LSx Blocks
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From: Homestead,FL
Re: LSx Blocks
Originally Posted by ChrisUlrich
Thanks for the info guys! Nick... thanks again!! haha Always helping me and i'm damn proud of it! Otherwise I wouldn't be his biggest pain in the *** customer!! WooT
I kinda figured you would need corresponding intake and valvetrain for the LS7 heads but I was more or less talking about fitment issue and getting things to work properly. Kinda just bolting things in without converting the block or anything crazy. Like converting the LT1 to 15 degree heads.
I get what you're saying about too much head for a standard LS1 block. I asked because I was just wondering if you could make your LS1 identical to the LS7. Same with the LS2/LS3/LS6 motors. I thought I read that the LS3 is a little bit different in design but I am not sure at all.
Why is the LS7 so amazing though? The Heads flow ridiculous with such a passive cam (Sounds it anyway). I heard it's a mixture of the great heads, intake, and extremely lightweight valvetrain and bottom end?
Oh yea... question off topic! What you guys consider "internals?" Do you consider interals everything between the valvecovers and oil pan? Or just in the bottom end?
Me and my friend had a little debate about it and I consider internals strictly bottom end.
I kinda figured you would need corresponding intake and valvetrain for the LS7 heads but I was more or less talking about fitment issue and getting things to work properly. Kinda just bolting things in without converting the block or anything crazy. Like converting the LT1 to 15 degree heads.
I get what you're saying about too much head for a standard LS1 block. I asked because I was just wondering if you could make your LS1 identical to the LS7. Same with the LS2/LS3/LS6 motors. I thought I read that the LS3 is a little bit different in design but I am not sure at all.
Why is the LS7 so amazing though? The Heads flow ridiculous with such a passive cam (Sounds it anyway). I heard it's a mixture of the great heads, intake, and extremely lightweight valvetrain and bottom end?
Oh yea... question off topic! What you guys consider "internals?" Do you consider interals everything between the valvecovers and oil pan? Or just in the bottom end?
Me and my friend had a little debate about it and I consider internals strictly bottom end.
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From: In The Engine Room
Re: LSx Blocks
In my humble opinion when people refer to "forged" internals that consists of rods, crank, and slugs.
The LS7 is an interesting engine. I have seen them make 445rwhp on the local mustang dyno we use. Which is impressive by this dyno's standards especially, being as stingy as it is.
Let us not forget that this engine is 427ci, its hard to not make power at that size.
The LS7 is an interesting engine. I have seen them make 445rwhp on the local mustang dyno we use. Which is impressive by this dyno's standards especially, being as stingy as it is.
Let us not forget that this engine is 427ci, its hard to not make power at that size.
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