yeah did think about it a lot, wanted a zl1 and when it came in this year (after 3 years of waiting), it was 30K over my car excluding the interest and taxes. As for used car, they are selling it way to high price or simply just in bad shape (and for some reason always had bad experience with used cars, not very interested in going that route again).
Price are just crazy here in quebec and cars are hard to get by. not to many zl1 coming to canada.
So long story short, ended up with a ss 1le. Don't get me wrong, I'm VERY happy with it. And starting to prefer the look also compared to the zl1. The satin black on it is just great. Maybe a zl1 1le?
From what I'm seeing and the quotes I got, getting a magnuson, with lt4 gas component, would be around 15k if I do the job myself.
As for the internals, cam would be around 800 from what I'm seeing (need to do some research on that one) and drop-in around 3k (need more research on that one also, so many options)
so, with taxes (only 5% since it's shipping from another province) would be a bit less than 20k
Would be happy getting near 700whp.
If I would live in the US, might be a totaly different conversation.