Power limits of the LS3 block
Every "zero F's given" grenaded motor was a perfectly good swap candidate, that could have ran in a vehicle for another 100,000 miles... extending both the engine's and the vehicle's lifecycles for years... keeping both out of the landfills for a decade.
Instead, someone blew it up, knowing d@mn-well that they were going to blow it up. As if they blew it up on purpose. It's wasteful. And inconsiderate.
If you know, d@mn-well, that you want big boy power (the sort of power that grenades SBE motors), then you should build accordingly. What is the age-old idiom... Gotta pay to play?
Yeah, it's a hobby... enjoy it however you can. Doesn't give you free reign to be a wasteful, selfish @$$ abusing perfectly fine motors that others could use for years. It's not a matter of jealously. I want people to have nice things. I also want people to have nice things... so I don't like hearing about other people giving zero F's about ruining nice things. Sure, it's a freaking JY motor... a JY motor that could keep an old, beat up Ford out of scrap yard for another 20 years... unless some D-bag blows it up on the track, just to go get another one to destroy...
Instead, someone blew it up, knowing d@mn-well that they were going to blow it up. As if they blew it up on purpose. It's wasteful. And inconsiderate.
If you know, d@mn-well, that you want big boy power (the sort of power that grenades SBE motors), then you should build accordingly. What is the age-old idiom... Gotta pay to play?
Yeah, it's a hobby... enjoy it however you can. Doesn't give you free reign to be a wasteful, selfish @$$ abusing perfectly fine motors that others could use for years. It's not a matter of jealously. I want people to have nice things. I also want people to have nice things... so I don't like hearing about other people giving zero F's about ruining nice things. Sure, it's a freaking JY motor... a JY motor that could keep an old, beat up Ford out of scrap yard for another 20 years... unless some D-bag blows it up on the track, just to go get another one to destroy...
****, this thread went off the rails real quick complete with male frontal nudity and everything.
Some people in this forum need to put their big boy pants on and park their emotions, read the ops question and if your answer doesn't directly pertain to the subject matter then move on and stfu.
Some people in this forum need to put their big boy pants on and park their emotions, read the ops question and if your answer doesn't directly pertain to the subject matter then move on and stfu.
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****, this thread went off the rails real quick complete with male frontal nudity and everything.
Some people in this forum need to put their big boy pants on and park their emotions, read the ops question and if your answer doesn't directly pertain to the subject matter then move on and stfu.
Some people in this forum need to put their big boy pants on and park their emotions, read the ops question and if your answer doesn't directly pertain to the subject matter then move on and stfu.
And it's not like this ever was a discussion about curing cancer or solving life's great mysteries... I am sure the thread can recover from a handful of posts talking about being mindful of others as we pursue our hobbies.
Additionally, I believe the question has been answered. At this point, it doesn't matter where the discission goes, unless we want to keep answering the same question again. We can talk about football and porno and books about war...
Disposable motors seems like a damn wasteful mindset, honestly. What you consider disposable could have been a reliable swap for someone else that wasn't going to just blow it up like an @$$hole.
Maybe if you want big power, you should build for it, instead of ruining multuple perfectly decent swap candidates before finally realizing you should have built big in the first place.
Disposable motors... disgusting.
Maybe if you want big power, you should build for it, instead of ruining multuple perfectly decent swap candidates before finally realizing you should have built big in the first place.
Disposable motors... disgusting.
I suppose I look at it the other way, there is no shortage of 4.8 or 5.3 short blocks out there, and the alternative is that they sit in a junkyard and collect rust…
When the 5.3 in my buddies wife’s trailblazer killed itself, it’s not like we had a problem finding a sub $1000 complete motor to replace it.
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My ls3 block took quite the *** whipping and is still fine. Started as a Mast motorsports long block built in 2010 . Was a 416 with a procharger and went 9.40s. In 2017 swapped only the cam and switched to twin turbos and went 8.70 @ 157 at around 3650# race weight @ 17 lbs of boost. Drove it alot on the street and beat it like it owed me money. Never had any issue with the ls3 block at that level. Still running fine to this day after 10 years.
At least it's the OP's own male frontal nudity to post in the OP's own post.
And it's not like this ever was a discussion about curing cancer or solving life's great mysteries... I am sure the thread can recover from a handful of posts talking about being mindful of others as we pursue our hobbies.
Additionally, I believe the question has been answered. At this point, it doesn't matter where the discission goes, unless we want to keep answering the same question again. We can talk about football and porno and books about war...
And it's not like this ever was a discussion about curing cancer or solving life's great mysteries... I am sure the thread can recover from a handful of posts talking about being mindful of others as we pursue our hobbies.
Additionally, I believe the question has been answered. At this point, it doesn't matter where the discission goes, unless we want to keep answering the same question again. We can talk about football and porno and books about war...
I feel like the quote about football, porno and books of war is a movie quote lol.
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My ls3 block took quite the *** whipping and is still fine. Started as a Mast motorsports long block built in 2010 . Was a 416 with a procharger and went 9.40s. In 2017 swapped only the cam and switched to twin turbos and went 8.70 @ 157 at around 3650# race weight @ 17 lbs of boost. Drove it alot on the street and beat it like it owed me money. Never had any issue with the ls3 block at that level. Still running fine to this day after 10 years.
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