Is this is a true street car? Meaning, no 2-step, no alky, no planned further upgrades, boost set up to be the same all the time, same fuel all the time, Just give it to your wife and let her pick the kids up at school? If so, good. HP will be just fine.
If not.......make sure you put the money you saved aside. You may need it to buy another few junkyard motors.
I'm holding my breath and truly wishing you the best.
I change my mind every 30 seconds, on top of that-- all the experimenting you guys did in your teens i am now doing in my 40s, so NOTHING will be left alone, even if its running great I WILL mess with it. I will hear the good advice and still try my own dumb ideas then complain about my dumb ideas netting bad results.
I will push this until it goes -- hopefully later than sooner. I have a friendly competition going with my cousins, they have deep pockets and i don't have any pockets at all, so i will do as the budget allows when it allows it.
On to the car -- 2 years ago i put about 10k miles on it, i drive the heck out of it, PA, NJ, MD and CT. The car will be a true street car with regular street tires NOT EVEN DRAG RADIALS. I am a cruise night whore.
Not sure is i posted it up already but i am going to try and do this in stages
1- get the car under its own power.
2- start turning it up
2A- Start a building a replacement long block
3- Turn it up and see how it goes
4- Install the built replacement long block
5- Really turn it up.
6- Avoid doing 2A, 3 and 4 a second time or at least 3 years after 4
I spent over 4k on my current long block V6 and i am terrified of turning it up because of the replacement cost. And thats with me having 2 extra long blocks on hand. The LS no fear, it breaks whatever next block at under 1k installed.
plus i can build it out of a summit book and everything is in stock and only 2 days away. I don't have the patience of waiting 4 months for a set of aluminum Buick heads.
Don't get me wrong i still love the this little V6 and i will still play with my 86 GN but the Chevelle will be my fun fuck it zone.
Damn that was a long ramble Sorry for that
David