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Old Jun 28, 2018 | 12:03 AM
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Old Jun 28, 2018 | 05:23 AM
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Originally Posted by G Atsma
Pretty hard to pass off a 5.3 iron block as an LS1 seeing as how there are NO 5.7 iron blocks from the factory. If it's iron, its either a 4.8, 5.3, or 6.0....
yes but they could have been trying to sell it as a 6.0 swap to the previous owner and nobody puts 4.8/5.3 heads on a 6.0
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Old Jun 28, 2018 | 07:11 AM
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...how’s does it run?
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Originally Posted by Ls7colorado

yes but they could have been trying to sell it as a 6.0 swap to the previous owner and nobody puts 4.8/5.3 heads on a 6.0
I have seen several builds where smaller chamber 5.3 heads have been used on a 6.0 iron block successfully to increase the compression ratio.
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Originally Posted by ss.slp.ls1
I have seen several builds where smaller chamber 5.3 heads have been used on a 6.0 iron block successfully to increase the compression ratio.
very unlikely but it is possible
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