deals are out there you just have to keep looking

NitrousExpress

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LKQ if you can't find anything local. Got my whole 5.3/4l60E with computer and all the A/C stuff for 1100$. (Out of a junkyard local.)

Thanks,
Garrett

jimmyg

Call school st light truck parts in Lowell mass

Black89Z51

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I bought an entire truck from Copart and parted it out. Kept the motor, harness, etc. Turns out I got all that for free and even made a little money.

alowerlevel

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car-part.com or craigslist

L92 OLDS

You can find 5.3's quite reasonably in my area for 1-2K but they are everywhere. The 6 and 6.2 liters bring big money when you find low mileage examples. The salvage yards know they can get it and people continue to pay stupid money for them.