Re: Hot Rod Re issue
[Re: Moparnut426]
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01/11/11 10:47 PM
01/11/11 10:47 PM
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Between a rock & a hard place
cudadoug
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Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 3,245
Between a rock & a hard place
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Yeah, I hear ya,
I got the LS1 is got issue again. Of all issues this isnt the one I wanted. Im sooooo sick of hearing about the LS1. The next gen HEMI is a far better engine the aftermarket has just flooded the market with LS1 crap just like they always do on the GM marketplace.
The only think I liked was the article on the Chick funny car driver who KICKS BUTT!!!
Kasey
How do you think ehe aftermarket compares for the 3g Hemi? I see stroker kits, cranks, rods, pistons, ported heads, conversion mounts/headers, intakes and new valvetrain stuff advertised all the time, just like an LS series. I am surprised the automotive media hasn't given the same exposure to the 3g Hemi with all of them out there. I wonder if it could run with the "add cam and heads and make 500hp" LS articles that we see everyday. I'd also like to see a flow bench compare of the OEM heads. Wonder how the 3g Hemis are priced at the recyclers??
That said, as Mopar as I am that LS motor is one bad-a** hombre like it or not. If I wore a bow-tie it would have "LS" written all over it!
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Re: Hot Rod Re issue
[Re: cudadoug]
#902089
01/11/11 11:08 PM
01/11/11 11:08 PM
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Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 12,008
Finally a HUSKER again
Moparnut426
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I Live Here
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I Live Here
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 12,008
Finally a HUSKER again
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Quote:
Quote:
Yeah, I hear ya,
I got the LS1 is got issue again. Of all issues this isnt the one I wanted. Im sooooo sick of hearing about the LS1. The next gen HEMI is a far better engine the aftermarket has just flooded the market with LS1 crap just like they always do on the GM marketplace.
The only think I liked was the article on the Chick funny car driver who KICKS BUTT!!!
Kasey
How do you think ehe aftermarket compares for the 3g Hemi? I see stroker kits, cranks, rods, pistons, ported heads, conversion mounts/headers, intakes and new valvetrain stuff advertised all the time, just like an LS series. I am surprised the automotive media hasn't given the same exposure to the 3g Hemi with all of them out there. I wonder if it could run with the "add cam and heads and make 500hp" LS articles that we see everyday. I'd also like to see a flow bench compare of the OEM heads. Wonder how the 3g Hemis are priced at the recyclers??
That said, as Mopar as I am that LS motor is one bad-a** hombre like it or not. If I wore a bow-tie it would have "LS" written all over it!
Im a GM service manager so I see them every day!! Do ya want some heads, I have a few laying around from warrenty work. Worped valves, and low compression. Poor intake design, leaks all the time, water pumps leaking all the time, When I was a Dodge tech, 10 yrs and through the birth of the 5.7, the only issues we say was the valve spring problems.
With that said, I never said the LS was a poor engine, Im just sick of hearing about it. Yes they run hard, and yes if I was a GM man, id have one, but well, lucky for me IM NOT!!
I used to think GM had it straight, then I started working in a GM garage. Man we see more intake gasket leaks, poor oil PSI, oil pump failures, oil consumption and a lot of cheesy, goofy, screwed up ways to "repair" the problems with ignorantly designed TSB that are 30 pages long directly from the GM brass.
Im not impressed with how they run their ship, but it pays the bills, and Ill stick with my MOPAR, and as much of a mopar true blood I am, I hate to say it but the FORD co. currently has it nailed down. The new 5.0 boss is gonna be a force for the next HOT ROD go around, and Im glad they have done what they have.
Sorry mopar god, can I still go to heaven??
Kasey
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