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Old Feb 14, 2009 | 02:04 PM
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my ls1 has bout 130,000 on it and was planning on rebuildin it but i wont hav the money to get it done by summer so i was wondering would it be bad to do heads/cam and boltons, then this coming winter rebuild it? no problems with it so far, oil pan looks lik its leakin alittle but thats it.
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Old Feb 14, 2009 | 04:01 PM
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I'm getting close to 140k and I'm planning on swapping heads again in the spring. If it's still running well I wouldn't rebuild it yet personally.
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Old Feb 14, 2009 | 05:14 PM
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Well, it depends on your goals really. If you plan on beating on it, and if you add a cam/heads setup, sounds like you will. So, I personally would do the bottom end now, and THEN do the top end. You can look at it like this:
Say you do heads/cam on your high mileage motor, and the added power/excitement, your bottom end expires sooner than you like. Then what do you do? You just spent all your money on teh top half
I would build a solid foundation to work on, save up some more, and then do teh top end, and then you have no worries about breaking something in teh bottom end. My .02
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