What to do?

duh09 · Jul 6, 2009

Me and my mom have been throwing around some ideas on what to do with my car. I'm going off to college in a couple months and my mom wants to be sure that my car is something I'm not going to have to worry about. She would like to trade my car for something with lower mileage, but I don't think that adding another payment is a great idea. We started leaning towards maybe rebuilding my motor or replacing it and doing a little suspension work to get it up to par and swap the rear gears for something a little more friendly for interstate driving. Motor wise, we're sort of lost. What can I expect on costs to have my motor rebuilt? What all needs to actually be replaced in a rebuild? I really don't have the tools or place to rebuild it myself, so this is going to be someone else's job so take that into consideration. What do you guys think? I don't have a TON of money to spend on this, but I don't want to just throw the cheapest crap on it either. I want this done right. My main goal is to have a reliable car, not a stupid fast race car. I would like to build a new motor with a LMR shortblock and Trickflow topend, but I'm not sure if we can swing that. Of course, I have no idea what a rebuild would cost so that might actually be a better plan. Thanks for your help guys

mikey94gt · Jul 6, 2009

I would buy a long block and put a good intake on it. Something with GT40 heads and a GT40 intake would be budget friendly, but then you gotta tune it. Of course, you could get away with re ringing the block, all new bearings, new cam+lifers, and all new gaskets., and put it all back together.

duh09 · Jul 6, 2009

I'm not that worried about tuning it. I have a hook-up if I ever needed that, even though it is a few hours away. Where could I get a decent priced longblock? I'm not worried too much about performance, so a standard 302 longblock would be fine, I just don't know where I'd get JUST a 302 longblock.