it' all about how much rwhp your looking for and then take it from there, I was in your shoes when I join PT.net and every body said the same thing to me I started with my 4.8 trying to whip my dads lightning so I found a good deal on a longblock lq9 6.0L at first I just wanted to do the swap just with the stock 6.0 and then I was like "well it's already out so might as well do the cam" and then I said well just do the heads to and so on & so on till now about $5000 later lol i'm almost done just awaiting on my stall and my longtubes looking for 430+ rwhp and low 12s high 11s n/a.... So all in all I hope you get what your looking for and just make a plan and save up and do it... Good luck on evry thing :-)

 

haha thanks man,, im gonna need it lol...gonna take me awhile to get that lq9 so in the meantime il just enjoy beating some 5.4 v8 fords lol

 

My 4.8 ran 16.0's at the track with 4.10 gear,intake and magnaflow exhaust. Did a lq4 swap got some cheap long tubes and a custom tune I went 13.3@103mph on a stock cam/converter. I got my lq4 for $1200 don't wast money on the 4.8

 

exactly my thoughts....i could see easily putting 1500 into my 4.8 and not having it run like i could make a lq9 or lq4 run....