> You can get LS1's (3rd gen small block) out of lots of stuff I think,
> but the common candidates would be camaros/firebirds & corvettes.
Don't forget all the pickups, especially if ultimate power output (lots
of 5.3s in the trucks) and weight (they were iron blocks until a couple
years ago, they're all aluminum now IIRC) aren't critical.
> The camaro/firebird would need to be a '98+ and would have a T56 six
> speed conventional trans.
Or an automatic, which I think is what he was chasing. The pickups will
all be automatics.
> IIRC. LT1s are iron head motors, and weigh a little more than the ls1.
I thought the LT1s had iron blocks but aluminum heads. The old SBC is
typically about 50lb more than the iron-block truck LSn's, and 100lb
more than the aluminum-block ones. The LSn-family engines also tend to
have really nice pretty compact front-end accessory drives.
> If you want to keep it "in the family" (sorta) I've got a complete '89
> (?? I think) Ford 302 HO out of a Mustang GT that I've been tripping on
> that I'd sell you for $250...
I might buy it if you were a thousand miles closer.
John.
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