Joe, in your estimation what would a shortie cost me? I could look around, but I'm feeling lazy.

I'll clear something up real quick. I have means to fix something if it breaks. Means aren't the problem. When I said I don't have the budget, I really meant patience for a lack of reliablity. If it breaks, I can fiscally afford to fix it. I just can't afford to have myself out of a car for a week plus etc. Wife, kids, meetings, clients, deadlines, comittments to church, youth group, etc. Just looking for reliability quotes. I have change, but I don't have time/patience (or garage space) to have a spare short block laying in the corner ready to drop in. Capiche?

 

I assumed so, as I know what you do for a living Im in the same position as you, while I have the money to put in a built motor, I don't want to at this time. Other things are more important (but I don't know for how long muahahah!).

At any rate, You can rebuild the motor yourself for about $1500 in parts, to buy an assembled shortblock would cost you around $2500 - $3200 dpending on what you get. Add labor (about $1500 to pull, assemble, and install you could be looking at up to $5k. The good news is that even with stock heads and intake you can make 500+ rwhp with that little S-trim blower with no intercooler. Just gotta have the bottom end to support it.

The stock rods are good to about 400 - 450 rwhp if you keep the rev's under 6k rpm, the pistons are good to about the same as long as you have a good tune. Anything over that and its not a matter of IF, its a matter of WHEN. But, with that being said anything can happen - its even possible at 350 rwhp.

My intent is to build my engine sometime this year if things go as planned (buying another house, another car, etc.), port the heads and run blower cams - Shooting for 550 rwhp. All this on the little S-trim. Don't let this opportunity pass you by, no way you could buy a 99 GT and put all those mods into the car for less than 20k.

 

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yes your blown 3.8 wil beat a gt.. but that gt with a blower would wax your 3.8

duh! but i've yet to find one in my neck of the woods, locals that i've played w/ are stock, also my wife hates that i can smoke her.
Buy the blown 4.6, I would!!!!!!!

 

True, Joe, true. And I could throw a rod through the block of my 232 driving down the road at 50 mph.[sm=smiley22.gif] And yet I know I am increasing the odds with the seduction of having 350-375 RWHP under my heretofore light right foot. Funny how hp and tq put bricks on your piggies. [sm=devilgrin.gif]

I'm trying to be a realist here: I look at my 232 and see a old faithful security blanket of a daily driver (snow days notwithstanding). And then I look at the 335's on the 18 inch Cobras and say, "Wouldn't it be totally kick *** if I had 430 horses under the hood of the same car?" Because the GT I am looking at is EXACTLY like my car in appearance. So I need the reliability, and I think from the posts here and in the other three places I laid this thread out I can find it with this blown GT as long as I don't go out when it's 5 degrees, fire it up, and tear down my driveway at 7,000 rpms 10 seconds later. That doesn't mean I won't be skeerd to touch 'em off, mind you, so no need for you bishes to start hatin'. What would be the point of having a blown GT if you didn't crack an LS1 upside the coconut with it every once in a while, eh??
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Seriously, if I buy this car, it won't see 6,000 from MY right foot, or anybody else's. Because I know I can't afford the inconvenience of fixing it if I break it. Too many committments.

So I call the guy today and told him I'm ready but I can't/won't pay a penny over $15,000 for it. He's going to think about it. And if he says, "Blow me," then I stick with my 18,000 mile-havin, sharp-as-a-tack lookin', point-the-key-at-it-and-go 2000 V6. If he bites and says, "Go time," then I get blown every day. I'll keep you posted....

 

Good luck dude! BTW - I just saw a thread on another site, some dude twin turbo'd his V6 and got 399 rwhp / 430 rwtq or something like that... on a stock engine [] Probably won't last long but hey thats purdy impressive.

 

SHUT UP!!! What did it cost him??
My wife says if the guy doesn't bite, blow the V6 or twin turbo it with our tax return in a couple of weeks. And not to start a flame 'cause all that know me know I likes da V6, but I'm just not sinking that kind of jack into a 232. There is another site that boasts similar numbers with a vicious top end, killer intake, blower. You ready for this?
$6,500.
Not me, hometown. I'd sell my 2000, buy a stock GT for a thou and a half more, sink $5K in THAT one, and be cuttin' a big hog in the *** before I do those kind of radical mods to a sixer. As I always say, to each their own.

 

I know what ya mean! I don't know the cost or particulars of his build, only the results. I think it was posted on modulardepot

 

good LAWD, you know it's gotta be steep! I don't have that kind of jingle to go off sinking in a 6. honestly, if I had $6-7K to blow, I'd spread it out over my 66 F-100 ($3-4K), my hardtail ($2K), then my stang ($1K).