Powering up the Camaro

In March of last year I got a pretty decently sized tax refund and I decided it was time to finally get some work done to my camaro. I'd been reading up on various message boards, like LS1.com, for a while about what to do and whatnot, and decided on my end goal. I went around to a few shops to start pricing stuff up. As I said before, my Camaro is a 2000, meaning it has the mighty LS1 engine in it. The LS series of engine is now GM's go to engine for most of their v8 applications. It's been in the Camaro, Firebird, GTO, Corvette, SSR, and they also made it into a truck engine. There are lots of after market parts for them, and finding a shop willing to work in them is pretty easy.

I originally wanted to do heads, cam, intake, and exhaust, as well as all the supporting modifications that go with these main areas, like throttle body, mass air meter, rocker arms, etc. I was also going to need a clutch to hold onto this power.

I got some prices from a few shops and was looking at something like 12-13000 all said and done. This would have put me in the 600 hp 550 torque area, but the pricetag was more than I paid for the camaro when I bought it, so I settled on stages.

My goal was and is still to have one of the fastest street dirven camaros in the area, but I'm just doing it in stages now.