Just do some shopping around. 6.0's are certainly out there in vast quantity lq4 & lq9 for reasonable prices. I picked up a brand new crate lq4 for $1200 from schram auto which is in Cali. I found them through ebay! So far my 6.0 project has cost me $3000 and that includes the motor, a cam package, lt headers and another nv3500 transmission from the local junk yard. Key phrase to putting a cheap motor together is "wait patiently and shop around"

 

firend of me got a sierra he replace the 4.8 engine with 6.0 escalade engine wit k&n intake and power aid spacer and 20 rims he run the car on a dyno first time he get 298 rwhp and 372 tourqe we went out from the dyno shop and come back after 30 then we lose maybe like 7 rwhp and 40 tourqe we did not hange the car computer it still 4.8 ? what the probelm ? any body can tell me what we do ? any body can tell me what the best cam and headers and best performance stuff

 

I got my new LQ9 for $2k.
I got my transmission (4L65E, 7 miles on it from a denali wrecked on delivery) for $750
I paid $200 for a tune. I got HP tuners now though.
I spent a few hundred more on misc stuff like oil, ATF, u-joints, beer, pizza and stuff i broke on accident.

 

i made money off of my motor swap [/bragging]

 

661 area code? Let me know when you find a motor and the whereabouts you bought it. I am in Bakersfield, where are you?

 

But no one likes you

 

 

im down in the palmdale, lancaster area