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Old 02-26-2014, 10:33 AM
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So, I have the intake off of my 2012 Camaro laying on the floor of my shop, complete with rails, injectors, and TB. I just can't figure out what to do with it. I have an LS1 swap into a 65 cutlass coming up. Should I keep the intake and put it on the LS1 after a head/cam swap? I was going to do heads and cam in it anyway, but it has a LS6 intake on it now. I would have to get new injectors after the H/C on the LS1, right? Would it be worth the trouble of switching to rectangle port heads, then buying a cable throttle body to fit, then making the injectors work with the wiring harness? Or should I sell the LS3 setup and use that money to buy injectors and stay with LS6 style heads?
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Your best bet is to sell the setup to me at a very good price.
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He he, it may come to that. Just trying to decide what the best value would be.
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Easy, sell the LS1 and buy an LS3 block.
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Originally Posted by MX6.0
Easy, sell the LS1 and buy an LS3 block.
Sure, but I only have $1000 in the engine trans setup, this is just my wife's 65 Cutlass, its a budget cruiser,not all-out, so power is nice, but not high dollar power.
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You can't use the LS3 intake on the LS1 without a head swap and that would have to be after market small bore heads. Stock LS3 heads won't work on the LS1. Sell the intake setup on ebay.
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Yeah, I even knew better about the bore size, I don't know why it slipped my mine. I'm putting a h/c setup on my 6.0 truck and looked at bore size limitations for the rectangle port heads. Time to post it up here or on eBay!



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