First i understand. Drivavbility, injection, aftermarket support ,turbos. I am not hating but their in everything now. I remember a few years ago when th 502 crate motor came out and every chevelle at a car show had one. I get hot rod and popular hot rodding and half the magazine if ls related. Its like they dont make any other engines anymore. Stick an olds 455 in it get a carb type self learning fuel injection. Theres something to be said for being different and being brand loyal.
will anyone else jump off the ls wagon with me
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Eh....Pretty much anything that you'll try, someone else has probably done before, nothing new. It all goes in fads, the ls is probably one of the easiest engines to obtain froma salvage yard today so that's what's being pushed (close to 14 years worth of vehicles have them, and are still made today). Gotta look at it that way too, same as when you could throw a stone in a junkyard and count how many sbc equipped cars/trucks it would hit before going anywhere near a BOP vehicle.
maybe im just different. when i go to a car show and see an old ford custom look at all the custom touches then look under the hood and see the same old chevy 350 its takes it right out of me. Part of the fun to me was always building something or finding something different. I have been on many power tours and get sick at every stop seeing 69 chevelles red with black stripes chevy 502. All identicle.
I still think old school muscle cars should have old school engines. Big blocks or small blocks, be period correct. There is nothing better than opening the hood of a 68 Cutlass and seeing the same engine it came with still running strong. And please stop with the 69 Camaros painted blue with white stripes.
Theres a reason it is done. Best bang for your buck. Everything has been done already so there is really no more being different unless you really do something out there. Like a ford in a buick or something. But why in the heck would anyone do that haha?
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Yup it does get redundant, but, that's what apeals to the masses, and parts are easy to come by, you can go to a parts store and buy a part off the shelf to make a road side repair. You won't always be that lucky with an odd mill, so I can see the builders point. Would I do it that way? Nope, I like to see something different between the rails, even if it doesn't belong there, hell, I thought about putting a mopar mill in the malibu before I found my current Olds engine, lol.
i hear you, a lot of the car shows around me its the same "cookie cutter" cars, 69 camaro blue with white stripes, red big block chevelle, 78 and up el camino with monte ss nose.
i know my next build is going to be a 67-72 chevy truck witha "gasp" longbed with a hard toneau cover.
Why longbed? because every one does the 69-72 with a short bed or step side or has the 88-99 chevy stepside bed on it.
i want something not normal hence the longbed, that and since everyone wants the shortbeds the long beds are alot cheaper. and for a drive train im looking at a 6 liter/4l80e combo from a wrecked denali or pickup which around here i can get a complete engine, trans and wire harness from a junkyard truck with under 80k miles for under a $1000
i know my next build is going to be a 67-72 chevy truck witha "gasp" longbed with a hard toneau cover.
Why longbed? because every one does the 69-72 with a short bed or step side or has the 88-99 chevy stepside bed on it.
i want something not normal hence the longbed, that and since everyone wants the shortbeds the long beds are alot cheaper. and for a drive train im looking at a 6 liter/4l80e combo from a wrecked denali or pickup which around here i can get a complete engine, trans and wire harness from a junkyard truck with under 80k miles for under a $1000
to build something comparable in hp/tq to a truck/car lsx would cost tons more money in the older generation stuff... it all depends on what you are into, I dont think most do it for a fashion statement, just that it is more cost efficient and there are tons of parts available now to accommodate the change. also, in a few years those motor will be the old school stuff, with technology advancing, the sbc may end up like an 8 track or cd player... now-a-days everything has moved into the digital world...
take a few thousand and throw it at an lsx
take the same amount and throw it at a sbc or bbc
I think the lsx would get it any day... stock 5.3 (or even built 5.3) and a hair dryer or two and you have yourself an cost efficient way to 900-1000+ hp
just my opinion, I alter my cars so that I enjoy them, and do what suits my goal best... not really into what everyone else did and y unless it helps me reach my goal... now I do appreciate the sbc and bbc stuff... just not jumping off the wagon.
take a few thousand and throw it at an lsx
take the same amount and throw it at a sbc or bbc
I think the lsx would get it any day... stock 5.3 (or even built 5.3) and a hair dryer or two and you have yourself an cost efficient way to 900-1000+ hp
just my opinion, I alter my cars so that I enjoy them, and do what suits my goal best... not really into what everyone else did and y unless it helps me reach my goal... now I do appreciate the sbc and bbc stuff... just not jumping off the wagon.
had i known then what i know now i would have jumped off this wagon along time ago. putting an ls3 in a 1988 monte ss has turned into a money pit. an extremely deep pit may i add. granted i went with everything new, but i didn't think this thru enough in the begining. to late now, and it should be fun, but i will have to live in it soon.
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