Thread: 71 Camaro engine choice advice

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You can do a LS with a turbo for the same money as that SBC and have more power. Maybe more work, but that'd be more fun to drive IMO. But it's your car, don't listen to this fool. I see no power brakes and a teeny carb. Out with the old.

In all seriousness, you could buy a 300hp crate engine for around $1250 from jeggs or summit when they go on sale and that will be plenty for a cruiser and keep your factory AC there. That is a big feature IMO.

PS, don't worry, that 6.0 will be back in the shop soon even if it has head studs. Besides, he probably just spent a minimum of $5k for injectors, turbo, and the labor. Powerstrokes eat money quick.

Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

You can do a LS with a turbo for the same money as that SBC and have more power. Maybe more work, but that'd be more fun to drive IMO. But it's your car, don't listen to this fool. I see no power brakes and a teeny carb. Out with the old.

PS, don't worry, that 6.0 will be back in the shop soon even if it has head studs. Besides, he probably just spent a minimum of $5k for injectors, turbo, and the labor. Powerstrokes eat money quick.

Ya, he put studs in it, spent 6K on it. Glad to hear it will go again. I usually don't wish that on people but not a big fan of the people I speaking about. I could really go into detail but I'll just leave it at that.

I know money wise it's not going to be a whole lot different, it more of is the car too original to screw it up. ( aside from dumping the 2 barrel and adding power brakes ) So your vote is heck with the old school and in with the new. ( without a turbo though )

I looked at Summits turn key motors and I noticed they use R4 A/C compressor. If that's how their engineering team thinks, no thanks