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Old Sep 22, 2007 | 06:47 PM
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Old Sep 22, 2007 | 11:37 PM
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It's free if you do it yourself. If you are halfway mechanically inclined, it's not bad; just time-consuming. Check out ls1howto.com's instructions and see what you think. I did a head/cam install with their instructions, and it all worked out great.
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It's free if you do it yourself. If you are halfway mechanically inclined, it's not bad; just time-consuming. Check out ls1howto.com's instructions and see what you think. I did a head/cam install with their instructions, and it all worked out great.
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now im thinking about doing heads to what are good heads to get but i dont want to spend a lot of money on heads
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Old Sep 23, 2007 | 06:06 PM
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www.ls1howto.com do it yourself.
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Old Sep 23, 2007 | 06:21 PM
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If you pay someone to do it (cam, retainer, springs, rods, etc.) you are looking at $1500 for the install and another $500 for a tune. ROUGH ESTIMATE
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1k for the install. 450-550 for the tune
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now im thinking about doing heads to what are good heads to get but i dont want to spend a lot of money on heads
The cheapest out there are Stage 1 LS6 heads from Patriot Performance or Texas Speed, or some other shop. I went with Stage 2.5 5.3L heads from Texas Speed. They were a couple hundred more than the heads I mentioned above, which were around $1,000.
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