1500 Budget

I just recently bent a rod or two i beleive (knocking noise) and i decided to just take the 1500 i have saved up buy the stuff and earn some more money to have them installed... So my question to u is... what do i buy to fix my rods and make them stronger? Where do i buy from? What brands are good? And what should i do with the other like 1200 ill have left over? I was thinking Cam and Pistons and i think that will still leave me with some cash.... any other ideas or better ideas.... please provide...

Thanks,
John ;)

you can get lunati or slp pushrods for about $125. cam itself ( a good one, lunati, crane, comp) will be around $350. j.e pistons will run you $600. all this is not including install. pushrods and porting your stock heads= $1200.

Those are wierd prices, but the stuff for LS1's is different I am guessing.

My rods for LT1 Forged Scats were 350ish
My Cam for LT1 was 200
My SRP Forged Pistons were 400

Then I'd say some 1.6rrs(250), I don't know how good valve springs on LS1's are, but LT1's are shoddy for any aftermarket cam so figure 100$ for springs. I'd go with chromoly/4130 forged pushrods too.


So many things you can do...

Check out Thunder Racing (http://www.thunderracing.com) . They are a supporting advertiser here and have some really good cam packages that include pushrods, springs, cam, gaskets, basically everything you need to install a cam for $700. Do that along with some headers. I would go with pacesetters or flowtechs for around $500 for coated headers and y-pipe. A member here (teke184) did a writeup on how to install the flowtech headers. If I were you I would install the headers myself and save some money for the install on those. Then with the $300 you have left get a clutch so you can harness the exrta power you now have. I wouldn't really worry about getting pistons right now. These cars respond very well to basic boltons. Oh yeah, if you do a cam swap you will want to get it tuned also so make sure you save some money for that as well.

I have bent pushrods as of now.... like i bent my pushrods and im going to have them replaced so i might as well do some more **** while im in there right? So basically what should i do to replace them? What do i need and helpful pointers basically.

thanks,
John ;)

FFHP Cam Kit $699.00 plus shipping
Custom Grind Comp Cams cam
Chromoly Pushrods
Comp Cam 26918 Springs
Comp Cams 774-16 Steel Retainers
Gasket kit
(For Titianium Retainers add $100.00)

SPEC Stage 3 Clutch $404.99 shipped

Headers $375-499 plus shipping depending on brand

Stage 1 Heads/Cam package $1625.00 plus shipping.

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tell them your situation and how much you have. they might be able to work with you. tell em mike chapman sent you and they will do there best to make you happy! they did my clutch and headers at a good price for GREAT work.

good luck man, PM me if you need any help :thumb: