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Originally Posted by COLB View Post
I think you are looking at false economy here. I would imagine that the costs associated with these conversions are highly unpredictable -- it is very difficult to know if the engineering is solid, or if the seller is fobbing his unworkable, botched project onto someone else.

You might get a cheaper car outright, but at $25k the one you listed is NOT cheaper than a quality SC with an original motor. Not perfect, but much better condition than that one.
That's my thinking on the subject. When I went and looked more closely at the ad it sounds to me like this guy built his own longblock off of stuff he had around. Maybe he's a good home mechanic. Maybe he's a hack.

I would take a car Renegade built in house with a GM crate engine over someone's home install and build any day of the week. I think that swapped SC is a $15k car, on a good day.
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