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First one then the other.
I want to drop the engine back into the suburban as soon as I can so I can get some use out of it right away. That's where the engine came from so it should drop right back in and go. Putting it in the firebird will take some work and will need to be done later on. I am not worried about taking that engine back out of the suburban because the first time I pulled it by my self in less than 5 hours.

Then while the engine is in the suburban I want to use the cavernous under hood area to work out mods and tuning.
For example I am going to start using the engine with premium gas, but I would like to wean it off premium gas on to regular by using water/methanol at anything more than part throttle. It should be able to cruise down the road and accelerate gently just fine on regular. Why burn premium all the time when I really only need premium like 2% or 3% of the time when hard on the throttle?
All that room would allow me to work out the water methanol stuff with ease.

Another roomy mod will be the carb heater. it will make the carb and air cleaner sit up an inch taller, need to decide if its even worth using in the car. Because an inch taller under the suburban hood is nothing but an inch under a car hood can complicate things a lot.

The suburbans vast under hood room and huge ground clearance will help me work out tuning, possibly automating the exhaust cut outs.

The car currently has 275mm wide ultra high performance summer only yoko tires on the back.
To me launching hard is kind of risky for the 7.6 inch stock limited slip rear end (the weakest link) with the stock "L98" high output 5.7L engine.