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What's the best buy on a crate engine?


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If 12's are your goal with a 6 speed, I would just buy a donor 94-97 6 speed Z/28 and use the engine and trans from it and sell the body. In the end this will be less $ than buying a crate motor and the 6 speed and all of its components separately. If you don't want to do the FI, you can use a carbureted intake with either the optispark or a conventional distributor. This method gets you aluminum heads and a hydraulic roller cam in addition to the manual trans and its associated parts. You should be able to find a driving car for about $5k or a wreck for about $3k. Sell parts and have the wrecking yard haul off what's left. (Make sure and get a title!) Another option would be one of the dismantlers like Billy Graham Camaro/Firebird parts. There is another one in Dallas I believe.

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