If you can get your hands on a totalled LT1 car with a good drivetrain, then do it. The motor and tranny aren't the monetary things that will get you with the swap. It's all of the little things , brackets, belts, sensors, wiring, ECU, hoses, etc, that will hurt the wallet. A person who is familiar with a 4th gen could do the swap in one day, easy. Keep in mind your 10-bolt is non-posi, so you'll want to swap the 10-bolt from the donor car also. As for an LT1 being a 2-bolt main, that doesn't exactly make in worthless. 2-bolt's can easily handle 400-450hp. Nytrus1 ran his well into the 10's on the spray with zero issues. Run synthetic oil, put a good oil pump in it, make sure the crank has adequate clearance. Yes the opti-sparks can suck. Sometimes they last forever, sometimes they quit after 20,000 miles. There are bulletproof replacements out there now though to fix this issue.
Cliffs-unless you can get a totalled (complete) car, don't do it.
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