Gears & Crosses

What would be a REAL good price on a 98 LS-1, with an automatic, and computer and harness. The drivetrain has 85,000 miles on it.

What do you experts think?
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stealth71

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<1500

ss496

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the pcms on 97-98's are crappy....and the heads are soso and they have non ls6 intake so...yeah about 1500 or less

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Thank you for the replies? The buyer wants $1600.

What is wrong with the 98 PCM?

Cop Car

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for $1600 id buy it. and i think LS1s are over priced, and that 98s arent worth a lot..

So-GT0071

Theres nothing wrong with it at all. It is just harder to tune than later LS1 PCMs. There are differences between 98 ls1's and later ls1's. a few off the top of my head : no LS6 intake, oil passages are different in the back of the block, like stated: heads in later years flow a tad better, valve covers bolt on different. Basically there is nothing wrong with a 98, it has differences but nothing to make me consider it as a worse engine.

$1600 is an awesome price I'd buy that in a heart beat.

Just a FYI.....I had to get my 98 ls1 PCM tuned to run properly in my truck.....it cost me 25 bucks and the tuner had no problems tuning it.

G-Body

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The 98 PCM`s are not harder to tune, the skills that you need are the same to tune any of them. The difference is that 98`s have less features that you can tune and the computer is slower. If you are planning on doing a bolt on motor or heads and cam it doesn`t really matter what PCM you get, but if your planning on running turbos/supercharger and pushing the boost up you should look into a 99+ computer.

Gears & Crosses

Wow, very nice feedback here... Thank you.

I am somewhat familiar with some of the LS1 motors, but not to the detail that you guys do. I also owned a 98 Formula that I feel was very quick. I loved the engine and trans in this car. Mine didn't have the dreaded piston slap either.

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bygblok

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I've got a complete 5.3 with a 4L60e with only 8,000 miles on it for $1700 if you wanted something like that. Just thought I'd toss it out there.

Whistler

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If you can get it for $1600 and you know it runs, buy it. You could sell it on Ebay for over $2000