Now for the new motivation. I found this peach on CL. It is a 2002 Tahoe that was t-boned. It still runs and drives great (aside from the wandering from the bent control arm). I bought it for a song. I'm hoping that I can sell enough parts off of it to recoup most of my purchase price. That would make my 5.3 and 4l60e really cheap!

I'm going to try to keep the budget for this build in a reasonable realm. I have a tendency to go overboard with my projects. I'm going to make a real effort at reeling in my compulsive project creep.
Any way, here's the donor: