Chavis or Renegade - Which Did I Choose? 

No troubles. The car should be started for the first time in just a couple days and I'll be sure to post a video of that! I also will be doing a "lessons learned" video along with costs.

That’s fair, but there are a few channels you can find here of people that used his kit and with the car running. Plus he does post on Instagram of running cars.

Well since I already did purchase - yes. But I did research both companies and shared why I decided on Chavis.

Hard for me to compare as I didn’t do the Renegade kit. The CPE one is pretty solid, but not complete and you have to figure a bunch out on your own. I’m getting close to the end and plan to do a full lessons learned video.

Thanks for following along! Ooof I’m sorry to hear about your engine. It sure seems that 2000-08 can be a bit of a gamble. I bought this one with the engine blown, so I didn’t have that terrible moment. There are always people looking for rollers to do the swap with though, so should be an easy sell if you go that route.

@@AlsopAndSons Really looking forward to the final cost and fit and finish.

@@shadfallfan we will for sure be doing a wrap up video of all the costs etc once it’s done. Likely in a month or so - been slowed a bit waiting on parts.

@@AlsopAndSons Do you currently have an estimate as to what you believe it will be? Hoovies garage on his 996 said it cost $17k for the renegade kit

@@shadfallfan sounds close. It depends a lot on what you go with, but I’ll do a whole video on all my costs including optional stuff I did.

I found mine on Marketplace - seems a lot more get posted there than Craigslist. I’d also contact Chavis as he seems to have rollers for sale a lot.

Auction sites occasionally have non running, tho lately people have been over bidding. Good luck

It depends on where you are starting from for sure. I bought the car with a blown engine - and I mean blown. The chain let go, pistons blew up, case cracked... so there was nothing to rebuild. To get a used engine you roll the dice and to get a fully rebuilt engine with no core is way higher than $20k. So mine was a perfect LS swap candidate. You do get lighter weight, more torque, and more HP in a platform that is known to go over 200k miles on stock parts and is very cheap to maintain. So it really does matter on a case-by-case basis. I don't know what Hoovies ran into or what kit he used - but with most swaps like this its the electrical part that can get you, which CPE seems to solve well. That said, I am writing this before I start it for the first time - which should be about 3 weeks from now as I just have to fabricate the exhaust next.

CPE is limited indeed, but they do respond to questions and there is a good support community. That said, I do know they are working on a lot of instruction videos / documents to help out a lot more. I'm trying to document as much as makes sense in my series to help others until such time as they release theirs.

Yup she’s a running driving car already. Have some things I want to change and do differently in the winter - but that’s just making it better stuff.