Originally Posted by LantanaTX

I will give you my accounting to date for the V8 and I do believe you could do the SRT conversion for about the same money. With the costs being similar I went for the V8 for resale reasons. There just isn't any way a Limited with a SRT engine will ever be worth more than a SRT. Currently I can only account for two V8 Crossfires in the world, 1 in the UK and 1 in Germany, NONE in North America. One of the two was for sale for $177,000 (I hope he got it).

Engine $2,100, shipping form CA to Texas $280, C43 exhaust manifolds $299, One replacement valve cover and three missing coil packs $130, $40 misc. cleaning supplies and paint = $2,839.

To finish the project I still need: ECU unclock $250, program to car $250, Fan $200, = grand total of $3,539 My original budget was $4,000 so with the extra I should be able to get new exhaust gaskets, valve cover gaskets and water pump gaskets and two new SL55 intake tubes (air box to radiator support).

To do an SRT-6 engine I would get the engine, uncut engine harness, ECU and Dash cluster for the best price possible, add about $500 for ECU unlock and program. Doing the work yourself, you end up at about the same cost.

FYI:

Unlock ECU erases the information that is specific to the original car such as VIN, cluster codes imobilization codes. It becomes like a new replacement ECU.

Reprogramming the ECU is the process that you would go through if you had a bad ECU and had to replece the one you have. It is a process of associating the new ECU with all your systems and options. The ECU will learn the VIN and other information. After the third start the ECU locks itself with the new data.