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Old Feb 24, 2008 | 06:40 PM
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Thinking of rebuilding my motor. How much am I looking to spend If I rebuild the stocker? Or what would you guys do? I'm not trying to go expensive such as a stroker or anything like that...or should I? It's my Daily Driver. I need something reliable and powerful.
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Old Feb 24, 2008 | 06:43 PM
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wow 211,000 miles Glad to see an LS with that many miles still going strong.
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Old Feb 24, 2008 | 06:46 PM
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I'm in the same situation. My bolt on TA is at 190K, and I know it's inevitable, but it's still running great.
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Old Feb 24, 2008 | 06:50 PM
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Yesterday my clock turned 64,000 and I was like damn Im putting too many miles on her. As for a rebuild shouldn't be to much, you could even find a used engine from a wrecked car with little miles.
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Old Feb 24, 2008 | 07:39 PM
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are you noticing any problems with the stocker?

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Old Feb 24, 2008 | 07:44 PM
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get a forged GMPP LS6 longblock from SDPC...or a shortblock and re-use your heads/intake. that's a good, semi-cheap package that will be very strong and durable.
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Old Feb 24, 2008 | 09:03 PM
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No desire to be the first daily driven million mile LS1?
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No desire to be the first daily driven million mile LS1?
That would be a hell of an accomplishment, wouldn't get me anything though lol. As far as any problems.....well I want to add all the bolt ons and #7 cylinder is misfiring at random.
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That would be a hell of an accomplishment, wouldn't get me anything though lol. As far as any problems.....well I want to add all the bolt ons and #7 cylinder is misfiring at random.
change your plugs, do some seafoam, run some injector cleaner see where your at
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Originally Posted by MEZA TA
That would be a hell of an accomplishment, wouldn't get me anything though lol. As far as any problems.....well I want to add all the bolt ons and #7 cylinder is misfiring at random.
change your plugs, do some seafoam, run some injector cleaner see where your at maybe wires to if they havn't been done in 60-70k
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That is a lot of miles. I thought I had I have a lot and im about to 55k
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Old Feb 25, 2008 | 11:22 AM
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I agree with Gun5. If you are still thinkin about swapping out motors then you should consider the LQ9. A few more cubes, and a lot more options as far as heads... just a little heavier. Dirt cheap too! Some people talk bad about the weight, but I like to remember a time when even our rides came with a little iron thing I like to call the LT1.
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I'm definately going with an iron block when it's time. You just can't beat it for the price.
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Originally Posted by 2000_SS
get a forged GMPP LS6 longblock from SDPC...
Link to this?
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Wow, I'm happy to see there are some LS1s out there running good with 200,000 miles. That means mine is still got plently of life in it then before I even have to think about a rebuild
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206k here and there's NOT ONE problem with it...
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Give it a compression test. Will tell alot about the motors condition.
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on corvette forum theres a guy with a 306,000 mile ls1 c5... he claims it still runs great..
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Link to this?
http://www.sdparts.com/product/12498...OilPanKit.aspx
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I've seen that one, but it's not forged motor. Not a bad deal though.
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