well im faced with a delema, i have done a lot of thinking about how much i miss my camaro. i can only afford to fight with the insurance company and buy back my totled, none fixable 02 z28 or find another camaro. what would you do. i dont really need a car because i have a 89 f250 and a 80 camaro. the f250 i could drive to work, and the 80 to work on. thanks for your help.

 

#2 decision ...that is what I would do----80 Camaro just drive and work on slowly..or not at all IMO.

 

the 80 camaro need lots of work, i was thinking of putting the ls1 out of the 02 iin it. but i miss my 02.

 

I would grab another ls1 as they are pretty cheap right now from the one's i have seen for sale as of late. Project cars always take longer than you thought they would in the start of things, you will miss not being able to have some fun in a muscle car for a couple years or how ever long you think it would take to get the 80 in shape. (those couple years will be painful! lol)

 

project cars cause alot of **** and unwanted issues. just get another ls1

 

How much is it to buy back the wrecked 02? Putting the LS1 in the 80 seems like a win. You can use alot of the 02 parts on the 80. But if they want too much that kinda spoils it.

 

^i would have to fight to buy it back. read here https://ls1tech.com/forums/general-lsx-automobile-discussion/711473-pics-my-wreck.html

 

even if you decided to buy another ls1 car, you shold still buy it back and part it out, if its not wrecked too bad you can make a decent profit

 

Get a new ls1. How much is the ins co going to give you?

 

yea another thing about project cars is that its the little things that add up so that will probally end up costing a decent amout if you went that route

 

A deciding factor would be how much to buy back the 02 camaro

 

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You wanna buy a unwrecked 2000 SS Red shell?

 

Buy any 4th gen and transfer the non-broken parts over. There's gotta be some POS 93 V6 out there with an unbent frame. All ya gotta do is strip it and repaint it, and whatever else. I'm no body shop so I don't know all the details.

 

I would just buy another ls1 f-body....trying to fix your old car is just going to cause you a lot of headaches

 

how much is it to buy it back anyways

 

buy back, part it out, buy another

 

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You ain't lyin, mine is down for a few months for this swap, and it's like damn....

 

well the insurance company wont let me but it back, so im looking at a 01 ss black this week. thanks for everyones replys.

 

if you can buy it cheap, part it out then use the money to buy another ls1 car or rolling chassis for your motor/tranny from the wrecked ls1 car.

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