Sorry to.hear about your luck. Were you going up hill by chance? These vehicles have the oil pickup in the front, so if you punch it, you send the oil to the back away from the oil pickup, and if you're going uphill you exacerbate it by that much more. It's probably pretty easy to blow the motor up on the rear air springs (soft) punching it uphill.
I guess the question is what's your budget? You bought a roughly 15 year old used car, so I wouldn't expect to get anything at all from the selling dealer, especially given how far you drove it. If it had blown up in front of the dealership, maybe. But 1000 miles away, they're probably going to say "sorry about your luck", I know if it was a private party deal that I sold, that's what I would do.
Anyways, options. You can source another ls2, and swap over parts. You can replace the block and swap over parts. You could drop in an ls3 or l92. Hell you could go bananas and do a whole 6l80/L92 swap. It really all depends on budget. An lq4 iron block is likely the cheapest option, short of swapping a whole 5.3 in. I think I'd lean towards the L92 route, it's basically an ls3 with a different cam and a truck intake, so it's a bit more power than an ls2 and it's widely available. It does have issues with lifters, so I'd address that in the swap.
I guess the question is what's your budget? You bought a roughly 15 year old used car, so I wouldn't expect to get anything at all from the selling dealer, especially given how far you drove it. If it had blown up in front of the dealership, maybe. But 1000 miles away, they're probably going to say "sorry about your luck", I know if it was a private party deal that I sold, that's what I would do.
Anyways, options. You can source another ls2, and swap over parts. You can replace the block and swap over parts. You could drop in an ls3 or l92. Hell you could go bananas and do a whole 6l80/L92 swap. It really all depends on budget. An lq4 iron block is likely the cheapest option, short of swapping a whole 5.3 in. I think I'd lean towards the L92 route, it's basically an ls3 with a different cam and a truck intake, so it's a bit more power than an ls2 and it's widely available. It does have issues with lifters, so I'd address that in the swap.
