[davepl]

If you can swing the budget you sound like a "Connect and Cruise" kind of guy. And that's not because the alternative is hard or more work, it's just the unknowns.

When you get an engine and trans and computers as a system and you install them everything "just works". But when you combine a crate LS and a takeout trans and an aftermarket computer, now you've got a challenge.

I'm a computer programmer so I even bought the wrong model (auto vs manual) to get the $500 rebate and then reprogrammed it to be the kind I needed. You don't want to do that kind of stuff I'm sure, so get a package!

If you can't afford Connect and Cruise, just invest in patience. In my case I did the LS3 crate engine and not the full package, but even so the engine and its computer were a matched set from GM.