A question: if you could take an engine block, do some typical machine work and upgrades, slap on a hairdryer and immediately have a reliable bullet that was pushing a four-figure horsepower rating, why in the hell would you be against it?
Answer: Because General Motors built it. The GM LS series of engines has to be one of the most hated-on engines out right now, and it’s directly due to it’s popularity. You have a cubic inch range from the 293CI 4.8L all the way up to the 427CI 7.0L LS7. You have a massive amount of opportunity to acquire one of these engines, since it’s been the staple of General Motors since the turn of the millennium. It can be found in everything, from the most basic work truck, to a 26′ U-haul, to the ass-kicking Camaros and Corvettes, to pickups, vans, and sedans. Rock bouncers, mud trucks, airplanes, kit cars, boats…hell, is there something that an LS engine isn’t swapped into? As this gallery will show, we are running out of places that one hasn’t been shoved into…
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Personal favorites:
– The Porsche. Definitely going to make a few mid life crisis types flip their combovers.
– The red station wagon. I love a sleeper truckster.
– The Mercury Cougar we’d seen previously. Seriously, that’s a really cool car.
991s and 993s were so unreliable that replacing the motor with a Vdub Bug motor would be a major improvement.
Plus it’s just so much cheaper and easier to squeeze big horsepower out of an LS for a marginal, if any at all, weight penalty.
Now that I’ve come around to accept engine swaps, it’s kind of fun to see where various power plants end up.
The engine swap makes sense in the Porsche, however, the rest of the car mods are hideous. Good luck with just about any engine swap in a post 1975 car in California.
Why? As long as the donor motor is the same year or newer than the car receiving it, it shouldnt be an issue. You just have to abide by the guidelines. In a way, it makes it easier if you want to make power with reliability and still pass California Smog check.
http://smogcheck.ca.gov/Industry/Engine_Change_Guidelines.html
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I don’t understand the Dodge Truck nor the Dodge Charger. If you have a V6 version, your better off selling it and buying a V8 version.
However, I want more info on the Crown Vic. That’s cool!
I completely agree with you about the Dodge Ram and Charger.
The Rambler is a friend of mine from college and the fire truck is his dads that they just got done with.
I for one support all of these swaps, and that’s from an AMC/Pontiac/Cummins guy. It’s impossible to make cheaper, more reliable power period. If I wasn’t obsessed with the idea of either maintaining AMC power or putting a 5.0 Cummins V8 in my Matador it probably could be rolling under it’s own power months ago.
Anyway, I hope Gleisson realizes that Argentina is the only team that will be world chopmian this year. May Brazil, I mean, the best team win !Ok, jokes aside. Argentina is always a strong candidate but for the last couple world cups you guys have been such a disappointment. As a matter of fact, I wish the Argentina teams from Mexico-86 and Italy-90 were back. One last thing, in the last three world cups, Brazil has made to the final in all three and won two. That’s 12 years of supremacy. Brazil is kind of the Oracle of soccer. :O)Have a great time during the world cup! Gleisson Henrique P.S. Just between us, there is something that tells me Brazil won’t win this year, maybe because too much confidence, but don’t tell any Brazilian that because I may get my soccer fan behind kicked. I think Germany, Italy, Argentina and Mexico are strong candidates to win.