Supercharger for 1999 LS
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Do you know an estimate of having a garage order the parts and do it. Also how much will have to be changed under the hood to fit the engine? Thanks in advance.
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Do you know an estimate of having a garage order the parts and do it. Also how much will have to be changed under the hood to fit the engine? Thanks in advance.
http://www.milzymotorsports.com/miva...ode=L67S9599LS
Thats ~$5000- probably double what the car is worth if its a 99 LS.
IMO, the only way an L67 swap is even worth it money wise is if you source the parts yourself and do the labor yourself (or if you have a friend that is a mechanic that will do it as a favor). It can easily be done for ~$1500 now, and I really think $1000 is possible if you look hard enough for deals- doing all your own labor of course.
If you're just going to pay a shop to do it all, and source all the stuff- you'll easily end up at ~$5k as posted above- at which point, IMO you'd be better off selling your car, taking the extra $5k and buying a grand prix GTP that already has the L67. That way you'll have stock reliabililty-and if you need service done in the future, they won't charge you to fix a custom swapped vehicle, they'll charge it like its a normal car.
As far as what all is involved, I did do a write up maybe 6 months or so after I did mine, this should give you a pretty good idea of what all is involved:
http://mymonte.com/discussion/index.php?showtopic=23142
Its actually an extremely easy swap- the L67 is 90% the same engine as the L36 (NA 3800 that came in the 98-99 Z34)- hence why you always hear people mention doing an L67 top swap to their L36. Electrically, the L67 and L36 are 99.9% the same, so the same harness can practically be used to run both.
So, it bolts right in to a 5th gen monte, and using a wiring harness from a 98-99 3800, it plugs in almost completely too (you do need to buy a ~$30 adaptor harness for the two plugs that are different). The only oddball thing about the whole swap is that the passenger side axle will need to be custom made; but its something anyone can do themselves- but it is otherwise a nearly compeltely bolt in / plug in adventure.
I'm not trying to downplay the difficulty of changing engines/transmissions though, if you've never done it before- it is a good deal of work; I'm just saying that its virtually no different if you blew your 3100 and dropped another one in- than it is to drop a L67 in.
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The shop quoted me at 5K JUST for labor. I would have to come up with the parts on my own. Then he turns around and said that he only does simple R&R.
If i had a place to do it and another car, i would do myself. I have the know-how (I'm from a family of mechanics ) and would love to bust my knuckles again. But since i live in an Apt complex, it will have to live the rest of its life with a 3100.
If i had a place to do it and another car, i would do myself. I have the know-how (I'm from a family of mechanics ) and would love to bust my knuckles again. But since i live in an Apt complex, it will have to live the rest of its life with a 3100.
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The shop quoted me at 5K JUST for labor. I would have to come up with the parts on my own.
But since i live in an Apt complex, it will have to live the rest of its life with a 3100.
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edit- didn't realize I never posted the story on these forums, I'll have to make a thread and do some copy/pasting.
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