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Old 10-14-2008, 01:31 PM
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Default 1996 Impala SS

Any of you LS4 owners have the chance to race one of these yet. I have always been a fan of the old LT1 impala's just wonderin how they stack up against our cars. I know when they first came out therey were pretty quick and easy to mod just wonderin how they stack up against the LS4.
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Stock vs. stock it's not even close. LS4 with ease. Naturally there is a HUGE aftermarket for the LT1 so it could be made very fast. But in stock form it's only roughly a mid 15 sec car, low 7 sec 0-60.
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Yeah thats what I thought, plus those cars are heavy as ****. I do wish the ls4 had mods as easily available as the lt1 tho
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Originally Posted by 06detroitgxp
Yeah thats what I thought, plus those cars are heavy as ****. I do wish the ls4 had mods as easily available as the lt1 tho
enh, our trannies wouldn't be able to had serious modding. The big restriction for us is that before you can really add power you need to drop 2-3k on a trannie improvement.
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Here's ours..


https://ls1tech.com/forums/lt1-lt4-modifications/981815-oops-just-got-kicked-out-great-lakes-dragaway-11-04-125-96-imp-ss.html

Lemme know if you wanna stack 'em up!

3rd page is the latest et....
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Originally Posted by 20SS07
Stock vs. stock it's not even close. LS4 with ease. Naturally there is a HUGE aftermarket for the LT1 so it could be made very fast. But in stock form it's only roughly a mid 15 sec car, low 7 sec 0-60.
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Yeah thats what I thought, plus those cars are heavy as ****. I do wish the ls4 had mods as easily available as the lt1 tho

Actually... LT1s don't have a very big aftermarket We're much like you LS4 owners, but a bit worse. While yes, we DO have aftermarket parts for our motors, we can't just swap on GEN I SBC parts and call it a day :\ Lots of modification is required for that. LS4s on the other hand, at least share many common pats as the other GEN III and IV motors, allowing you to swap quite a few performance parts. I wish we had that ability! GEN II was a patch to hold over till GEN III motors. Would be awesome to be able to swap on LT5 heads Problem there is, even if we did, the intake would HAVE to go with it since it's a 16 intake-port head :\

I would say that with the HP difference being pretty significant, the LS4 cars would fairly easily walk the LT1 brothers.

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Nice run Nick!
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Originally Posted by nickate
Here's ours..


https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=981815

Lemme know if you wanna stack 'em up!

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I believe he is asking how the cars would stack up, stock for stock.

Why would he be interested in a 383 impala that runs 11.0's?
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Funny you ask. I had a 94 Caprice Classic with an lt1. I added 3.73 gears, 1.6 rockers (stock is 1.5), slp headers, flowmasters and an x pipe, custom homemade intake, coolant bypass mod, larger stock gm 3.5 inch maf housing, torque converter from a 4.3 car (slightly higher stall) and the hypertec tuner (cool for the time). It ran 14.1's on 275/60-15 street tires. I sold it to freind and we went to the track together and my 06 Impala SS was running 14.0's on the same day with just a vector tune on the same day the ole' caprice was runnin the 14.1's. Last year, I was at the track with my TBSS and lined up against a 94-96 Impala SS with a lt4 hot cam. He ran a best 0f 13.98. I talked to him a little bit after. I loved my ole caprice back in the day when it could smoke mustangs and such, but times have changed and the avg car is alot faster than they were in the mid 90's. The last days of the caprices' life with me it was used as a tow vehicle. So I sold it and bought an old beater truck. By the way, bone stock on 235/70-15 white walls the ole Caprice ran 15.0's, very consistant car.
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Originally Posted by 92builtbird
I believe he is asking how the cars would stack up, stock for stock.

Why would he be interested in a 383 impala that runs 11.0's?


Yeah i was reffering to sotck vs stock. Just wondering because back in the day I remember those SS's smokin mustang GT's all day. I've only had my car for a month now havent had a chance to run anyone yet. BTW how do we do against Charger R/T
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Originally Posted by 06detroitgxp
Yeah i was reffering to sotck vs stock. Just wondering because back in the day I remember those SS's smokin mustang GT's all day. I've only had my car for a month now havent had a chance to run anyone yet. BTW how do we do against Charger R/T
i outran a charger rt and a magnum (my dads) the cars are pretty close stock whoever gets out first is pretty much how it is gonna be in my experience
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Originally Posted by 92builtbird
I believe he is asking how the cars would stack up, stock for stock.

Why would he be interested in a 383 impala that runs 11.0's?
IT IS STOCK...

Isn't everything???

Oh yeah... We went again last Wed. and put down a 10.86@125 w/ a 1.55 60' Got thrown out again...

ON RADIALS and a road course suspension....
(Video to come)

Btw... I was being sarcastic... sorry...
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Do any LS4 cars here run a 10.8?



Don't think so.
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is that a challenge!?! need to make it lose like 1000lbs first lol.
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Remove the back seat. And the roof. All the sound deadening. Most of the exhaust. etc.
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i cant see a good reason to carry around a spare or jack unless i go on a trip or somethin.



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