A beautiful, fast American sports car with a freshly built , upgraded motor and clutch for under $34k? I’ll take that any day! Great job. Love how it came out!
@PushingGears Since when is working on a corvette wasting your life? 16 years ago I bought a 68 charger and worked on it literally every weekend for 2 years. I missed every event to get the car done. My goal was to get it done so I could give my dad a ride in it before he died
Dude,.. I feel your pain. Being a car guy for around 55 years now ( I'm 63 ) I went through many obsessions with them. It's like someone with the same affliction he said,.. " I love them, and they hate me back " Food for thought.
2013 C6 GRANDSPORT CORVETTE OWNER HERE !! I'm with you bro!! Bought mine brand new in 2013 and it only has 60k... 10 years later so not bad, after a few MODS I can say definitely worth it !! Nothing like owning a CORVETTE and being part of the family.. You have and Awesome C6 BRO ! Love da channel 💪🏿💪🏿🇺🇸
Good job on the rebuild. You paid $25K for the car + $8300 for a new engine that you know is done right. Doesn’t seem unreasonable. Friend of mine has a saying, ‘It’s only money, we’ll make more.’
Awesome car! Super impressed that you did all that work yourself. Best of luck on growing this channel. That Corvette will really help grow it for sure. I just sold a C7 and I am in the market for a C6 Grand Sport myself. I look forward to seeing more videos of this car. Enjoy it =)
@@FredFlintstone21 I actually bought a fully built H/C/I C5Z that is making around 500 whp but I am trying to sell that now to buy another stock C7. I want the newer tech from the C7 right now. I sold my last c7 because it was costing $630 payment and $120 insurance a month. Was looking to get into something cheaper but now I have a bigger down payment to off set that. Just need to sell the C5Z first.
Thanks for the honesty and determination to get it Done. Fantastic build. I feel your pain in the money Dept. I have to work a 2nd job to pay for my addiction. Better than drugs though.
I bought an ls3 base manual a few years ago for 27k w/ 20k miles on it. Fun cars, wish it was a grand sport but out of my price range. I'm very impressed you performed all the labor yourself, daunting project. It looks like you did it by the book. In a few years the financial pain will be a distant memory. Good luck young man.
Thanks for mentioning about replacing everything oil touched with failed lifters, that metal is embedded to all the bearings and oil pump. Some people think that you can cut corners and reuse things
Man U got my sympathy. I watch Ur videos and Im imprest how U rebuild that car with little mechanic knowledge at Ur driveway. And U know what... This car is worth it... Good job... Wish U luck.
You're 100% right bro, you're going to spend money on something so you might as well spend it on what you love, it only makes sense!!! I tell everybody that when they get upset about spending money on things other people have told them they shouldn't be buying. I'm the same way bro, most of my money goes towards my Mustang!!!
Dude you have one of the cleanest c6s I’ve seen. I love how it looks OEM+. 33k total isn’t horrible. People buy Kia and Hyundai crossovers for 40 these days lmfao
You are now a true car guy, congratulations . I'm impressed with your drive and determination . Hope you enjoy your Corvette to the fullest. It's a beauty. And i have subscribe so i'm looking forward to more of your videos.
I did a 416 stroker build on mine. I also had to do a rebuild on her and it crushed me as well. Failed lifter. Mine cost slightly more being that I paid for the labor. By no means I'm rich either but when I got my emotions under control I started falling in love with her all over again. Hope you continue to feel and see the joy of owning some really special like I do. And by the way very nice vette brotha!
I feel your pain Bud. For the $25k you spent for the car, the dealer should have known (& actually probly did) the engine had problems. For one, they could easily have found the metal in the oil. Another, they could have checked the valve lash and that would have revealed there was a lifter/pushrod issue. Finally, a compression test would have shown any variances with rings/valve seals. However, what's done is done and you can tell that dealer to f-off and you'll never give them another dime of your hard-earned money! The rebuild you did was just awesome so now you have the peace of mind knowing what you drive now is damn straight reliable. If I had the money, I'd refund every dime you spent just to get you back to break even my friend. Much happiness and joy.
Awesome video! I was on the fence about tracking my c6 and dumping my Fox body track car. You helped me decide the c6 is gonna stay a street car. The Ford 347 is slower than the Chevy 6.2, but it's super easy to fix when it breaks.... and a track car will break!
@Pushing Gears Amen brother. I've been watching your videos since you bought the grand sport. Great content, sucks that you had to get so deep into it, but hey, you have a new c6 grand sport now. Major respect for all the work you put in!
I spent all my retirement money a long time ago, so I'm watching you go through all this instead. 😆 🤣 By the way, I drive an old man's car. A 2001 e320 mercedes, and I'm not going to rebuild the motor or anything. I did that sort of stuff 50 years ago. That would be when your grandfather was a kid. I do like you vette though.
Bro you should’ve simply went on eBay and found a good engine rebuild shop ahha. I just got a fresh rebuilt ls3 from Ross automotive with ported heads, custom cam, holly high ram, hi flow oil pump, sensors, fuel rails, coil packs, built internals for 10,300 . A bit more but made 670 horse. And didn’t have to piece or deal with the headaches, best part is warranty.
Damn bro you basically have a brand new car!!! And now most c6 Grand sports cost around 40 grand. One question. When you started your rebuild did you have any experience rebuilding engines at all??
Bro I salute you I have an LS three Camaro as well and LS engines are really reliable and make great power it’s just idiots out there who don’t take good care of them a lot of people just buy them and throw a giant cam in there never do the maintenance or buy the wrong parts and expect the car to perform I think you got a bad deal when you bought this car but on the bright side you turned it around and made it work You sure have earned my respect and all categories if you ever start a GoFundMe page to pay back all the money you spent on the car I would contribute a small portion I’m not rich but it would be a way of letting you know that we appreciate real car enthusiast
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Really sucks that you had to put all that work in on the LS3 but glad you were willing and capable to do most of the work yourself. In the end, you have a vehicle that can handle more, get you more bang for the fuel you use, and put an even larger smile on your face. Now then, how much power did she make?
Hey brotha awesome videos I’m waiting to get my C6 engine rebuilt soon hopefully. The worst happened to me lol I have a 2010 C6 manual. Feel free to use my car for content 😅
That’s not bad man that’s a decent budget for a corvette build. If you have a Z06 then you could definitely resell for 35-38k with no to low miles. LS engines are some of the best when it comes to handling a beating. I have the LS2 but wanna swap to an aluminum block LSX or built bigger LS
For 9 thousand you could have gotten brand new long block with just about all the upgrades you did you could have gotten a new GM performance LS3 495 horsepower crate long block part #19420384 for 5500 dollars and made some upgrades to it unless you know someone or have a trusted person at a machine shop it's hard to trust someone Scoggin-Dicky parts center will upgrade a GM performance LS3 and are good to deal with and it will be put together right by professional people in the industry everything needs to be perfect or your going to have problems or it won't run right and I'm not saying yours isn't right but like l said trusting a machine shop sometimes doesn't work out well seen other's have headaches and problems that end up costing more than just buying a assembled crate engine you seem to have did a very good job your car sounds amazing
Those crate engines are cast iron blocks, i wanted to keep the aluminum block like the engineers intended, and its arpund 13k for a stock aluminum block. By building my engine i knew exactly what parts I was putting in, and I also got a glorious cam sound now!
@@PushingGears GM performance LS3 495 horsepower part # 19420384 is a new all aluminium LS3 crate engine it has a GM hot camshaft it's a long block only no coil packs or plug wires no intake no water pump it's 5500 dollars you could have purchased the aftermarket camshaft valve springs and rocker arm trunion upgrade and hardened pushrods and installed it in this all aluminium crate engine for about the same price and transfered all your old engine accessories on it for less than 9000 dollars and have a brand new engine it's a new all aluminium GM crate engine
Great video. I love the rear spoiler and would like to add that to my C6. I have a “spider web” crack in the paint, and it looks like your spoiler would cover the cracks nicely. Are you able to provide the manufacturer and model number for the spoiler? Thanks - James
C6 BASE MODEL AERODYNAMIC BODY KIT | ZR1 EXTENDED PACKAGE mine is the carbon fiber version, but there is also a cheaper non carbon fiber kit. It comes in a kit with splitter and side skirts
Just remind yourself, you would have just spent it on eating out, partying which make you fat, or vacations that you'll just forget about. NEVER SELL IT!
Stop crying bro you're in a good spot I'm shopping for a grand sport and I can't find anything . The only grand sport I found under 30000 was a 2010 with 95000 miles and its an automatic.you have a 2010 grand sport with a brand new engine add in performance. Enjoy
"Its complicated and it dont really make sense" LOL and his facial expressions to this im 19 and looking into a 350z as a first project car, Or a c6 (Im able to probably do over 50% down payment on a c6 towards December if i save) still debaiting great video for reference Problem is with a 350z for $15k probably, id prob do $10k+ in mods (Which cost as much as a c6 like yours and this is if im able to even sell it for $25k, so makes me lean towards c6 now
I am estimating to spend about $20,000.00 on having someone pull out, rebuilding the motor and installing the motor on my 1990 vette. 10,000.00 will just be paying someone to pull engine and transmission, then reinstalling engine and transmission. Wanna come down to Maui and rebuild my Vette? Lol!
Bro, everyone lies about this being the "perfect car", the "perfect engine"! I got oied to as well and am still bitter. You are right, that is how much one would spend on a Camaro SS engine or a Silverado with the 6.0 L to rebuild it, and yes they do break. Even if you don't do anything crazy to the engine, no supercharger, no sport camshaft, no nothing they just break for no reason, even if you baby the car and do maintenance on schedule. Thats what happened to my 2011 Camaro SS. I loved that stupid car, meanwhile my wife's Roush is 17 years old 150,000 miles.
@@PushingGears so I bought the car. I hear ticking upon acceleration. The last owner said that was normal it’s the fuel injectors spiraling up. Do you think that’s true. It’s not a loud chirping sound like yours but just a settle ticking upon acceleration. Thanks for the help man love your channel
The LS engines will have loud ticking if the engine covers are missing. I dont think the fuel injectors are that loud stock since it doesnt have a high pressure fuel pump. Unless they are aftermarket. Or if it has an aftermarket cam it will tick from the valve train.
@@FredFlintstone21 I got an 06 Z51 6MT for 20k. Been looking for one since covid and they've all been around 30k until recently where prices are finally coming down a bit.
@@Motorsportsgeek it's interesting what prices are out there, what people think their car is worth can be right in there on price, and others are much higher. We bought a '13 gs and love it! Previous owner smoked in it, since we don't smoke, I worked on it pretty hard getting it super clean and fresh. Then there were a couple cigarette burns in the carpet. I fixed them as well. Then a squirrel raised hell under the hood, storing away all least 60 nuts all over the place. Today I filled in a couple very small paint nics with touch up paint I got off Amazon. I found it interesting it takes 10.5 quarts of oil, and when I did a brake fluid flush, each caliper has 6 pistons and 2 bleeders! Car is awesome to drive but I need to be careful or I'm going to get a ticket! Quite a bit of power on tap!
shit what about if you can't do all the labor....you might as well get another corvette.. yours look good good thing you could you could do all the fucken work wow...i almost stop watching the video...lol
how much was the car... when you purchased it....really ok made it to the end shit 33k it's worth it but the time and labor,,,nope i gave you a fucken thumbs up just for the pain.
A beautiful, fast American sports car with a freshly built , upgraded motor and clutch for under $34k? I’ll take that any day! Great job. Love how it came out!
At the end of that day its not a bad deal, but I wasted a whole year of my life working on this car on my days off lol
@PushingGears Since when is working on a corvette wasting your life? 16 years ago I bought a 68 charger and worked on it literally every weekend for 2 years. I missed every event to get the car done. My goal was to get it done so I could give my dad a ride in it before he died
Please! I bought a 2011 Corvette Grand sport 6 speed, velocity yellow pushing 500+ horsepower for less than that!!
Dude,.. I feel your pain. Being a car guy for around 55 years now ( I'm 63 ) I went through many obsessions with them. It's like someone with the same affliction he said,.. " I love them, and they hate me back " Food for thought.
Thats very true, it does feel that way
2013 C6 GRANDSPORT CORVETTE OWNER HERE !! I'm with you bro!! Bought mine brand new in 2013 and it only has 60k... 10 years later so not bad, after a few MODS I can say definitely worth it !! Nothing like owning a CORVETTE and being part of the family.. You have and Awesome C6 BRO ! Love da channel 💪🏿💪🏿🇺🇸
Good job on the rebuild. You paid $25K for the car + $8300 for a new engine that you know is done right. Doesn’t seem unreasonable. Friend of mine has a saying, ‘It’s only money, we’ll make more.’
Thats a good way to look at it
That’s a bad ass ride bro !!!! For only $33,300 that’s a great deal for the performance.
Also the car looks and sounds insane now
Awesome car! Super impressed that you did all that work yourself. Best of luck on growing this channel. That Corvette will really help grow it for sure. I just sold a C7 and I am in the market for a C6 Grand Sport myself. I look forward to seeing more videos of this car. Enjoy it =)
Thank you for the support! Stay tuned for the coming videos
Have you bought a C6 GS yet? What had you jump ship from C7?
@@FredFlintstone21 I actually bought a fully built H/C/I C5Z that is making around 500 whp but I am trying to sell that now to buy another stock C7. I want the newer tech from the C7 right now. I sold my last c7 because it was costing $630 payment and $120 insurance a month. Was looking to get into something cheaper but now I have a bigger down payment to off set that. Just need to sell the C5Z first.
Thanks for the honesty and determination to get it Done. Fantastic build. I feel your pain in the money Dept. I have to work a 2nd job to pay for my addiction. Better than drugs though.
Thanks for watching!
I bought an ls3 base manual a few years ago for 27k w/ 20k miles on it. Fun cars, wish it was a grand sport but out of my price range. I'm very impressed you performed all the labor yourself, daunting project.
It looks like you did it by the book. In a few years the financial pain will be a distant memory. Good luck young man.
Thanks for mentioning about replacing everything oil touched with failed lifters, that metal is embedded to all the bearings and oil pump. Some people think that you can cut corners and reuse things
I was on the same boat, thinking about just throwing new cam/lifter and shipping it, but its a good thing I didnt. The main bearings were cooked
100% worth it, as a bmw owner I’m extremely jealous of your price parts
Yeah ive heard stories from my fellow BMW friends lol
haa...... that was a sad laugh... (8500$ into a e39 540, engine/timing refresh, a year later deer, totaled... )
Man U got my sympathy. I watch Ur videos and Im imprest how U rebuild that car with little mechanic knowledge at Ur driveway.
And U know what... This car is worth it...
Good job... Wish U luck.
When you look at what the C6Zs are saleing for, your still way ahead of the game, my man! Congratulations!
You're 100% right bro, you're going to spend money on something so you might as well spend it on what you love, it only makes sense!!! I tell everybody that when they get upset about spending money on things other people have told them they shouldn't be buying. I'm the same way bro, most of my money goes towards my Mustang!!!
Straight up, i have a $200 refurfished phone, wear off-brand clothes n shoes, but my cars do be looking nice lol
@@PushingGears LMAO I'm same way
Got this one on the algorithm. Nice build!!! Sounds awesome too
Thats great to hear! Thanks for the feedback!
Wow dude, awesome. You have a cool ride, your DNA is in your car.
How you know my DNA is all over my car? I cleaned up really well after the fact
Love the editing and concept of video , great video guys keep it up 🙏🏻❤️🔥
Truly appreciate it you watching!
You might as well double that eight grand if you're going to pay someone to do the work for you.
The labor on this car kills you either way, you either save money or save your effort
Nice my dude… wish you lived on the east coast. I’d pay you to work on mines
Your commentary is hilarious bro, sick build
Hell of a project. Good documentation gives you a project for your portfolio for a internship.
Just subscribed, awesome info and thanks for keeping it interesting!!! BTW, beautiful car!
Great video the layout of the prices and what you used very helpful!
I like that you persevered through the chinga.
Dude you have one of the cleanest c6s I’ve seen. I love how it looks OEM+. 33k total isn’t horrible. People buy Kia and Hyundai crossovers for 40 these days lmfao
So I watched your video your car is beautiful and I do appreciate you running through the cost of doing the work it’s impressive
You are now a true car guy, congratulations .
I'm impressed with your drive and determination . Hope you enjoy your Corvette to the fullest. It's a beauty.
And i have subscribe so i'm looking forward to more of your videos.
I did a 416 stroker build on mine. I also had to do a rebuild on her and it crushed me as well. Failed lifter. Mine cost slightly more being that I paid for the labor. By no means I'm rich either but when I got my emotions under control I started falling in love with her all over again. Hope you continue to feel and see the joy of owning some really special like I do. And by the way very nice vette brotha!
Thanks for the comment, yeah Im hoping I can enjoy this car more without any major issues or i will loose my mind
33k. Not bad. I hope it stays together. It will be worth it. I love my zo6.
Loved the video. The info and humor were great 👍
youtube recommended the vid and im happy
"who knows, I might cry during the video" lmaooo
good video
I got mad respect for you man
I feel your pain Bud. For the $25k you spent for the car, the dealer should have known (& actually probly did) the engine had problems. For one, they could easily have found the metal in the oil. Another, they could have checked the valve lash and that would have revealed there was a lifter/pushrod issue. Finally, a compression test would have shown any variances with rings/valve seals. However, what's done is done and you can tell that dealer to f-off and you'll never give them another dime of your hard-earned money! The rebuild you did was just awesome so now you have the peace of mind knowing what you drive now is damn straight reliable. If I had the money, I'd refund every dime you spent just to get you back to break even my friend. Much happiness and joy.
You spending the time to watch this and comment is enough support! Appreciate it
@@PushingGears I know, but I just like your style and all 'Vettes. Thanks.
Awesome video! I was on the fence about tracking my c6 and dumping my Fox body track car. You helped me decide the c6 is gonna stay a street car. The Ford 347 is slower than the Chevy 6.2, but it's super easy to fix when it breaks.... and a track car will break!
Definetly go with whats easier & cheaper. Less wrenching = more seat time
@Pushing Gears Amen brother. I've been watching your videos since you bought the grand sport. Great content, sucks that you had to get so deep into it, but hey, you have a new c6 grand sport now. Major respect for all the work you put in!
Thank you for the support! I truly appreciate you tunning in after these many videos 🙏
I spent all my retirement money a long time ago, so I'm watching you go through all this instead. 😆 🤣
By the way, I drive an old man's car. A 2001 e320 mercedes, and I'm not going to rebuild the motor or anything. I did that sort of stuff 50 years ago. That would be when your grandfather was a kid.
I do like you vette though.
What vehicles did you rebuild 50 yrs ago?
Bro you should’ve simply went on eBay and found a good engine rebuild shop ahha. I just got a fresh rebuilt ls3 from Ross automotive with ported heads, custom cam, holly high ram, hi flow oil pump, sensors, fuel rails, coil packs, built internals for 10,300 . A bit more but made 670 horse. And didn’t have to piece or deal with the headaches, best part is warranty.
Great video!! I love your content!! I have a 07 Z06 and I absolutely love it!!
Awesome car! Did you do an active fuel management delete, or just drive the car with it shutting off 4 cylinders on low load?
Such a beautiful C6
😂😂 can relate, when my parents ask how much ive spent my answer “i dont remember”
Great work Bro! The car looks and sounds awesome!
Damn bro you basically have a brand new car!!! And now most c6 Grand sports cost around 40 grand. One question. When you started your rebuild did you have any experience rebuilding engines at all??
Don’t BEAT yourself up so much brother, You are now driving a Corvette with a brand new motor in it. Enjoy.
Bro I salute you I have an LS three Camaro as well and LS engines are really reliable and make great power it’s just idiots out there who don’t take good care of them a lot of people just buy them and throw a giant cam in there never do the maintenance or buy the wrong parts and expect the car to perform I think you got a bad deal when you bought this car but on the bright side you turned it around and made it work You sure have earned my respect and all categories if you ever start a GoFundMe page to pay back all the money you spent on the car I would contribute a small portion I’m not rich but it would be a way of letting you know that we appreciate real car enthusiast
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Those tail lights are nice
U low key seem like a funny ass dude. Hopefully this vid gets more than 100 views. That made me lol
Really sucks that you had to put all that work in on the LS3 but glad you were willing and capable to do most of the work yourself. In the end, you have a vehicle that can handle more, get you more bang for the fuel you use, and put an even larger smile on your face. Now then, how much power did she make?
Planning on putting more suporting mods before the dyno
Nice job bro, keep making videos love that Corvette! Planning on doing the cams on my c6
The cam sound makes it all worth it!
awesome car bro, keep up the good work and content!
I have A C6 great video. Just curious as to I what I need to invest for a rebuild if needed
Respects bro. Keep up the awesome work! It's definitely worth it!
Great video! Worth every cent! 👍💪💯🇺🇸
C6s are beautiful cars
@@PushingGears you are absolutely right and buddy you have a fine example of one! 🔥💯🇺🇸💪
Great Job 😊
Amazing work you did
You are too cool for school Great Work Great Vids. I'm a subscriber Thanks
Hey brotha awesome videos I’m waiting to get my C6 engine rebuilt soon hopefully. The worst happened to me lol I have a 2010 C6 manual. Feel free to use my car for content 😅
subbed. Kuz you never giving up.
Beautiful car! Nice job.
That’s not bad man that’s a decent budget for a corvette build. If you have a Z06 then you could definitely resell for 35-38k with no to low miles. LS engines are some of the best when it comes to handling a beating. I have the LS2 but wanna swap to an aluminum block LSX or built bigger LS
Also I this video came up on my recommended since I’ve been searching C6 vette videos
Are you ready? I'm not! haha dead!
My mom and dad would question the money spent If I did the same too. Lations man. I can hear my mom now.
Sweet car!! Them wheels look slick!!
They do fit the car really well!
For 9 thousand you could have gotten brand new long block with just about all the upgrades you did you could have gotten a new GM performance LS3 495 horsepower crate long block part #19420384 for 5500 dollars and made some upgrades to it unless you know someone or have a trusted person at a machine shop it's hard to trust someone Scoggin-Dicky parts center will upgrade a GM performance LS3 and are good to deal with and it will be put together right by professional people in the industry everything needs to be perfect or your going to have problems or it won't run right and I'm not saying yours isn't right but like l said trusting a machine shop sometimes doesn't work out well seen other's have headaches and problems that end up costing more than just buying a assembled crate engine you seem to have did a very good job your car sounds amazing
Those crate engines are cast iron blocks, i wanted to keep the aluminum block like the engineers intended, and its arpund 13k for a stock aluminum block. By building my engine i knew exactly what parts I was putting in, and I also got a glorious cam sound now!
@@PushingGears GM performance LS3 495 horsepower part # 19420384 is a new all aluminium LS3 crate engine it has a GM hot camshaft it's a long block only no coil packs or plug wires no intake no water pump it's 5500 dollars you could have purchased the aftermarket camshaft valve springs and rocker arm trunion upgrade and hardened pushrods and installed it in this all aluminium crate engine for about the same price and transfered all your old engine accessories on it for less than 9000 dollars and have a brand new engine it's a new all aluminium GM crate engine
Yeah, thats true but i wanted to keep the numbers matching engine with the car, but thanks for the info, now I know for next time lol
Subscribed; I can't wait for the exposing of all the lies (before I get my C6)! ;)
Great video. I love the rear spoiler and would like to add that to my C6. I have a “spider web” crack in the paint, and it looks like your spoiler would cover the cracks nicely. Are you able to provide the manufacturer and model number for the spoiler? Thanks - James
C6 BASE MODEL AERODYNAMIC BODY KIT | ZR1 EXTENDED PACKAGE mine is the carbon fiber version, but there is also a cheaper non carbon fiber kit. It comes in a kit with splitter and side skirts
Just remind yourself, you would have just spent it on eating out, partying which make you fat, or vacations that you'll just forget about. NEVER SELL IT!
i want my first v8 to be a c6 z06. im just worried about the heads issue
Bro you saved a lot of money nice vette
Be thankful you are not a boat guy!
I don't know what else to say. But I Love you
So I can scream and no one will think I'm crazy, except the 15,000, viewers that are watching... lol
Stop crying bro you're in a good spot I'm shopping for a grand sport and I can't find anything . The only grand sport I found under 30000 was a 2010 with 95000 miles and its an automatic.you have a 2010 grand sport with a brand new engine add in performance. Enjoy
What happened that it needed a rebuild ?
I spent that on my Transmission for the Porsche
Sounds like Porsche things lol
Love your content, keep it up 👍🏽
Appreciate you as a viewer!
"Its complicated and it dont really make sense" LOL and his facial expressions to this
im 19 and looking into a 350z as a first project car, Or a c6 (Im able to probably do over 50% down payment on a c6 towards December if i save) still debaiting
great video for reference
Problem is with a 350z for $15k probably, id prob do $10k+ in mods (Which cost as much as a c6 like yours
and this is if im able to even sell it for $25k, so makes me lean towards c6 now
Much respect
🙏
I am estimating to spend about $20,000.00 on having someone pull out, rebuilding the motor and installing the motor on my 1990 vette. 10,000.00 will just be paying someone to pull engine and transmission, then reinstalling engine and transmission.
Wanna come down to Maui and rebuild my Vette? Lol!
Bro, everyone lies about this being the "perfect car", the "perfect engine"! I got oied to as well and am still bitter. You are right, that is how much one would spend on a Camaro SS engine or a Silverado with the 6.0 L to rebuild it, and yes they do break. Even if you don't do anything crazy to the engine, no supercharger, no sport camshaft, no nothing they just break for no reason, even if you baby the car and do maintenance on schedule. Thats what happened to my 2011 Camaro SS. I loved that stupid car, meanwhile my wife's Roush is 17 years old 150,000 miles.
Yes! My brother beats the hell out of his 5.0 and its held better than my car so far
How much horsepower is it making?
The quality of this video tho!!
It only gets better from here!
8 grand is actually REALLY CHEAP bro...Nice ride and good video
Thanks for watching foreal
What year ur c6? And how much did you pay? If you don’t mind.
Small price to pay for salvation
bro funny asll
welcome to the jungle
Thats what i spend in my 2000 honda civic si to get 420whp and thebhonda s2000 seats
I know im just stingy and broke, its actually not that bad lol
Buy once cry once. Guy I worked with dumped 6k on his full LS9 build for his WS6 only to have his new OE lifters fail.
R.I.P. to his wallet
I'm about to buy a 2012 GS with 40k miles. Any suggestions or tips for be when I inspect the car? I really appreciate it. And nice whip!!
Make sure the oil looks good, no rear main seal or front cover leaks. Check for any abnormal ticking in the valve train
@@PushingGears so I bought the car. I hear ticking upon acceleration. The last owner said that was normal it’s the fuel injectors spiraling up. Do you think that’s true. It’s not a loud chirping sound like yours but just a settle ticking upon acceleration. Thanks for the help man love your channel
The LS engines will have loud ticking if the engine covers are missing. I dont think the fuel injectors are that loud stock since it doesnt have a high pressure fuel pump. Unless they are aftermarket. Or if it has an aftermarket cam it will tick from the valve train.
Do an oil change even if its not due and make sure theres nothing crazy going on.
Check the harmonic balancer for wobble. Cost $1,500 and up. If a manual, cost to replace a clutch and rebuild a torque tube will cost $2,500 and up.
It popped up in my CZcams feed
Thats what we like to hear!
Que onda bro!? Great video
Muchas gracias!
I got to ask. The kidney deal was joke right. ??
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Love the videos but damn bro for that much money you could have bought a built stroker short block.
Oh boy, if they are pissed just tell them it’s less than their camry.
At that point just get a crate motor from jegs
Negative, for an aluminium LS3 block of this gen, it was at least 13k without shipping
@@PushingGears good information thank you for the response
Thats a bargain, ever grand sport around here is 50k+
Where is "around here"?
@@FredFlintstone21 Canada
@@Motorsportsgeek Acknowledged, did you buy it?
@@FredFlintstone21 I got an 06 Z51 6MT for 20k. Been looking for one since covid and they've all been around 30k until recently where prices are finally coming down a bit.
@@Motorsportsgeek it's interesting what prices are out there, what people think their car is worth can be right in there on price, and others are much higher. We bought a '13 gs and love it! Previous owner smoked in it, since we don't smoke, I worked on it pretty hard getting it super clean and fresh. Then there were a couple cigarette burns in the carpet. I fixed them as well. Then a squirrel raised hell under the hood, storing away all least 60 nuts all over the place. Today I filled in a couple very small paint nics with touch up paint I got off Amazon. I found it interesting it takes 10.5 quarts of oil, and when I did a brake fluid flush, each caliper has 6 pistons and 2 bleeders! Car is awesome to drive but I need to be careful or I'm going to get a ticket! Quite a bit of power on tap!
Being that it sounds like it runs like crap, diesels when you turn it off, ahh yeah. Could care less!
shit what about if you can't do all the labor....you might as well get another corvette.. yours look good good thing you could you could do all the fucken work wow...i almost stop watching the video...lol
how much was the car... when you purchased it....really ok made it to the end shit 33k it's worth it but the time and labor,,,nope i gave you a fucken thumbs up just for the pain.
Thanks for watching!
Just so you don't feel to bad bro I spend 15k on a 05 c6 corvette and so far I have spend around 22k on mods and labor🥲