there's about a million different threads on getting an ls1 lid on an lt1 car with a stock hood.
and about a million different headlight options that put lt1 headlights on par, if not better, than the STOCK ls1 headlights. (noticed I said stock... once you start modifyng both, all bets are off).
even the combined cost of those two (even if you go to the extreme and put a high dollar hood on an lt1 car to clear the ls1 lid, and put HID's or PIAA/Hella lights in as headlights) it will still come out less than the cost of doing an entire front end swap.
I dunno... like several people have said... it's all personal preferance on looks. You can't argue that. But what we can argue functionality and price

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