Whats the Lightest Car Anyone Put a Lsx into?
01-18-2007, 12:24 PM
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I'm in the process of putting a H/C LS6 into my '23 street/strip T-bucket. The car weighed about 1720 lbs dry with a mild 455 olds BB and turbo 350 and 8" rear. Ran 10.20s @ 128 with this combo with a cheap 4 pt cage. I'm hoping it still can be about 1750 lbs with me in it and some safety improvements!
01-18-2007, 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by davidmano1
I got you all beat, how about 1410 with fuel and driver. I have a Porsche 914-6 with glass front fenders,glass hood with heat exchanger, gutted doors and interior, 2 carbon fiber go-cart race seats no carpet and the roof chopped 4 inches, lexan front shield and rear glass, lexan side windows, glass deck lid, full road race suspension and 930 turbo brakes, the most weight is in the ZF trans. The car runs high 9's and goes over 180+ at Pocono. The LS1 has been lightly worked, cams intake and porting on the heads. I us an FAST Injection setup. The car runs and drivers like a daily driver. Gotta love GM FI.
01-20-2007, 01:09 AM
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Its a Lola T70 replica... a few have been built with LS's...
http://www.gdcarsusa.com/content.php?content.4
http://www.gdcars.com/gdt70/gdt70_index.htm
http://www.gdcarsusa.com/content.php?content.4
http://www.gdcars.com/gdt70/gdt70_index.htm
01-20-2007, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by davidmano1
I got you all beat, how about 1410 with fuel and driver. I have a Porsche 914-6 with glass front fenders,glass hood with heat exchanger, gutted doors and interior, 2 carbon fiber go-cart race seats no carpet and the roof chopped 4 inches, lexan front shield and rear glass, lexan side windows, glass deck lid, full road race suspension and 930 turbo brakes, the most weight is in the ZF trans. The car runs high 9's and goes over 180+ at Pocono. The LS1 has been lightly worked, cams intake and porting on the heads. I us an FAST Injection setup. The car runs and drivers like a daily driver. Gotta love GM FI.
01-20-2007, 09:50 PM
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Gardner Douglas make the Lola kit... they also sell LS engines in the UK.. http://www.lspower.co.uk/
Have a look at the dyno video on that site....that car is saaawwweeeet. Check out the inboard shocks on the front... and the intake and the exhaust system...
Have a look at the dyno video on that site....that car is saaawwweeeet. Check out the inboard shocks on the front... and the intake and the exhaust system...
01-21-2007, 06:41 AM
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Originally Posted by davidmano1
I got you all beat, how about 1410 with fuel and driver. I have a Porsche 914-6 with glass front fenders,glass hood with heat exchanger, gutted doors and interior, 2 carbon fiber go-cart race seats no carpet and the roof chopped 4 inches, lexan front shield and rear glass, lexan side windows, glass deck lid, full road race suspension and 930 turbo brakes, the most weight is in the ZF trans. The car runs high 9's and goes over 180+ at Pocono. The LS1 has been lightly worked, cams intake and porting on the heads. I us an FAST Injection setup. The car runs and drivers like a daily driver. Gotta love GM FI.
Need to see some pictures of this..........Can't be much left of the 914 if your at 1410lb with fuel and a driver. Thats over a 1000lbs lighter than my street 914 with a LS1.
Bob
01-21-2007, 09:31 PM
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I would love to see some pics of both the LS1/914's mentioned.
BigKat- can you post some pics. What transaxle are you running?
The automatic model FD RX-7 came with a 3:90 ring gear BTW (also 8"). If you replace the stock Torsen LSD with an '86-88 Turbo2 LSD (clutch pack style) or KAZZ clutch pack style LSD followed by 300M forged steel axles the unit can withstand a ton of abuse as long as you don't wheel hop it. I'm going to try and throw 700rwhp+ at mine (on nitrous).
My previous LS1/FD was 2800lbs with full tank of fuel and heavy steel dual 3" exhaust (cats/Xpipe/heavy Magnaflow mufflers), no a/c, no stereo. With lexan rear window/CF rear hatch and lighter exhaust I think you can get one down to 2700lbs or less. It was 49.5% weight up front and 50.5% out back after the conversion and the crossweights with me in the car were within 1lb of each other!
The only thing I don't like about the Miatas is that they can't swallow up much tire making them very traction limited.
BigKat- can you post some pics. What transaxle are you running?
The automatic model FD RX-7 came with a 3:90 ring gear BTW (also 8"). If you replace the stock Torsen LSD with an '86-88 Turbo2 LSD (clutch pack style) or KAZZ clutch pack style LSD followed by 300M forged steel axles the unit can withstand a ton of abuse as long as you don't wheel hop it. I'm going to try and throw 700rwhp+ at mine (on nitrous).
My previous LS1/FD was 2800lbs with full tank of fuel and heavy steel dual 3" exhaust (cats/Xpipe/heavy Magnaflow mufflers), no a/c, no stereo. With lexan rear window/CF rear hatch and lighter exhaust I think you can get one down to 2700lbs or less. It was 49.5% weight up front and 50.5% out back after the conversion and the crossweights with me in the car were within 1lb of each other!
The only thing I don't like about the Miatas is that they can't swallow up much tire making them very traction limited.
