If there is one thing that you readers are good at, it’s delivering your opinions in a very clear format. The clearest opinion of the year? If it’s an LSx swap, for some reason, it automatically blows. And I’ve shot my opinion right back: That isn’t a fair call. LS engines are popular for a reason: they are as common as rocks, about as expensive, and can take a good bit of force feeding before major modifications are necessary. You invest little, and you get an excellent return on your investment. In banking, that’s called…well, anymore, that’s called a f**king miracle. But yet, every non-GM LS swap tends to draw someone’s ire. It seems that unless the mass majority can’t stomach what the original engine was, an LS swap is automatically a bad idea. What’s the meme I always see pop up…something involving LS engines and Viagra…you have Google, figure that one out.
Now, what you’re looking at here is a Kia Sorento (read: Korean throw-away SUV). I’m not a fan of Kia products overall. They are like electric pencil sharpeners to me, simple rudimentary vehicles that might last forever or might kick the can on you without forewarning. And it’s packing the 6.0L LY6 out of a 2009 Chevrolet Silverado HD under the hood, backed up to a 6L90 six-speed automatic (with the paddle shifters!) and a NP231 transfer case raided from a Jeep. There’s plenty more details beyond that which composes the LSx Sorento project, but just those items alone, shoved into a Kia, means that this is one bad little bastard.
(Courtesy: Jalopnik)
Annnd Cue Geordie in 3 – 2 – 1 – go….
was trolling youtube and ran across a guy who put one in a cessna! jeezus are these things that good? should i put one in my dart and wear a cooper hockey helmet?
Who thinks these things up?
Drooling blubbering idiots who haven’t got an original thought in their head and probably fear the end of the world if they swapped anything else than a pile of shit LS into their sorry rides….
Yeah but it IS a Kia, Geordie…Really, who GAF about Kia’s?
You got that right brother – WTF is a Kia anyhow?
Throw away? Clearly you don’t have a clue otherwise most of you hyperbole would be just that.
Body on frame…check
Live rear axle…check
Transfer case WITH 4Lo…check
Available manual trans….check.
Weird, Its like a less shitty trailblazer.
Yeah…I’ll go for this LS impregnation. They are not allowed in Ford or Chrysler products but anything else is fair game. Carry on.
Or AMC’s…
I take it all back. I now concede that all previous remarks about the mighty
SBC were wrong. I was jealous because we have **** all V8s in England, where I come from. And because the SBC have been kicking the flathead, Y block, Windsor, Cleveland, FE, and Coyote ‘engines’ arses for decades.
I was wrong, and beg for forgiveness on my knees.Thats not all I do on my knees.
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