[Project] 98 camaro project idea

[Aaron_Dahl]

As I posted earlier, I just bought a 1998 camaro rs roller. And have been going with the plans of the v6. Just for the facts I have no parts for the swap. But as the time comes, I changed my mind, and I plan on buying an lt1 car. Jderry is helping me, and I plan on starting in the next 3 weeks. There will be plenty of pictures. This is going to be a long few weeks, I'm just happy to finally own myself a nice fbody! Will update asap!

[bri2203]

congrats

[Gaspo]

so, are you selling the roller and buying an lt1 car?

[Aaron_Dahl]

so, are you selling the roller and buying an lt1 car?

I might just do the swap itself. Depending on the condition and price i can pick up an lt1 car yes im going to sell the roller. If the lt1 isnt that great im just going to do a swap.

[Lucky SOB]

By the time you buy a LT1 car to do the swap, you might as well just sell your '98 roller and buy a decent LT1 car complete. Realistically a pretty nice LT1 car is only $4k these days...

Swapping from a V6 to a V8, especially non matching years, is going to end up costing you more money and will probably always have little issues... Buy something that's not all hacked up and have fun with it!

[jderry]

That's what I suggested also.

My swap was only a year off and there were so many differences.
I found him an Lt1 car needing head gaskets for $700.
Picking up a car needing work for under $1,000 would be the way to go in my opinion.

[Aaron_Dahl]

That may be true.. But I don't have that kind of money.. Also, doing the swap is going to be way cheaper on insurance. Which ill save money there. There is tons of ideas going through my head. Not quite sure where to go.

[jderry]

That may be true.. But I don't have that kind of money.. Also, doing the swap is going to be way cheaper on insurance. Which ill save money there. There is tons of ideas going through my head. Not quite sure where to go.

I don't know how long if ever you'll save that extra money through insurance savings.
I was thinking your best bet would be to find a car for ~ $1,000 and work from there.
You could probably get that out of your roller.

[Aaron_Dahl]

May be true... But I don't know if I can find a decent lt1 for that price. That doesn't need everything. Plus I'll have no way of getting it... Or storing it

[jderry]

May be true... But I don't know if I can find a decent lt1 for that price. That doesn't need everything. Plus I'll have no way of getting it... Or storing it

You'll need another car to do a swap easily anyways.

[Lucky SOB]

Trust us... we've watched countless people do the V6 to V8 swap on here and not once has it gone smoothly and worked with no issues, not to mention come in on or under budget by any means. Trying to piece together a swap without a donor car will just make it that more difficult.

Your best bet is to sell your roller and save up until you can afford a LT1 car...

[jderry]

My swap was not too bad, but it's a very special exception.
I made money on mine, and it went fairly smoothly.

But I agree, he's better off either putting the 3.8l in his car, and selling it for ~3,500 and buying a LT1 car.
Or just selling the roller.

[Aaron_Dahl]

Honestly idk what to do...

[Lucky SOB]

Honestly idk what to do...

Keep thinking about it and asking questions, you'll figure it out

[Gaspo]

the idea of putting a 3.8 in and selling is the best idea IMO. sell it for 3 or 4k. buy an lt1 car for 3 or 4k. there are way too many details and issues to deal with.