How much power are you looking to get? That will be a big factor when figuring costs. The factory injection system is good for about 350-400 hp. You can easily get that out of a 383 with a few extra goodies. With the vortec roller engine, you will be dropping plenty of cash replacing and...
This man speaks the truth. In my opinion, LS based engines are the easiest to make power with little modification. It will take extra work to convert though.
A couple site that come to mind are:
summitracing.com
enginekits.com
sdpc2000.com
Sorry it took me so long. It's been raining and snowing all weekend.
I forgot to add that I cut a big chunk out of the inner fender wall where the factory round hole is to allow more air flow. :superhack:
Wow, I seriously considered compiling an article to send to magazines about modifying the Vortec small blocks, including the marine intake. It looks like someone has beat me to it.
I have a home made cold air intake on my truck. It even has an aluminum housing to seal off the hot engine air. Pictures will be posted tomorrow, to give some ideas to others.
It firms up the 1-2 and 2-3 shifts. I can spin the tires over pretty well with the vette servo, shifting into second. Kinda scary.
Thats a good deal, too. I think I paid a few dollars more for mines.
Yea, it's a really good site. Not much BS, and a TON of good info for OBS, trucks/SUV's. I did my marine intake swap directly from the sticky on there.
Awesome! Sounds like that black bear bites. If I recall, it will get better with time as it learns what it's working with. I have heard nothing but good about Black Bear.
Really? I never knew this blue was only a one year thing. I have only seen two other trucks within 50 miles of me, with this color. Neither of them were shortwheel based, standard cabs.
What is name of the blue you have?