One notable thing about this year’s LS Fest that was far different that any other LS Fest I’ve attended…or, for that matter, any other event I have attended…is that for a good chunk of time on Saturday, I was not shooting photos or trying to unearth another car that would irritate the fan base. Nope…I was behind the microphone. Since Brian was announcing the Bolt On Power Challenge, yours truly got his baptism by fire up in the booth calling the score on the dragstrip for a few hours. It meant that instead of scanning camera shots and sweating, all I had to do was to announce what I saw, announce what the race director wanted pushed out and to not swear on a hot microphone. Somehow, I managed to do all of those things, but when this little creature rolled up to the line, I almost failed Point #3.
The B13 generation Nissan Sentra is one of those cars that somehow managed to stay in production for longer than it should have. One thing is for sure: even in the most wicked SE-R trim, the four-cylinder, front-wheel-drive Sentra wasn’t going to terrorize anybody. The SR20 2.0L four can be built into something wicked, but for Aaron Fugate, the cost of broken parts kept adding up, so he…well…”simplified” his Sentra. By simplify, he rear-drive converted it, shoved in everybody’s favorite punching bag of a V8, and made a jaw-dropper that had many, many people wondering what the high-riding two-door was all about…right up until it knocked out a ten-second quarter.
And he daily-drives it, too. Just putting that out there.
No – the most creative LS swap ever is an LS rammed into a giant hungry crusher…..
OOOOOO.. Like a crushing machine that is run with an LS engine? I bet it could crush diamonds! Great idea, Chevy Hatin\’ Made Geordie!
Can you imagine the sweet sounds of an angry crusher, powered by a junkyard LS, crushing rusty British cars?