Muscle Car Dream Project: Starting My ’80 C3 Corvette Build!

Welcome to the next chapter in my muscle car journey!
Meet my newest project — a 1980 C3 Corvette, freshly returned from a pro race car builder who transformed it into a beast. We’re talking a full LS swap, 6-speed manual conversion, and it runs on pure E85. After two years, she’s finally back in my hands, and it’s time to finish what we started.

This C3 is track-ready, but my real journey with it begins now — tuning, dialing it in, and eventually tearing up the drag strip. Subscribe and follow along as we bring old-school American muscle into modern performance.

🔧 Build specs, test runs, fails, upgrades — all coming soon!
💬 Drop a comment if you’ve got C3 stories or muscle car builds of your own!

This is what I believe I spent on this build (roughly)

Car bought in 2015-ish for $6000
New Motor $8000
New Trans/Clutch/etc around $6000
A Bunch of Summit parts $5600
Wheels $900
Top Flight Automotive stuff $8700
Parts Devyn bought and got reimbursed for $8650
Labor $16,550
Random stuff from Amazon $2200
Headers, Fan, and bunch of stuff from BRP Hot Rods $4000
So I think in total this baby is in the realm of $67,000
Spent over the course of 3 years. Welp... it's good to face the truth. I have been lying to myself for years on how much this actually cost.

And I have the full interior and exterior left to do!


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