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Re: Anyone put a LS in their Mopar yet?
[Re: Thumperdart]
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11/27/12 04:45 AM
11/27/12 04:45 AM
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topbrent
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super stock
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Thumperdart: Why in the hell are we still even talkin about LS-1 chevys and how great they are?..............  
Because LSx's are pretty frickin' great, that's why. 
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Re: Anyone put a LS in their Mopar yet?
[Re: JackGTX440]
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11/27/12 10:57 AM
11/27/12 10:57 AM
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Brookeville, Md
Mr.Yuck
Not enough dumb comments...yet
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Not enough dumb comments...yet
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Posts: 24,562
Brookeville, Md
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I bet you could 8.99 in a 3000# f-body with a stock short block for at least a couple few events. The point is, it will live for a while and the genIII's will melt pistons and break rods at half that power. I love the genIII. I'm building one as we speak. I'm just saying, it has a few major things in the lower end that won't let it live stock where an LS can and have lived for a long time.
Bee Ess, a few as in 3 runs because you'd need a 300 shot to get there. If it was that easy every car at the track would have one.
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Re: Anyone put a LS in their Mopar yet?
[Re: dannysbee]
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11/27/12 03:29 PM
11/27/12 03:29 PM
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Ontario Canada
MattW
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The LSx platform is good and the Bowtie boys are lucky to have it, as are the blue oval guys lucky to have the coyote. And here we are stuck with that darned ol Hemi. So it needs a few aftermarket parts to make it reliable in extreme applications, the block and heads are up to the task so the foundation is there and hopefully the engineers are taking note and some of these weak spots will be addressed in future upgrades and Mopar Performance parts. I am plenty prowd of what we do have. No I would never put a LSx in a Mopar or a hemi in a 55 Chevy. 
WELL SAID.
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Re: Anyone put a LS in their Mopar yet?
[Re: 1964superstock]
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11/27/12 03:45 PM
11/27/12 03:45 PM
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Michigan
DRAG-ULA
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Michigan
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[quote 1964superstock]
Seems funny to me, that in the past 50 or so years, it has been perfectly fine to put a chrysler hemi in just about every car ever made, including fords and chevys. Conversely, it is blasphemy to install a new LS engine in a old mopar. The reason people put a hemi in their cars back in the 50s and 60s, is because the hemi was a better engine for making power, and the after market was supporting it with cool parts like superchargers, pistons, cams, ect. Seems to me, in todays world, the GM LS engine is the better engine for making power. The LS conversion trend in all makes of cars will not stop, because they are well built, well engineered, smaller, lighter, cheaper, extremely well supported by the aftermarket, and make more power per dollar than anything else. I am a mopar guy to, but holding on so strictly to brand loyalty is silliness. How is this disrespectful and embarasing? What about upgrading to cal tracs, GM powerglide trans, Ford 9" rear end, MSD ignition, etc, etc. Why is this considered acceptable with everyone including the new superstock Dodge Challengers? Is this only because you can hide a transmission or rear axle under your car, but an engine is easy to see? Is this a religion or a hobby? I have never seen the book of rules of what you can and can't do with your car. Do what you want and enjoy your car while you can.
AMEN BROTHER!!!!!
So many people on this site are soooo close minded it baffles me. I get it, this is a Mopar site, but damn, calling people who swap a chevy or ford into a Mopar a traitor? This isn't a war, we're all car guys on the same team. I can see not putting a 454 in a HemiCuda, but if your car is a run of the mill A/B/E body, who cares? Have fun, that's what it's all about.
1970 Imperial, Low & slow daily driver
1973 Chrysler T&C
1948 Dodge B1 pickup - perpetual project
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Re: Anyone put a LS in their Mopar yet?
[Re: mopar_to_ya]
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12/03/12 04:20 PM
12/03/12 04:20 PM
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SLOW67
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SLOW67
I call BS!
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Stock Lq4 6.0- $875 to my door
L-92 heads- $890
GMPP hot cam kit- $364 my cost
carbed intake used off ebag- $200
gaskets, oil pumnp, and misc.- $300
Headers off ebag- $200 i think
Grand total of $2829 on hard parts. This is what a friend of mine put together for a customer. With a TH350 trans and big converter it made just a shade over 500whp in a 70 nova. I thinks thats pretty darn good for a N/A pumpgas roller cammed smallblock.
You don't make 500 wheel HP with junk.
So you are telling me that this nova runs mid
to low nines for under 3 grand???
Aint happening without a power adder
I didn't say it ran mid to low nines did I? Nope, I just stated what kind of power it made on the dyno. I was there and helped get the carb/timing where it needed to be so you can call BS all you want atleast I know I was there and what I saw  This was a full interior street car with a 72 year old owner so it will probably never make a pass down the track so I can't say what it runs there.
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Ls-1 Hemi Cuda......na.............Ls-1 6pk A-12 Roadrunner.........na...................LS-1 Max Wedge......definetly NO.................I will stick with 426 Max Wedge. 
Thumper! 
