If you could start over

[00shortbox]

I'd still want my truck, but I wouldn't have dicked around so much trying to make a NVG3500 work with a aluminum LS6 block. Think I have the solution now but won't know til a few more weeks when I can get it towed back down to work to try it. Didn't know about the different starter offset. Tried LS6 flywheel/4.3 NVG3500 clutch at first, starter worked good, but flywheel was too thin so the clutch wouldn't release. Put the 4.8 flywheel/4.8 clutch in it and now clutch releases but the damn starter hits the flywheel. Gonna use the 4L80e flexplate spacer which is 3/8" thick and what I need to put behind the setup I have now and it should be fine. If I had of known ahead of time of all this BS I would have just did a T-56 swap at the same time. Still gonna do that in the future though!

[SLO TRUCK]

If i could sell it I would just get a CTS-V and throw on a pulley, tune exhaust and headers and be done.

[Beatdown Z]

For my lifted truck, I would have started with a dent/rust free truck and used more new parts, and done an 80E from the get-go.

Might as well talk about my Camaro since that is one of my biggest regrets. It was a 16th b-day present, and of course I wanted a totally non-streetable drag car. I wish I chose a streetable 70-73 Camaro and built it up to be a cruiser. Turbo'd LSx, 80E or 6spd, AC, sound system, etc...