ok... guess i'll go with OEM LS7 lifters... i can get those through my job for a decent price im sure of since i heard dealerships could easily order those.

for the trans cooler i've got some ideas just gotta get my hands on my car when i get home to figure out the route i wanna run the lines

 

If your car is an automatic you already have an OEM trans cooler that's routed through the radiator, so all of the lines are already there. It's just a matter of splicing the lines together. It's literally a one hour install.

 

oh... now i think i understand what you mean by the trans cooler... run an external one along with the oem one and hook em all together... makes hell of alot more sense to me now. atleast i hope im right about that

 

Yep - you run them piggyback'd. I have a B&M Supercooler in conjunction with the stock cooler. Works awesomely.

 

thanks for the advice and help throughout all that, as well as your patience. now i just gotta make 100% sure all that will work together without any complications or machine work before i get it all put in. any tables or anything online that i can put numbers into to make sure it will all fit well?

 

What do you mean, about the transmission cooler? Any cooler will work/fit. They attach to the front of the radiator (or you can alternately mount them elsewhere) and all of the lines are very easy to run/cut/splice. There's no machine work or complications. Hell there aren't even any bolts to hold it to the radiator, just a few plastic clips, two lines to run to the OEM lines held in with a few worm clamps, and you're done.

 

guess i should have been more exact.. i meant the whole engine setup, like the cam, lifters and so on.

i got the whole trans cooler down.. thats too easy to figure out when i get home

 

I decided to just go with one of Lloyd Elliot's packages with heads/cam