I love my stupid suburban soo much that I am going to go ahead and dump a pile of cash into a truck that when finished would only sell for the amount of money I'm dumping in!!
I figure before the dust settles it will cost me 7K to do a motor swap...priced it many ways..
1) Buy a new AM Gen engine and just plop it in....7k
2) Haul my old block out, do it totally right (balanced, light weight pistons,rods, heads, cam, lifters etc and so on much machining.......6500 and I still have the old brittle block!
3) Buy another suburban on E-bay 7K and wait for the shoe to drop!
I was going to buy a new car for myself, but we all want the war wagon for going to our other hideaway. Its the only thing that hauls 3 dogs 2 adults 2 kids and all of our crap.
I'm a pathetic dope......
Sidenote:
Truckie I'm down the road on the Job in Stamford....friends with several of the FDNY brothers. Quite a few came from our department...after 911 we picked up a couple early retirements from the city...Welcome aboard bro!
95 Suburban 1500 Bone Stock Orig.
purchased at 103K from first owner
new alternator/autozone gold @104K
re-trannyed with shift kit @107.5K
new Bilsteins all around @ 127K
Kennedy exhaust @128k ..zoom!
new lift pump w/OPS bypass @ 130K
Kennedy FSD cooler @ 135K
New IP/Injectors/G-plugs @ 137k
Another autozone alternator and Optima Reds @ 150K
Another pump and injectors @157K
New chain and gears @157K
HO pump single therm setup @157K (will see what happens)
Head gasket or worse to be determined...164k
NEW AM General 6.5 installed and running well! @ 164K!!!!!