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Originally Posted by geberhard
Sure LS are efficient and bst bang for buck, cheap to build, plentiful yada yada. BUT they are becoming commonplace. I am seeing everything with LS engines on car shows and get togethers. SEMA had 50k cars with LS engines. It is not entirely a bad thing, opens the doors to more products which in turn (theoretically) should help lower their cost.
The cost of building or rebudiling a 350, 383 or 400 block is hard to compare when youc na have bigger gains on a cheapo ls and light alum block.
LS are greta and all but they are becoming too common. I have two projects with LS engines, and honestly struggled with the idea on turning one into a LS setup but was hard to pass doing a swap for virtually free, compared to building a 400 Pontiac engine to get to a similar level.
Will be cool to see more cars going back to roots engine builds, or heck even seeing matchig numbers cars racing.
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These are the same thoughts I have bouncing around in my head with my car. I think I might look into building my LT1 on the cheap and just enjoying the car just to be different. Might need to build some unnatural aspiration though to make power that will grab some attention. Ah, if money wasn't limited.