To make a long story short, i sold my old 350zTT and have a new c6 sitting in my garage. I made some good profit of the sale, and have a C.D i put away a LONG time ago, maturing. I told myself i would only spend 10k, on the car, but you know how that goes. I have some custom rims being made for the car by modular society, that sent me back about 5500.00, so there went the profit off the old car, my C.d is for 10k, and screw it, i've had it in there so long i forgot i had it, dont need it either.

I dont want to go to a shop and say, hey i got 10k, what can i get. Ide rather see what they offer, and try to get a deal, everyone loves a deal I dont know anything about the c6, also i didnt knoe, domestic parts are cheap compared to imports . So i wanna dump/invest 10k in my car.

These are what i am looking for.

1. STREETABLE, i dont wanna go sideways, and only hook up at 50 mph

2. The cats must stay, i had no cats on all my other built cars, and i just cant take that smell anymmore. I dont care about inspection, its the smell, so i know thats gonna limit my power right there.

3. Longevity, I want to beat the hell out of the car, and not worry about breaking parts ALL the time, i know BS happends sometime though...

4. I want the car set up for autcross.

So i went to 21 century muscle cars in dallas, they offered me a package for 6999.00 that will put me at 450rwhp. I also went to LG and they said 4690.000 for 425 rwhp. These are pretty much heads/cam package, long tubes, and a tune. Its looking like LG is giving the
better deal.

So i guess my question is whats the best set up for what i want, i want 500 NA rwhp, is 10k enough to do it?? Or should i spend a little more. Also what mods would you guys recommend

 

That's going to be tough to do IMO for 10K. You are asking close to 600 crank HP. In example, the LPE TT LS2 gives you 600 HP for a paltry 24995!

 

i just want to know the most i can get for 10k.

 

No cats smell and cats don't? Counter to my experience ... and a place to pick up HP.

H/C, intake/headers/exhaust, tune, gears should come in at about $10K ... and get performance you're looking for ...

 

What Sven said...

Actually this is the question that I was trying to answer (emphasis added):

There are several NA 550HP (Crank) cars on the board, but I'll wager none for 10K. The LG deal is probably one of the best going. If they were in my neck of the woods, I'd do it.

 

For 10k you can easily get well over 500hp NA.

Go for a 402 LS2 for $4000 or a 418 L92 for $4700

Touched up L92 heads and Intake from SLP with cam and stuff 2k
I'd go with AFR or Trick flows but these have the bang for your buck dialed.

Long tubes for $1700 + 300 misc

8000 for a 402 plus 2k to install. N/A pushing over 500hp.

10k I personally would spend the 700 more for the 418

Check out the short blocks.

http://texas-speed.com/shop/category.asp?catid=3

Then if you ever feel like that's not enough you can throw a blower on it and push well over 750hp.

Do you need the factory cats or any cats? If you need the factory that'll save you $1700 but I'm not sure about the results seems like everyone going with NA does the long tubes.

Also SDPC sells similar short block packages but with a 4.1 inch stroke crankshaft so they have an L92 at 427 a nice corvette number for about 5k I think. You might want to look through the LS1tech.com forum.

You can easily get to 450rwhp by doing a heads, mild cam, long tubes, tune. You might be able to get there without the heads on the LS2. Also check the LG motorsports website and look at results or whatever they have all sorts of packages with before and after dynos. I'd be careful going too big on the camshaft.

 

what all are those motors?? Are these crate motors?? A friend told me to do a motor swap and sell my stock motor. If i do the 418 whats the difference, that sounds like the best bang for the money

 

You say you want it setup for autocross? What class? All of the mods you are talking about will not make you fast in autox. They will be great for a drag car/ HP monster but if you want a streetable trackday SCCA ASP autox car, go with the lightest widest set of wheels and tires/ported fast intake/LPE CAI/headers/tune/ race pads/and a nice set of adjustable custom valved shocks. If you want more trackday reliability add a Ron Davis racing radiator with engine oil cooler and trans cooler. That should put you at about $10K with 400 rwhp and will hand most of these 500rwhp cars their *** on a track that is not a drag strip. All depends on what you really want to do. BTW, anywhere near 450RWHP you will be sideways to about 70 mph. 21st Century Muscle Cars/ Lingenfelter is a great group to work with and they will not try to upsell you. Sounds to me like you really have no idea on what you want out of the car. I'm local DFW and I AX my C6. PM me with any more ??????

 

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