ErnestSw

As some of you know I sold my 91 GT to a racer who replaced the engine and put in a fuel cell. He called me yesterday and mentioned that he was thinking of selling the entire drop-in engine for around $5500.00. This is an 80K mile engine which had a complete top end (intake) done about 6 years ago including powder coating the intake and cam covers. It will need a TB and I'd redo the intake stuff before I dropped it in. The guy's name is Larry Ewart and he may be posting here as well. He also has the complete exhaust with x pipe, hi flow cats and RMB as well. The entire setup dynoed at 310 RWHP.

soontobered84

Ernie, did your stomach do flips when he swapped engines?

That is a HELLUVA deal on a complete drop in engine! Wish I had a GT just so I could justify buying a spare!

Chuck Schreiber

Ernie,
You sold your GT to a guy that turned it into a track car??
You gotta be F##king kidding me!!??

ErnestSw

Figured he who pays the freight gets to call the tune.

Abby Normal

What did he replace the engine with?

cold_beer839

Where is he located at?

ErnestSw

Chevy LT1, can't remember

ShawnSmith

If the cams are intack, they're worth at least half the asking price...

Abby Normal

No doubt, he should of went with a variocram set up.....

IcemanG17

So basically he's selling the 928 engine to cover the costs of the entire LT conversion...since LT engines are cheap right now, since everyone wants the LS series motor.... But I want to say the most powerful production LT series motor was 330 hp in the 1996 corvette grand sport....not worth dumping a 310whp engine thats already in the car?

928worldwide

Right, it was the lt4. BUT, with some cheap heads and cam work, it's 100hp more.

cold_beer839

Where is the guy with the '91 GT engine located at?

soontobered84

Ernie,
Why don't you buy the engine back and find a car that need an engine? Sounds like a better Tech session GTG than we had today down here.

ErnestSw

Might have been another chevy engine. He mentioned 550HP. I don't remember where he is, he shipped the car to a wrench in Lost Wages.

Aspkiller

Hi Ernie-

Hope you're well and still reading posts.

As you may already know, the car has found its way to the track for some sorting out. The motor is a dry sump LS7 (630hp @ fly). It's had a lot of modifications, cage, seats, cell, springs, brakes, etc. Over the next few weeks, the fenders will be modified to accept 335 x 18s on all four corners and the wing and splitter should be finished. The car will then be leaving its summer home in Lake Tahoe and going to Spring Mountain Raceway for additional suspension tuning. Then on to Phoenix for some paintwork and winter track time.

All of the removed parts are in my garage in Phoenix (except fuel tank and rear air unit), waiting for better economic times before offering them for sale (no longer considering putting motor into wife's '82 Auto.)

IcemanG17 has posted some pictures of the car when it was at Thunderhill last week (10-3-09 Post #1 & 17), should you be interested