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L695speed · 03-23-2012, 04:11 PM

Seems like people are telling me to get a crate motor that I might wind up messing with anyway. Biggest problem with that is need like 4 grand up front, and you likely don't get every bit and piece you need. It would also take me a few years at this rate to put together that money. I don't want to wait that long. I'd do better with a Vortec truck motor from someplace like Harry's You Pull It in PA and build that even if I have it machined and etc. I would at least have the heads, a block and all the stupid lil bits and pieces like the oil filter attachment and oil pan, along with the rear main seal housing which doesn't come on a bare block or in some cases a short block.

If I have the whole motor, I have a place to start, even if I switch for the TA's HEI dizzy, and swap for a RPM Air Gap Manifold with a carb. Put a set of headers on it and off I go. Automatic close to 100HP increase over the factory L69. A 99 Vortec from a Suburban has 255 HP off the bat with 330 ft lbs of torque. I could live with that and build it up along with doing the bottom end and etc later if its not in bad shape.

03-23-2012, 04:11 PM	#17
L695speed Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Andover, NJ Posts: 777 iTrader: (0)	Seems like people are telling me to get a crate motor that I might wind up messing with anyway. Biggest problem with that is need like 4 grand up front, and you likely don't get every bit and piece you need. It would also take me a few years at this rate to put together that money. I don't want to wait that long. I'd do better with a Vortec truck motor from someplace like Harry's You Pull It in PA and build that even if I have it machined and etc. I would at least have the heads, a block and all the stupid lil bits and pieces like the oil filter attachment and oil pan, along with the rear main seal housing which doesn't come on a bare block or in some cases a short block. If I have the whole motor, I have a place to start, even if I switch for the TA's HEI dizzy, and swap for a RPM Air Gap Manifold with a carb. Put a set of headers on it and off I go. Automatic close to 100HP increase over the factory L69. A 99 Vortec from a Suburban has 255 HP off the bat with 330 ft lbs of torque. I could live with that and build it up along with doing the bottom end and etc later if its not in bad shape.