Man Claims to Have Very First LS Engine Ever Built on Facebook
It seems like it could be legit, but we need help from the LS1Tech community to identify if this is in fact the one that began it all.
There’s presumably millions of LS engines out in the world these days, but when was the first one made? Well, you just may be looking at it.
We stumbled upon this Facebook Marketplace ad in a group for truck parts, and immediately it got our attention. Our suspicions were raised at first. The seller tells a story of how he acquired the motor, but it leaves out a lot of important details. Person allegedly received the motor from the brother of an engineer who was on the LS team. No names are mentioned, nor what the motor was used for, so things get a bit murky here. We’ve been on the forums long enough to know what red flags are, but then we got to looking at the engine itself. And that’s when our interest was truly raised.
All of the stickers and markings on the engine do seem to indicate it was an experimental motor to some degree, with date stamps that pre-date LS engine production. Those are parts that are not being reproduced, and with hand engraving and “experimental sample” parts from 1994, it seems to confirm this as a pre-production LS motor. But is it the first? The first one was, in all likelihood, bench tested till something broke.
That’s what test engines are for, anyway. Now, considering GM is a large company, they probably would have had more than just one mock up engine. So it might not be the first but it could very well be part of the first batch of research and development engines. And actually, that’s still pretty cool.
So now, we go to you, LS1Tech community. Can anyone shed some light on this? Is this engine is the real deal? And if it is, would someone pay the $60,000 asking price for it? Heck, we don’t even know if it runs, but that may be not even be a factor to someone really keen on a potentially significant piece of GM history.
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