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Old Dec 4, 2006 | 02:50 PM
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I'm thinking i'm going to build either one of the 2, and i'm thinking the 6.0 liter would be better.

Both using stock cranks,
forged H beam rods (crower?)
forged pistons (diamond)

I'm going to either use my 243 heads are get the heads patriot is running on special right now (stage 2 ported LS6 heads with gold springs)

LS6 intake.

Which cam would ya'll recommend for this setup?

What is the safest bore you can do in an aluminum LS2?

Either of these would be a nice budget build with forged internals and stock cranks.

I was going to do 403, but its just getting out of my budget.
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Old Dec 9, 2006 | 05:11 PM
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<---------403cid 8:5:1 LS2, for only $4800!
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Old Dec 10, 2006 | 04:30 PM
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if your on a real budget, i'd do a forged 346/347 using your stock block, and probably eagle rods instead of the crower ones (dont know how much the crower ones are, but eagles have been proven many times to be a good rod). If I could do my setup over again, (i have an iron block 370) I would spend the extra $1,000 for a 4 inch eagle crank, and had the extra 30 cubes.
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as long as your not going over 450rwhp, or maybe a little higher,stock rods with upgraded bolts should do just fine..
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