BIG BLOCK IN A 4th GEN????
Originally Posted by 69_YENKO
Its true, I also have that issue. the fastest LS1 powered car period is a convertible WS6 runnin 8.52s
I've seen that GMHTP issue as well. fast, yes, safe, nhra legal, no.
C5R, LS1 call it gen 3. Im not thinking the powerplant is as important as the power on the pavement. There are way more people making WAY more power then they are using.
You can buy a BBC motor plate all over the place. You just have to find one wide enough for the stock frame rails.
A big block fits with ease many have done it. It take 1 serious BBC to equal a Geniii motor when taking in to consideration the weight difference. There are STOCK motored LS1's in the 10's, maybe nines (Im kinda slow). Not many but it can be done.
You can buy a BBC motor plate all over the place. You just have to find one wide enough for the stock frame rails.
A big block fits with ease many have done it. It take 1 serious BBC to equal a Geniii motor when taking in to consideration the weight difference. There are STOCK motored LS1's in the 10's, maybe nines (Im kinda slow). Not many but it can be done.
There is a forum on this board for this question, Brady has done it, a Mutual friend of ours has put a tall deck 522 inch big motor in a 4th gen. Contact Madman@Thunder racing...he built the headers for the above car.
David
David
Originally Posted by 1fstTA
If I recall correctly Ronnies car is a c5r motor not a ls1. Worm boy does have the ls1 record at a 7.9
Thank you , the truth hurts. I e mailed GM and High Tech on this very subject when dukes car was plastered all over the rag of a magazine as the first LS1 in the 7's, they threw me to the wolves in the letters section of the mag....I mailed them again to rub there nose in their NO KNOWLEDGE OF **** THAT IS GM when wormboy did the deed...funny I havent heard from them..hmmm
David
This is a really old thread that came back up.
When Ronnie Duke's car went 8.52 it was the fastest gen3 (C5R block and heads) of any type. It was at Thunder in the final against Cody (Madmans car I think) that it ran the "52", I was driving, and it was built by W2W to NHRA legal standards.
At that race Wormboy was pitted next to us with his car on nitrous running around mid 9's.
Two years later, Ronnie Duke had Jason Mcneil drive his t-roof car with a Kinetics engine in it (C5R head and block) into the high 7's. That was late 2004 or early 2005 I think.
Then in 2005 I put a twin turbo engine in a old pro street car and went 6.86@ 205.
In 2006 Wormboy went a high 7 on a 10.5 non w tire with a stock car.
If the iron 4.125 block from GM is as good as it looks, you will see faster performance in the next year, although the gains per year will start to level off.
Kurt
When Ronnie Duke's car went 8.52 it was the fastest gen3 (C5R block and heads) of any type. It was at Thunder in the final against Cody (Madmans car I think) that it ran the "52", I was driving, and it was built by W2W to NHRA legal standards.
At that race Wormboy was pitted next to us with his car on nitrous running around mid 9's.
Two years later, Ronnie Duke had Jason Mcneil drive his t-roof car with a Kinetics engine in it (C5R head and block) into the high 7's. That was late 2004 or early 2005 I think.
Then in 2005 I put a twin turbo engine in a old pro street car and went 6.86@ 205.
In 2006 Wormboy went a high 7 on a 10.5 non w tire with a stock car.
If the iron 4.125 block from GM is as good as it looks, you will see faster performance in the next year, although the gains per year will start to level off.
Kurt
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Kurt
Kurt
