Originally Posted by Failed Devices

Sell it and buy a LS1. LS1 makes closer to 350, not 315.

If you are looking to swap your v6 for an LS1, you have to buy a donor car anyway and literally swap everything over. The 4L60E is also the A4 in teh LS1, it holds up ok to bolt ons and and decent stall, but when looking at H/C builds, you often need to rebuild it.

To properly run a turbo on your car, you are again looking at high costs and high labor for little turnout. Expect spending thousands to just get the turbo and get it installed, but that is not counting the cost to rebuilding your trans or your rear end.

Also, its not so much a matter as "rebuilding" your rear end as it is replacing it. Even on the LS1 cars, the 10 bolt cannot be built to reliably handle 400 rwhp. Add in the cost and labor of swapping to a Ford 8.8", 9" or 12 bolt. Again, this will set you back a couple grand.

All in all it is not worth it to mod your V6 if you simple goal is to go fast and longer be called a "slowmaro". Keep it the way it is and save up for a LS1 as a second car, or sell the V6. If you had extensive knowledge and mechanical skill and the proper equipment, then you can probably get something to work with that V6 just like MusicMan did. But look and read his whole thread, the cost and the trouble he went through to get that car where it is today.

Originally Posted by slick's camaro

345hp at the crank -20%. I hate to say its a bad idea, but for your goal it is. Imo its a lot if money when it still will be a v6. Somebody is always gonna be faster than you no matter what you build. So build it to your liking and say **** the haters.